Kian Gohar
Keynote Speaker: World Renowned Futurist Speaker; Silicon Valley AI Visionary; Harvard-Trained Leadership Coach; Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author
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Kian Gohar Biography
Kian Gohar is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, and futurist, and inspires organizations to build exponential teams to thrive in a world of hybrid work.
He is founder of Geolab, an innovation research and leadership development firm focused on coaching, strategy, and design. A former executive director of the XPRIZE Foundation and Singularity University, Gohar has coached the leadership teams of dozens of Fortune 500 companies, unicorns and startups on disruptive innovation, exponential technologies, leadership and the future of work.
Gohar has been featured widely in global media, and is a sought-after keynote speaker, emcee and facilitator for marquee events globally, including the World Economic Forum, SXSW, the Tokyo Motor Show, and dozens of global organizations.
He is co-author of the bestselling book “Competing in the New World of Work” with Keith Ferrazzi, which was published in 2022 by Harvard Business Review Press. He is a graduate of Northwestern, the London School of Economics, and Harvard Business School.
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Kian Gohar Speaking Topics
Reflecting on his expertise building literal moonshots to space for the XPRIZE, Kian Gohar will give audiences a step-by-step innovation guide on how to shift their mindset and build their one-way ticket to the future. He’ll explain how to tackle the most important team obstacles, how to challenge conventional thinking, and how to make one’s wildest dreams come true.
This inspirational innovation keynote will empower everyone in the audience to leap forward into their future, knowing that their impossible, is “I’m possible!”
Audience Outcomes:
- Identify their most audacious dream.
- 10-step action plan to achieving their “moonshot.”
- Inspiration and empowerment with innovation tools, frameworks and mindsets to dream big!
Based on his dozen years teaching about disruptive technologies in Silicon Valley at Singularity University, Kian Gohar will highlight the major technology trends being developed in labs across the world and how they are changing every major industry.
In this futurist keynote, Kian will explore the convergence of technologies like AI, robotics, avatars, quantum computing, and medicine, and how they will change our lives. Audiences will walk away with concrete steps they can take now to think like a futurist and prepare for tomorrow.
Audience Outcomes:
- Identify the most important tech trends.
- Learn a simple framework to predict the future.
- Inspiration to transform their futures with easy-to-follow experiments, starting now!
Ideal for senior leaders, emerging managers, team members, HR professionals, and associations, this inspiring keynote will challenge outdated myths that no longer hold in today’s dynamic workplace that also includes Gen Z.
Through real world examples, Kian Gohar outlines new leadership and cultural traits necessary to succeed in this new era, and presents a bold new vision for what the future of work looks like: digital, hybrid, inclusive, and resilient.
Let’s never just go back to work, let’s go forward to work!
Audience Outcomes:
- Reframes leadership for the Future of Work.
- Practical “How To” lessons in team collaboration, inclusion, innovation, agility, and resilience.
- Improved employee engagement, empowerment and productivity, immediately!
Exponential teams abound all around us and achieve great things in business, sports and the military. What sets them apart from the rest? And how can your team learn from the best of the best?
In this teamwork keynote, Kian Gohar will outline the eight dimensions of exponential teams, based on his research with Harvard Business School, and provide a framework for how your team can become radically adaptable and achieve their most audacious goals.
Audience Outcomes:
- Learn 8 dimensions of high performing teams.
- Implement practical steps to improve team dynamics and performance immediately.
- Accelerate peer-to-peer collaboration, deepen trust, and create a culture for exponential teamwork.
Based on Kian’s cutting-edge research published in the Harvard Business Review, this keynote is a master class on how to use AI to elevate team achievement.
Through vivid storytelling and practical AI lessons, Kian will provide foundational knowledge for managers and individual contributors to master AI in the workplace. How can we use AI to improve creativity? How can we use AI to streamline workflow and become more efficient? How can we use AI to be better humans?
Audience Outcomes:
- Clear understanding of where humans & AI can collaborate most effectively on teams.
- Specific tools, tips, and frameworks to leverage AI to solve any team problem.
- Best practices in Conversational AI and AI literacy.
Kian Gohar Videos
How do I book Kian Gohar to speak at my event?
Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Kian Gohar for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Kian Gohar, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Kian Gohar or any other speaker of your choice.
How much does it cost to book Kian Gohar for a speaking engagement?
Speaking fees for Kian Gohar, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Kian Gohar are $30,000 - $50,000 for live events and $10,000 - $20,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Kian Gohar, click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
What topics does Kian Gohar speak about?
Kian Gohar is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Business, Technology, Business Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Music, Author, Futurism, Finance, Innovation, Business Authors, Human Resources, Teamwork & Teambuilding, Future of Work, Peak Performance, Artificial Intelligence and Creativity.
Where does Kian Gohar travel from?
Kian Gohar generally travels from Los Angeles, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.
Who is the agent for Kian Gohar?
AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Kian Gohar for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Kian Gohar for your next private or corporate function.
What is a full-service speaker booking agency?
AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Kian Gohar or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?
If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.
Kian Gohar is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Business, Technology and Business Leadership. The estimated speaking fee range to book Kian Gohar for live events is $30,000 - $50,000, and for virtual events $10,000 - $20,000. Kian Gohar generally travels from Los Angeles, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Erik Qualman, Mike Walsh and R "Ray" Wang. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Kian Gohar for an upcoming event.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Kian Gohar Speaking Topics
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How to Build a Moonshot
Reflecting on his expertise building literal moonshots to space for the XPRIZE, Kian Gohar will give audiences a step-by-step innovation guide on how to shift their mindset and build their one-way ticket to the future. He’ll explain how to tackle the most important team obstacles, how to challenge conventional thinking, and how to make one’s wildest dreams come true.
This inspirational innovation keynote will empower everyone in the audience to leap forward into their future, knowing that their impossible, is “I’m possible!”
Audience Outcomes:
- Identify their most audacious dream.
- 10-step action plan to achieving their “moonshot.”
- Inspiration and empowerment with innovation tools, frameworks and mindsets to dream big!
-
How to Think Like a Futurist
Based on his dozen years teaching about disruptive technologies in Silicon Valley at Singularity University, Kian Gohar will highlight the major technology trends being developed in labs across the world and how they are changing every major industry.
In this futurist keynote, Kian will explore the convergence of technologies like AI, robotics, avatars, quantum computing, and medicine, and how they will change our lives. Audiences will walk away with concrete steps they can take now to think like a futurist and prepare for tomorrow.
Audience Outcomes:
- Identify the most important tech trends.
- Learn a simple framework to predict the future.
- Inspiration to transform their futures with easy-to-follow experiments, starting now!
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Leadership in the New World of Work
Ideal for senior leaders, emerging managers, team members, HR professionals, and associations, this inspiring keynote will challenge outdated myths that no longer hold in today’s dynamic workplace that also includes Gen Z.
Through real world examples, Kian Gohar outlines new leadership and cultural traits necessary to succeed in this new era, and presents a bold new vision for what the future of work looks like: digital, hybrid, inclusive, and resilient.
Let’s never just go back to work, let’s go forward to work!
Audience Outcomes:
- Reframes leadership for the Future of Work.
- Practical “How To” lessons in team collaboration, inclusion, innovation, agility, and resilience.
- Improved employee engagement, empowerment and productivity, immediately!
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The Art of Teamwork
Exponential teams abound all around us and achieve great things in business, sports and the military. What sets them apart from the rest? And how can your team learn from the best of the best?
In this teamwork keynote, Kian Gohar will outline the eight dimensions of exponential teams, based on his research with Harvard Business School, and provide a framework for how your team can become radically adaptable and achieve their most audacious goals.
Audience Outcomes:
- Learn 8 dimensions of high performing teams.
- Implement practical steps to improve team dynamics and performance immediately.
- Accelerate peer-to-peer collaboration, deepen trust, and create a culture for exponential teamwork.
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Unlocking Creativity with Human-AI Collaboration
Based on Kian’s cutting-edge research published in the Harvard Business Review, this keynote is a master class on how to use AI to elevate team achievement.
Through vivid storytelling and practical AI lessons, Kian will provide foundational knowledge for managers and individual contributors to master AI in the workplace. How can we use AI to improve creativity? How can we use AI to streamline workflow and become more efficient? How can we use AI to be better humans?
Audience Outcomes:
- Clear understanding of where humans & AI can collaborate most effectively on teams.
- Specific tools, tips, and frameworks to leverage AI to solve any team problem.
- Best practices in Conversational AI and AI literacy.
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How do I book Kian Gohar to speak at my event?
Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Kian Gohar for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Kian Gohar, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Kian Gohar or any other speaker of your choice. -
How much does it cost to book Kian Gohar for a speaking engagement?
Speaking fees for Kian Gohar, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Kian Gohar are $30,000 - $50,000 for live events and $10,000 - $20,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Kian Gohar, click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent. -
What topics does Kian Gohar speak about?
Kian Gohar is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Business, Technology, Business Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Music, Author, Futurism, Finance, Innovation, Business Authors, Human Resources, Teamwork & Teambuilding, Future of Work, Peak Performance, Artificial Intelligence and Creativity. -
Where does Kian Gohar travel from?
Kian Gohar generally travels from Los Angeles, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. -
Who is the agent for Kian Gohar?
AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully secured keynote speakers like Kian Gohar for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Schedule button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Kian Gohar for your next private or corporate function. -
What is a full-service speaker booking agency?
AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Kian Gohar or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us. -
Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?
If you’re looking for the best speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.
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