Alex Banayan

We all face rejection. We all deal with fear. Whether it’s in our personal lives or careers, there are always dozens of obstacles holding us back from achieving our biggest goals. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are certain mindsets and tools that can not only clear the obstacles along your path, but can also add rocket fuel to your success.
After spending ten years researching and interviewing the most innovative leaders on earth, bestselling author Alex Banayan’s widely-acclaimed Third DoorTM framework can help any organization achieve its goals and radically accelerate its overall growth.
In this riveting keynote, Banayan takes audiences on an unprecedented adventure, from hacking The Price is Right to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to the multi-year quest to learn from Bill Gates and Lady Gaga. Alongside these larger-than- life stories, Banayan takes the principles from his bestselling book The Third Door and pushes them to a whole new level, making them practical and applicable for organizations of all sizes.

This powerful presentation teaches you how to:

• Cultivate perseverance
• Become more persistent
• Fuel growth, no matter the external economic environment
• And become more capable of achieving your company’s
biggest objectives

This wildly entertaining keynote is packed with insights and lessons guaranteed to transform any organization to believe that, no matter what obstacles it’s facing… there’s always a way.

The pace of change in the business world is faster than ever before. It has never been more critical to an organization’s survival for teams to cultivate a DNA of resiliency, perseverance, and solution-orientated problem solving.
In this empowering keynote, bestselling author Alex Banayan masterfully decodes the most critical and elusive skills needed for any organization to cultivate the mindsets of exponential growth, particularly during times of rapid change and uncertainty.

After interviews with Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and dozens more of the world’s most iconic leaders, Banayan uncovered that there are fundamental skills that every organization needs—but that most people don’t talk about—to achieve their biggest goals during disruptive times.

This keynote covers it all, with lessons including:

• How do you transform persistence from being an esoteric word to being
a living, breathing part of your day-to-day culture?
• What are the unspoken dangers of over-persistence and how can you prevent them at your organization?
• Why is the opposite of success not failure—and how does that shift in mindset help your employees take more risks and grow exponentially?
• What’s the surprising difference between fearlessness and courage— and why does that critical difference lead to consistent breakthroughs in
organizations of all sizes?

If you care about elevating your business—if you care about your employees being more resilient, more courageous, and more capable of making smart, innovative decisions—this keynote is what you’ve been waiting for.

The world has never been noisier. How do you command the attention of your customers, sales prospects, strategic partners, or industry at-large? Once you have their attention, how do you transform those stakeholders into lifelong advocates for you and your business?

After a decade of researching the world’s most successful leaders and organizations, bestselling author Alex Banayan uncovered what the single most underrated skill is that can radically boost the growth of any company’s sales, marketing, or business development efforts. The secret is storytelling—but not just any kind. Banayan’s research led him to decode the keys to remarkably compelling, gripping, and emotional storytelling that can be used by businesses of all sizes to supercharge their goals. This is a specific, teachable skill set that can transform prospects into blue-chip clients and customers into evangelists, and can inject an entirely new sense of possibility into your company culture.

Drawing from his years of research and the international success of The Third Door’s unique narrative style, Banayan distills in this keynote how anyone in your organization—from C-suite executives to your newest team members—can use the five elements of Banayan’s V.I.S.T.A. Storytelling Framework to transform your business. Because at the end of the day, everything in life and business comes down to a story. And it’s time your organization uses that to its advantage.

The mental health crisis has hit a point of urgency never before seen in history.

Anxiety and depression levels are skyrocketing. These issues not only devastate families at home, but also affect the workplace in extreme ways.

Gallup polling of chief human resource officers found that only one-percent of them perceive their workforce mental health as excellent. The size of the issue is overwhelming. But what if what we need to solve this crisis has been right in front of us the entire time?

Bestselling author and researcher Alex Banayan has spent years interviewing the most renowned pioneers in the mental health field—including the president of the American Psychological Association, acclaimed brain experts, leading psychologists, psychiatrists, addiction researchers, Harvard professors, the CEO of Gallup, and others—to not only decode what is causing this crisis, but to find scientifically-proven solutions that are accessible and scalable.

In this groundbreaking keynote, Banayan will make you rethink what you know about mental health, while giving you the tools to put these solutions into practice.

Through this mind-expanding presentation, audiences will learn:

Packed with captivating stories, this keynote is solution-oriented and leaves audiences feeling optimistic and empowered. We owe it to ourselves, our families, and our colleagues to equip ourselves with the very best insights to uplift our mental wellbeing—and this keynote is designed to do exactly that.