Impactful:
Kian provides high value takeaways and frameworks that will move your audience to action immediately. Your audience will be educated, engaged and entertained!
Inspiring: Kian exudes high energy and his storytelling and visuals will captivate your audience to lean into the future. Guests often tell Kian, “That was the best talk I’ve ever heard!”
Relatable: Kian’s real world experience as a successful venture capitalist and entrepreneur provide deep expertise on what works in the real world, not just in a classroom.
Unstoppable:
Kian will do whatever it takes to make you and your company shine in front of your audience. He’s easy to work with and no drama!
Customized: This won’t be a canned speech. Kian takes time to learn about your audience and objectives, and delivers a uniquely crafted keynote specifically for your organization.
Go Forward to Work
In this practical keynote for organizations, associations, and leadership and HR teams, Kian will present the key leadership traits and team behaviors necessary to succeed in the hybrid future of work. Based on a 2-year research project with Harvard Business School and 2000 executives during the pandemic, Kian will dispel the old “myths of work” that no longer apply in this post-pandemic era, and will reveal very specific “how to” roadmaps to learn the “Highest Return Practices” necessary to succeed in this new era: from collaboration and inclusion, to agility, resilience and foresight. By applying these lessons, any organization can build their workforce into “Exponential Teams” that are nimble and radically adaptable for the future.
How to Build a Moonshot
Reflecting on his expertise building literal moonshots to space for the XPRIZE Foundation, Kian will give audiences a step-by-step guide on how to shift their mindset about what’s possible and build their one-way ticket to the future. He’ll explain how to identify the most audacious dream, how to tackle the most important obstacles, how to challenge conventional thinking, and make one’s wildest dreams come true. This inspirational keynote will empower everyone in general audience sessions to leap forward into their future, knowing that their impossible, is “I’m possible!”
How to Think Like a Futurist
What will the world look like in 10 years and how will technology and innovation change the future of your organization? In this futurist keynote, Kian will highlight the major technology trends being developed in technology labs and changing every major industry. Kian will explore advances in the convergence of technologies like AI, robotics, blockchain, web3, and crypto, and will give your audience concrete steps to think like a futurist and build their exponential future.