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Alex Banayan

Keynote Speaker

#1 International Best-selling Author of The Third Door; Renowned Expert on Growth, Success, and Perseverance 

Alex Banayan is the youngest best-selling business author in American history. He’s one of the world’s leading experts on the mindset of success and a renowned keynote speaker at organizations including Apple, Nike, Google, Mastercard, Salesforce, IBM, and Disney.

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Alex Banayan is the youngest best-selling business author in American history. The Third Door chronicles Banayan’s seven-year quest to uncover the definitive mindset of exponential growth and success. The book is a #1 international best-seller and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

The day before his freshman-year final exams, Banayan hacked The Price is Right, won a sailboat, sold it, and used the money to fund his quest to learn from the world’s most innovative leaders. Over the course of his unprecedented journey, Banayan interviewed Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Larry King, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Jessica Alba, Quincy Jones, and more.

Named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list and Business Insider’s “Most Powerful People Under 30,” Banayan is his generation’s leading expert in high performance and personal development, having been featured in Fortune, CNBC, Businessweek, The Washington Post, MSNBC, Fox News, and NBC News.

A renowned keynote speaker, Banayan has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world, including Apple, Google, Nike, IBM, Snapchat, Salesforce, Delta Airlines, Kaiser Permanente, Mastercard, and Disney. Banayan’s keynotes have had far-reaching effects, acting as the catalyst for a new way of thinking. The Third Door framework has helped individuals discover unconventional routes to achieve their biggest dreams and has aided Fortune 500 companies to take new approaches to sales, marketing, and exponential growth.

Since the publication of The Third Door, Banayan has brought his message of possibility to millions of people in more than one hundred countries. At the core of Banayan’s mission is his belief that “When you change what someone believes is possible, you change what becomes possible.”

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Alex Banayan’s Speech Topics

  • The Mindset of Exponential Growth: How to Transform Your Thinking, Take the Third Door, and Achieve Your Most Important Goals

    We all face rejection. We all deal with fear. At times it can feel like there are 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 clear the obstacles along your path and add rocket fuel to your success. After spending fifteen years researching and interviewing the world’s most innovative leaders, bestselling author Alex Banayan’s widely-acclaimed Third Door™ framework can help any organization achieve its goals and radically accelerate its growth.


    In this high-energy 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 insights from his bestselling book The Third Door to a whole new level, making them practical and applicable for organizations of all sizes.


    This powerful presentation teaches you how to:

    • Cultivate a culture of bold thinking
    • Instill the mindset of persistence and going “all in”
    • Fuel growth, no matter the external economic environment
    • Become more capable of achieving your company’s biggest objectives
  • There’s Always a Way: How to Cultivate Perseverance and Persistence During Times of Change

    With the surge of AI and other seismic technological disruptions, it has never been more critical to an organization’s survival for teams to cultivate a DNA of perseverance and solution-oriented problem-solving.


    In this empowering keynote, bestselling author Alex Banayan decodes the most critical insights needed for any organization to cultivate the mindset of resilience and optimism, particularly during times of rapid change and uncertainty.


    After interviewing Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and dozens more of the world’s most iconic leaders, Banayan uncovered the 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 to transform persistence from being an esoteric word to being a living, breathing part of your day-to-day culture
    • Why the opposite of success isn’t failure-and how that shift in mindset helps your employees take more risks and grow exponentially
    • What the surprising difference is between fearlessness and courage and why that critical distinction leads to consistent breakthroughs
  • VISTA Storytelling for Business Growth: How to Transform Your Organization Using the 5 Keys of Radically Compelling Stories

    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 the most effective skill that radically boosts the growth of any company’s sales, marketing, and 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, customers into evangelists, and inject an entirely new sense of possibility into your company culture.

  • Coming Alive: How to Boost Connection, Energy, and Growth Using the 4 Antidotes For Mental Wellbeing

    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:

    • What the “3 Toxins of the Crisis” are and how to change your relationship with them immediately
    • How to use the “4 Antidotes for Mental Wellbeing” to cultivate peak performance and navigate change and uncertainty
    • How to deepen your sense of purpose and connection in your personal life and at work
  • Alex Banayan Workshops

    Alex offers the following workshops:

    • Coming Alive Workshop
    • Storytelling for Connection Workshop
    • Tools for Growth Workshop

What other organizations say about Alex Banayan

As a keynote speaker for our employee retention, Alex Banayan brought a perfect mix of lively stories and practical exercises for some of our most tenured employees. Banayan’s keynote was able to strike the rare balance of entertaining, informative, and useful?which is exactly what we needed.

Technology

What other organizations say about Alex Banayan

It was a fantastic keynote! The team is still talking about Alex’s presentation and using his takeaways and repeating his quotes left and right. Alex’s speech was one of our company’s favorites by far, and possibly the best Q&A we?ve ever seen.

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What other organizations say about Alex Banayan

We?ve received so many positive responses from my team after Alex Banayan’s keynote! It was the right blend of inspirational and practical ? all wrapped up in entertaining and funny stories. From the lessons about success/failure to the 30-Day Challenge, it was an incredible, engaging hour.

Entertainment

What other organizations say about Alex Banayan

Alex Banayan’s keynote was entertaining, informative, and most of all, memorable. Thousands of our team members were in the audience and Banayan’s storytelling made it feel like we were all sitting down with him, one on one, as he spoke directly to each of us. It was exactly the kind of engaging keynote we were looking for.

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What other organizations say about Alex Banayan

The feedback on Alex Banayan?s keynote has been terrific! Our team left more energized and more informed. It was the perfect way to close out our event!

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