A Keynote Experience Your Team Will Never Forget
The Art of Achieving Ambitious Things™
Through inspiration, laughter, and insights, your team will discover how to turn dreams into reality. They will gain Resilience through Rejection® and Discipline with Joy® to take on anything.
Jia’s insightful talk struck a human chord and was truly inspiring!”
- Charity L. / Director of Engineering, Google Search
Organizations don’t lack ambitions.
But fear of rejection and lack of discipline block them from achieving the heights they deserve.
As a result, businesses lose sales, people don’t communicate candidly, and ideas get abandoned in people’s heads before they are presented.
Overcoming Barriers
Redefining Successes &
The Unforgettable Journey with Jia Jiang’s Keynotes
Jia has empowered people around the world to welcome adversities and deliver exceptional results in sales, real estate, financial services, healthcare, technology and many more.
Every audience who hears him speak finds:
Inspiration
Stories, Laughter and … Tears
Your audience will experience a one-of-a-kind journey through highs and lows, triumphs and obstacles, future and past. They will hear stories that are both unthinkably audacious and intimately familiar, laugh-out-loud funny and profoundly poignant. By the end, they will be inspired to see the world of goal-achieving in a whole new way.
Courage
Facing Fear and Building Resilience
Your audience will discover the hidden opportunities behind every rejection, and the paths to success beneath every failure. They will gain their courage and resilience by being uncomfortable and will no longer let their fear hold them back from dreaming bigger, selling more, communicating better, and achieving higher.
Insight
Getting Clarity and Gaining Discipline
Your audience will discover the magic of the One Action Goal and learn that the best way to achieve ambitious things is to turn the one most important thing into an artistic habit. They will gain insight and clarity on what they need to focus on, and learn how to curate an environment for them to succeed in that action.
Jia's passion, energy, and willingness to share personal examples encouraged us all to step outside our comfort zones and adjust the way we think about and interact with the world around us."
-Sandra Lindner,
Vice President Training Design, Citi
Speaking Topics
K E Y N O T E O N E
What I Learned From 100 Days of Rejection
For too many of us, the fear of rejection is the #1 obstacle to achieving our goals and dreams. Our natural tendency is to avoid the risk of rejection, even when it’s detrimental to our businesses, careers, and lives.
Nobody knows this like entrepreneur Jia Jiang. To overcome his own fear of rejection, he conducted an experiment where he intentionally sought it out every day for 100 days. From asking complete strangers for $100 to requesting a “burger refill” at a fast food restaurant, Jia’s experiences (and surprising results) became the basis for one of the most-watched TED Talks of all time and the bestselling book Rejection Proof. It also transformed Jia Jiang into the world’s foremost authority on rejection.
Key Takeaways:
In this engaging presentation, Jia shares insightful—and often laugh-out-loud—stories from his 100 Days of Rejection. Audiences learn how to become more resilient and make becoming rejection-proof their superpower for success in life. He also explores the basic principles of turning a NO into a YES, as well as how to get more YESes. By transforming a keynote speech into a unique and inspiring experience, Jia has earned rave reviews from Fortune 500 audiences and praise from individuals who have thanked him for changing their lives.
K E Y N O T E T W O
The Art of Achieving Ambitious Things
Discipline is the ability to consistently take hard action. It is the key to achieving any long-term success.
Most people think discipline is obtained through a combination of inspiration, willpower, and pain tolerance. But that’s not reality. In the long term, people will do anything to avoid pain. As a result, most people fail to achieve personal goals, and most organizations fall short of their expected results. In his paradigm-shifting keynote, bestselling author Jia Jiang introduces a hidden alternative way for people and teams to achieve real, sustainable discipline — love. It’s not about tolerating the work you hate but building tools to love the work you do.
Key Takeaways:
Through inspiring, humor-filled stories, Jia illustrates tools and systems he uses to make himself fall in love with the hard actions needed to achieve his ambitious goals, including business building, sales mastery, networking, fear conquering, public speaking, language learning, and even parenting. After this experience, the audience will not only gain a brand-new perspective on success and discipline but also be equipped with the tools and system to realize any long-term goal with positivity and fulfillment.
Workshops
This interactive workshop filled with laughter, inspiration, and practical tools is a deep dive into the topics of resilience, rejection, and negotiation.
After experiencing this workshop and embracing the Rejection Therapy® method, your team will see and do everything differently. They will become more courageous and be inspired to open up more, sell harder, and innovate more creatively. And maybe, just maybe, someone will also request a “burger refill” at a restaurant or ask to play soccer in someone’s backyard. Just like Jia did.
Your Rejection Your Superpower
W O R K S H O P O N E
Overcome fear when asking
Turn NO into YES
Get more YESes by asking
Get more YESes without asking
Say NO to others without hurting relationships
Make rejections their biggest assets
Key Takeaways:
W O R K S H O P T W O
The One Action Goal
The centerpiece of the Art of Achieving Ambitious Things, the secret tool that makes people fall in love with work rather than having to tolerate it, is called the One Action Goal.
In this exclusive 2-hour workshop based on his upcoming book, The Art of Achieving Ambitious Things, Jia Jiang introduces this concept of transforming broad, ambitious objectives into single, repeatable actions. This session is more than just a workshop; it's a full-on strategy session for each audience member. Jia brings his signature mix of humor and heartfelt advice, alongside stories that make the lessons stick. Whether you’re looking to revamp your personal goals or give your organizational targets a new direction, this workshop will give you the clarity and tools you need. This workshop changes people’s views of goals and work by helping them to love, rather than tolerate, the hard actions. Its result will impact not just people’s lives in many aspects, but also their work.
Key Takeaways:
Identifying Your Long-term Ambition: Strip away the noise and get to the heart of what you want to achieve.
Building Your One Action Plan with the RISE system:
Routinize your dream
Increase your payouts
Surefire your environment
Elevate your ability
Applying the One Action Plan: Dive deep into how to use the One Action Goal to achieve goals in multiple facets of your careers and lives
As a keynote speaker, Jia has delivered live keynotes to over…
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and spoken at 400+ corporate and industry events.
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Hi, I am Jia Jiang.
People call me the Rejection Guy. I am a serial author, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker.
My first book, “Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection” was a #1 bestseller. It has been used in sales training, career development, and college classes everywhere. I am currently in a remote cabin writing my second book The Art of Achieving Ambitious Things.
A native of Beijing, China, I came to the United States as a teenager to pursue education and entrepreneurial dreams. After receiving a BA at Brigham Young University and an MBA at Duke University, I built a successful marketing career at Dell before venturing into the worlds of entrepreneurship and blogging. My story of “100 Days of Rejection Therapy” was covered by media all over the world.
As an entrepreneur, I run Rejection Therapy, a popular card game aimed at helping people overcome their fear of rejection and develop mental resilience. It has built a global cult-like following on social media, with over 100M views on YouTube and TikTok. My personal YouTube channel and blog (RejectionTherapy.com) have over 112K subscribers. I have also founded and run DareMe Labs, a consulting firm helping corporate clients turn their employees into courageous work artists.
My goal with every event is to instill the courage and discipline in your audience that leads to extraordinary success in their lives and your organization.
