Wall Street Journal

Bestselling Author

Silicon Valley

AI Visionary

World Renowned

Futurist Speaker

Harvard Trained

Leadership Coach

Kian Gohar delivers a keynote on creativity and innovation at a global innovation summit in Silicon Valley.

INSPIRING.

IMPACTFUL.

ACTIONABLE.

Kian Gohar delivers a keynote on creativity and innovation at a global innovation summit in Silicon Valley.

INSPIRING.

IMPACTFUL.

ACTIONABLE.

Wall Street Journal

Bestselling Author

Silicon Valley

AI Visionary

World Renowned

Futurist Speaker

Harvard Trained

Leadership Coach

Kian Gohar is a one of the world’s top keynote speakers on AI and innovation, leadership, teamwork, and the future of work. His storytelling inspires audiences to change their behaviors and build a future that is inclusive, innovative, and impactful.

Every keynote is customized with research-based methodologies, relevant stories, and practical action steps that enable audiences to solve business challenges with new mindsets, new tools, and new intentions.

Your audience will be transformed.

But don’t just take our word for it. Listen to what other clients have to say about Kian’s keynotes:

How to Build a Moonshot.

Reflecting on his expertise building literal moonshots to space for the XPRIZE, Kian 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!

  • 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 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!

  • 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!

Leadership in the New World of Work.

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 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!

  • 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!

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 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.

  • 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.

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.

  • 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.

Virtual Keynotes.

Every keynote described above can be delivered virtually. Kian is a highly engaging storyteller even on Zoom, and has delivered hundreds of virtual keynotes, with perfect lighting, sound, audio, and video, for audiences around the world, from Madrid to Montreal to Miami.

Time zones don’t matter when impact matters!

Kian Gohar delivers a virtual keynote on high performing teams with his travel studio setup.
Kian Gohar delivers a virtual keynote on high performing teams with his travel studio setup.
Kian Gohar delivers a virtual keynote on high performing teams with his travel studio setup.