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Diana Kander Topics

Foster Curiosity In Your Organization For Exponential Growth


Unleash Your Curiosity

For All Company Meetings

In today’s ever-changing business climate, your attendees’ roles have evolved far past their job descriptions. They face a volatile external environment - they encounter pressure to stay relevant to customers - they experience challenging workforce issues - and they are being asked to do a lot more with a lot less. All of this is asking them to be innovators. The big question is, are they doing it the hard way or the easy way. 

Based on her book, The Curiosity Muscle, this keynote helps members of organizations who don't have innovation in their job description to embrace and identity as an innovator. Diana will share the key skills and habits that make innovation easier and a lot more fun. And she'll empower attendees to harness the power of curiosity to unlock new possibilities and drive business growth. Attendees will leave this keynote identifying as innovators and seeking opportunities to use their new skills.

ROI & Key Outcomes:

  • How to institutionalize curiosity, asking better questions to stay competitive and
    relevant to your customers
  • How to determine blind spots within your organization and avoid falling into the “expert
    trap"
  • How to create a more innovative culture that leads to results and drives growth
Diana Kander is an innovation nerd - she spent the first decade of her career as an entrepreneur,
launching 10 companies in 10 years, while selling millions of dollars of products and services.
She spent the next decade coaching innovators inside large organizations; at one point she
served as the innovation coach for the executive team of a $100 million dollar project.

Innovate to Sell: Unlock Your Sales Potential with Curiosity and Focus

This high-energy keynote is designed to equip sales teams with the tools and mindset to drive results in today’s fast-changing marketplace. Using principles from Diana’s book Get Curious & Grow, this session will help your sales team:

  1. Prioritize What Matters Most:
    Master the 1-10 Filter to identify and focus on the most impactful sales opportunities while eliminating distractions. Learn to say "no" to what doesn’t drive results and "yes" to what truly matters.
  2. Eliminate the Noise:
    Use the Kill the Zombies framework to hunt down and remove low-value activities, outdated processes, and unnecessary meetings that drain your energy and time.
  3. Reimagine Your Approach:
    Tap into the power of the Blank Sheet Method to break free from traditional sales strategies and imagine new, innovative ways to connect with clients and close deals.
  4. Learn from Successes:
    Discover how to use the Learn from the Wins habit to identify patterns in your successes, refine your strategies, and continually improve your sales performance.

Attendees will leave this session inspired and equipped with practical tools to innovate their approach, deepen client relationships, and exceed their sales targets.


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Diana Kander Biography

About Diana

A serial entrepreneur who entered the United States as a refugee from Ukraine at the age of 8, Diana had launched and sold millions of dollars worth of products and services by her early thirties. Today, she is an innovation consultant, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author whose books have been taught in over 100 universities.

As a consultant, Diana has helped create multi-billion dollar products, coached boards and executive committees on innovation best-practices, and implemented culture transformations. She brings these experiences to each and every keynote, delivering entertaining case studies and perspective shifting stories.

Diana has truly cracked the code on how Curiosity can serve as the catalyst for exponential growth, and she thrives on helping audiences understand that they can get better results if they learn how to ask better questions.


Short Bio

A New York Times best-selling author and innovation consultant, Diana Kander has spent her career challenging assumptions and asking big questions - what kind of culture needs to exist in an organization to ensure innovative ideas and practices? How has Snoop Dogg continued to innovate decade after decade to stay relevant to the next generation? What causes name brands to lose relevance with their customers and go out of business? A serial entrepreneur who entered the United States as a refugee at the age of 8, she has launched and sold millions of dollars’ worth of products and services. Her first book, All In Startup, has been used by over 100 universities in their innovation courses and countless large organizations to help their employees think more like entrepreneurs. Her second book, The Curiosity Muscle walks readers through a methodology to keep curiosity alive and thriving inside of an organization, ultimately, future-proofing the business.

Diana Kander Testimonials

I heard good feedback from a lot of the staff, and I’ve heard more references to people’s pit crew since she brought it up.  Her message was simple but really got through to people. 

Diana was a great speaker at our event.  Her message really resonated with our team. And it was great the way she interacted with the team before and after her presentation."

President/CEO 1st United Credit Union

Diana's keynote received an outstanding score, and placed her right at the top as one of our most successful and highest-rated speakers. 

There was a flood of praise for Diana's energy, insight, and authenticity. Her skill in both the keynote and the interview was highly complimented.Thank you for delivering such a powerful and memorable experience for our audience. It was a true highlight."

Partner of Speaker Relations, Nordic Business Forum

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Diana Kander Intro/Outro

Diana Kander Intro:

Our keynote speaker today has an incredible life story.

When Diana Kander was just 8 years old, she and her family escaped the Soviet Union, entered the United States as refugees, and resettled in Kansas City without money or the ability to speak English. And yet it is from these humble beginnings that Diana has achieved much success:

- As a Georgetown-educated attorney
- A university professor
- A founder of 10 companies
- A consultant to Fortune 500 companies and Government leadership teams
- A New York Times bestselling author

And … equally impressive … she has seen every episode of Bluey at least 10 times. Diana’s journey proves the power of curiosity, and she is here today to share specific ways we can boost our innovation and ultimately future proof our organization(s)!

Please welcome Diana Kander!

 

Diana Kander Outro:

NOTE: Please share the following AFTER Diana’s presentation.

Thank you, Diana! She asked me to share two things.

#1. She would love to connect with every person in this room on Linkedin to stay in touch to keep sharing these innovative thinking ideas. Just search LinkedIn for Diana Kander with a K.

#2. Her big professional goal at the moment is to interview Snoop Dog and dive even deeper into his innovative mindset. If anyone in the room knows Snoop or has connections to make this interview happen, please let her know.

Diana Kander Technical Requirements

Diana Kander’s Technical Requirements - Live Events

Diana’s number one goal is to make the event run as smoothly as possible and to focus her effort on creating an impactful session for the audience. To minimize any possible restructuring her slides.

  • Diana creates her own slides and cannot use event slide templates.

  • Her presentation will be created in 16:9 display ratio.

  • She is happy to adjust to ultra-wide with advance notice.

Computer & Projection

  • Diana will provide her presentation in PPT format during the AV check on a USB thumb drive.

  • Client should provide projection and professional audio system appropriate for the audience size.

Fonts

All slides will contain screenshots of original slides.

  • No fonts are required and we can all ensure there are no alignment or display issues.

Presentation will contain videos with sound

Diana's keynote contains a small amount of embedded video with sound.

  • No internet will be needed.

  • Some videos do not play on certain machines. Diana's laptop will be available during AV check to serve as the main source for the presentation.

Microphone & Clicker

  • A wireless lavalier is strongly preferred to ensure quality sound and stage mobility, as well as a wireless slide clicker.

Diana prefers not to use a Countryman mic.

Confidence Monitor

Because every presentation is customized and has close to 100 slides, Diana would really like to see the upcoming slide.

  • She would like at least one (1) confidence monitor displaying presenter view (showing the current and next slide plus notes).

  • If no confidence monitor is available, then Diana would prefer to have her laptop on stage to serve as the confidence monitor. 

Minimal Stage Obstruction

Diana will not use the podium. She would prefer there would be nothing on stage so that she can walk around freely to engage the whole audience.

Water

Diana would appreciate a bottle of water somewhere within reach of the stage.

AV Check

Diana would prefer an AV check time at least one (1) hour before the audience will be in the room. Her presentation has a few surprise audio/slide elements and she would prefer to keep them secret until the presentation.

 


Diana Kander’s Technical Requirements - Virtual Events

Client's Requirements

  • Diana’s virtual presentation can be hosted on the client’s existing platform
  • The client hosts and moderates the meeting and is responsible for invitations and/or event registration 
  • Diana's sessions are very interactive - she prefers engaging participants via both audio and video - and to have access to a chat function during the event.

Rehearsal

A week or so prior to your virtual session, Diana requires a dry-run with the moderator and host of the meeting. On the day of the event, Diana will join the host 30 to 60 minutes prior to the event start time. She will mute her video and audio until she is introduced. 

Inside Diana's Studio

  • Sony A7c Full Frame Camera
  • Logitech Brio 4K Webcam
  • RODE Studio Microphone
  • Elgato Camlink HD Streaming Filter
  • MacBook Mini
  • MacBook
  • Various LED Lights
  • 48" Presentation Monitor
  • Typically streams through MMHMM Virtual Camera Feed