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Foster Curiosity In Your Organization For Exponential Growth


Go Big or Go Home Keynote

For Executives & Managers

Did you know that once you finish a presentation, your audience will forget 50% of it within an hour and 90% of it within a week?  How are they supposed to take action on your idea when they can't remember anything you said?

This sad statistic doesn't have to be your fate. Diana's Go Big or Go Home keynote will show you how to significantly increase the amount of your presentation that an audience will retain and create that "gut feeling" that compels them to take action as soon as you're done. Based on Diana's newest book, this talk will offer five concrete tools you can use to emotionally connect with prospects, customers, and employees, and help them remember and act on what you said!

And Diana won't just educate you about these principles. What fun would that be? She'll take you on an interactive roller coaster, carefully weaving in each practice into the talk itself! (Note: Due to the audience participation level of this presentation, it is exclusively available through an in-person format).

ROI & Key Outcomes:

  • How to create trust with your audience at lightning speed
  • How to make your presentation memorable and worth telling others about
  • How to do research that no one else will do to get meetings that no one else will get
  • How to add surprises into your presentation that will keep the audience laser focused on what you're saying

Unleash the Innovator Within

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.

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Diana Kander Videos

Explore Diana’s videos below. 

Unleash The Innovator Within - 10 minutes

Learn From Your Wins

Innovation Inspiration

Diana Kander Biography

About Diana

Diana Kander revolutionizes the way businesses look at innovation and curiosity. A New York Times best-selling author, innovation consultant and keynote speaker, she asks some 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? Can organizational decline be prevented?

Diana has spent her career challenging assumptions and asking thought-provoking questions. 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. She outlined her biggest lessons learned for launching new products in her first book, 
All In Startup, which has been used by over 100 universities in their innovation courses and countless large organizations to help their employees think more like entrepreneurs. A former MBA professor at Mizzou, she has served as an entrepreneur in residence at H&R Block, Commerce Bank and several government agencies.  

Diana's second book, 
The Curiosity Muscle explains why it's harder to stay at the top than it was to get there. The book documents Diana's consulting experience with large organizations and demonstrates why most companies who experience significant success can so easily get comfortable, lose their curiosity and crash into irrelevance. The book walks readers through a methodology to keep curiosity alive and thriving inside of an organization, ultimately, future-proofing the business.

Fun fact about Diana: She likes to use her curiosity methodology to push herself out of her own comfort zone and achieve big personal challenges each year. Despite having never completed a pull-up prior to 2021, she raised over $26,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kansas City by doing 5,000 pull-ups that year.

Diana lives in Kansas City, Missouri with Jason, her high-school sweetheart and husband, their son, True and daughter, Bella Brave.


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

She really made a mark with our organization.

It was truly our pleasure having Diana Kander with us.  Our organization received her message so positively.  I hear references to Diana’s keynote every other day in my interactions with my PRiMe Group colleagues.  She really made a mark with our organization, and her thought leadership is making an impact and reverberating across our broader organization.

Vanessa Lee, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York

We very quickly adopted many of her practices to address old ways of doing things and used her methodology to bring new ideas to life.

Shortly before the pandemic, Diana spoke to our organization. I think one of the profound things she encouraged us to do was eradicate the zombies. We very quickly adopted many of her practices to address old ways of doing things and used her methodology to bring new ideas to life. Her concepts and tools allowed our health system to stay ahead of the pandemic and have one of the best responses in the nation. I would strongly recommend Diana for any keynote or leadership engagement you are thinking about.

Vice President, Cox Health

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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

PLEASE NOTE: Diana’s presentation uses a heavy amount of images and video, all embedded into her slide deck that she runs from her current generation Macbook Pro.

  • Diana must control her own slide deck
  • Diana needs a confidence monitor with a presenter view on stage
  • Due to the custom nature of her presentation, it is not possible to run the slides from another machine or provide them prior to the presentation
  • Diana can provide a draft PDF of her slides in advance

Diana's tech requirements are as follows:

  • Lavalier Microphone for Diana
  • Handheld Microphone(s) for audience Q&A
  • Screen - as large as the room will hold
  • LCD Projector
  • HDMI Cord - to connect to Diana’s MacBook on stage
  • PowerPoint Clicker
  • Small table with water on stage
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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