Keynote Description (customized for each event)

Raise your hand if you've ever had a brilliant idea at work that died during a meeting or never gained enough traction to move forward.

If you've ever experienced this frustration, you're not alone. Companies spend $65 billion each year on innovation consultants, yet 70% of breakthrough ideas come from employees who were never asked to share their thoughts. We're sitting on a gold mine while paying others to dig holes.

Here's what I've found: The difference between leaders who innovate and those who stagnate isn't talent or resources—it's mindset. A growth mindset that asks "What if?" instead of "What's wrong?" What if we viewed failures as learning opportunities? What if our next breakthrough was just one question away?

In this compelling keynote, serial entrepreneur and innovation catalyst Aris Jerahian takes you from a busy garage in Mexico to the executive rooms where groundbreaking ideas are created. Through 12 ventures—including the time I lost $50,000 asking "What if we could revolutionize corn oil?" That incredible failure taught me more than any success and led to my next $2 million breakthrough.

This isn't about thinking outside the box. It's about leading with a growth mindset that turns leaders from followers into innovators. You'll discover how the right "What if?" questions foster intrapreneurs—people who innovate from within by thinking like owners.

You'll walk away with a practical framework and the confidence to ask the question that changes everything.

Table of Contents:

• The Innovation Paradox

• The Mindset Discovery

• The Power of "WHAT IF"

• The Intrapreneurial Mindset

• The WHAT IF Framework (a practical, six-step system for systematic innovation)

• Your Innovation Action Plan

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Outcomes & Experiences

What You'll Discover:

• The Hidden Innovation Goldmine: Why your organization's next breakthrough probably already exists - it just needs the right environment to surface

• The Ownership Mentality: The simple mindset shift that transforms employees into intrapreneurs (interactive exercise)

• The Fialure Advantage: How companies turn setbacks into strategic advantages and why your "failures" might be your most significant assets

• The Safety Factor: Why psychological safety is the #1 predictor of breakthrough innovation, and how to measure it

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What You'll Experience:

• Interactive Venture Capitalist Game: Play along as we reveal which business ideas succeeded or failed spectacularly (you'll be surprised by the results!)

• Real-Time "What If" Brainstorming: Live exercises that help you identify game-changing questions for your industry

• The Ownership Exercise: An eye-opening exercise that will change how you see your forever

• Unexpected Conversation Exercise: Discover how your next breakthrough might be waiting in an unexpected conversation

What You'll Take Away:

• The Signature Methodology that Changes Everything: The W.H.A.T.I.F. Framework: A practical, six-step system for turning curiosity into results that you can start using this week

• Your Personal Action Plan: Specific steps for this week, this month, and this quarter to ignite innovation in your organization

• Innovation Confidence: The mindset and tools to be the person who asks the question that changes everything

• A New Lens: The ability to see problems as systems to redesign rather than symptoms to treat

The Experience Promise

This isn't a typical business presentation filled with corporate jargon and theoretical frameworks. This is a story-driven journey through real corporate/entrepreneurial successes and failures, punctuated with interactive moments that make you an active participant in your own transformation.

You'll laugh at the absurdity of some ventures, be inspired by unexpected successes, and leave with both the mindset and practical tools to become the change agent your organization needs.

So here's my question for you: What if the breakthrough your organization needs is waiting in a question you haven't asked yet? What if you could be the leader who finally asks it?

Ready to find out?

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Ready to ignite innovation from within? Let's start with the most critical question:

"What if your organization's next breakthrough is just one bold question away?"

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