Aaron Bare

Aaron Bare Speaking Topics

• The Future of Work

  • Work has dramatically changed since the COVID-19 pandemic. Leaders of the future must prioritize energy and outcomes over time when evaluating an employee’s work. Creating work streams that prioritize highest value activities will help employees and organizations hit their goals in less time.

  • Audience takeaways: How to prioritize tasks by highest value, blocking out time for deep work, accessing deep work, focus, and flow, how to stop managing life by time and manage by energy.

  • Aaron is a strategic innovation facilitator with over twenty years in helping over 500 companies in 100 countries get the most out of their employees.

  • The Future of the Internet; Web3 + AI

  • The internet has evolved over time. Web1, and then Web2, revolutionized how we use data and knowledge. Now, in Web3, users have the opportunity to own their content. Add in AI and you have a whole new paradigm shift for businesses.

  • Audience takeaways: the difference between Web1, Web2, Web3, the importance of decentralization, what a “trust-less” system means, why Web3 is the future of the internet, how to participate in Web3. AI will change everything, so embrace it now or be disrupted by it later.

  • Aaron outlines the importance of Web3 and the decentralization in his bestselling book Exponential Theory, The Power of Thinking Big.

• Disrupt Yourself (Or Be Disrupted)

  • Outlined in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller Exponential Theory, Aaron Bare explains how we are all going to get disrupted. The only solution we have is to disrupt ourselves first, and harness the power of thinking bigger for ourselves, our communities, and our planet.

  • Audience takeaways: What self disruption looks like, how self disruption can get us ahead and better adapt to accelerating change, what thinking bigger means on a personal, professional, and organizational level and how to do it.

  • Qualified to speak on this after developing The Seven and founding the Change Agents Academy which helps Change Agents disrupt themselves in a seven week program. Also included inside bestselling book Exponential Theory.

Digitizing your Business Model

• In the exponential future, all businesses will be disrupted. The first step on the curve of disruption is digitization. Thus, all business models of the future must be digitized, before they inevitably become deceptive, disruptive, democratized, demonetized, and dematerialized.

• Audience takeaways: understanding the 6 D’s of disruption, why disruption follows an exponential curve, how to create a model that will become democratized, demonetized, and dematerialized, how digitization is the first step in building disruptive models.

• Qualified to speak on this as disruption is a key theme throughout Exponential Theory, and previously worked with the creators of the 6 D’s model, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Built over 400 software projects with his firm BuzzMouth, which he sold in 2011 to Lane Terrelever.

10x your Innovation

• Change used to be the only constant, but now even change is accelerating. Learn how this accelerating change of growth, innovation, and problem solving is impacting you and your industry. Better yet, learn how you can accelerate your own innovation, your company’s innovation, and spearhead your industry’s innovation acceleration.

• Audience takeaways: a brief overview of the history of innovation, how to innovate faster, how to foster a culture of innovation, how to lean into accelerated change to create the future you want.

• Qualified based on fifteen years of innovation facilitation, and previous Entrepreneur in Residencies at Arizona State University, Thunderbird School of Global Management, and Singularity University. Founded three accelerators.

The Rhodium Rule and Thrivability

• Two new terms coined in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller Exponential Theory, The Rhodium Rule and Thrivability are two keys for leaders of the future to embrace. The Rhodium Rule builds upon both the Golden Rule and the Platinum Rule, to create a new rule for decision makers. Thrivability describes how leaders can create a state of success beyond sustainability, maintainability, and survivability. The Rhodium Rule and Thrivability can help leaders make better decisions to not just lead into the future, but thrive.

• Audience takeaways: what the Rhodium Rule means, how to consider an entire ecosystem while making decisions, considering future generations through decisions, the power of unintended consequences, how to move from survivability to thrivability, why thriving is key to the abundant future.

• Qualified to speak on these topics as coined in bestselling book Exponential Theory.

Conscious Capitalism

• As leaders think bigger, they inherently become more conscious. Capitalism has been under attack, yet it is the solution as long as it is conscious. Considering the other stakeholders in our decisions, including future generations, the planet, and other silent members, will guide exponential leaders to creating repeatable, predictable, scalable, and sustainable models that solve a problem, deliver value, and provide impact.

• Audience takeaways: what Conscious Capitalism means, how to use exponential theory as an exponential leader, creating repeatable, predictable, scalable, and sustainable models, considering all members of the ecosystem, building business models with impact.

• Qualified to speak on these topics as a member of Conscious Capitalism Arizona, former entrepreneur in residence, creator of Arizona State University Startup School, and impact advisor to Fortune 500 companies and family offices.