Jia Jiang is a top resilience keynote speaker with one of the most viewed TED Talks and the bestselling author of Rejection Proof. In 2019, Toastmasters International awarded Jiang the Golden Gavel, which is given annually to honor the best keynote speaker in the industry. In his book, website, and talks, Jiang provides inspiration and knowledge for people and organizations to become fearless through rejection training.
Jia Jiang is the owner of Rejection Therapy, a website that provides inspiration, knowledge and products for people to overcome their fear of rejection. He also teaches people and trains organizations to become fearless through rejection training. In 2015, he authored the Amazon bestselling book, Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection and was one of the most viewed TED Talks of 2017.
Several years after Jiang began his career in the corporate world, he took a life-altering risk and stepped into the unknown world of entrepreneurship. His result was everyone’s biggest fear: rejection. This was the catalyst that set Jiang on the path to his true calling.
To conquer the fear of rejection, Jiang embarked on a personal quest and started a blog, 100 Days of Rejection Therapy. His journey revealed a world that was hidden in plain sight — a world where people are much kinder than we imagine. He discovered that rejection can be much less painful than we believe and that the fear of rejection is much more destructive than we know.
Jiang grew up in Beijing, China and migrated to the United States at age 16. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from Brigham Young University and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University.
The fear of rejection can hold you back. Our natural tendency is to avoid it at all costs which can be detrimental to our businesses, careers, and lives. In 2012, to overcome his own fear of rejection, entrepreneur Jia Jiang started an experiment to be rejected every day for 100 days. The result became the basis of his #3 viewed TED talk of 2017 and bestselling book: Rejection Proof. In this engaging presentation, Jia shares stories from his rejection experiment to teach you the importance of becoming rejection-proof, the basic principles of turning a NO into YES, as well as how to get more YESes.
THE ONE ACTION GOAL: ACHIEVE BIG BY DOING ONLY ONE THING
Why do we usually fail in achieving our goals? “The bigger the outcome, the bigger the failure rate,” says Jia Jiang. “That’s why New Year’s resolutions usually fail, and why businesses always get too busy to stay focused.” Jia’s proven solution: simplify success by relentlessly focusing on one thing—what he has named the One Action Goal. Drawing from his upcoming book, The One Action Goal: Achieve Big by Doing Only One Thing, and more than a decade of coaching clients to success, Jia provides a playbook for achieving any personal, professional, or organizational goal. Determined to put success within everyone’s reach, Jia shares his One Action Goal System, including:
- Turning ambitious objectives into your One Action Goal
- Routinizing your dreams and fail-proofing your environment
- Using your One Action Plan to accelerate your ideas
- Developing radical focus on your One Action Goal
- Overcoming barriers to achievement with a framework for success
Highlighted by Jia’s signature humor and storytelling talent made famous in his “100 Days of Rejection” TED talk and acclaimed book, Rejection Proof, this highly motivational talk outlines a path to success that anyone can achieve. Audiences are electrified by Jia’s passion for empowering their dreams—gaining game-changing tools that they can immediately put into action.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION - REACH BEYOND YOUR BOX
Based on race, gender, education, and cultural background, society has put us into different boxes and tagged us with stereotypes and expectations. Equally damaging, however, are the ways we also conform to these boxes in unconscious ways. As an Asian American who has broken multiple boxes, Jia takes on the DE&I topic with a unique two-way approach for both organizations and individuals.
For organization leaders, Jia helps them to understand and actively install a fearless box-breaking culture. And for employees, Jia challenges them to seek opportunities to influence beyond their box.
KEYNOTE ADD-ON: 28-DAY REJECTION CHALLENGE
Through a series of 27 digestible self-paced videos on rejection, your team members will learn psychology, framework, real-world examples, and exact words to use in receiving, giving, minimizing, and handling rejections. The course also includes 30+ optional hand-on challenges to get rejected and build your mental muscles, a MAGIC tracker sheet to track your actions, participation in an accountability group and a 30-minute group call with Jia.
WORKSHOP: THE POWER OF REJECTION
Based on his #1 bestselling book – Rejection Proof, this workshop takes a deep dive into rejection-proof principles to expose attendees to techniques in overcoming fears. The audience will learn to turn rejection to advantage, how to give rejections, and to get more acceptances. They will also go through “Rejection in the Wild” – an unforgettable, real-life rejection-seeking exercise. This workshop is 1-4 hours long.
I hosted Jia at the Googleplex after meeting him and hearing his message on facing rejection head-on, and why it's so helpful. For his talk about rejection, he packed the room as he told us about his journey from China, writing to Bill Gates, and learning how to change how he handled rejection on a daily basis, whether he was asking someone a question on the street or looking to fly someone's plane.
Jia had one of the largest audiences we can get at our Google Author talks. He was so successful that he returned a year later, once his book was published, and shared more about his research and findings, and how he is helping others shift how they think about rejection, so they can be more resilient in the world and go after new challenges and adventures they seek, both personally and professionally. More people need to listen to Jia so they can also see that they have the power to face their fears and do anything they want.
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Rachael O'Meara | Program Facilitator, Leadership Development Incubator at Google
Jia has a rare combination of humility, vulnerability, and humor that will disarm, delight and provide practical skills to those you are training. He was a pleasure to work with and willing to customize his content to our leaders. His content applies to leaders at any level of an organization, who will all be won over by his open and genuine speaking style. I highly recommend him for any event you might need a strong communicator.
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Kristen Aikman | Senior Director of Content Development at The Global Leadership Summit
At Health Coach Institute we were fortunate to have Jia join us as a speaker for our virtual Empower Summit. He not only engaged our audience, but moved and inspired them SO much with his talk! Our Facebook group has been flooded with admiration for Jia! We are thrilled to be working with Jia more in the future and know our students will gain so much by hearing more from him.
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Kristin Rauschelbach | Vice President of Strategic Operations at The Health Coach Institute
