Feb 02 - 04 2025
Alex Banayan is the youngest bestselling business author in American history and a highly sought-after keynote speaker who teaches organizations how to cultivate mindsets of exponential growth.
Alex Banayan is the youngest bestselling business author in American history. His book, The Third Door, follows Alex’s seven-year journey to find the keys to growth and success. The book is a #1 international bestseller that’s been called “a joy to read” by The New York Post.
Alex is also well-known for his keynote and motivational speaking. He has presented the Third Door™ framework to corporate leadership teams around the world, including top leadership teams from Apple, Google, Nike, IBM, Salesforce, Delta Airlines, Bank of America, Mastercard, Disney, and many other leading companies. Organizations hire Alex Banayan for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Alex Banayan’s fees.
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Named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list and Business Insider’s “Most Powerful People Under 30,” Alex Banayan is the leading expert in high-performance and personal development. Since becoming a full-time keynote speaker, Alex has become one of the most sought-after bookings in the United States. Businesses love his relatable message and enthusiasm on stage. He has been featured in Fortune, CNBC, Businessweek, The Washington Post, MSNBC, Fox News, and NBC News.
His bestselling book The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented adventure—from hacking Warren Buffett’s shareholders meeting to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to celebrating in a nightclub with Lady Gaga. With each icon, Alex further decodes the secret to success.
After remarkable one-on-one interviews with Bill Gates, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Larry King, Jessica Alba, Pitbull, Tim Ferriss, Quincy Jones, and many more, Alex discovered the one key they have in common: they all took The Third Door.
However, Banayan’s keynote speaking spans far beyond The Third Door. He offers talks centered around building resilient teams, breakthrough storytelling, and overcoming fear as well as hands-on workshops that further these topics. Additionally, you can further tailor Alex’s keynote or workshop takeaways for your audience by setting up a pre-event Zoom call with Alex and the MPG team.
Find out how to hire Alex Banayan to appear at your next event. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group to inquire about Alex Banayan’s availability and cost. When booking Alex Banayan for an event, we need to know the type of venue and location the event will take place. Alex Banayan is a popular choice for corporate events, private events, and virtual events. So, you can click the Check Availability button or contact us and an MPG Alex Banayan booking agent will get back to you within 48 hours.
How much to book Alex Banayan depends on the type of event. So, the cost to hire Alex Banayan for corporate or private events is available by contacting a Mollie Plotkin Group Agent. Notably, Alex Banayan is available for conferences, festivals, private parties and events. Just contact the Mollie Plotkin Group and tell the booking agent the proposed date, time, and location.
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We all face rejection. We all deal with fear. Whether it’s in our personal lives or careers, there are always dozens of obstacles holding us back from achieving our biggest goals.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Certain mindsets and tools can not only clear the obstacles along your path, but can also add rocket fuel to your success. After spending twelve years researching and interviewing the most innovative leaders, bestselling author Alex Banayan’s widely acclaimed Third Door framework can help any organization achieve its goals and radically accelerate its overall growth.
In this riveting keynote, Banayan takes audiences on an unprecedented adventure, from hacking The Price is Right to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to the multi-year quest to learn from Bill Gates and Lady Gaga. Alongside these larger-than-life stories, Banayan takes the principles from his bestselling book The Third Door and pushes them to a whole new level, making them practical and applicable for organizations of all sizes. This wildly entertaining keynote is packed with tools and lessons guaranteed to supercharge your mindset to the point where growth becomes inevitable.
The pace of change in the business world is faster than ever before. It has never been more critical to an organization’s survival for teams to cultivate a DNA of resiliency, perseverance, and solution-oriented problem-solving.
In this empowering keynote, bestselling author Alex Banayan masterfully decodes the most critical and elusive skills needed for any organization to cultivate the mindsets of exponential growth, particularly during times of rapid change and uncertainty. If you care about elevating your business—if you care about your employees being more resilient, more courageous, and more capable of making smart, innovative decisions—this keynote is what you’ve been waiting for.
The world has never been noisier.
How do you command the attention of your customers, sales prospects, or industry at large? Once you have their attention, how do you transform those customers into lifelong advocates for you and your business?
After a decade of researching the world’s most successful leaders and organizations, bestselling author Alex Banayan uncovered the most effective skill that radically boosts the growth of any company’s sales, marketing, and business development efforts.
The secret is storytelling—but not just any kind. Banayan’s research led him to decode the keys to remarkably compelling, gripping, and emotional storytelling that can be used by businesses of all sizes to supercharge their goals. This is a specific, teachable skill set that can transform prospects into blue-chip clients, customers into evangelists, and inject an entirely new sense of possibility into your company culture. Because at the end of the day, everything in life and business comes down to a story—and it’s time your organization uses that to its advantage.
The mental health crisis has hit a point of urgency never before seen in history.
Anxiety and depression levels are skyrocketing. These issues not only devastate families, but also affect the workplace in extreme ways.
Gallup polling of chief human resource officers found that only one-percent of them perceive their workforce mental health as excellent. The size of the issue is overwhelming. But what if what we need to solve this crisis has been right in front of us the entire time?
Bestselling author and researcher Alex Banayan has spent years interviewing the most renowned pioneers in the mental health field—including the president of the American Psychological Association, acclaimed brain experts, leading psychologists, psychiatrists, addiction researchers, Harvard professors, the CEO of Gallup, and others-to not only decode what is causing this crisis, but to find scientifically-proven solutions that are accessible and scalable.
Packed with captivating stories, this keynote is solution-oriented and leaves audiences feeling optimistic and empowered. We owe it to ourselves, our families, and our colleagues to equip ourselves with the very best insights to uplift our mental wellbeing—and this keynote is designed to do exactly that.
What happens when some of the hardest-to-reach people are your prospects? How does a salesperson or financial advisor persevere through the inevitable onslaught of rejections? Sometimes sales pipelines feel like pipedreams. Often weeks and months are spent on a deal, only for it to fall through at the last minute. Over time, the fear of rejection can multiply until it becomes crippling.
After a decade of learning directly from the most successful entrepreneurs on earth, bestselling author Alex Banayan gained invaluable sales lessons from Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, and dozens of others.
His presentation sheds light on new frameworks to view rejections and fear, offering surprising insights on how to accelerate your growth. Audiences come away with practical tools to apply the Third Door framework to their careers.
Alex Banayan’s workshops are available in half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours) formats.
In this interactive workshop, bestselling author Alex Banayan guides your audience through easy-to-implement exercises derived from his twelve years of research on high performance and success.
Banayan presents practical tools that garner on-the-spot results within each individual, along with take-home exercises your audience can utilize after the event to continue cultivating growth both personally and professionally. These tools help your audience get unstuck, rediscover what makes them come alive, and find clarity on some of the biggest obstacles they are bound to face as they navigate their paths to achieving their biggest goals, no matter what stage they are in their careers.
If instilling a sustainable and consistent mindset of growth within your attendees is a priority, then this workshop is for you.
This workshop produces dramatic results in real time. Banayan not only teaches your audience his proprietary VISTA Storytelling Framework that can be used at any level of your organization, but he also guides your group through an interactive exercise in which your audience will walk away with brand new, rewritten stories.
This goes beyond telling stories for marketing or advertising—this is about elevating your team’s ability to tell emotionally compelling narratives to close deals and boost measurable results. Participants will radically improve their approach to the most critical components of top-line growth, ranging from sales, client communications, and executive leadership, to investor relations, human resources, and company culture.
This experience will take your event to new heights—not only changing the way audience members see themselves but most importantly, changing the way they’re able to fuel your organization’s growth for years to come.
Mental wellbeing has become even more critical for people of all ages. But the question is: How do we make it practical, accessible, and scalable?
In this highly-interactive workshop, bestselling author and researcher Alex Banayan will teach your audience groundbreaking tools and frameworks that are scientifically proven to boost their mental wellbeing, clarity, and energy. Banayan guides audiences through the findings of his multi-year quest to find solutions to the mental health crisis and his first-of-its-kind partnership with Columbia University’s lab for social connectedness.
This session is designed to make your audience connect with each other in a whole new way, energizing your event while also providing practical takeaways around mental wellbeing.
Each workshop is custom built around the specific needs and demographics of your audience. The measure of success for this workshop is not just how the audience feels at the end of the day, but rather how their mental wellbeing is doing a year from now, whether it’s at home, in school, or at work. The tools in this workshop are engineered to help with exactly that.
If your audience is ready to take their mental wellbeing seriously—and do it in a way that is both tangible and fun—then this workshop is for you.
has been off the charts. It was an outstanding event! Alex knocked it out of the park! – Andy Sieg, President, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
we sent out a survey to all the attendees. I must say, it was the best feedback we’ve ever received from any speaker. Hands down. – Laurie H. Allred, Head of Y@DCPI, Disney
I’ve worked with. And his talk couldn’t have gone better. His stories were enthralling, his insights were incredibly tangible, and his message was spot on. – Megan Green, Head of Google Play Business Development, Google
his energy was contagious, his stories were inspiring, and his ideas pushed my team’s leadership. If you’re looking for someone with insight and passion, then Banayan is your man. – Jesse Stollak, Vice President of Football Marketing, Nike
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The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world's most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.
The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented adventure—from hacking Warren Buffett's shareholders meeting to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to celebrating in a nightclub with Lady Gaga—as Alex Banayan travels from icon to icon, decoding their success. After remarkable one-on-one interviews with Bill Gates, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Larry King, Jessica Alba, Pitbull, Tim Ferriss, Quincy Jones, and many more, Alex discovered the one key they have in common: they all took the Third Door.
Life, business, success... it's just like a nightclub. There are always three ways in. There's the First Door: the main entrance, where ninety-nine percent of people wait in line, hoping to get in. The Second Door: the VIP entrance, where the billionaires and celebrities slip through. But what no one tells you is that there is always, always... the Third Door. It's the entrance where you have to jump out of line, run down the alley, bang on the door a hundred times, climb over the dumpster, crack open the window, sneak through the kitchen—there's always a way in. Whether it's how Bill Gates sold his first piece of software or how Steven Spielberg became the youngest studio director in Hollywood history, they all took the Third Door.
