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Biography
Mike Rayburn is a TEDx Presenter who teaches innovation, change, and peak performance using world-class guitar and humor to create a transformational experience and generate exponential results. He has headlined Carnegie Hall, Las Vegas, and performed over 5,000 presentations in 20 countries on five continents. Rayburn is a pioneering music/internet entrepreneur, a featured artist on Sirius/XM, and an artist in residence at High Point University. His more than 1000 corporate clients include most of the Fortune 100, 500, and the top five, including multiple presentations for Walmart, Exxon, Wells Fargo, Lincoln Financial, UnitedHealth, IBM, Siemens, Verizon, Ford, Nationwide, MetLife, PepsiCo, Chevron, Sony, Allianz, and Liberty Mutual.
When organizations need innovation, change, and peak performance, where do they go? Usually, it’s to business leaders, authors, or famous sports figures. Rarely do they go to artists! Yet for artists, innovation, peak performance, and change are their lifeblood. Being a mega-successful artist and an innovative entrepreneur, Mike Rayburn is meant to teach artistic principles in a business context, giving uniquely qualified businesses and teams the edge they need to innovate and perform like virtuosos…and thus transform their success and significance.
Mike Rayburn’s personal accolades are a testament to his success and expertise. They include:
- Two TED Talks
- Internet Pioneering Entrepreneur featured in Newsweek, Billboard, and USA Today
- Carnegie Hall Headliner (8x)
- Las Vegas Headliner
- Artist In Residence at High Point University
- Feature Artist on Sirius/XM
- Speaker Hall of Fame
- 5,000+ presentations in 22 countries on five continents
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Mike Rayburn's electrifying "What If" keynote inspires your leadership and business teams to rethink change and initiate more possibilities and innovation for your organization and customers. He delivers real-world tools and strategies to help your people create better solutions and generate more revenue for your business.
The “What If…?” Experience
Within 30 seconds your group will know that the impossible is possible.
Within two minutes they’ll be laughing and totally engaged.
By the end they’ll be on their feet, energized and equipped with solid business tools and wisdom.
Mike Rayburn’s “What IF? Keynote Experience” is about:
Innovation…finding and creating the opportunities, products and processes that others miss.
Change…moving from managing change to creating change.
High Performance…making those opportunities happen.
Your teams will leave with the tools to do just that.Oh, and they’ll laugh so hard it hurts! More than anything…“The What IF? Keynote Experience”is just that: An EXPERIENCE. As an opening or closing keynote, or mid-conference energizer, “What IF?” will make your event successful and unforgettable. There is no one who does what Mike Rayburn does.
Takeaways...your teams will:
Learn three powerful tools to access their unrealized potential - click here for video
Create change, rather than manage change - click here for video
Discover the opportunities they’re currently missing - click here for video
Set and achieve bold, empowering goals - click here for video
Embrace their uniqueness as their competitive edge -click here for video
Rayburn's Online Training
Rayburn has designed an online training program which greatly extends the ROI of your conference. Mike wants your attendees to truly achieve a new mindset for innovation and performance. Imagine this - your attendees will be given access to 16 powerful video sessions, containing a carefully chosen What IF? question designed to align and transform your team's mindset for innovation, opportunity and performance. Click here for more info / to watch a video.
In Mike’s keynote,“Become A Virtuoso,” your teams will receive the vision, mindset and daily practices that will make them world class,
high performing teams…their personal best in both career and life. And the inspiration to act on it!
There is one decision that draws a line in the sand between those who become world class, top performing teams and individuals…and those who don’t.
In “Become A Virtuoso” your teams will not only learn and make this decision, they will gain the vision, mindset and daily practices it takes to become world class performers.
“Together, we will turn your teams into an army of motivated, high-performance business masters.” Rayburn
Takeaways…attendees will learn:
Execute the specific daily practices your teams need to be world class, their personal best
Learn what a “Virtuoso” is and why you want to dedicate your life to becoming one - click here for video
Focus on fundamentals, the relentless practice of the highest achievers
Succeed Anyway, what world class performers do when confronted with the inevitable obstacles
See how obstacles are integral, necessary for goal achievement
Apply “deliberate practice” in leadership, business, sales, and life
In “Become A Virtuoso” and “What IF” Mike Rayburn will go beyond six or even 12 strings. Recognized as a world class guitarist, Rayburn will debut his rare, 20-string “Harp Guitar.”
Mike Rayburn will make your conference unforgettable!!!
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