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:
RAYBURN'S "WHAT IF KEYNOTE EXPERIENCE" WILL...
- Elevate, energize, and set the tone for success for your event by opening or closing on highest note possible!
- Energize and equip your teams with the tools to get the most from your conference.
- Transform your teams into possiblity thinkers, finding opportunities where others miss them.
- Renew your passion and ability for thinking big and taking bold action.
- Encourage smart, neccessary risk-taking.
- Align your teams with a common mindset, the “What If Mindset”.
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO...
- Stop managing change, and start to create change, to LEAD change.
- Unleash your creative genius.
- Turn problems into opportunities.
- Harness the most powerul motivational force on earth (hint: it’s not power, money or fame).
- See the pandemic and all that has come to this point as a powerful launching pad for what’s next.
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