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Diana Kander

Entrepreneur Speaker, Exponential Growth and Competitiveness Expert
  • NY Times Bestselling Author of “Go Big or Go Home”, “The Curiosity Muscle” , and “All In Startup”
  • How curiosity can serve as a competitive advantage and the catalyst for exponential growth
Speaker Fee:
$30,000 - $50,000
Virtual Fee:
$15,000 - $20,000
Travels From:
Missouri
5.0 | 3 Reviews
Diana Kander
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Speaker Fee: $30,000 - $50,000
Virtual Fee: $15,000 - $20,000

Diana Kander Speaker Biography

A serial entrepreneur who entered the United States as a refugee from Ukraine at the age of 8, Diana Kander had launched and sold millions of dollars worth of products and services by her early thirties. Today, she is an innovation consultant, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author whose books have been taught in over 100 universities.

As a consultant, Diana has helped create multi-billion dollar products, coached boards and executive committees on innovation best-practices, and implemented culture transformations. She brings these experiences to each and every keynote, delivering entertaining case studies and perspective shifting stories.

Diana has truly cracked the code on how Curiosity can serve as the catalyst for exponential growth, and she thrives on helping audiences understand that they can get better results if they learn how to ask better questions.

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Featured Videos

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Diana Kander – Curiosity – 10 minute excerpt
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Diana Kander -5 min excerpt – Say No to What’s Not Good Enough
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Diana Kander- 5 minute segment – Unleash Your Curiosity
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Diana Kander, Sizzle Reel 2025
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Speech Topics

Unleash Your Curiosity : For All Company Meetings
In today’s ever-changing business climate, your attendees’ roles have evolved far past their job descriptions. They face a volatile external environment – they encounter pressure to stay relevant to customers – they experience challenging workforce issues – and they are being asked to do a lot more with a lot less. All of this is asking them to be innovators. The big question is, are they doing it the hard way or the easy way.

Based on her book, The Curiosity Muscle, this keynote helps members of organizations who don’t have innovation in their job description to embrace and identity as an innovator. Diana will share the key skills and habits that make innovation easier and a lot more fun. And she’ll empower attendees to harness the power of curiosity to unlock new possibilities and drive business growth. Attendees will leave this keynote identifying as innovators and seeking opportunities to use their new skills.

ROI & Key Outcomes:
-How to institutionalize curiosity, asking better questions to stay competitive and relevant to your customers
-How to determine blind spots within your organization and avoid falling into the “expert trap”
-How to create a more innovative culture that leads to results and drives growth


Innovate to Sell: Unlock Your Sales Potential with Curiosity and Focus

This high-energy keynote is designed to equip sales teams with the tools and mindset to drive results in today’s fast-changing marketplace. Using principles from Diana’s book Get Curious & Grow, this session will help your sales team:

– Prioritize What Matters Most: Master the 1-10 Filter to identify and focus on the most impactful sales opportunities while eliminating distractions. Learn to say “no” to what doesn’t drive results and “yes” to what truly matters.
– Eliminate the Noise: Use the Kill the Zombies framework to hunt down and remove low-value activities, outdated processes, and unnecessary meetings that drain your energy and time.
– Reimagine Your Approach: Tap into the power of the Blank Sheet Method to break free from traditional sales strategies and imagine new, innovative ways to connect with clients and close deals.
– Learn from Successes: Discover how to use the Learn from the Wins habit to identify patterns in your successes, refine your strategies, and continually improve your sales performance.

Attendees will leave this session inspired and equipped with practical tools to innovate their approach, deepen client relationships, and exceed their sales targets.

Reviews

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Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) | July 10, 2025
Pepperl+Fuchs Inc. | March 24, 2025

AHTD enjoyed Diana’s presentation. Many attendees came up to me after the session was done and said, “wow, that was a great first session. That will be tough to beat!”
Diana was lovely to work with. I appreciate her time and talent!

AHTD | October 25, 2024
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“Our program, Lean Startup Machine, trains entrepreneurs how to develop their ideas into scalable companies. We were lucky to have Diana serve as a keynote for one of our programs to help attendees understand the importance of finding problems worth solving. We can’t take Diana with us to every program we run, but we now use this video every time I teach. Diana’s message is concise and easy to understand. I’ve used it in training programs all over the world. From just a 5 minute video I have had teams reciting the key takeaways throughout the entire workshop and even as I continue to coach them afterwards. “

Director of Entrepreneurial Science, Lean Startup Machine

“Diana’s talk was amazing. It was one of the most talked about presentations at our two day event – both over social media and in person at the event itself.
She was funny, engaging, thought provoking and truly able to connect with the audience – and it definitely showed.

The gushing praise we received from our attendees was overwhelming.”

Co-Founder – Big Omaha

“Diana continues to shine as one of the best speakers we have had the pleasure of hosting at the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Innovators Speakers Series. We regularly see the likes of the CEOs of Ford, Skype, and more, and Diana was an outstanding addition to this lineup.

She has an incredibly special way of connecting with students, and has truly done it all. She talks the talk and walks the walk, and brings it all together with her direct, energetic speaking style that had our 400+ student audience at the edge of their seats. She was very much relatable and an absolute thrill for us, and she is a must-host!”

Vice President of MPowered Entrepreneurship

“I am a meeting planner so I have seen lots of Keynote speakers and very few have had an impact as much as yours has on this group. Keep up the good work and keep improving yourself, whatever you are doing is working!”

Gartner Program & Portfolio Management Summit

“Diana was a dynamic speaker, and I took a lot away from her presentation. She was very energetic and thought provoking.”

Missouri Small Business & Technology Development Center