A room that leaves thinking differently.
Story-driven keynotes on innovation, leadership, and change management that make audiences laugh, lean in, and leave with tools they use on Monday. Built around your theme, your people, and the change you want to see.
The Curious Advantage
How better thinking drives better results.
Most leaders were trained to have the answers. The ones who drive innovation, growth, and change ask better questions. Jon shows why curiosity is the missing half of better thinking, what quietly shuts it down, and how leaders and teams use better questions to solve problems and explore new possibilities.
- Why curiosity is the missing half of better thinking
- How fear, habit, and ego quietly kill new ideas
- Questions that solve problems faster and open up new possibilities
- Three personal challenges: sit with it, find a sounding board, learn to be dumb
- Three moves for leaders: speak last, know your people, be the conductor
Built for your audience.
Creating Curious Cultures that Drive Results
How leaders build the kind of culture where people speak up, ideas move, and teams deliver.
The DIY Dilemma
Why going it alone holds us back, and how curiosity and the perspectives of others unlock solutions we would never find on our own.
Kick the Dickens Out of Your Life
The stories of our past, the lies of our present, and the fears of our future decide what’s possible before we even try. Time to pick up the pen.
Don’t just hear it. Practice it.
For conferences that want more than a talk. Attendees work through The Curious Leader in hands-on exercises, like solving real problems using only questions, and leave with tools they’ll use the following week.
- “Learn to be dumb. Speak last.”
- “Talk less, ask questions more.”
- “Get to know our people deeply.”
- “Questions lead to possibilities.”
Attendee takeaways, Great Game of Business Conference 2026
Easy to book. Hard to forget.
- Tailored to your theme, your audience, and what you want them to do next
- A keynote, a hands-on conference workshop, or both on the same day
- Add copies of The Curious Leader for your attendees
What organizers and audiences say
“Jon is a best-selling author, the author of The Curious Leader, which is what we’re literally doing our entire conference on.”
“I am inspired beyond being inspired. I sit in a lot of development conferences and leadership trainings.”
“It was a mic-drop moment… from burnout to breakthrough.”
“Humor, relatability, and real-life scenarios that grip your attention.”
Everything you need to promote the session.
Get the speaker one-pager, bio, headshots, and emcee intro in one kit, ready to drop into your program and promo.
- One-pagerTopics, outcomes, and proof on a single page for your committee.
- BioShort and long versions for your program and website.
- HeadshotsHigh-resolution photos for promo and signage.
- Emcee introA ready-to-read introduction for the stage.
Let’s make your next event the one people talk about.
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