Aaron Bare — keynote speaker and bestselling author. Ideas that challenge. Insights that transform. Impact that lasts.
Keynote speaker · WSJ bestselling author
Six books, 200,000+ people in the room, and one through-line: building the feedback loop that helps every human become a better human — starting with the room in front of me.
What organizers say
“If your objective is to establish growth and build an exponential mindset and culture, Aaron is one of one.”
“Aaron has a rare combination of vision and execution. He doesn't just talk about transformation — he architects it, then ships it with you.”
“Amazing thought leader and communicator. He will 100x many companies.”
200,000+
People in the room
6
Books written
100+
Countries
10,000+
Leaders trained
About Aaron
12 companies sold & exited
WSJ #1 bestselling author
XPRIZE winner
Former CEO, National Association of Sales Professionals
100+ sales implementations delivered
200,000+ people in the room
I study the incentives that shape decisions — then redesign the systems that make people better.
I’m Aaron Bare — a WSJ #1 bestselling author, 6x author, XPRIZE winner, former CEO of the National Association of Sales Professionals, and founder of the Extraordinary Network. Over two decades I’ve sold 12 companies, keynoted for Google, NASA, Amazon, Apple, Boeing and Microsoft, and trained more than 60,000 sales professionals across 100+ countries.
My work sits at the intersection of incentives, AI, and human performance. I build the feedback loops that help every human become a better human — then bring those loops onstage so the room leaves changed, not just informed.
Every engagement is built on the same levers that move people to act: authority earned in the market and on stage, social proof from the brands and leaders who’ve already bet on me, reciprocity in the form of custom preparation and take-home tools, liking — I host a monthly comedy show because sales meetings should feel like improv sessions where clients laugh and buy — and scarcity: I accept only a limited number of keynotes each year so every room gets my full focus.
The six powers of influence behind every talk
Authority
WSJ #1 · XPRIZE · Fortune 500 stages
Social Proof
Google, NASA, Amazon, Apple, Boeing
Reciprocity
Custom prep + take-home field guides
Scarcity
Limited keynotes per year
Commitment
Pre-event alignment call
Liking
Comedy show host — clients laugh, then buy
Unity
One feedback loop: better humans
In the room with
The focus
Three things. Nothing else.
New · Bare Selling 2.0
Bare Selling Boot Camp
- 30 days to sales success — leveraging AI.
- Not just a speech. A companion app. A 30-day challenge. Guaranteed ROI.
- Rebuild your team around the one thing AI can't do: help a human decide well.
The only sales brag I'll make
"I can sell anything to anyone, anytime."
…if they want to buy it.
That's the whole joke — and the whole method. You just have to get in front of the right people and run Bare Selling. Do both, and sales stop being a grind and start compounding.
Wrong room
Pitching hard to people who were never going to buy. Effort high, yield flat.
Right people
Get in front of buyers with the problem, the budget and the timing.
Bare Selling
Alignment Ladder. Four Truths. Seek the no. Diagnose before you prescribe.
Sales skyrocket
Shorter cycles, bigger deals, referrals that arrive without being asked.
Nobody talks anybody into anything. The work is qualification, diagnosis and trust — the rest is theater.
Signature keynotes
Think Big
Exponential thinking as a practical operating habit — how to size an ambition your organization can actually carry.
All Problems Are Incentive Problems
Incentive Intelligence™ — the missing executive discipline of the AI age. A live teardown of the room's own incentives: what's rewarded, what's punished, and what that guarantees next quarter. Leaders leave able to see the incentive architecture underneath every outcome they own.
Bare Selling 2.0
Selling in the age of AI. What machines now do better, what only humans can do, and how revenue teams rebuild the sale around trust, judgment and speed.
Magnetic Zero
Building organizations and brands people move toward — pull instead of push, in a market saturated with noise.
Formats
Every booking includes
- A pre-event call to tailor the talk to your audience and outcome
- Custom examples pulled from your industry, not a stock deck
- Promotional assets: bio, headshots, session copy and social graphics
- A one-page field guide your team keeps after the room clears
- Optional book copies for attendees
Insights
Field notes from the work.
Essays on AI, leadership, philosophy, and architecting extraordinary outcomes.
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