The Ask Keynote: Find Out What You Most Need to Know from Those Least Likely to Tell You

60 min

Summary: This motivational and interactive talk is the ideal introduction to help individuals, teams, and organizations know why and how to learn more from others around them.

This talk illuminates a core challenge present in nearly all relationships: too often, we fail to find out what other people – our clients and colleagues, employees and bosses, even our closest friends and family – really think, feel, and know. Through fascinating research findings, engaging story-telling, and a highly-relatable case study scenario, the Ask Keynote illustrates what kinds of information we most often fail to find out from others and why…and what we can do about it. 

The Ask Keynote explores the personal, team-level, and organizational costs of failing to learn from others and points the way forward to a more curious and connected way of communicating. Hosts have the option to receive an overview of all five steps of the Ask Approach or to do a dive deep on one step. The audience will walk away with greater awareness of the challenge of unspokenness as well as concrete action steps for unlocking the hidden insights, perspectives, and ideas in those around them. By the end, they will feel inspired and empowered by the transformative possibilities that asking can unleash in their own lives, teams, and organizations.