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Transform fear into opportunity with Jia Jiang, speaker and rejection expert. Jia works with organizations to build resilience, overcome rejection, and develop courage, delivering bestselling insights featured by global media with over 100 million social media views.
Jia Jiang is a serial author, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as the "Rejection Guy." His first book, “Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection,” became a #1 bestseller and is widely used in sales training, career development, and academic settings. He is currently writing his second book, “The Art of Achieving Ambitious Things.”
Originally from Beijing, China, Jia moved to the United States as a teenager to pursue education and entrepreneurial aspirations. He earned a BA from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Duke University. After a successful marketing career at Dell, he transitioned into entrepreneurship and blogging. His project, “100 Days of Rejection Therapy,” gained international media attention.
As an entrepreneur, Jia runs Rejection Therapy, a card game designed to help individuals confront their fear of rejection and build mental resilience. The game has garnered a significant following on social media, with over 100 million views on platforms like YouTube and TikTok. His personal YouTube channel and blog, RejectionTherapy.com, have over 112,000 subscribers. Additionally, he founded DareMe Labs, a consulting firm that assists corporate clients in fostering courage and creativity among their employees.
Jia aims to inspire courage and discipline in his audiences, helping them achieve extraordinary success in their personal and professional lives.
Topics, sessions and talks
Jia Jiang, an entrepreneur, faced his fear of rejection by embarking on a 100-day experiment in 2012, aiming to be rejected daily. This journey inspired his popular TED talk and bestselling book, "Rejection Proof." In his engaging presentation, Jia shares insights from his experiences, highlighting the significance of becoming rejection-proof. Attendees will learn essential strategies for transforming a "no" into a "yes" and techniques to increase their chances of receiving more affirmative responses.
Based on his acclaimed book "Rejection Proof," Jia Jiang explores powerful principles for overcoming the fear of rejection. Attendees will discover techniques to transform rejection into an advantage, learn how to deliver rejections effectively, and increase their chances of acceptance. The session also includes “Rejection in the Wild,” an engaging real-life exercise that promises to be both memorable and enlightening. Participants will leave equipped with practical skills to navigate rejection confidently.
Based on race, gender, education, and cultural background, society has put us into different boxes and tagged us with stereotypes and expectations. Equally damaging, however, are the ways we also conform to these boxes in unconscious ways. As an Asian American who has broken multiple boxes, Jia Jiang takes on the DE&I topic with a unique two-way approach for both organizations and individuals.
Jia Jiang explores why we often fail to achieve our goals, noting that larger ambitions typically come with higher failure rates. He introduces his One Action Goal System, a method designed to simplify success by focusing on a single objective. Drawing from his upcoming book, "The Art of Achieving Ambitious Things", Jia shares strategies for turning dreams into actionable goals, fostering radical focus, and overcoming obstacles. Attendees will leave equipped with practical tools to realise their ambitions.
Book Jia Jiang to inspire your team to embrace rejection and cultivate resilience. His engaging storytelling and proven strategies will empower your audience to overcome fear, fostering a culture of courage and innovation. Transform challenges into opportunities for extraordinary success in your organisation.
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To book Jia Jiang, email jia.jiang@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Jia's availability and speaking fee. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and about your audience.
Jia Jiang structures his sessions around a 100-day self-experiment in which he sought out daily rejection, using the documented outcomes as evidence-based illustrations of how rejection responses can be trained. His second session incorporates a live exercise called Rejection in the Wild, in which participants engage with real-life rejection scenarios during the session itself.
Jia Jiang's sessions cover rejection as a tool for personal and professional growth, diversity, equity and inclusion through the lens of identity and unconscious conformity, and strategies for converting refusal into acceptance. His headline credential is the #1 bestselling book “Rejection Proof,” drawn from his 100-day rejection experiment, which has been adopted in sales training, career development, and academic settings worldwide.
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