John Bates

Leadership, communication and effectiveness in a fun, entertaining and moving speech with uniquely surprising and highly actionable insights.

A deep dive into storytelling, which is the most effective tool for communicating with Human Beings that Mother Nature has given you! This is a fun, exciting ride that motivates people on multiple levels and gives them highly effective principles and paradigms for storytelling, leadership, effectiveness and communication.

In this exciting and authentic speech John shares the most important things to know about successful pitches that no one else is telling you! Having raised hundres of millions of dollars and having failed in the harsh glare of the limelight with his $80M venture BIGWORDS.com, John has plenty of mistakes, heartbreaks and losses to share, along with the very important lessons learned from them.