Jia Jiang
Jia Jiang helps people and organizations turn rejection into confidence, resilience, and bold action through unforgettable stories and practical tools.
Why book Jia Jiang for your next event
- Empower teams to conquer rejection and embrace resilience with Jia Jiang's transformative strategies and insights.
- Transform organizational mindset and empower individuals with Jia's proven methodologies for overcoming challenges and achieving goals.
- Jia Jiang, renowned globally for his TED Talk on conquering 100 days of rejection and transforming fear into opportunity.
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Turning rejection into courage, resilience, and fearless action
Jia Jiang is known for transforming one of life’s greatest fears, rejection, into a powerful advantage. Rising to global recognition through his TED Talk, What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection, Jia has built a career helping individuals and organizations strengthen resilience, confidence, and courage. His journey from a teenage exchange student from Beijing to entrepreneur, bestselling author, and highly sought-after keynote speaker resonates deeply with audiences worldwide. Through humor, vulnerability, and practical frameworks, Jia shows how bold action can unlock personal growth, professional success, and lasting change. He consistently leaves audiences inspired, challenged, and ready to take action beyond the comfort zone.
Jia Jiang – Turning Rejection into Opportunity
Jia Jiang is widely recognized as the foremost authority on rejection and one of today’s most impactful inspirational and resilience keynote speakers. His TED Talk, What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection, ranks among the most viewed in TED history and became the foundation for his bestselling book and #1 audiobook, Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection. Through this work, Jia reframed rejection from something to fear into a skill anyone can learn and master.
On stage, Jia Jiang combines research-backed insights with personal stories that are as entertaining as they are transformative. His message is clear: rejection is not a stop sign, but a stepping stone to growth, innovation, and confidence.
From Ambitious Teenager to Global Keynote Speaker
Jia’s story begins in Beijing, where he dreamed of becoming an entrepreneur inspired by Bill Gates. As a teenager, he moved to the United States as an exchange student, landing in rural Louisiana and teaching himself English. That early experience of discomfort and rejection became the foundation for his later work.
After earning a Bachelor of Computer Science from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Duke University, Jia built a successful corporate career at Dell Technologies and LinkedIn. Yet the fear of rejection still shaped many of his decisions, until he chose to confront it head-on through a bold personal experiment that would change his life.
The 100 Days of Rejection and Global Impact
Jia’s legendary “100 Days of Rejection” began as a personal challenge to deliberately seek rejection every day. From asking for a “burger refill” at a fast-food restaurant, to requesting to address a full airplane over the intercom, to persuading Krispy Kreme to create Olympic ring–shaped doughnuts, Jia discovered that rejection was rarely as painful or final, as imagined.
These stories form the heart of his keynote presentations. Audiences laugh, reflect, and recognize themselves in Jia’s experiences. More importantly, they leave with practical strategies for building resilience, confidence, and emotional courage in both professional and personal settings.
Keynote Topics That Drive Lasting Change
Jia Jiang’s keynote presentations are tailored for leaders, teams, and organizations seeking to unlock bold thinking and action. Popular themes include:
Overcoming the fear of rejection and failure
Building personal and organizational resilience
Creating a culture of courage, innovation, and initiative
Empowering confidence through intentional action
His talks are especially impactful for organizations navigating change, growth, or uncertainty, where fear can quietly limit performance and creativity.
Entrepreneur, Author, and Trusted Advisor
Today, Jia Jiang is the CEO and owner of Rejection Therapy, a platform dedicated to helping people overcome fear through inspiration, tools, and training. He is also the founder and CEO of Wuju Learning - “wuju” meaning fearless in ancient Chinese, where organizations are trained to become fearless through structured rejection training.
In 2022, Jia became a Board Member of LifeHikes®, a global professional development company trusted by organizations such as Alibaba, Facebook, Dropbox, and Google. His insights are shaped by real-world leadership, entrepreneurship, and years of hands-on experience working with teams at every level.
Media Recognition and Audience Response
Jia Jiang’s work has been featured across major business and popular media, including NPR, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Guardian, CNN, TIME Magazine, and Inc. His influence extends far beyond the stage, with countless audience members crediting his work for meaningful changes in their careers, confidence, and lives.
He is also the recipient of the Toastmasters Golden Gavel Award, recognizing his exceptional ability to communicate ideas that inspire action and growth.
Book Jia Jiang for Your Event
When you book Jia Jiang for your event, you bring more than a keynote speaker to the stage, you bring a powerful shift in perspective. Jia equips audiences with tools they can use immediately, stories they will remember, and the courage to pursue ambitious goals without being held back by fear of rejection.
With his upcoming book, The Art of Achieving Ambitious Things (Simon & Schuster, May 2026), Jia continues to expand his mission, introducing the One Action Goal system to help people overcome obstacles and move decisively toward their dreams. Jia Jiang’s message is timely, practical, and deeply human, making him a transformative choice for conferences, leadership events, and organizations ready to embrace bold action.
Keynotes
Keynote by speaker Jia Jiang:
Resilience Through Rejection
For too many of us, the fear of rejection is the #1 obstacle to achieving our goals and dreams. It’s our natural tendency to avoid the risk of rejection, even when it’s detrimental to our businesses, careers, and lives. Nobody knows this like entrepreneur Jia Jiang. To overcome his own fear of rejection, he conducted an experiment in which he purposely sought it out every day for 100 days. From asking complete strangers for $100 to requesting a “burger refill” at a fast food restaurant, Jia’s experiences (and surprising results) became the basis for one of the most-watched TED Talks of all time (top 200 out of 60,000) and the bestselling book: Rejection Proof.
It also transformed Jia Jiang into the world’s foremost authority on rejection. In this engaging presentation, Jia shares insightful and often laugh-out-loud stories from his 100 Days of Rejection.
Audiences learn how to become more resilient and make becoming rejection-proof their superpower for success in life. He also explores the basic principles of turning a NO into YES, as well as how to get more YESes. By transforming a keynote speech into a unique and inspiring experience, Jia has earned rave reviews from Fortune 500 audiences and praise from individuals who have thanked him for changing their lives.
Keynote by speaker Jia Jiang:
The One Action Goal: Achieve Big by doing Only One Thing
Why do we usually fail in achieving our goals? “The bigger the outcome, the bigger the failure rate,” says Jia Jiang. “That’s why New Year’s resolutions usually fail, and why businesses always get too busy to stay focused.” Jia’s proven solution: simplify success by relentlessly focusing on one thing, what he has named the One Action Goal. Drawing from his upcoming book, The One Action Goal: Achieve Big by Doing Only One Thing , and more than a decade of coaching clients to success, Jia provides a playbook for achieving any personal, professional, or organizational goal. Determined to put success within everyone’s reach, Jia shares his One Action Goal System, including:
- Turning ambitious objectives into your One Action Goal
- Routinizing your dreams and fail-proofing your environment
- Using your One Action Plan to accelerate your ideas
- Developing radical focus on your One Action Goal
- Overcoming barriers to achievement with a framework for success
Highlighted by Jia’s signature humor and storytelling talent made famous in his “100 Days of Rejection” TED talk and acclaimed book, Rejection Proof , this highly motivational talk outlines a path to success that anyone can achieve. Audiences are electrified by Jia’s passion for empowering their dreams, gaining game-changing tools that they can immediately put into action.
Keynote by speaker Jia Jiang:
Keynote Add-On: 28-Day Rejection Therapy™ Sales Training
In four weeks, Jia will take your team on a one-of-a-kind journey – a sales training program that is wholly action-based. It asks your team to seek, confront, and overcome rejection. It aims to increase sales volume and teach your team how to handle rejection. Rejection Therapy™ Sales Training is fun and camaraderie-building and directly improves your bottom line within 28 days.
The training program includes:
- One 45-minute group coaching and one 30-minute halfway Q&A
- 28 days of client outreach challenge to build rejection muscle
- Daily accountability check-ins through texting with my team
- Personalized progress tracking
- Daily accountability check-ins through texting
Keynote by speaker Jia Jiang:
Workshop: The Power of Rejection
Based on his #1 bestselling book "Rejection Proof", this workshop takes a deep dive into rejection-proof principles to expose attendees to techniques in overcoming fears. The audience will learn to turn rejection to advantage, how to give rejections, and to get more acceptances. They will also go through “Rejection in the Wild” – an unforgettable, real-life rejection-seeking exercise. This workshop is 1-4 hours long.
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