Speakers

Aaron Bare has become a pro­lif­ic speak­er giv­en his work author­ing Reimag­in­ing Inno­va­tion and Expo­nen­tial The­o­ry, as well as being a part of the Kauff­man Foun­da­tion’s Speak­er Series.

Aaron also speaks on dis­rup­tion and often jolts audi­ences into shock before reviv­ing them with the oppor­tu­ni­ties that come from change.

Aaron Bare and the Expo­nen­tial The­o­ry team cus­tomizes pre­sen­ta­tions and work­shops for each client, bring­ing in learn­ing out­comes and mak­ing sure we bring the desired out­come for the client.

Sub­jects: Expo­nen­tial The­o­ry. Think­ing Big. Expo­nen­tial Tech­nolo­gies. Dis­rup­tion. Inno­va­tion. New Busi­ness Mod­els. Influ­ence. Exe­cu­tion. Repeat­able. Pre­dictable. Scal­able. Sustainable.

Aaron Bare

Aaron Bare is a strate­gist, entre­pre­neur, and author of Reimag­in­ing Inno­va­tion and the soon-to-be-released Expo­nen­tial The­o­ry: The Pow­er of Think­ing Big. Aaron has held glob­al lead­er­ship roles in Strat­e­gy, Inno­va­tion, Tech­nol­o­gy, Mar­ket­ing, and Sales. He is a results-focused con­scious leader that under­stands how to cre­ate a high-per­form­ing culture.

Aaron start­ed his tech­nol­o­gy career at Accen­ture. Aaron went on to devel­op over 400 web­sites, soft­ware projects, and apps at his award-win­ner dig­i­tal agency. At the same time, Aaron built the largest Sales Asso­ci­a­tion in the world, a career site with 10-mil­lion month­ly vis­i­tors, the #1 food app in the Apple Store which held the top spot for 20 weeks, and a Face­book com­mu­ni­ty reach­ing 9‑million vis­i­tors per week.

Aaron also was an ear­ly cryp­tocur­ren­cy advo­cate as he built a Bit­coin-pow­ered auc­tion site. He then dou­bled sales in 6‑months at the first Drone Man­age­ment Plat­form. Aaron built a Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty com­pa­ny to 60,000 clients, accel­er­at­ed a Neu­ro­science com­pa­ny, launched one of the first crowd­fund­ing plat­forms, holds a 3D-print­ing patent with his daugh­ter, and spent a year in Sil­i­con Val­ley at NASA Ames as EIR at Sin­gu­lar­i­ty’s Uni­ver­si­ty and was Co-Exec­u­tive Pro­duc­er of the Award-Win­ning Doc­u­men­tary “The University.”

Aaron has also been an EIR at ASU WP Carey School of Busi­ness, ASU Ful­ton School of Engi­neer­ing, Thun­der­bird School of Glob­al Man­age­ment, Cen­ter for Entre­pre­neur­ial Inno­va­tion, and Ari­zona Com­merce Author­i­ty. He is cur­rent­ly work­ing with an X‑Prize win­ning mask. He has launched a ven­ture equity/consulting firm to accel­er­ate ideas. Final­ly, he advis­es C‑Suite, start­up founders, pri­vate equi­ty, ven­ture cap­i­tal, and fam­i­ly offices on the future of busi­ness and expo­nen­tial theory.

Aaron has been a lecturer/adjunct pro­fes­sor on Inno­va­tion and Entre­pre­neur­ship for 10+ years. He is also a glob­al speak­er and facil­i­ta­tor that has facil­i­tat­ed many strate­gic dis­cus­sions on inno­va­tion and lead­er­ship at orga­ni­za­tions in 90+ Coun­tries and all 50 States. Aaron’s suc­cess and proven per­for­mance as a leader in his field gar­nered him acknowl­edg­ment as “35 under 35” Entre­pre­neurs; “40 under 40” Lead­ers; Most Inno­v­a­tive Com­pa­ny of the Year; and, fea­tured in the likes of the Wall Street Jour­nal, Wired, Fast Com­pa­ny, and Inc. Mag­a­zine. Aaron also co-found­ed Hero­zona Foun­da­tion and The Bridge Forum, a nation­al com­mu­ni­ty-focused event bridg­ing the gap between police and communities.

Forbes Shannon

Forbes Shan­non is an inno­va­tor, speak­er, and co-author of Reimag­in­ing Inno­va­tion and the soon-to-be-released Expo­nen­tial The­o­ry: The Pow­er of Think­ing Big. He grad­u­at­ed from Bar­rett, the Hon­ors Col­lege at Ari­zona State Uni­ver­si­ty with a non-prof­it man­age­ment degree as both a writ­ing fel­low and entre­pre­neur­ship and inno­va­tion fel­low. While in Uni­ver­si­ty, Forbes facil­i­tat­ed Start­up School, the Ari­zona State entre­pre­neur­ship pro­gram. An avid investor in his com­mu­ni­ty, Forbes strives to help his net­works solve prob­lems with high ener­gy and opti­mism. Forbes served as a mem­ber of the lead­er­ship team that puts on the largest annu­al entre­pre­neur­ship con­ven­tion in Ari­zona, Phoenix Start­up Week.