Keynote Speaker
Talks that move leaders to act.
Jason Straughan speaks from direct experience. Nine companies. Two CEO roles. International stages from Berlin to Medellín. Over a decade in rooms with CEOs. His talks are specific, direct, and built around what leaders are actually dealing with.
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Why Jason
He speaks from the seat, not from the stage.
Jason has held the CEO role, made decisions with real consequences for real organizations, and spent more than a decade facilitating the conversations that happen when high-performing leaders get honest with each other. He does not speak about leadership as an outside observer. He speaks as someone who has been in the room for a significant amount of it, and who knows the difference between what leaders say in public and what they say when the door is closed.
Speaking Topics
What Jason talks about.
01
Who’s Actually Running Your Company
This one lands differently when the audience is the leadership team. They’re the answer to that question, and most of them know it. This talk is about the gap between authority and accountability, and whether they’re filling it or just occupying the title.
BEST FOR: CEO FORUMS, EXECUTIVE OFFSITES, BOARD RETREATS
02
The Conversation You’ve Been Avoiding
Every VP and Director in that room has one. With their CEO, with a peer, with a direct report. This is the highest-stakes talk for that audience because it’s immediately actionable and uncomfortably personal.
BEST FOR: LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES, EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, MANAGEMENT RETREATS
03
Leadership Is Not Management
This is the foundational identity challenge for that audience. Most of them got promoted because they were great managers. Nobody told them that’s now the ceiling, not the credential. This is the talk that reframes their entire career trajectory in 45 minutes.
BEST FOR: CORPORATE LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS, KEYNOTES, ANY AUDIENCE NAVIGATING THE SHIFT FROM EXECUTION TO LEADERSHIP
04
Beating Imposter Syndrome
Every high performer knows the voice that says you don’t belong here. Jason has been speaking about imposter syndrome since his days leading Codeup – how it shows up in developers, founders, and CEOs alike, why it never fully goes away, and how the best leaders turn it into a signal instead of a saboteur.
BEST FOR: KEYNOTES, TECH CONFERENCES, EMERGING LEADER PROGRAMS
TEDx
Watch the TEDx talk.
Delivered at TEDx San Antonio, 2016.
Imposter Syndrome
Watch: How to Beat Imposter Syndrome.
Jason on why the highest performers feel like imposters most often – and how to make that voice work for you instead of against you. In conversation with Julian Placino on the Pathways to Success podcast.
Past Stages
Where Jason has spoken.
Codeup Keynotes
San Antonio, Texas
TEDx San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
RevolutionConf
Virginia Beach, Virginia
JSConf Colombia
Medellín, Colombia
JSConf EU
Berlin, Germany
JSConf Poland
Warsaw, Poland
Dallas Startup Week
Dallas, Texas
Federal Reserve Bank – Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Leadership San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
Leadership Workshops – OCI Energy
San Antonio, Texas
Vistage Exclusive Events
San Antonio, Texas
Book Jason for your event.
Jason speaks to rooms where people are doing real work and want a talk that respects that. If your audience is made up of people who are actually leading organizations, making real decisions, and willing to be honest about the difficulty of it — a 30-minute call is the place to start.