Allan Karl

Allan Karl found career success as an entrepreneur by creating one of America’s top 50 digital marketing agencies in the 1990s. He then sought more significant challenges outside of his C-Suite life. His next journey would span over three years and take him on his motorcycle across five continents and 35 countries alone.

Life on the open road and traveling to unfamiliar places is about taking chances, accepting risks, and feeling more connected with the world around you. Every stop at a new location on the road presents unique challenges that force you to overcome your fears, find a connection, and trust others to help guide you on your journey.

Throughout his journey, Allan discovered how easy it was to connect with people, build relationships and find support and assistance even in the most unlikely places. He was astounded by the kindness of humanity and experienced the power of human connection every day.

Today, Allan shares these discoveries and shows audiences how to do the same. Allan delivers exciting and inspirational keynote addresses that highlight the lessons he learned on the road. He shows you in three steps just how easy it is to connect with people and create an immediate rapport that makes friends, fans, and followers wherever you go. This is the secret to building meaningful relationships and genuine success that will foster greater collaboration among team members and dramatically improve communication in your organization.

The Journey To Astounding

Three Steps For Creating Instant Rapport and Making Powerful Connections In today’s increasingly more diverse and competitive business environment, leaders must create and work in an exciting, challenging, and rewarding environment. Allan shows that leaders and teams can avoid boredom, burnout, stress, and churn by transforming the business environment into an adventure. Allan brings gripping stories from his travels across multiple cultures and languages in 80 countries on five continents. He discovered the Power of Astounding along the way and developed his three-step action plan for transforming people’s lives, businesses, and workplaces. In addition, he helps energize and excite teams by teaching them how to make deeper connections and turn team members, customers, and partners into fans and followers. The result is teams that work smarter and perform better.

Navigating The Roads Of Change

Here Allan takes audiences from the C-Suite to the open road. This program shares some of his biggest lessons. Change is inevitable: The sooner you embrace it, the sooner you can see the opportunity that lies along the path. We are all on this road together: Sometimes, it seems we are all on different journeys, coming from different places, and have different goals or objectives. Yet, the key to untold opportunity starts by breaking down the silos and differences that separate us. Find common ground: You’ll learn that despite our preconceived differences, we all share more in common than different and that strangers can quickly become your biggest allies and supporters.

Making Breakthrough Connections

What’s The Secret To Connection? First, leaders must find common ground across the entire organization in today’s increasingly more diverse and competitive business environment. Break down barriers and disarm conflict. Learn to connect with people on a deeper level and create a more exciting, challenging, and rewarding environment and more meaningful relationships. Avoid boredom, burnout, stress, and churn through connection. Allan brings gripping stories from his travels across multiple cultures and languages in 80 countries on five continents. Allan shows everyone—employees, customers, vendors, and more—crave the same thing. Connection, respect, acknowledgment, validation, and encouragement. The sooner we understand, embrace, and give what people crave; the quicker you will see results.