Jia Jiang

Entrepreneur turned emotional intelligence expert, Jia Jiang’s incredible journey starts with several start-up businesses, and resides with today’s mission – to make the world more confident and open to opportunities. As a speaker, he helps audiences to live fearlessly with his pioneering approach to rejection. Rather than running away from it, Jia now welcomes rejection, triumphing over his crippling fear to embrace new opportunities and sharpen his negotiating skills. He is now helping audiences to achieve the same.

From asking a stranger for $100 to dancing with Santa and bartering a free hotel room, Jia’s 100 Days of Rejection project put him in situations that would send a shiver down most people’s spines. For many, asking a stranger to rate your attractiveness is embarrassing enough, but, on day 100, Jia requested an interview from the former President of the United States, Barack Obama – the ultimate challenge. Translating his extensive experience into a captivating speech, Jia now thrills audiences with his witty story, leaving a resounding impression. The subject of Jia’s 2016 TED talk, What I Learned From 100 Days of Rejection, over five million people have watched his life-changing speech.

After experiencing heart-breaking rejection aged six and pledging to become a world-leading businessman aged 14, Jia struggled to overcome his fears and achieve his dreams. Eventually working as a Quality Assurance Manager with AtTask Inc and a Web Analytics and Testing Manager at Dell, he founded Hooplus before realising what was holding him back – his fear of rejection. Jia then started his blog, Fear Buster, where he tracked his progress, and founded Wuju Learning to help others become “rejection-proof”. In 2016, Jia was appointed CEO of Rejection Therapy, the company that inspired his mission in the first place.

Now, Jia is taking the brand from strength to strength, to reach an even wider pool of sufferers. From his online presence to his regular speeches, Jia is one of the most recognisable figures in the application of emotional intelligence and mental resilience. As described in his book, Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection, his pioneering approach to personal development has the power to transform individuals, teams, and workplaces alike, through his trial by fire methodology. For business leaders, dismantling the fear of rejection can pave the way for better decision making, communication, and high-performance teamwork.