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FUTURE OF SELLING · JASON LIM

Keynote Speaker Coaching in Shanghai for Founders and Speakers

What if the hall still quoted your line in the corridor afterwards? Imagine a keynote that holds a packed room with one story, and a close the organiser is glad they booked. Even if the slot is short and the audience is mixed, you can still leave them with one idea they can use. It's like holding a packed hall with one story, not a flashlight tour of every slide.

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Since 2016, his events have reached 100,000+ founders across Asia.

Our graduates have produced 8-figure results and beyond.

Closed $7M+ in deals by 24 and rebuilt from zero twice.

Why learn from Jason Lim?

He has sat where you sit.

He closed over $7 million in deals, so a keynote is built to move an audience toward an idea, not to display a career.

He started coaching young.

He started coaching basketball at 16, and stage work is rehearsed under time pressure, with the clock running.

Graduates with results.

His graduates have produced 8-figure results with this method; two of their stories are lower on the page, and a Shanghai keynote follows it.

Mentored by renowned teachers.

He studied under Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. An opening line is tested with the speaker until it lands without a warm-up.

Why is Future of Selling the best keynote speaker coaching in Shanghai?

A proven framework.

P.I.T.C.H. gives the keynote a spine: a clear opening, a teach the room can take away, and a close that is more than applause.

An easy, step-by-step system.

The opening is locked first. The rest of the hall is earned only after that line holds.

Fast results.

You work on the actual talk for the event you have, so the hall hears the version you rehearsed.

How keynote speaker coaching with Future of Selling works

  1. 1

    Learn the rules of selling.

    A keynote is a sell of an idea. You learn how a mixed audience decides to listen, and you design for that.

  2. 2

    Learn P.I.T.C.H., Jason's signature method.

    Power, Intent, Teach, Close and Habits applied to a stage talk, including timing, stillness and the Q&A.

  3. 3

    Learn the art and science of closing and countering objections.

    You rehearse openings, recoveries from a flat room, and the last two minutes until they are reliable.

If the brief is a small executive room rather than a hall, see executive presence coaching or presentation coaching.

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“I thought all I had to do was scale my business by doing more of the same thing I was already doing. It turns out—I was completely wrong.”

“The beauty of this strategy is that it will give me triple the profits as compared to the strategy I had in mind to get me to $500,000!”

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Don't use the Shanghai keynote slot as a long company update

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Who is Jason Lim?

Jason Lim, keynote speaker coaching coach for Shanghai clients coached online

Jason Lim was once an extreme introvert who dreaded the stage. A financial scam wiped out his family's savings. In 2020, he also lost everything he had built. He rose again by learning to say what his work was worth, so the other person could truly hear it. He shaped that skill into Future of Selling, where he now teaches P.I.T.C.H.

His first teaching role was as a basketball coach, at 16. Later he closed over $7 million in deals. He studied under renowned mentors: Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. Today he helps founders win without losing what truly matters. Leaders from Skystone Asset Management, Signarama Singapore, Enlightenment Education, Mindreader AI and 8Yolk Design Studio are among those who have trained with him.

Are you facing this right now?

The talk is a tour of your work.

The audience needed one idea, and they got a chronology.

The slides carry the event, not you.

When a slide sticks, the room waits, and the talk never recovers its pace.

The close is a thank-you and a logo.

There is no ask, no line to take away, and the organiser cannot describe what you said.

Time buyers spend with suppliers

17%

When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of that time meeting with potential suppliers. When they compare several suppliers, the time with any one sales rep may be only 5% to 6%.

Source: Gartner, “Win More B2B Sales Deals” (2018), citing the Gartner 2017 Digital B2B Buyer Survey, n = 750

What happens if this continues?

Attention in the room is already scarce.

Buyers spend only 17% of their buying time with suppliers, so a keynote opening has to earn the time the room still gives you.

Talks that inform and are forgotten.

Invitations slow because the last hall left with no line they could repeat.

A slide tour instead of a keynote.

You add more proof and still feel the room drift at minute eight.

It follows you home.

The evening is a replay of the opening that did not quite hold.

Then a visible room is wasted.

A conference slot in Shanghai is scarce, and a flat talk is hard to undo in the same year.

Why do Talks that inform and are forgotten and a slide tour instead of a keynote keep repeating and never go away?

Most keynotes are built as long presentations with a stage and a timer. A hall needs a story, a teach and a close. When the slides lead, the speaker follows, and the corridor has nothing to quote. It's like setting a banquet and then reading the inventory of the kitchen.

How Future of Selling can help

Win the first minute of the hall.

A live audience gives you a short grant of attention. The opening has to earn the rest of the talk.

Leave a line the corridor can repeat.

People want a point of view they can take back to their team. That is what a useful keynote teaches.

Speak in a year when new enterprises are forming.

New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024. The work is to leave those rooms with one idea they can use.

Hold a hall in a city that is still attracting firms.

New foreign-invested enterprises established in Shanghai in 2025, 6.8% more than in 2024. The work is to leave them with one idea they can take back to work.

New foreign-invested enterprises in China

70,392

New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024.

Source: Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) News Office, 23 January 2026

New foreign-invested enterprises in Shanghai

6,361

New foreign-invested enterprises established in Shanghai in 2025, 6.8% more than in 2024.

Source: Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Statistics / NBS Survey Office in Shanghai, Statistical Communiqué on 2025, 30 March 2026

Buyers who'd rather skip the rep

61%

Of B2B buyers prefer an overall rep-free buying experience, yet for tasks such as judging whether a product or service fits their company's needs, buyers prefer to seek seller input.

Source: Gartner press release, 25 June 2025: survey of 632 B2B buyers, August to September 2024

Get the keynote ready to hold the hall, before the date is fixed.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use slides in a keynote?
As visual support, not a script: one image or a few words per slide. If the audience reads, they stop listening.
What makes a keynote speech memorable?
One clear idea, one story that makes it real and one action the audience can take. Talks with many ideas are forgotten quickly. The same applies to a signature talk.
How do you prepare for a conference keynote?
Settle the one idea, build the structure, cut the slides to support it and rehearse out loud in the full time slot.
What is a signature talk?
A talk a speaker gives repeatedly, built around their core idea, adapted to each audience. It improves with every delivery.