Aaron Tait
Author, speaker, and impact entrepreneur.
From war zones to slums, Aaron has worked across the globe as a military officer, humanitarian, and social entrepreneur and now writes to help people live deliberate lives filled with purpose. He is a best-selling author of Dream Team, Entrepreneurs That Change Lives (and How to Be One), Edupreneur, and Live Deliberately (substack). Aaron is also a speaker and appears regularly at conferences and events for clients including Microsoft, Apple and PWC.
Latest Book
Are you passionate to launch a business that makes a positive difference in the world? Entrepreneurs That Change Lives is your inspirational guide to do just that.
Kaitlin and Aaron Tait are successful impact entrepreneurs themselves and have helped thousands of startup impact entrepreneurs across the world to grow their businesses. Now, you can use their proven tools to bring your own ideas to life.
Learn to:
- identify your driving passion as an impact entrepreneur with crystal clarity
- focus on the problems that most need solving
- dig down to understand the root causes of social and environmental issues
- innovate powerful real-world ideas to solve the problems you have identified
- turn your best ideas into a real business that makes a difference
- run that business in a sustainable and scalable way
Live Deliberately (substack)
The freedom, purpose and wealth pistons.
‘For about a decade now, I’ve used three key themes to help me live deliberately.
1. Freedom: Which I define as the ability to do what I want. To use my time the way I want to use it…’
Nine great summers.
‘It’s a line that gets shared with most parents.
That you get nine great summers with your kids.
The implication is that during their first summer, they are too small to care and that from the age of twelve…’
Remember to remember that almost no-one will remember.
‘So we probably shouldn’t make decisions in life based on what we think people might remember us for. Because, almost certainly, most won’t. Quite liberating, really…’
Books
Edupreneur gives teachers the "how" of change in schools. You already know what needs to be done to improve education, but you may lack the support and processes to bring it to life—and that's where this book comes in. You'll walk through the four stages of innovation—dreaming, digging, making and sharing—and learn how to unleash ground-shaking change from the classroom up. Straightforward, highly practical and kick-in-the-pants inspirational, this book is your new companion for making education work. You'll read about passionate teachers who have raised attendance from 40% to 90%; you'll read about principals who took on the worst-performing schools and turned them around; you'll read about leaders who had the courage to take the reins of a school and turn it from good to great—and you'll learn how they did it and how you're entirely capable of the same kind of revolutionary change.
The world needs great individual educational changemakers capable of identifying problems and creating bold, scalable solutions. But the world also needs Dream Teams—groups of talented administrators, teachers, staff, students, and community members who are passionate about making things better for kids, believe that school-based change is the means to this end, and are willing to roll up their sleeves and work together to achieve it.
This book is for Dream Teams in the making. In it, rising global education leaders Aaron Tait and Dave Faulkner share the models and methods of 10 brilliant leadership teams at urban, suburban, and rural schools in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Informed by these successes, the authors provide specific, sometimes audacious advice for navigating what they call the Change Leader Journey: how to move from Dream Team assembly and problem analysis all the way through to solution generation, piloting, promotion, and evaluation.
Mentoring
Over the last twelve years Aaron has advised and supported hundreds of start-up entrepreneurs in the impact, K-12 and technology space through accelerators including ygap, Frontier Incubators (DFAT), 21ST Century Minds (PWC), Imagine Cup (Microsoft) and EClabs. During this time he also co-founded and grown the impact organisation (ygap) and co-founded and built EC.inc (acquired by Go1 in 2022).
He is open to connecting for complementary fifteen-minute advisory calls to help you with strategic directions and networks for your own start-up. If you would like to go deeper with focused mentoring a series of three 45-minute monthly sessions is $660, or six for $1200. These sessions are for founders, business leaders, or for people looking to set out on a new chapter in life and can include:
- Strategic advice for your start-up or business
- Opening important connections for your venture
- Helping you to live deliberately and make bold decisions
To get started email aaron@bailen.us.
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