Michael Quan - Keynote Speaker | Habits, Mindset & AI

A presentation shaped around your audience

Before your event, Michael works with you to determine who’s attending, your theme, and what you want the presentation to accomplish. He uses those details to choose relevant stories, examples, and takeaways.

Expect an engaging, story-driven presentation with practical ideas your audience can discuss and apply afterward.

Speaking topics include:

• Habits, mindset & taking action
The Breakthrough Habit™, Michael’s signature keynote, gives audiences a four-step framework for working through hesitation: name the fear, take action, learn from results, and repeat.

• Entrepreneurship & thinking bigger
Lessons from building and selling a business, including making decisions under uncertainty, taking calculated risks, and learning from setbacks. Michael explores how unexpected changes, including a layoff, can become opportunities to move in a new direction.

• Financial independence & redefining success
A personal look at building financial freedom and deciding what to do with it. Michael helps audiences consider how their choices about money, time, and priorities support the lives they want.

• AI & intentional choices
Explore when AI adds value, when to step back, and how to preserve independent thinking, creativity, and human connection. Practical applications can be included to suit your audience.

Formats and planning

Keynotes, workshops, and virtual presentations are available. Topics can be adapted or combined around your event’s goals.

Michael coordinates with your planning team on timing, presentation needs, and venue setup. Past organizers describe him as professional, reliable, flexible, and easy to work with.

Michael Quan is a keynote speaker, international bestselling author, and entrepreneur based in San Diego.

In his twenties, Michael built a thriving IT services company that ranked among San Diego’s 100 fastest-growing businesses three years running. After more than a decade, he sold the company to private equity and retired at 36.

Retiring early gave Michael freedom, but it also left him figuring out what came next. He began sharing his experiences through Financially Alert, writing about money, investing, and early retirement. That work led to his book, The F.I.R.E. Planner, and eventually to speaking, where the conversations expanded beyond financial success to how people want to spend their time and live fulfilling lives.

Today, Michael speaks on habits, mindset, entrepreneurship, financial independence, and making intentional choices about AI. He draws from his own experiences to help audiences make confident decisions and put their ideas into practice.

His book, The F.I.R.E. Planner, is published by Simon & Schuster. He has been featured on Good Morning America and appeared as a recurring expert guest on CBS News San Diego. His insights have also appeared in Business Insider, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, MSN, and HuffPost.

His speaking engagements have included the Real Estate Wealth Builders Conference, FinCon, Income Builder LIVE, the Gemological Institute of America, and UC San Diego.

Michael also co-founded Youth Entrepreneur Startup (Y.E.S.), a nonprofit that helps young people develop entrepreneurial thinking and leadership skills.

Public speaking was once his greatest fear. Learning to work through it helped shape his signature keynote, The Breakthrough Habit™, and gives him a personal connection to the uncertainty his audiences face.

Whether he’s speaking to corporate teams, entrepreneurs, investors, or students, Michael brings relatable stories, practical tools, and a message shaped around the people in the room.

Michael is available for speaking engagements nationally and internationally.

• Wireless handheld or lavalier microphone preferred
• Projection screen or LED display for slides when applicable
• Confidence monitor preferred for larger venues
• Small table or stool for water
• 30 to 60 minutes sound check if available

Michael is flexible and happy to adapt to most venue setups.