AJ Jones
Delivers the wake-up call every high achieving team needs to hear.
Founder of MORE. Corporate veteran. Author. Podcast host. Two-time widowmaker heart attack survivor. The guy who won’t let leaders waste their one life on autopilot.
Adrian (AJ) Jones helps high-achieving professionals and teams break out of numb success and step into aligned living.
About AJ
With 20+ years in asset and wealth management in strategy-related roles at Wells Fargo, BlackRock, and Charles Schwab, had everything. But after surviving not one, but two widowmaker heart attacks, he rebuilt his entire definition of success.
His mission now?
Wake people up before life has to.
He delivers clarity, courage, and a fire-in-the-gut push toward meaningful change.
What AJ believes
Leaders don’t need motivation posters. They need the kind of honesty they rarely get and almost never give themselves.
AJ’s workshops center on three uncompromising principles:
Radical honesty (with yourself)
Most high achievers aren’t stuck, but they’re avoiding the truth. Alignment begins the moment you face it.
Authentic success
External success means nothing if the internal cost is burnout, numbness, or regret. Build a version of success that actually fuels you.
The courage to move
If you feel the drift, the misalignment, the gut-level “this isn’t it” waiting won’t save you, but movement will.
Signature keynotes
The Wake-Up Call: Why Staying Misaligned Is More Dangerous Than Change
If something feels off, it’s not a phase, it’s a signal.
AJ hits leaders with the truth: Misalignment is expensive. Personally. Organizationally. Culturally.
Attendees learn:
• The hidden ways misalignment erodes performance
• Why high performers ignore the first signs
• The real cost of “I’ll deal with it later”
• How to recognize the moment change becomes non-negotiable
This keynote inspire, interrupts, and gives people permission to act before life forces the issue.
Radical Honesty With Yourself: The Moment Everything Starts to Change
You can’t build a life that fits until you admit the one you’re living doesn’t.
This keynote is a mirror held up to every high achiever in the room.
AJ shows how self-deception drives stagnation and how Radical Honesty becomes the ignition switch for aligned reinvention.
Audiences walk away able to:
• Spot the quiet lies they tell themselves
• Trace how avoidance drains energy and clarity
• Replace drift with decisive, aligned action
Authentic Success: Redefining the Only Metric That Actually Matters
This is a call to rebuild success from the inside out.
AJ introduces the Personal Wealth Portfolio, a model for balancing financial, personal, and social capital so leaders stop winning on paper while losing themselves in the process.
Teams learn:
• How to diagnose what part of their internal portfolio is depleted
• How to rebalance toward fulfillment without losing ambition
• How aligned success improves performance, collaboration, and culture
Move: The Courage to Change Before Your Body Forces You To
The talk only a two-time widowmaker heart attack survivor can deliver.
AJ shares the raw story of surviving two near-fatal heart attacks and the brutal clarity it delivered: If you're unhappy or unfulfilled, you’re already paying the price.
Attendees learn:
• Why fear traps successful people longer than people who struggle
• The psychological cost of golden handcuffs
• The simple moves that start real reinvention today
It’s emotional, electric, and leaves rooms changed.
Workshops that go beyond inspiration
Aligned Leadership Lab: Stop Drifting. Start Deciding.
A high-intensity session where leaders identify where they’re misaligned, confront the truths they’ve been avoiding, and build a decisive action plan for aligned performance.
Authentic Success Sprint: Redesign Success From the Inside Out
A guided process using the Personal Wealth Portfolio to define what truly matters — and create a sustainable, fulfilling path forward.
Why book AJ
Corporate credibility
20+ years inside major financial institutions. He speaks leader-to-leader.
A story that breaks through the noise
Two widowmaker heart attacks. Reinvention in real time. No one forgets AJ.
Frameworks that actually work
Real tools leaders can implement immediately.
Customization that hits the mark
Every keynote is crafted for your culture, your challenges, your moment.
Get MORE. Be MORE.
If you want less of the things you’ve been chasing and more of the things you can’t touch— fulfillment, purpose, alignment, authenticity, honesty—MORE is the place for you.