Sterling Hawkins

Speech Topics

• Hunting Discomfort: Leading Courageous Organizations to Be Resilience Ready and Built for Breakthrough Growth

  Discomfort is inevitable as we all contend with a world disrupted by technology, changed by the pandemic, and fraught with risk, talent shortages and incredible uncertainty. Growth has always been outside our comfort zone, but today it’s forced upon companies and teams in a way that’s unparalleled throughout history. It can quickly become debilitating and exhausting, negatively impacting productivity, morale and ultimately, results. If discomfort of the unknown is inevitable and growing – leadership necessitates a critical new competency for competitive advantage, hunting discomfort and building their capacity to effectively handle it. Reorienting leaders to the fact that what many may see as the risky move, is less risky than not pursuing it in the long run. Opening executives, teams and cultures to the discomfort of the unknown will ironically leave peace, presence and breakthrough results in its wake – regardless of what’s happening in the world. But it takes the courage of acceptance, the willingness to make mistakes and the vulnerability to let go. Sterling has been through massive discomfort himself having come back from the brink to sell companies, finish ultra-marathons and get results no matter what it took. Using that experience to work with leaders to hunt their own discomfort and bolstered by cutting edge research, you’ll be equipped with 5 practices to build your discomfort muscle, your capacity to deal with discomfort in any flavor it comes in, to make your team ready for anything and poised to create breakthrough growth. Attendee Results: - Radical reframing of discomfort as a necessary and inspiring path to growth (and how avoiding it is holding you back). - Learn from the latest psychology and brain research on how to use discomfort to learn up to 4x faster. - See how to access the profound peace on the other side of discomfort to be able to act faster, more effectively and with less stress. - Understand from case studies and best practices how you can build yourself, your team and your culture to be ready for the unexpected. - Be lit up and excited to grab onto and use the 5 key practices to create immediate breakthrough results.

• #NoMatterWhat: 5 Practices to Unlock Your Potential, Unleash Unstoppable Growth and Produce Breakthrough Results in an Increasingly Uncertain World

  The world today is permanently transformed with pandemic fallout, tech disruption, talent shortages and global instability leaving massive and debilitating uncertainty in its wake. Change has always been inevitable for leaders to contend with, but the sheer scale and accelerating pace of change has become overwhelming for even the most diligent leaders. Unchecked, it can unconsciously leave people and companies fearful to take risk, resistant to growth and fatigued, fighting to keep up. The world of predictability is dead. This defining moment is requiring leaders to get uncomfortable and radically reorientate their relationship to change. Hunting discomfort is the critical new competency required to effectively navigate post-pandemic disruption and thrive in this forever changed world. There are 5 mission-critical practices that have been used to create everything from billion dollar business wins to Olympic gold medalists, that anyone can grab onto and use to build the necessary courage to take intelligent risks, declare big visions and unlock their potential, regardless of the circumstances. From multi-billion dollar startup collapse and coming back to launch, invest in and grow over 50 companies, Sterling has very personal experience confronting the unknown himself. Combined with research, psychology, the latest brain science discoveries and transformation work with leadership teams around the world, this unique perspective will forever change how you approach both business and life. You’ll discover through heart-wrenching stories, hilarious anecdotes and compelling data an undeniable truth: that during even the most difficult times, we can all realize the most audacious growth, #NoMatterWhat. Attendee Results: - Mobilize your team into change agents with the 5 #NoMatterWhat practices to create meaningful growth regardless of the circumstances. - Lean into the transformation illuminated by the latest brain science behind this radical new approach. - See how to avoid the pitfalls of growth and how to use the unknown, uncertain and unexpected to advance your objectives. - Find the presence, peace and authentic connection behind the fear of the unknown - Be inspired to take and implement the necessary tools to create breakthroughs in every aspect of your business and life.

• Beyond Leadership - Values-Driven Leadership #NoMatterWhat

  Embrace the transformative power of values-driven leadership and watch as it breathes new life into your corporate culture. In a rapidly evolving business landscape, where profits and innovations often take center stage, it's the alignment of leaders' actions with a clear set of core values that can steer an organization towards lasting success. Values-driven leadership is not just about ticking off boxes on a checklist; it's a philosophy that infuses purpose, authenticity, and empathy into every decision and interaction #NoMatterWhat. By championing integrity, transparency, diversity, and social responsibility, leaders become role models, inspiring employees to engage more passionately and meaningfully with their work. This paradigm shift sparks a chain reaction, fostering a culture of collaboration, open communication, and shared vision. As employees feel valued and connected, their dedication amplifies, turnover diminishes, and innovation flourishes. The ripple effect of values-driven leadership not only enhances the workplace but also resonates positively with clients and stakeholders, nurturing enduring relationships built on trust. The true transformation lies not just in the bottom line, but in the collective ethos that shapes the soul of the organization. Attendee Results: -Awakening Inner Peak Performance: Recognize that peak performance isn't an external destination; it's a latent strength we evoke from within ourselves. Demystify the misconceptions surrounding the true elements of peak performance. -Venturing Beyond Comfort for Greater Potential: Learn how to step outside your comfort zone and venture into the realm of greater potential, unlocking pathways to unprecedented achievement. -Cultivating Sustainable Peak Performance: Engage in practices that nurture your capacity to access and maintain states of peak or optimal performance, ensuring consistency in your endeavors. -Evidence-Based Strategies for Goal Attainment: Explore research that unveils the genuine requirements for achieving goals, offering insights with up to 95% certainty on the pathways to success. -Sustaining Peak Performance Amidst Adversity: Discover techniques to uphold peak performance even when confronted with challenging news, difficult situations, or adversity of any kind. -Essential Tools for Sharing Peak Performance: Acquire critical tools that enable you to propagate peak performance within an interconnected ecosystem of colleagues, peers, clients, and partners, creating a collaborative environment of excellence.

• A New Wake-up Call: Create Peak Performance #NoMatterWhat

  Breakthrough results require consistent peak or optimal performance, especially as communities and companies are facing fast-paced change and uncertainty at a new level. What’s at stake for many of us has never been higher. But the biggest shift for performance within organizations is that it is no longer a top-down focus. Individual contributors at every level are also tired of being tired and anxious and burnt out and they are looking for new ways to tap into their peak performance from inside out. This is where Sterling Hawkins elevates the barre. He is an entrepreneur, endurance athlete, author and inspirational speaker who eats, breathes and sleeps the principles and actions of peak performance. He has learned bio and mental hacks for performance that were inspired by his own highs and lows in business and life as well as data-driven science. Sterling Hawkins will move people and teams to want to reach their own peak performance and it’s backed by real data, research and tools that irrefutably work for those who apply them. It’s not motivation. It’s inspiration that calls forth people from within themselves to reach a new level of performance. Audiences realize first hand that the only thing between them and peak performance is literally nothing but themselves. And they’ll leave with the tools to start realizing that performance potential #NoMatterWhat the situation is. Attendee Results: -Awakening Inner Peak Performance: Recognize that peak performance isn't an external destination; it's a latent strength we evoke from within ourselves. -Demystify the misconceptions surrounding the true elements of peak performance. -Venturing Beyond Comfort for Greater Potential: Learn how to step outside your comfort zone and venture into the realm of greater potential, unlocking pathways to unprecedented achievement. -Cultivating Sustainable Peak Performance: Engage in practices that nurture your capacity to access and maintain states of peak or optimal performance, ensuring consistency in your endeavors. -Evidence-Based Strategies for Goal Attainment: Explore research that unveils the genuine requirements for achieving goals, offering insights with up to 95% certainty on the pathways to success. -Sustaining Peak Performance Amidst Adversity: Discover techniques to uphold peak performance even when confronted with challenging news, difficult situations, or adversity of any kind. -Essential Tools for Sharing Peak Performance: Acquire critical tools that enable you to propagate peak performance within an interconnected ecosystem of colleagues, peers, clients, and partners, creating a collaborative environment of excellence.

• Embrace, Adapt, Thrive: Nurturing a Growth Mindset #NoMatterWhat

  Change has become our constant companion, influencing every facet of life, whether it's the corporate arena or the intimate setting of our homes. Staying in sync demands us to embrace a growth mindset – a crucial ingredient to attain the impact we aspire to create across our businesses, communities, and even within our families. Sterling uses inspiring personal and corporate stories, dead-on data and hands-on tools to provide audiences with principles and strategies to embrace a growth mindset #NoMatterWhat. Attendee Results: -Proactively Cultivating Growth: Embrace a novel approach to leadership that emphasizes fostering growth well before it becomes a necessity. Instead of waiting for growth triggers, learn how to nurture it consistently. -Unleashing Growth Amidst Challenges: Discover strategies for achieving growth in any circumstance, regardless of challenges, obstacles, or adversities. Gain insights into how to overcome odds and drive progress. -Practical Strategies for Empowering Growth: Explore tangible methods that empower everyone to move beyond mere growth mindset and develop a profound belief in their capacity for personal and professional advancement. -Revolutionary Research on Accelerated Learning: Dive into groundbreaking research that unlocks techniques for accelerating learning by up to fourfold—a bio-hack that propels self-improvement to new heights. -Building Resilience for Unstoppable Progress: Delve into the realm of brain science to cultivate mental and emotional resiliency, providing the foundation for relentless personal and professional growth. -Research-Backed Path to Exceptional Growth: Uncover a proven, research-backed methodology boasting up to 95% effectiveness in achieving growth goals, offering a roadmap for unparalleled success.

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