Erin Hatzikostas

Activating Authenticity to Motivate Your Team, Modernize Your Culture, and Make Lots More Moolah

Nancy's Note:

“My preference is to discover speakers new to me, but every once in a while I’ll consider a referral. Thus, when a former classmate urged me to consider Erin, I was literally knocked off my feet. A fantastic speaker, she is wildly fresh, unique and deeply committed to changing the landscape of the workplace to places of authenticity. If ever anyone walked their talk, it would be Erin.”

Erin Hatzikostas

Activating Authenticity to Motivate Your Team, Modernize Your Culture, and Make Lots More Moolah

Nancy’s Note
“My preference is to discover speakers new to me, but every once in a while I’ll consider a referral. Thus, when a former classmate urged me to consider Erin, I was literally knocked off my feet. A fantastic speaker, she is wildly fresh, unique and deeply committed to changing the landscape of the workplace to places of authenticity. If ever anyone walked their talk, it would be Erin.”

Erin Hatzikostas

Activating Authenticity to Motivate Your Team, Modernize Your Culture, and Make Lots More Moolah

Nancy’s Note
“My preference is to discover speakers new to me, but every once in a while I’ll consider a referral. Thus, when a former classmate urged me to consider Erin, I was literally knocked off my feet. A fantastic speaker, she is wildly fresh, unique and deeply committed to changing the landscape of the workplace to places of authenticity. If ever anyone walked their talk, it would be Erin.”

Expertise

Authenticity, Corporate Culture, Employee Engagement, Employee Retention, Empowerment, Leadership, Success, Sales, Women in Business

Travels From

Hartford, Connecticut

Speaking Style

Authentic, Hilarious, Astute

About Erin...

A former corporate CEO turned Professional Pot-Stirrer leading  a movement to eradicate the workplace of its BS to make it fundamentally a more authentic place.

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Presentation Topics

[Leadership/Culture]

You’ve probably heard “Bring your authentic self to work” a hundred times in the last year [insert eye roll]. But here’s the reality: being “yourself” at work probably feels like fluffy unicorn doo-doo that isn’t really actionable or possible.

During this talk, Erin will help you see that authenticity is a much more nuanced and complex concept. And, when embraced in this way, it turns authenticity from a passive, la-ti-da concept to an active, dy-no-mite strategy that should be at the heart of your leadership and culture strategy.

Erin will do more than talk theory. Grounded in her proprietary framework, “The Six Principles of Strategic Authenticity” (H.U.M.A.N.S.), she will help you see that authenticity can be purposefully practiced. She’ll also provide some initial “plays” for your own Authenticity Playbook, which will have you putting your authenticity in motion as soon as you leave the session. In this new, post-pandemic world, this is THE strategy you need to modernize your culture, maximize your career, and make lots more moola!

Audience Takeaways:

 

  • Gain a better understanding of what authenticity really is and is not.
  • Understand the proven impact authenticity can have on companies and their bottom-line.
  • Be empowered that authentic leadership can come from the top down AND the bottom up.
  • Learn a practical framework (H.U.M.A.N.S) you can use to put authenticity into motion immediately.
  • Gain a foundation for the simple changes you can make in order to inspire an authentic culture.
  • Have a stitch in your side from laughing!

[For Women in Business]

There’s no doubt we still have a ginormous gender gap at the top of the leadership ladder. However, we often ignore the biggest issue: women aren’t being held down, they’re opting down. Women often fear they’ll have to compromise to rise – compromise their family, their health, or even their soul. As a result, we don’t lean into the big girl job.

In this talk, Erin won’t encourage you to lean in, but rather to lean in a totally different way. She’ll bust down the “Sucky Songs” women often sing to themselves and inspire you to rewrite them by using authenticity as your new secret weapon for success.

Using her framework, “The Six Principles of Strategic Authenticity (H.U.M.A.N.S.)”, Erin will show you how authenticity isn’t some fluffy unicorn doo-doo, but rather an actionable strategy you can enact immediately. Her talk will inspire you to change the job – and the entire game – so you can opt up, without selling out!

Audience Takeaways:

  • Understand the common “Sucky Songs” that often hold people, especially women, back from rising in their career.
  • Realize that authenticity is more than a permission, it’s a power.
  • Begin to start seeing authenticity as an active strategy that you can use to increase connections, trust, and intrigue.
  • Learn a practical framework (H.U.M.A.N.S) you can use to put authenticity into motion immediately.
  • Possibly tinkle a bit from laughing (not your fault BTW)!

Erin’s Uncle Bob tells the story time and time again of his greatest coaching moment. Long story short, unlike any other dad out there, he coached her three-year-old cousin to keep running until he got to trees way in the distance. And not that Easter egg hunts have winners, but…Matthew won.

All of us are in one big Easter egg hunt. Or, a race to capture the attention, trust and wallets of companies and consumers. Sadly, many companies (and their marketing, product, sales, everything teams) are missing out on the single most powerful sales tool – authenticity.

In this talk, Erin will persuade you to obsess over-using authenticity in everything you do. She’ll highlight research, case studies and…well…sell you through lots of authentic stories!

Audience Takeaways:

  • Learn about other companies’ turnarounds and success after embracing authenticity.
  • Understand the neuroscience behind why storytelling is so powerful and be able to understand the most important building blocks for a real and effective storytelling.
  • Get several ideas of places where you can infuse authenticity (and no, it’s not just in a sales meeting.)
  • Start building your own Authenticity Playbook.
  • Be fired up to go sell your “widgets!”

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