Sterling Hawkins

Founder of #NoMatterWhat Movement for Business Leaders Seeking Results Regardless of Circumstances

Nancy's Note:

“When the presentation requires solid content to spark new life into an organization, to foster greater growth, to push beyond any perceived limitations, Sterling drops one memorable golden nugget after another of attainable action-steps. He’s truly amazing.”

Sterling Hawkins

Founder of #NoMatterWhat Movement for Business Leaders Seeking Results Regardless of Circumstances

Nancy’s Note
“When the presentation requires solid content to spark new life into an organization, to foster greater growth, to push beyond any perceived limitations, Sterling drops one memorable golden nugget after another of attainable action-steps. He’s truly amazing.”

Sterling Hawkins

Founder of #NoMatterWhat Movement for Business Leaders Seeking Results Regardless of Circumstances

Nancy’s Note
“When the presentation requires solid content to spark new life into an organization, to foster greater growth, to push beyond any perceived limitations, Sterling drops one memorable golden nugget after another of attainable action-steps. He’s truly amazing.”

Expertise

Innovation, Motivation, Leadership, Teamwork, Change, Peak Performance, Technology

Travels From

Denver, Colorado

Speaking Style

Action-oriented, Empowering, Transformational

About Sterling...

Founder of the #NoMatterWhat movement, breaking the status quo for what is actually possible for people and companies.

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Presentation Topics

Everyone should have access to the radical idea behind achieving breakthrough growth #NoMatterWhat. Now it’s your turn.

From having come back from the brink to sell companies, finish ultra-marathons and achieve results #NoMatterWhat it took, Sterling has integrated those experiences with extensive research to create a system that unlocks the potential inside of anyone and any company.

Meaningful growth, regardless of circumstances, is driven by one thing and one thing only: your culture. You’ll learn the most important systems that have been at the core of — multi-billion dollar wins, industry disruptions and even hardened criminals transforming their lives to get out of jail — to take and implement as soon as you walk out the door. Getting this unique perspective will forever change how you approach business and life.

Sterling uses heart-wrenching personal stories, hilarious anecdotes and inspirational videos that are not only informational and entertaining, but contain exactly what it takes to transform your business. Audiences participate as an undeniable truth sets in, that each one of them can embody the 5 practices it takes to realize even the most audacious growth under the most difficult circumstances. Participants are left empowered, excited and equipped to change the world: #NoMatterWhat.

Learning Objectives: 

  • See how to avoid the pitfalls of transformational growth.
  • Discover that a breakthrough isn’t a place to get to, but a place to come from (and how).
  • Learn the brain science behind this radical new approach.
  • Master how to use the 5 #NoMatterWhat systems to create transformational growth regardless of the circumstances.

Be inspired and excited to implement the tools in every aspect of your business and life.

We live in a world today of exponential growth and accelerating change. Changing ourselves and our businesses is more necessary than ever. But how? Delivered to global rave reviews in his TEDx talk, Sterling’s background in working with hundreds of startups and Fortune 500 companies has led to the discovery that leading innovation is about embracing our human experience.

Sterling will illuminate how personal discomfort gives access to breakthrough growth of any type and how to find the courage to not just accept it but to get out ahead of it to be able to lead change as the only competitive advantage. In this provocative talk, you can step back and see your leadership potential and how it’s directly tied to putting yourself on the line for the benefit of those you lead.

The talk is a motivational and eye-opening experience where Sterling shares how leaders of companies of any size can embrace the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution such as robots, IoT and AI and create something completely new without losing who they are in the process.

Learning Objectives:

  • The critical role our own discomfort plays in our business success (or lack thereof)
  • How using discomfort can lead to innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas
  • Experience what the human experience is with a moving and powerful example
  • Learn the methodology behind using constraints, hardships or problems as circumstances to be embraced as our access to innovation
  • Develop an ecology of people who create big goals allows for and even forces actions that were previously unthinkable

Sterling was raised in his family’s supermarket, where his dad created one of the first digital loyalty programs in the US, and together they created the first personalized marketing system for retailers.

Retail today is changing faster than ever before. Venture dollars have accelerated startups flooding the market and COVID-19 has forever changed the face of modern retailing. Taking what he learned in his family’s organization about the creation of value and the importance of people and connection, then combining it with unique, completely new abilities of countless technologies, Sterling explores how we arrived at this point, the surprising future in store for us and how we can create a future which fulfills on our business essentials and delivers on our customers’ wants and needs.

Sterling’s leadership and vision has enabled retailers and their teams to step past the hype that traditional retail is dead. He has empowered organizations to use technology to unify experiences and redefine retail as a flourishing force to be reckoned with, now and in the future.

Learning Objectives:

 

  • Look at the power shift in the supply chain. Hint, customers are now in charge.
  • Open up new possibilities for a retail group can be based on case studies and real results
  • Examine the latest case studies of what’s working and what’s not in the industry
  • Learn how to use the 4 steps of retail innovation
  • Create new possibilities and potential for your retail and brand operations.

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.

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