Sterling Hawkins | Leadership Innovation Speaker | Denver

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 informative and entertaining, but contain exactly what it takes to transform your business.

• 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 system to create transformational growth regardless of the circumstances.

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

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.

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.

He’ll 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 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

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.

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, desires, and needs.

• 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.

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.