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Sterling Hawkins

    • Founder of the #NoMatterWhat movement for business leaders who are seeking results regardless of the circumstances
    • Entrepreneur, Master of Innovation, Tech Entrepreneur & Transformational Leadership Expert
    • Author of Hunting Discomfort and CEO of the Sterling Hawkins Group, a growth and development company
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In Person-Fee 🛈

$20,000 - $30,000

Virtual Fee:

$15,000 - $20,000

Travels From

Colorado

Sterling Hawkins Speaking Reel

Sterling Hawkins Speaking Reel

Why Discomfort Turns out to be a Biological Superpower

Why Discomfort Turns out to be a Biological Superpower

Sterling Hawkins at DECA | 25,000 Chanting #NoMatterWhat

Sterling Hawkins at DECA | 25,000 Chanting #NoMatterWhat

#NoMatterWhat Impact: Husqvarna Sales Case Study

#NoMatterWhat Impact: Husqvarna Sales Case Study

#NoMatterWhat x MDRT - Virtual Example

#NoMatterWhat x MDRT - Virtual Example

How To Use Your Problems As Your Path Forward

How To Use Your Problems As Your Path Forward

Sterling Hawkins Speaker Biography


Sterling Hawkins is an author, investor, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker who is globally recognized as a thought leader in organizational culture. Founder of the No Matter What Movement, he shows people how to practice trust to achieve the results they want regardless of obstacles. 

Sterling developed his trust-powers success system to learn from the painful collapse of his multibillion-dollar startup involvement. He's since combined his business background, research, study, and practice to come back and launch, invest in, and grow more than 100 companies. He's taken that experience to work with C-level teams and leaders and speak on stages around the world. He's been featured in magazines like Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, and INC. 

He believes that the depth of your trust determines the extent of your growth and success in life and business. Getting results requires being brave, declaring big goals, and stepping outside your comfort zone. To inspire people to unlock their own inherent potential, he shares five practices that help us push beyond our perceived limits to make a difference for our companies, communities, and families. When he's not at home in Colorado, he may be out skydiving, swimming with sharks, or adventuring with the No Matter What Movement. 

No Matter What – Thriving Through Change and Uncertainty
Get unstuck and create a sure pathway to progress, regardless of the challenges

In a world permanently transformed by tech upheaval, competitive pressures, talent shortages, and global instability, change and uncertainty have never been more intense. But here’s the truth: change is constant, and it isn’t the enemy. It’s our approach to it that leaves us afraid of taking risks, struggling to adapt and limiting our progress.

Sterling Hawkins shares how he went from multi-billion dollar startup success story to bankruptcy to growth leader and advisor to hundreds of leading companies. The experiences, research and real-world testing shared in this ground-breaking keynote will help you break through your own challenges by reframing your relationship with change. Sterling’s proven framework cultivates a resilient growth mindset that thrives in uncertainty by empowering audiences to commit to real progress rather than burning out or becoming crushed by it.

With his No Matter What mantra, Sterling lights a fire within individuals and teams, uniting them to capitalize on their strengths. By fostering connection, breaking down silos, and empowering team members at every level to confront uncertainty, his system transforms any change into opportunity and any challenge into greater potential.

Outcomes:

- Activate High Performance: Empower your team with proven practices that drive high performance, regardless of challenges.
- Transform Discomfort into Growth: Challenge the "survival" narrative and use discomfort as a powerful catalyst for impact, resilience, and transformation.
- Accelerate Learning and Results: Embrace a science-backed approach to harness the unknown, accelerating learning and achieving outstanding results.

This inspirational keynote is designed for leaders who are:

- Struggling to keep up with technology disruption, competitive pressures, and market shifts.
- Disempowered dealing with unknowns and burned out from relentless change.
- Under pressure to deliver stronger results by rising to challenging circumstances or ambitious goals.

True Leadership for Transformational Growth |
Realize the potential in yourself, your team and your organization with trust-driven leadership

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, there are few constants, leaving paralyzing uncertainty in its wake. It is the role of transformational leaders to build a clear foundation of what can be trusted, enabling growth and consistent success.

From over a decade of exploring myriad growth modalities, Sterling Hawkins introduces a revolutionary methodology for transformational leadership centered on trust. Instead of focusing solely on goals and tasks, this method orients us to the real work of growth, aligns us to our ultimate goals, and connects us with what matters most. Modeled by leaders, these principles become the ground upon which transformation takes place. In practice, the principles inspire teams, win moments of opportunity, deliver differentiated solutions, and unlock greater potential.

This paradigm shift not only reduces turnover and stimulates breakthrough approaches, but also resonates positively with partners, clients, and stakeholders. Embracing trust-driven leadership doesn’t just improve the bottom line; this proven approach enhances the workplace and shapes the very essence of the organization.

Outcomes:

- Unlock Hidden Potential: Harness cutting-edge, research-backed methods to build trust, enhance learning, and reveal the inherent potential within your team.
- Catalyze Transformative Action: Implement powerful, actionable leadership practices that drive immediate and lasting change.
- Sustain Momentum: Create enduring performance improvements that continuously accelerate team momentum and organizational growth.

This transformational keynote is designed for leaders who are:

- Called to lead in a meaningful new way to significantly improve morale and results.
- Frustrated with surface-level approaches, lack of clarity and slow progress.
- Ready to truly align to produce breakthrough performance for themselves and their teams.

Maximize Your Impact
Build your capacity to grow by establishing a fresh relationship with change, control and uncertainty.

True growth comes from stepping toward a place that many fear: the unknown. High performing people and organizations must develop their relationship with the uncertainty that comes from unknowns to reach even higher levels of success.

Created and field-tested alongside some of the world’s largest companies, Sterling Hawkins offers a proven methodology that doesn’t rely on working more or trying harder. Instead, he provides clear steps to radically rethink our relationship with the unknown and the uncomfortable. This shift builds trust that outweighs fear, courage that overrides worry and the capacity to shed our comfort zone and handle uncertainty.

No matter your current situation or level of performance, Sterling’s compelling data, moving stories, and high-energy delivery enable audiences to think differently, elevate conversations, and align to greater goals to maximize the impact of individuals, teams, and organizations.

Outcomes:

- Master Uncertainty: Avoid common growth pitfalls and confidently navigate the unknown to propel your objectives forward.
- Establish Psychological Safety: Apply proven practices to cultivate psychological safety within, unlocking dramatic new results in any situation.
- Transform Your Culture: Shift from fear-driven reactions to proactive purposeful actions, fostering deep trust and maximizing long-term impact.

This growth keynote is designed for leaders who are:

- Ready to reach the next level of performance with a radical new approach.
- Seeking a framework to advance sales, business results or breakthrough performance.
- Inspired to make a bigger difference without sacrificing health and wellbeing.

Creating a Culture of Innovation
Practical tools to build a culture of creativity, ingenuity and determination

With AI and other disruptive changes as the new constant, fostering an innovation culture is mission-critical to stay ahead. The catch is, our natural human inclination is to resist any change, seeking comfort in the security of familiar routines.

Sterling Hawkins offers a fresh perspective on innovation built on launching, investing, and growing over 100 startups. He shares a science-backed approach to breakthrough innovation by coming from a place of curiosity, not certainty. To achieve the impact we desire in our businesses, communities and families, we need a complete perspective overhaul.

Learn Sterling’s holistic approach for cultivating a culture of creativity, ingenuity, and determination across all areas of an organization. This keynote goes deeper than a motivational talk: it’s a transformative experience that shows you how to innovate and create from true inspiration.

Outcomes:

- Break Free from History: Identify and release outdated narratives that hinder team progress.
- Cultivate a Culture of Innovation: Apply practical tools to foster an innovative culture that distinguishes your organization in a competitive market.
- Embrace Failure to Succeed: Adopt a neuroscience-backed approach to break down silos, embrace failures, and uncover breakthrough opportunities.

This innovation keynote is designed for leaders who are:

- Seeking a new approach to innovation that drives organic growth, competitive advantage and higher performance.
- Looking to break free of legacy thinking, limiting beliefs and fear of failure to realize next-level breakthroughs.
- Inspired to take smart risks, desire to embrace new technologies or approaches and need to collaborate in deeper ways.

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October 19, 2023

Sterling is an absolute delight to work with. HIs energy and passion comes shining through and he was (again!) one of the top rates speakers for our event. He is super easy to work with and connects well with the audience. Your participants will walk away motivated, uplifted and ready to tackle their opportunities head-on!

NACS - National Association of Convenience Stores

March 14, 2023

Sterling Hawkins has become a household name within cityCURRENT and with our corporate partners and guests of our signature speaker series. He's so incredible that we've had him keynote in both Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee. With his presentations, he masterfully weaves his entrepreneurial story with lessons from his bestselling book, Hunting Discomfort, and how to leverage his model to shift from "I can" to "I WILL" to achieve breakthrough results. He is charismatic and connects with the audience, ties in emotional moments that the audience will hang on, and provides content and a framework that is extremely valuable on both a personal and professional front, so the audience walks away with a blueprint for taking action. Sterling and his team are true professionals. They are a pleasure to work with and go the extra mile to customize the presentations, share resources and materials afterward, and give you tools to continue engaging your audience in meaningful ways. We will continue finding more ways to work with Sterling Hawkins in the future, and I highly recommend him for your next event, as well!

cityCURRENT

February 14, 2023

Sterling was one of the highest rated speakers at our event. His preparation was evident in the ways in which he connected his content to our industry and audience. He nailed the headwinds of our industry and successfully challenged the audience to lean into their discomfort and drive for results. By the end, they entire room was on their feet in commitment to the #NoMatterWhat mindset. A top-notch session and experience!

NACS - National Association of Convenience Stores

January 23, 2023

Sterling was hands down the easiest speaker to work with from start to finish! Prior to speaking at our cityCURRENT Signature Breakfast he took the time to ask and learn as much as possible about our organization and our audience which made the presentation even more special. Our audience had outstanding reviews and left them with inspiration and strategies to implement right away and throughout the year. I give Sterling 5 stars and would certainly give him the highest recommendation as your next speaker!

cityCURRENT

November 17, 2022

Sterling presented at IHC’s 2022 Patient Safety Conference in Iowa. He did a great job of inspiring the audience that they can overcome any challenge NoMatterWhat.

Iowa Healthcare Collaborative

March 17, 2021

Sterling delivered a keynote address to our audience of customers and associates that was inspiring and impactful. He did an excellent job of tailoring his material to our audiences which helps the audience connect to his message. He brings an authentic and positive energy to his speaking that captures the attention of the audience. What a great way to kick off our virtual event! Sterling was a pleasure to work with and was full of ideas to elevate the customer experience. I would highly recommend Sterling to any event organizer looking for a keynote speaker.

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