Karin Hurt: Leadership Speaker
Leadership speaker Karin Hurt combines Verizon executive experience and Courageous Cultures tools to help leaders build confidence, encourage employee ideas and strengthen team performance.
Quick Facts:
- Former Verizon Wireless executive.
- Author of five books, including Courageous Cultures.
- Recognized by Inc. as a Great Leadership Speaker.
- Delivers interactive keynotes and executive programs.
Formats:
- Keynote speaker, leadership development facilitator and team innovation program leader.
Audiences:
- Senior leaders, people managers, executive teams and organisations seeking greater employee participation and innovation.
Outcomes:
- Use practical tools to encourage questions, ideas and constructive contributions.
- Develop and evaluate ideas against real strategic business challenges.
- Strengthen collaboration between employees and leaders through feedback and dialogue.
- Travels from: Laurel, MD
- **US Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
Talent Services
Keynote Topics:
LEADING DURING TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY AND CHANGE
This program is perfect for.
Fast growing teams or organizations
Associations serving highly disrupted, fast-changing industries
Organizations going through times of significant change (e.g. mergers, restructures)
The audience will leave with.
Confidence to navigate through the uncertainty with poise
Communication techniques to keep their teams focused on what matters most
Tools to think build critical thinking capacity and make better decisions
Strategic questions to help uncover new strategic opportunities and insights
Building a High-Performance, High-Engagement Culture
This program is perfect for.
Overwhelmed managers working to take their results and relationships to the next level
Leaders working to build a high-performing, high-engagement culture
Teams looking for practical tools and techniques they can use right away
The audience will leave with.
Ways to stay focused on the MIT (most important things) that contribute to consistent, breakthrough results
Tools to correct poor performance without drama
Techniques to build better relationships up, down and sideways
A better understanding of how to give each team member what they need most to take their performance to the next level
Tools for building a more competent, confident team
Mastering the Art of Tough Conversation
Do you have a tough conversation you need to have, but are avoiding at all costs?
This program is perfect for.
Leaders working to build a high-performing culture
Managers struggling to have the tough conversations vital to building healthy, high performing teams
Managers working to build more productive relationships up, down and sideways
The audience will leave with.
Tools to solve 90% of your tough conversations before they happen
Approaches for “ditching the diaper genie” to have the tough conversations that need to happen
The I.N.S.P.I.R.E. method of delivering tough feedback
An easy-to-use methodology for asking strategic questions that uncover vulnerabilities and opportunities for strategic growth
How Can We? Building an Innovative, Solutions-focused Culture
What would happen if every member of your team came to work focused on finding solutions and creating better results?
This program is perfect for.
Senior and mid-level managers
Managers struggling to get their teams to think more creatively and solve problems on their own
Teams looking to take their performance to the next level
The audience will leave with.
Easy-to-use tools and techniques to empower solutions-thinking and customer-focused problem solving
A clear understanding of what’s blocking everyday innovation in their teams
Communication strategies to eliminate FOSU (Fear of Speaking Up) and encourage deeper dialogue up, down and sideways
A plan they can apply right away
Talent Short Bio
Karin Hurt is a leadership speaker, author and former Verizon Wireless executive who helps organizations develop courageous leaders, build strong cultures and improve team performance.
The author of five books, including Courageous Cultures, Karin brings practical leadership experience to highly interactive keynotes and executive programs. She has been recognized by Inc. as a Great Leadership Speaker.
Her work focuses on helping people contribute ideas, ask questions and engage constructively with workplace challenges. Alongside her speaking and leadership development programs, she shares guidance through her weekly blog and Asking for a Friend show.
Her Courageous Cultures Team Innovation Challenge gives employees a structured opportunity to apply leadership and innovation tools to strategic business priorities. Teams develop and evaluate ideas, then pitch them to senior leaders for feedback and consideration.
Karin combines practical tools with audience participation to help organizations connect employee confidence, collaboration and innovation with meaningful action.
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