Amer Kaissi Executive Coach, Author & Professor

In today's dynamic business landscape, improving employee engagement and sparking their innovation and creativity is an uphill battle for most leaders. In this session, Amer shows that leaders who have the confidence to make hard decisions in uncertain environments and the humility to admit mistakes, can better connect with their team members, while empowering them to integrate novel ideas into how they solve problems. Building on the latest research evidence and his experience as a coach with high-level executives, he makes a convincing argument that humbitious leadership is the best way to lead for the future.

In this transformative talk, leaders will be able to immediately implement proven strategies to:

• Discover the power of self-awareness, open-mindedness and appreciation
• Develop leadership skills and behaviors that balance humility with ambition
• Build humbitious cultures where turnover is minimal; teams are highly engaged; and innovation is sparked

In today's challenging work environment, organizations and leaders face serious stressors resulting in burnout and chronic fatigue. Amer argues that leaders have the ability to influence and impact their team’s and organization’s resilience & engagement. But in order to do that, they have to build and maintain their own self-resilience first. Drawing on the latest research and compelling case studies from his coaching practices, he shares a practical model of resilience focusing on the importance of realistic optimism; compassion; and gratitude on the one hand, and self-care behaviors such as short reflections; strategic breaks and calendar triage on the other.

In this transformative talk, leaders will be able to immediately implement proven strategies to:

• Discover the power of realistic optimism; compassion; and gratitude
• Develop leadership skills and behaviors that balance self-care with caring for others
• Build resilient cultures where burnout is reduced and teams are highly engaged

Amidst the unrelenting organizational changes, leaders may hesitate to hold their team members accountable for fear of driving them over the edge. They default to “comfort cultures” where low performance is tolerated and difficult conversations are avoided. Amer argues that the best leaders are those that balance psychologically safe cultures where team members can speak up and contribute, with accountability systems where high performers thrive. Drawing on the latest research and examples from his coaching practices, he shares how leaders can build and maintain psychological safety while having necessary difficult conversations.

In this transformative talk, leaders will be able to immediately implement proven strategies to:

• Discover the power of psychological safety and open-mindedness
• Develop leadership skills and behaviors to have necessary difficult conversations
• Build learning cultures where mistakes are not covered and teams are challenged to achieve high performance

• Discover the power of the positive intent mindset
• Develop leadership skills and behaviors that balance trust with accountability
• Build teams and organizations based on accountable positivity