Amer Kaissi
- Keynote Speaker with evidence-based practice on Humility, Workplace Culture & High-Performance Teams
- Author of 3 Books "Humbitious", "The Positive Intent Mindset" and "Intangibles"
- Highly-acclaimed Professor of Leadership at a top university
As a leadership keynote speaker, a widely-published & highly-acclaimed Professor of Leadership at a top university, and internationally-recognized thought leader, Amer has spent the last 25 years researching, understanding and evaluating evidence-based practices that create intentionality for leaders to build and maintain positive and accountable workplace cultures. As a sought-after coach for top-level executives, he...
read the restAs a leadership keynote speaker, a widely-published & highly-acclaimed Professor of Leadership at a top university, and internationally-recognized thought leader, Amer has spent the last 25 years researching, understanding and evaluating evidence-based practices that create intentionality for leaders to build and maintain positive and accountable workplace cultures. As a sought-after coach for top-level executives, he has worked closely with hundreds of leaders and teams to apply these practices to change mindsets and behaviors and transform teams. While Amer has honed his leadership skills in the extremely complex and ultra-competitive healthcare landscape, the principles that he shares transcend all different sectors of leadership.
Amer’s research and coaching practice show that the solution is humility with ambition, while assuming positive intent. Humility is a strength, and it is a super-power when combined with ambition. When leaders assume positive intent, they replace judgment with curiosity, give the benefit of the doubt, and build positive accountability in their teams and organizations. Engagement is improved, collaboration and trust are strengthened, and well-being flourishes. That is the power of humbitious leadership and the positive intent mindset.
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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 ...more
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
For Conferences, Corporate Events & Leadership Retreats. Available as a leadership keynote, half-day workshop or full-day workshop.
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We live in a very negative and divided world, made worse by social media and cable news. Many employees bring some of that negativity with them to work. They don’t trust their colleagues, and they ...more
We live in a very negative and divided world, made worse by social media and cable news. Many employees bring some of that negativity with them to work. They don’t trust their colleagues, and they hesitate to collaborate. As a result, employee engagement suffers, trust is diminished, and well-being is compromised. In this session, Amer shows that part of the reason for these problems is assuming negative intent. He argues that leaders who assume positive intent towards their team members can build strong and long-lasting relationships with them. Building on the latest research evidence as presented in the new book “The Positive Intent Mindset” and his experience as executive coach, Amer shows that accountable positivity (positive intent coupled with accountability), can lead to cultures of trust & collaboration where leaders and team members work together to serve their stakeholders. He shares case studies and specific take-home behaviors that apply accountable positivity to improve relations in teams at all levels.
In this transformative talk, leaders will be able to immediately implement proven strategies to:
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
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Amidst unrelenting organizational pressures, leaders may hesitate to push for growth while dealing with numerous external and internal challenges. Amer argues that the best leaders are those that adopt a growth mindset and build teams ...more
Amidst unrelenting organizational pressures, leaders may hesitate to push for growth while dealing with numerous external and internal challenges. Amer argues that the best leaders are those that adopt a growth mindset and build teams based on growth cultures. They also tend to lead with realistic optimism: they acknowledge challenges and continue to inspire hope and change. Drawing on the latest research and examples from his coaching practice, he shares how leaders can build growth-oriented teams and organizations that focus on resilience, creativity and innovation.
In this transformative talk, leaders will be able to immediately implement proven strategies to:
Discover the power of growth mindset and realistic optimism
Develop leadership skills and behaviors that balance growth with resilience
Build growth-oriented teams and organizations
For Conferences, Corporate Events & Leadership Retreats. Available as a leadership keynote, half-day workshop or full-day workshop. ...less
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. ...more
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
For Conferences, Corporate Events & Leadership Retreats. Available as a leadership keynote, half-day workshop or full-day workshop.
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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 ...more
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
For Conferences, Corporate Events & Leadership Retreats. Available as a leadership keynote, half-day workshop or full-day workshop.
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