Amer Kaissi
Award-winning Professor of Leadership; Executive Coach; Author
As a widely-published and acclaimed Professor of Leadership and an internationally-recognized thought leader, Amer Kaissi has spent the last 25 years researching, understanding, and evaluating evidence-based practices that create intentionality for leaders. As a sought-after coach for top-level executives, he has worked closely with leaders and teams to apply these practices to transform organizational cultures. Kaissi blends thorough research with practical examples and humor to help audiences lead more effectively in times of uncertainty.
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Amer Kaissi is an-award winning professor of leadership, executive coach, and book author. He is a sports fanatic, a hummus addict, and a funny professor. He blends thorough research with practical examples to help audiences transform their mindsets and lead more effectively in times of change.
- Kaissi has spent the last 25 years researching, understanding, and evaluating evidence-based practices that create intentionality for leaders to reverse their ineffective behaviors.
- 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 organizational cultures.
- Kaissi is the author of five books related to leadership and high performance, including The Positive Intent Mindset: Exceptional Leadership Through Trust and Accountability.
- Kaissi’s research and coaching practice show that the solution to leadership challenges is humility with ambition. Humility is a strength, and it is a super-power when combined with ambition. In times of uncertainty, leaders connect with humility and elevate with ambition. That is the power of humbitious leadership.
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Is Your Team as Effective as Kindergartners? How Leaders Create a Culture of Psychological Safety & Accountability
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 Kaissi 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
Available as a keynote, half-day workshop, or full-day workshop.
Shattering Resilience Myths in Leadership: Key Behaviors for Self-Care and Caring for Others
In today's challenging work environment, organizations and leaders face serious stressors resulting in burnout and chronic fatigue. Amer Kaissi 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
Available as a keynote, half-day workshop, or full-day workshop.
Humbitious Leadership in Times of Change: How to Connect with Humility & Elevate with Ambition
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 Kaissi 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
Available as a keynote, half-day workshop, or full-day workshop
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