Founder & CEO of Let's Grow Leaders, Leadership Expert, Author
Karin Hurt Biography
Karin Hurt helps human-centered leaders find clarity in uncertainty, drive innovation, and achieve breakthrough results. She’s the founder and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders, a global leadership development and training firm known for practical tools and leadership development programs that stick.
She’s the award-winning author of five books including "Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates" and "Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict" and hosts the popular "Asking for a Friend Vlog." A former Verizon Wireless executive, she was recently named by Inc. Magazine as Top 100 Great Leadership Speaker.
Hurt and her husband and business partner, David Dye, are committed to their philanthropic initiative, Winning Wells – building clean water wells for the people of Cambodia.
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Karin Hurt Speaking Topics
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Courageous Cultures: How to Help Your Team Solve Problems Faster and Surface Remarkable Ideas
Practical ways to inspire employee engagement and accelerate team performance.
Based on ground-breaking new research in innovation and problem-solving, you’ll learn what leaders like you are doing to build more creative and solutions-oriented teams. Teams who don’t just bring you more ideas, but practical ideas you can use to make work, work better.
You’ll explore the root causes of FOSU (fear of speaking up) and ways to turn your team’s fears and frustration into practical innovation. You’ll learn easy-to-use tools and techniques to empower solutions-thinking and customer-focused problem solving; how to respond to wacky ideas without crushing your team’s hearts and spirits; and techniques to encourage courage and deeper dialogue up, down, and sideways.
Your audience will leave with:
- Inspiration to be a role model of innovation and problem solving.
- Researched-based, practical techniques to inspire more confidence and competence sharing ideas.
- Tools to lead make it easy for team members to share practical, remarkable ideas
- Techniques to respond to ideas (even if you can’t use them) in a way that inspires future innovation and problem solving
Based on our award-winning book Courageous Cultures: Building Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers and Customer Advocates (Harper Collins 2020)
We also have a very popular half-day to full-day program where your team applies our Courageous Cultures tools and techniques to strategic business challenges.
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Navigating Workplace Conflict: How to Have More Influence, Less Drama, and Better Collaboration
Master any workplace conflict with confidence and ease, have less drama, better results, and thrive at work.
When there are problems to solve, and people who care (and there are so many things to care about) you’ll face conflict. And if you want to have more success, influence, and joy in your work, you’ve got to navigate it well. But conflict is hard. You weren’t born knowing the perfect words to say when you’re angry, dealing with a jerk, or when someone calls your game-changing idea “stupid.”
This highly experiential program is based on findings from our expansive World Workplace Conflict and Collaboration research (5000 participants in 45 countries).
You’ll leave with the courage, confidence, and competence to navigate even the trickiest conflict scenarios and build better, lasting collaboration.
You'll learn:
- Researched-based reasons why conflict is so hard now-- and inspiration to have the conversation you would rather avoid.
- The 4 Cs of more productive conflict and how to apply them to even the most challenging scenarios.
- 12 Powerful Phrases for navigating any workplace conflict.
- Practical techniques and tools to foster deeper trust and collaboration.
Karin Hurt Videos
Inside Karin Hurt’s Keynotes: Where Interaction Sparks Transformation
What makes a keynote truly transformational? In this video, you’ll get an behind-the-scenes look inside Karin Hurt’s high-impact keynote...
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What topics does Karin Hurt speak about?
Karin Hurt is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Author, Business, Business Consulting, Business Leadership, Customer Experience, Disruptive Thinking, Executive Leadership, Female Leadership, Human Resources, Leadership, Sales, Thought Leadership -
Where does Karin Hurt travel from?
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Karin Hurt is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Courageous Cultures: How to Help Your Team Solve Problems Faster and Surface Remarkable Ideas, Navigating Workplace Conflict: How to Have More Influence, Less Drama, and Better Collaboration, Courageous Leadership: Practical Ways to Be More Daring and Respectful Rebellion: How to Say No for a Bigger Yes. The estimated speaking fee range to book Karin Hurt for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Karin Hurt generally travels from Denver, CO, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Libby Gill, Dr. Jackie Freiberg, Amelia Rose Earhart, Amy Jo Martin and Eric Boles. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Karin Hurt for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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