The Secrets Leaders Keep – AmyK Hutchens
August 24, 2015
(Fresh Impact) - In her new book, The Secrets Leaders Keep (Emerge Publishing, Oct. 2015), AmyK exposes the doubts and fears most leaders are not willing to…
CEO, Speaker, Trainer, Business Strategist
A former executive of a billion-dollar global consumer products company and awarded the Vistage UK, International Speaker of the Year, (World’s Leading CEO Membership Organization) AmyK is a dynamic, energetic catalyst for producing sustainable solutions to a leader’s most pressing challenges.
With over 100+ speaking events per year for clients such as Starbucks Canada, Expedia, Lockheed Martin, Securian Financial, IBM, Wells Fargo, Walmart, John Paul Mitchell Systems, and many more, AmyK travels the world helping senior executives lead, innovate and collaborate more effectively. One. Conversation. At. A. Time.
Imagine having the ideal set of communication skills to break down barriers, inspire action, heal relationships, solve problems and create real connection. What if you had the confidence and courage to share your ideas, speak with conviction and honor the worth of your own voice? You’d be unstoppable: both brilliant in business and happy in life.
As an international award-winning speaker, Amazon #1 best-selling author, and 20+ year coach and consultant, AmyK Hutchens introduces leaders and go-getters to the power of taking life one conversation at a time. Her Magical Phrases and communication techniques, used around the globe, have helped close multi-million dollar deals, save marriages, advance careers, heal family dynamics, and align individuals with their “right” and best lives.
AmyK’s humor and wisdom shines through in this compelling and energetic program filled with practical tools that will inspire and equip you to communicate confidently. She’ll help you navigate your toughest conversations without saying something you regret or giving your power away. In this life-altering speech, AmyK sets you up to get the results your heart desires so you walk out of this experience uplifted, inspired and knowing how to take action… one conversation and connection at a time.
This program is perfect for:
· Senior Women Executives
· Mid-Tier Women Managers
· Emerging Women Leaders
· Any Woman Desiring to Be Both Brilliant in Business and Happy in Life
The audience will leave with:
· The #1 Most Effective Conversation Framework to Foster Buy-in & Engagement
· The Exact Phrases to Say in a Friction-filled Conversation to De-escalate Tension
· The Exact Responses to Say When Dealing With a Difficult & Unaccountable Person
· A Process for Actively Listening & Empathetically Responding to a Person Who’s Hurting
· The 3 Questions to Ask When You’re Feeling “Off” or “Out of Balance” to Get You Back to Feeling Grounded
· The 3 Magical Words that Reset and Realign Opposing Wants Between Two People
· Magical Phrases to Communicate Negative Emotions Without Saying Something You Regret or Giving Your Power Away
In this compelling and energetic program, leaders will be inspired and equipped to raise the performance & productivity of their teams. Through humor, insight and experience, AmyK provides real-world, straightforward tools that have immediate practical applications. AmyK shares with leaders how to ignite and harness the brilliance in teams in order to create unprecedented competitive advantages that will drive businesses forward faster.
This program is perfect for:
· Senior Executives
· Mid-Tier Managers
· Emerging Leaders
· Any Leader Seeking Greater Buy-in, Engagement & Productivity from Their Teams
The audience will leave with:
· Actionable Tools to Raise the Quality of Team Meetings
· Actionable Tools to Facilitate Better Problem-Solving
· The 2 Critical Elements Leaders Must “Sell” Each & Every Day
· The #1 Most Effective Conversation Framework to Influence & Foster Productive Behaviors
· How to Attract & Retain Top Talent
· The 5 Conversations that Drive a Healthy, High-Performing Culture
· How to Avoid the Unintended Consequences & Pitfalls of Fast-Paced Growth
It’s time to THINK DIFFERENTLY! Does your company have the right skills to take on tomorrow? Do your people possess the behaviors necessary to create a culture that fosters innovation and generates long-term growth? What’s the secret to getting your next great idea?
In this provocative and eye-opening presentation, AmyK shares how to generate more creative ideas and how to take these ideas to market… fast! Invite AmyK to deliver this highly interactive and engaging program and take a refreshing plunge into the boundless waters of Big Thinking.
This program is perfect for:
· Senior Executives
· Mid-Tier Managers
· Emerging Leaders
· Any Leader Seeking Brilliant Ideas & Solutions from Their Teams
The audience will leave with:
· How to Overcome Barriers & Obstacles to Act on New Opportunities
· How to Position Teams to Turn Disruption & Change into Competitive Advantages
· A Tried, Tested and Proven Creativity & Innovation Model
· Exercises for Each of the 5 Stages in the Model from Ideation to Going-to-Market
· Greater Insight & Understanding on How Culture Influences Creativity & Innovation
· The 9 Must-Have Elements for Driving & Sustaining an Innovative Culture
· The Requisite Questions Leaders Must Ask to Propel Innovative Thinking
· How to Cultivate the Mindset of an Innovative Leader
Critical sales opportunity in your future? AmyK can help. In this interactive, roll-up-your-sleeves program, AmyK introduces sales tools and demonstrates exactly how to use them so audiences can quickly acquire “close-it-yesterday” skillsets and processes for moving sales forward faster.
AmyK’s humor and wisdom will demystify some of the most challenging sales scenarios and will ignite even the most experienced team member to nod and note-take about something novel to put into practice.
Incorporating the latest brain research, AmyK’s high-energy, fun and insightful sales strategies will motivate and inspire your team to increase the effectiveness of their sales pipeline from lead generation to check received. Whether a seasoned sales professional or someone brand new to business development – every participant will leave fired up and ready to take action knowing that sales happens one conversation at a time and they control the quality of these conversations.
This program is perfect for:
· Senior Executives
· Mid-Tier Managers
· Emerging Sales Leaders
· Woolly Mammoth Hunters & Killers
· Any Organization Seeking More Closed Deals & Greater Profits
The audience will leave with:
· The #1 Most Effective Sales Conversation Framework
· The 4 Mind Traits We All Share & How They Influence the Outcome of a Sale
· The 5 Best Questions to Close Faster
· The 4 Questions Every Prospect Must Be Asked Before You Ask Them to Sign
· The 4 Most Profitable Messaging Techniques – Buying and Selling Styles
· How to Create Thirsty Customers
· 12 Critical Components for Every Sales Presentation
· The Art and Science of Handling Objections
· Sales Strategy – the Science of Mini-Must-Wins
In this life-igniting, goose-pimple-raising keynote, AmyK shares insights and tools critical for leaders to successfully face and conquer their biggest fears and challenges.
With over twenty years of experience working intimately with executives as a business strategist, consultant & coach, AmyK knows the secrets leaders keep – what makes their stomachs turn, their palms sweat and the thoughts that cause them to toss & turn at 3am. With humor, wisdom and powerful stories, AmyK sheds light on the fears leaders face, shares practical steps for choosing and crafting stories that drive better behaviors and busts the myth that it’s lonely at the top.
Learning to be driven not by circumstances and reactions, but by the core desires of our essential self, AmyK’s easy-to-use assessments and tools will help leaders re-write their stories for healthier, happier endings and more profitable results… both personally & professionally.
This program is perfect for:
· Senior Executives
· Mid-Tier Managers
· Emerging Leaders
· Any Leader Desiring to Live to Their Fullest Potential So They May Leave a Bigger, Better, Bolder Life’s Legacy
The audience will leave with:
· How the Most Successful Leaders Define Happiness
· #1 Tool for HOW to Change Your Attitude, Thoughts & Stories
· Proof that Energy, Not Time, Separates the Good from the Great
· 4 of the Biggest Secrets Leaders Keep: Imposter Syndrome, Self-Criticism Fixation, Likeability Malady, Comparison Condition
· How to More Effectively Manage & Navigate Change to Build Resiliency
· How to Challenge & Break-Through Limiting Stories & Beliefs Which Truncate Potential
· 2 Insightful & Revealing Tools for Stronger Alignment Between Desires, Purpose & Decisions
· 2 Most Common Types of Pain Leaders Experience & How to Heal Them
· 2 of the Biggest Fears Every Leader Faces & How to Overcome Them
AmyK Hutchens is all about personal and professional growth, one conversation at a time. Hutchens is an international award-winning speaker and the founder of the global community shegetsit.com. She is also the Amazon #1 bestselling author of the books: GET IT: Five Steps to the Sex, Salary and Success You Want and The Secrets Leaders Keep.
AmyK has over twenty years’ experience training and consulting with clients such as The Home Depot, Starbucks Canada, Comerica Bank, Expedia, Lockheed Martin, Securian Financial, Walmart, John Paul Mitchell Systems and hundreds more. AmyK travels the globe physically and virtually, sharing with executives, influencers, and go-getters how to confidently and competently navigate their toughest conversations.
AmyK received her M.S. from Johns Hopkins University, and has been seen, heard, or read on Bloomberg, NBC, ABC, USA Today, Entrepreneur, and U.S. News & World Report. She resides in San Diego, California.
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