MAKE
AUTHENTICITY
YOUR
UNFAIR
ADVANTAGE
Keynotes & workshops to differentiate your culture and your company by strategically and tangibly using authenticity as your secret weapon.
LET'S GET THIS PART
over with
Authenticity is not “being yourself”
( IN FACT, AUTHENTICITY ISN'T EVEN ABOUT YOU.)
Authenticity is exposing who you are,
when people least expect it,
in the service of others.
NOT WHAT'S NORMAL
Authenticity is about doing what is needed
“Erin is the speaker you always hope to hear at any meeting!”
“Her vibrant honesty, engaging style and ability to tell it as she sees it is both unique and refreshing.”
Carolyn Pare, CEO Minnesota Health
Action Group
WHY ERIN?
Authenticity
EXPERT
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Award-winning, 2x author
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18th most-watched TEDx Talk (2021)
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Proprietary authenticity research
Unforgettable
PRESENTER
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Hilarious stories and metaphors
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Memorable frameworks & quotes
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Tough love, authentic delivery and advice
Turnaround
CEO
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In 3 years -> 3X earnings
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15% employee engagement increase
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Practitioner who truly knows
what leaders are facing
Unpretentious
Collaborator
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Small-town, Midwest values
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Aims to over-deliver
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Creates sincere client and audience connections
We’ve entered a new era.
One where differentiating your company’s ”how” will be more important than differentiating your “what”.
AI is leveling the “what” innovation playing field while also making business less human than ever before.
At the same time, employees are burnt-fricking-toast. The current path they’re on isn’t sustainable.
Companies who don’t fundamentally change their approach will crumble.
But what if there was one unique strategy that could solve both these issues in
one fell swoop?
The fast-moving inauthenticity “river current” is drowning employees in a sea of muck.
Things like soulless meeting agendas, buzzword-stuffed corporate communications, and robotic proposals are causing your employees and your customers to lose the human connection and genuine intrigue that makes them actually care about who your are and what you do.
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In a world that‘s becoming more artifical everyday
AUTHENTICITY WILL BE
YOUR DIFFERENTIATOR
“I highly recommend Erin for anyone that's looking for a dynamic, engaging, and easy-to-work with speaker!”
Emily DePina, CVS Health
You may be wondering...
You may be wondering ...
Who is this chick and why the weird obsession with authenticity?
When I was 42, I was tapped to lead a 9-figure financial company. Sounds cool, eh? Well, the company was kinda in the pooper and I had no idea how to be a CEO.
But after three years at the helm, we were able to triple our earnings while also sending employee engagement skyrocketing.
However, the truth is: I thought I got lucky. I was waiting to be “found out,” because it just seemed a bit too ... dare I say, easy.
It wasn’t until I decided to retire to do something more entrepreneurial that the answer got flung my way.
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People kept telling me, “We’ll miss your authenticity.”
That’s when it hit me. I wasn’t getting lucky. Instead, I was playing a different game than most other leaders.
I was using authenticity as my strategy.
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Authenticity helped us win and retain the best talent
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Authenticity unlocked immediate connection and intrigue with our customers and prospects.
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Authenticity built unmatched trust with other senior leaders and team members
Authenticity had become our unfair strategic advantage.
Once I realized that authenticity both helped our company win and it it also helped me personally say yes to the “big girl” job, I knew I had to go preach and teach it to everyone.
Since then, I’ve dedicated my career “2nd half” to obsessing over the concept of authenticity as a strategy ... researching, writing about, and speaking non-stop about its power.
Because at the end of the day....
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KEYNOTES
THESE GUYS BEAT YOU TO IT
"Erin’s message continues to resonate with our attendees.
I’m still receiving feedback, including a woman who said she used Erin’s strategies to better show up for the rest of the conference."
Latoya Lovick, VP
Membership for National Multifamily Housing Council
being
ISN'T
ABOUT
AUTHENTICITY
doing
IS
ABOUT
AUTHENTICITY
When you commit to start doing authentic, you’ll not only help your team be less miserable, but if you also deploy the same authenticity strategies Erin teaches externally, you’ll immediately stand out from all the other schmucks out there.
Your determination to use authenticity as your key differentiator will not only be the key to your employees’ success, it will be key to your company’s survival.
In order to reverse course and swim in a new direction, people must take new actions. It takes conscious, tangible work to bring more authenticity to the work you do.
That’s where The 6 Principles of Strategic Authenticity (H.U.M.A.N.S.) comes in. It provides a life vest and specific actions people can take to reverse course and begin to use authenticity as their strategic advantage.
OF STRATEGIC AUTHENTICITY
THE 6 PRINCIPLES
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H
H: Humility is a fast-pass to trust and connection. Using “Humility Moments” purposefully in everything from your sales introductions to kicking off an internal meeting is the fastest way to gain trust and also leave people leaning in to want to hear more.
umility
U
U: Authentic people don’t focus on doing what’s normal; they focus on doing what’s needed. Adding in unexpected, new ways of doing things is the best way to grab someone’s attention and stand out as a unique leader or company.
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M
M: Shut up and show up. Being authentic means that you’re more focused on a Model Mindset than just a Manage Mindset. That is, you prioritize demonstrating what you want people to be, do, and have rather than just telling them.
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A
A: Since authenticity isn’t actually about you, but rather exposing who you are in the service of others, adapting means that you’re always looking to plug into others. It’s also about adapting who you are as a person. Your core values may never change, but who you are constantly does. And that’s ok. It’s called “growth.”
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N
N: Narrating (or storytelling) is the most powerful, and underused, tool in business today. Replacing facts and figures with a story exponentially increases the chances that people will understand and connect with you.
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S
S: Once you realize that authenticity is doing the semi-u and unusual things in business in order to create connection, trust, and differentiation, you then need to see that your authenticity also sparks a bigger movement. You essentially serve up permission on a silver platter for others to also be authentic. And that’s when things really get fun.
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MORE BLAH, BLAH
from erin
Erin's TEDx Talk
How to modernize your sales
How authenticity kills two birds with one stone
Tough-love talk on authenticity
Unpacking your orange suitcase
Erin gets interviewed on a rollercoaster
Erin was THE BEST speaker at our event!
She took them on the perfect rollercoaster of emotions...
I highly recommend Erin for any audience/event!
Renee Bauer,
Founder of the She Who Wins Conference
ERIN'S BOOKS
( that aren't snoozy)
Stop out-working others.
START
OUT-UNIQUING THEM
"She overdelivered again."
She overdelivered again. Erin's sessions are high energy with a productive balance between fact base learning and experiential sharing. It's incredibly powerful to see Erin work through a live coaching experience with highly successful Sales team members where she helps them bring forward their approach in a manner that provides deeper connectivity to the client...in a matter of minutes!"
Landon R.
Sales VP, The Hartford
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ERIN IN A FLASH
Erin Hatzikostas is a global keynote speaker, 2x award-winning author, podcast co-host, and differentiation consultant. In her former life, she led a 9-figure financial healthcare company from the doldrums to tripling earnings and increasing employee engagement in just three years using one strategy: authenticity. Since then, she’s been obsessed with researching, using, writing about, and teaching authenticity as a strategy.
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