Less Polish, More Power
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How to Activate Authenticity to Transform Your Leadership, Culture, and Career
You love the idea that “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” but when it comes to actually improving culture inside a financial services organization, it can feel like you’re trying to steer a cruise ship with a pool noodle. Between compliance pressures, talent shortages, hybrid work, constant change, and increasingly demanding clients, there are a million directions you could go—and all of them can feel daunting, complicated, and overwhelming.
When former financial services CEO Erin Hatzikostas took over a struggling company, she felt the same way—until she discovered the strategy she’d unknowingly been using her entire career: authenticity. And not the fluffy, feel-good kind, but a deliberate, strategic, bottom-line-boosting approach that transformed culture, skyrocketed trust, and tripled earnings.
Now, after years of research, two best-selling books, and extensive real-world testing, Erin has cracked the code on how to make improving leadership, communication, and culture far more practical, tangible, and energizing.
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Unpack the hidden baggage quietly hurting culture, trust, communication, and leadership effectiveness
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Redefine authenticity in a way that makes it strategic, actionable, and highly relevant in professional services and financial environments
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Explore Erin’s proprietary research on authenticity in the workplace, including surprising and counterintuitive findings
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Learn Erin’s Six Principles of Strategic Authenticity (H.U.M.A.N.S.) and how they can transform everything from recruiting and onboarding to leadership communication, client relationships, and sales conversations
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Walk away with customized, immediately actionable experiments that leaders and teams can implement right away
This isn’t another feel-good, buzzword-stuffed culture talk full of laminated values statements and corporate clichés. It’s a practical game plan for helping financial services organizations build cultures people trust, remember, and actually want to be part of.
In this fun, thought-provoking talk, Erin will help you: