Greg Hawks
Greg empowers leaders and teams to “Unlock Everyday Greatness” by transforming disengaged workplaces into thriving ecosystems of trust, ownership and intentional action. His three decade career has been packed with love and service. As a nonprofit executive, real estate investor and small business owner he has impacted thousands of lives.
Being a natural collaborator Greg approaches his keynote speaking, consulting and thought leadership through a partnership lens. His Ownership Mindset Body of Knowledge compresses 30 years of collected insights into dynamic, verbally-visual keynotes that challenge the status quo, energize audiences and deliver immediately actionable next steps. He’s annoyingly optimistic, surprisingly profound and a lot of fun.
Clients like Coca-Cola, Paycom, COX and SHRM trust Greg to equip their people. As a result of his work, organizations evolve into places of shared language, energized momentum and sincere ownership. His passion for shaping environments where everyone gets to contribute their best daily is contagious.
WHAT LEADERS ARE SAYING…
“Unmatched level of high energy, authenticity and passion. His ability to inspire and connect with the audience, through stories and truth, is remarkable.”
“Very interactive, fun, and personally enlightening. You will leave feeling more confident of your place in not only the workplace, but the world.”
“Informative, empowering, full of great advice and information. Very entertaining also!”
THROUGH EMBRACING THE SIMPLE YET PROFOUND OWNERSHIP MINDSET:
- Obstacles are transformed into opportunities for team innovation and collective resilience.
- Leaders embrace ownership and accountability, shaping cultures of high engagement.
- Organizations see measurable improvements in retention, satisfaction, and performance.
LET’S UNLOCK EVERYDAY GREATNESS!
NEED A SPARK OF MOMENTUM?
An Ownership Mindset Series of talks! All of Greg’s messages are verbally visual. He uses analogies and metaphors to make the principles and content sticky. From investment properties to white water rafting, mouse traps to climbing a 14’er, these messages will make a memorable impact, and transform your workplace!
UNLOCK AN OWNERSHIP MINDSET
* Signature Talk *
In our world of work today the diverse structures of in-office, remote, and hybrid create numerous challenges for fostering a healthy culture. This message offers a blueprint for designing a place everyone wants to invest their best!
WHY IT MATTERS
At work, we use phrases like “we want you to buy in” or “we just need you to own it.” What exactly that means looks different to everyone. This message brings objectivity to those subjective ideas.
With enthusiastic wit and wisdom, Greg uses his two decades of real estate investing as the setting to reveal the FIVE DISTINCT ATTRIBUTES OF AN OWNERSHIP MINDSET.
Every workplace has people who think and act like Owners, Renters, or Vandals. Owners make big commitments, continually increase value, reach for responsibility, include others, and see the big picture.
Shaping an environment, whether in-person or remote, where everyone wants to invest their best daily transforms culture! This message equips you with language, understanding, and tactical next steps.
SHAPING SOLUTIONS
- Understand how the Five Ownership Attributes enable success and fulfillment.
- Learn the two enduring metrics of commitment.
- Discover how to persistently add value, regardless of your position in your work life.
- Understand how to strategically foster inclusion throughout an organization
- Grasp why Vandals are enabled to remain in an organization
WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE GREG
He went above and beyond the discovery call to learn about our culture, guiding principles, who our customers are, our history, our relationship with our competitors and what makes us special. What was extraordinary about this is how Greg wove all of these factors into his message.
Allison Volk, HR/OD Manager, Bank of North Dakota
WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE GREG
Greg is one of the most gifted professional keynote speakers I have ever experienced. He is entertaining, high energy and his message is powerful. He was a huge hit with our attendees and brought extra value to our organization.
Michael Church, Owner, Stamper Rubens
WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE GREG
Greg is not only informative but one of the most fun and engaging speakers I have seen! His content is great and relatable across many industries. He did his homework about who he was speaking to in order to tailor the content appropriately. He was a bundle of energy and fun onstage and off and everyone wanted to talk to him! Can’t wait to implement some of his many take-aways! This was one session that when the time was up, I let out an audible “sigh” because I wanted more!
Emily Chisholm, Luxury Catering Sales Professional
WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE GREG
I would recommend Greg Hawks to any employer group. He has an innovative way of expressing an organization’s important key facts, values, mission statement and culture. He helps to intertwine these important processes in a fun and entertaining manner and express the importance within the organization. He is able to uncover some of the underlying issues and disgruntled attitudes that some employers face in today’s workplace with a “twist”. He gives new meaning to the phrase Workplace Culture!
Whitney Hill, FBMC Employee Benefits Consultant/Counselor
NAVIGATE THE RAPIDS OF GROWTH
Unlocking Opportunities through Pressure, Obstacles, and Terrain Change
Healthy things grow, growing things change. It’s the nature of life and business. In the midst of that growth and change rapids occur, just like in a river.
WHY IT MATTERS
There are three unique elements that create rapids: Pressure, Obstacles and Terrain Change. Those same three appear with force in our work environments today. They can crush us or create an adventure. Staying in the raft and navigating the difficulties takes skill, teamwork, and perspective. Bringing an Owner’s Mindset to such challenges requires intentionality.
There are two aspects to the river: Above and below the surface. The same is true with us. What’s going on around us and what’s transpiring inside of us, when growth and change are disrupting our lives? This message will offer discernment for addressing both and explain why understanding the difference is crucial.
At the heart of this message is “I LOVE OBSTACLES“. An Ownership Mindset doesn’t look to avoid or remove pressure, obstacles or terrain change; it looks to benefit from them!
With enthusiastic wit and wisdom, Greg brings alive the white water experience with his raft on stage with him. The river is just like work. It continually flows with unforeseen treachery and offers new challenges daily.
Adding to the fun and engagement, he gives away the raft at the end of the message.
SHAPING SOLUTIONS
- Learn how to make pressure work for you.
- Gain an accurate perspective for loving obstacles.
- Learn how to hold onto hope when the bottom drops out.
- Understand how to combat worry.
- Solve the right problem, whether outside or inside of ourselves.
MOUSE TRAP TRUST
How to go rapidly from Thin to Thick Trust on teams, enabling efficiency and effectiveness!
Trust is the foundation for every relationship. Some people start off naturally trusting while others require it to be earned. Without it, time is wasted and the wrong problems are solved.
WHY IT MATTERS
How do you decide to trust someone or not? In business, it’s not an either/or proposition. We trust our colleagues, supervisors and subordinates in varying degrees, from thin to thick. The thicker the better
An Ownership Mindset enables individuals to engage in conversations that cause the evolution of trust to progress. Using the filters of Care, Commitment & Competence, trust can be built into a strong foundation.
Using a mouse trap to unveil numerous principles that exist within a trusting relationship, Greg engages the audience in a trust exercise like you’ve never experienced before!
Understanding trust indicators that exist both on teams and between individuals will catapult your ability to thicken up trust!
SHAPING SOLUTIONS
- Learn why someone might not trust you.
- Explore the contrasting realities between thin and thick trust on teams.
- Understand how vision contributes to empowering trust.
- Grasp the cost of thin trust.
- See how trust is a tangible experience.
EMPOWER THROUGH CONFIDENCE
The Climb from Insecurity to Confidence Enables Accelerated Empowering!
Everyone has weaknesses. Everyone has strengths. Confidence is attached to neither.
WHY IT MATTERS
Insecurity attaches to our weaknesses and torments us with the motto “You’re Not Enough.” It’s never discussed in business settings but is at play in almost every situation. It hinders communication, vision, decision-making, risk-taking, and forward progress. Greg uses his story of climbing a 14’er in Colorado, Mt. Yale, as the analogy for extracting insecurities and finding confidence even where we’re deficient (areas of suckage).
An Ownership Mindset understands that confidence is the best gift we can give those we’re empowering for them to succeed. The three vital elements that combine to nurture strong confidence are Trust, Humility & Belief. Choosing to trust ourselves, operate in humility, and be purposeful about our beliefs, will guide us along the journey to the peak of confidence.
Confident individuals are a business advantage. Communication is more clear. A willingness to share missteps happens sooner. Courage to attempt something new is available. Being willing to engage in hard conversations happens more frequently. Transparency in conflict is offered. Empowering others becomes more natural.
This message speaks to the heart of every person while also strengthening the connection within every team.
SHAPING SOLUTIONS
- Create an understanding of how mean and dastardly insecurity is.
- Learn how a karaoke bar factors into your freedom.
- Recognize the consequences of unaddressed insecurities in work life.
- Learn to be confident in every situation!
- Understand trusting ourselves in a whole new way.
MORE VIDEO CONTENT AND MATERIAL
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