Kyle Hermans

CEO, Be Courageous + Singularity Fellow: Purpose

Location
United States
Area of Expertise
Leadership, Exponential Thinking, Innovation, Transformation, Purpose, Wellbeing
Type
Fellow

Kyle Hermans, an influential figure in global business, innovation, design thinking, and leadership, is the Co-founder and CEO of Be Courageous, the award-winning transformation agency that drives performance improvement and courageous change.

Kyle has significantly impacted global companies through his model of courage in business and leadership, which emphasizes the importance of courageous decision-making within high-performing organizations.

Kyle has served in senior executive roles within Fortune-level organizations and global business consultancies and has led transformation initiatives with hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies and hundreds more SMEs, start-ups, governments, and educational institutions globally - helping identify and generate billions in ROI. Be Courageous is Kyle’s third entrepreneurial venture.

Kyle is an expert partner with Oxford Leadership, an expert faculty with Singularity University, and a guest lecturer at renowned universities like UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley, and USF. His work is featured in several leading publications, including Forbes, Psychology Today, and Entrepreneur. Kyle and Be Courageous are leading one of the world's largest ongoing academic studies on the psychological characteristics of courage to help as many people as possible to step into their moments of courage in times of uncertainty, disruption, and exponential change.

Kyle is a father of four, an international speaker, recording and performing musician, endurance athlete, investor, and philanthropist, dedicated to innovation, mindfulness, and transformative leadership. He believes everyone is capable of living a courageous life.

Sessions

How many times this past week have you thought, “Wow, I’ve never seen that before!” The world is experiencing a rate of change humanity has never witnessed before.

Core foundations of how we live, work, interact, play, lead and believe are constantly being disrupted, updated, and shifted. As the rate of change increases, companies are questioning if they can operate at the speed of change; traditional hierarchies are rigid by design. With the rapid evolution of exponential technologies and planetary challenges there are huge opportunities for disruption and innovation. Courage, adaptability and flexibility are the superpowers of the future. When the existing system and thinking doesn’t shift to what it will inevitably need to become, uncertainty, fear and the lack of psychological safety increases, and innovation and creativity die within a company. Herein lies the opportunity to transform our thinking, blow open innovation and take advantage of the unprecedented speed of change.

In this talk/workshop, you’ll master five key personas (The Navigator, The Sage, The Protector, The Builder, and The Transformer) to establish the right mindset needed to thrive within change with clarity, energy, courage, productivity, and influence. Every person has elements of all five, and in this talk/workshop you’ll find out which personas come naturally to you and which you need to develop in order to become the most adaptable and courageous leader. The Personas and their supporting traits have been created from the neuro-science backed results of one of the worlds largest independent studies on the psychology of courage, conducted by Be Courageous and the

University of New York. One of the key blockers to transformation and getting high level innovative thinking and action from teams is the breakdown of collaboration and trust, misalignment of risk, incentives, and asks. In this talk/workshop you’ll learn how to intentionally plant the seeds of courage and engineer the system to achieve the outcome you want and enable highly responsive teams to move with the pace of change while staying aligned with the companies’ purpose.

At the end of this talk/workshop you’ll know how to identify the parts of yourself as a leader that you can call on to lead the way in any situation (personally or professionally). You will activate confident decision-making, set clear goals, connect with purpose, reduce conflict, create psychologically safe and collaborative environment, and activate the ability to adapt with changes versus be paralyzed by them. The future is for the courageous.

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