Kyle Hermans

Location
United States
Areas of Expertise
Exponential Thinking
Foundational Concepts
Impact

Expert Bio

Kyle Hermans is a globally recognized business innovator, transformation leader, and Co-founder and CEO of Be Courageous, an award-winning transformation agency specializing in performance improvement and courageous change. With a career spanning senior executive roles in Fortune-level organizations and global business consultancies, Kyle has led transformation initiatives with hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies, SMEs, startups, governments, and educational institutions worldwide, helping generate billions in ROI. As the driving force behind his third entrepreneurial venture, Kyle has built a reputation for his pioneering model of courage in business and leadership, empowering high-performing organizations to make bold, courageous decisions in times of uncertainty and disruption. He serves as an expert partner with Oxford Leadership, an expert faculty member at Singularity University, and a guest lecturer at UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley, and USF. Kyle and Be Courageous are also leading one of the world's largest ongoing academic studies on the psychological characteristics of courage, furthering their mission to help individuals and organizations navigate exponential change. His thought leadership has been featured in Forbes, Psychology Today, and Entrepreneur, cementing his status as a leading voice in innovation, design thinking, and transformative leadership. Beyond his professional achievements, Kyle is a father of four, international speaker, recording and performing musician, endurance athlete, investor, and philanthropist who believes wholeheartedly that 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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