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RYAN HAWK

Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host, & Author

As the founder and host of The Learning Leader Show, a leadership podcast with millions of listeners in more than 150 countries, I inspire excellence in leaders looking to be more effective. Forbes called my first book Welcome to Management – How to Grow From Top Performer to Excellent Leader,the best leadership book of 2020.” My second book, The Pursuit of Excellence, sold through its first print run in eight hours. Forbes wrote, “The Pursuit of Excellence delivers a masterclass on how to apply the most useful habits to real life.” Our third book, The Score That Matters, was an instant USA Today National Best-Seller.

I’ve served as the keynote speaker on leadership-related topics for hundreds of conferences, national sales meetings, leadership retreats, and new manager trainings. I also facilitate Leadership Circles that offer structured guidance and collaborative feedback for new and experienced leaders, and I serve as a 1:1 leadership advisor for senior executives.

Unleash the Next-Level Leader in You

PODCAST

Listen to hundreds of conversations with the most thoughtful leaders in the world. According to Forbes, it’s “the most dynamic leadership podcast out there.”

BOOKS

Welcome to Management: How to Grow from Top Performer to Excellent Leader and The Pursuit of Excellence offer leaders inspiring and practical advice.

SPEAKING

Fundamentally transform performance for your established and emerging leaders with entertaining and educational keynote speaking sessions.

CIRCLES

Learn, grow, and find community in Leadership Circles while supporting other high-caliber leaders and elevating each others’ performance.

The Learning Leader Show

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REVIEWS

Leadership Keynote Speaker

“Ryan Hawk is a master of dualities: He’s a great leader, but also a ferocious learner. He’s an accomplished athlete, but he’s also excelled in the business world. He’s eminently interesting, but he’s also genuinely interested. Ryan has uncovered the secrets of what the best leaders do and how they think. If you are a new manager transitioning from player to coach, do yourself and your team a favor and read this book. Welcome to Management will teach you to lead like the pros and build a team that wins together.”

Liz Wiseman, New York Times best-selling author of Multipliers and Rookie Smarts

“Every new manager makes mistakes. But you might make fewer of them if you follow the practical advice that Ryan Hawk has spent years collecting.”

Adam Grant, Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

“A thorough, well-researched, and highly practical manual for new managers. When you promote someone, first congratulate them, and then immediately hand them a copy of this book.”

Todd Henry, author of Herding Tigers

“Welcome to Management is the ultimate all-in-one guide to becoming a great leader—from developing the right skills, to building and managing teams, to coaching your employees. Whether you’re a novice in a brand-new leadership role or a veteran looking to get better, this wise book is for you.”

Daniel Pink, #1 New York Times best-selling author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human

“Ryan Hawk’s work provides nuanced and articulate insights into the best way to begin developing a plan for bringing to light how we should lead—and it starts with reexamining ourselves.”

General Stanley McChrystal, New York Times best-selling author of Team of Teams

“Ryan was the first person I reached out to when my company needed a speaker for an event. We were lucky enough to book him for an event that brought the sales teams from several of the companies under our umbrella together and he killed it.”

“I still have people quoting Ryan about “saying yes to the uncomfortable” over a year after he spoke.”

Joseph Neikirk, Site Manager

“Elevating my network and learning from other high achievers has helped me build better relationships in and outside of the workplace. In the last year, I can attribute lessons from the group to helping me achieve greater than 50% growth in my business. Further the group dynamic helped me facilitate better discussions and focus at home, enabling me to be more present and making me (I hope) a better husband, father, sibling and friend.”

Matt Kaminsky, Major Accounts District Manager, ADP

“I’ve been coming to this conference for 25 years.
That was easily the best keynote I’ve seen in all of these years.”

Mike Erdmann, CEO at Home Builders Association of Marion & Polk Counties

“Ryan Hawk’s Leadership Academy was a valuable experience from which I continue to use lessons in improving my everyday leadership. I have significant leadership experience leading large groups of individuals through complex and at times dangerous operations for the last 16 years. This is one of my most memorable and useful leadership development experiences which continues to positively impact my everyday leadership. His exercises are designed to get you to think more deeply about your leadership than ever before!”

Marietta Sanders, Lt Col, United States Air Force

“Ryan Hawk is that rarest kind of people – a truly curious soul who asks questions that drill down into the heart of the matter, leave space for contemplation, and gently urge his subjects to look inside for answers they might not yet have discovered themselves.”

Robert Kurson, New York Times best-selling Author of Shadow Divers

“Working with Ryan Hawk has been a game changer! Before working with Ryan, I had the desire to improve but I just didn’t know where to focus my efforts. His outside perspective, previous experience, and probing helped me define what was important. Then we focused on the top priorities to increase my productivity and efficiency. After one year with Ryan, my sales went from average to the highest in the history of the firm by a very wide margin. When you work with Ryan, be prepared to radically shift your mindset to what is possible.”

Lee Kerfoot, Hotel Real Estate Broker

Stephanie Wernick Barker
President, Mondo

McKeel Hagerty
Former Global Board Chairman of YPO

Mike Erdmann
CEO, Home Builders Association

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