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What kind of results can you expect from a keynote or workshop? All kinds. Here is how l've helped companies, teams and leaders overcome obstacles, unlock their potential and reach breakthrough growth - months and years after an engagement - No Matter What challenges they're facing.
Here, you’ll discover how industry leaders—from Fortune 500 corporations to rapidly growing startups—have transformed their sales cultures, reignited leadership teams, and boosted performance by partnering with Sterling. Each case study captures the strategies, keynote sessions, and workshops that helped organizations overcome obstacles like low morale, fierce market competition, and leadership turnover.
Sterling’s proven, pragmatic approach—rooted in resilience, trust, and a No Matter What mindset—delivers tangible, measurable results. As you explore these highlights, you’ll see how diverse teams in various sectors have aligned around common goals, adopted actionable tools, and initiated powerful cultural shifts that last well beyond the event.
Whether you’re an event planner, association leader, or corporate executive, these real-world success stories illustrate the transformative impact Sterling can have on your organization. Get inspired and envision how Sterling’s expertise can help your team achieve similar breakthroughs.
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Delivering High-Impact on a Tight Timeline
1 month post-Engagement
Explore how Sterling’s rapid, innovative approach delivered a high-impact keynote for NielsenIQ’s flagship event, uniting 600 senior industry leaders and inspiring them to transform disruptive challenges into growth opportunities. See how it was done.
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Rebuilding Sustainable Organizational Trust
What: Delivered a keynote, workshop, and follow-up virtual sessions to 250 cross-functional team members to address trust deficits and performance dips following leadership turnover.
Results: Six months post-event, turnover steadily declined, morale increased, and the tools provided remained in consistent use. Leaders and team members embraced a solutions-focused mindset that boosted performance and shareholder value. -
Growing Performance with New Leadership
What: Partnered with Bulletproof, an award-winning cybersecurity firm, to overcome leadership transitions and motivate the team toward a new $32M net-new sales target. Led a keynote and workshop for 100 sales and leadership members to break old beliefs and focus on growth.
Results: Achieved a measurable shift in camaraderie and focus, with priority actions and structures put in place. Within three months post-event, the team tracked above goal, fully embracing new leadership and a renewed sense of ownership. -
Transforming the Sales Culture at Husqvarna
What: Helped Husqvarna pivot its sales team from fragmented to collaborative by delivering a keynote and strategic blueprint. The focus was on fostering agility, alignment, and a #NoMatterWhat mindset across 200 leaders and sales professionals.
Results: Husqvarna exceeded strategic booking goals, entered the selling season with energized morale, and aligned individual commitments to the organization’s core mission—transforming the sales culture into a connected, high-performing environment. -
Reigniting Morale & Overcoming Adversity
What: Delivered a keynote to unite 80 sales and leadership members at MCSW after a downturn followed years of record growth. Addressed eroding morale and divisive departmental attitudes by reframing adversity as opportunity.
Results: Sparked a cultural turnaround where cross-functional teams collaborated on solutions, boosting trust and potential. Post-event reviews showed a foundation of growth mindset overshadowing worry, with new culture practices promoting continuous improvement. -
Transforming Leaders to Transform Results
What: Designed and delivered a keynote plus workshop for 100 senior global supply chain executives navigating major organizational restructuring. Focused on unlocking leadership potential and aligning culture with new corporate goals.
Results: Two quarters post-event, costs were down and margins were up. Leaders embraced creative problem-solving and owned challenges as opportunities, aligning individual goals to the organization’s transformation and boosting engagement across teams. -
Transforming Company Culture & Leadership
What: Provided a keynote to strengthen culture, growth strategy, and leadership across 100 employees. Addressed market volatility, competitive pressures, and under-engaged teams by challenging assumptions and establishing a proactive growth mindset.
Results: Cemented the company’s direction with deeper morale and engagement. Post-event surveys confirmed lasting inspiration and widespread application of tactical tools. Teams identified key growth priorities and took personal ownership to eliminate excuses. -
Elevating a High-Performing Culture
What: Developed and delivered a keynote for 160 employees—C-Suite, leadership, and support staff—aimed at pushing a thriving insurance advisory firm toward even greater growth. Focused on alignment, fresh thinking, and tangible action steps.
Results: The keynote had a long-lasting impact, inspiring a growth mindset methodology widely embraced months later. Cross-functional teams rallied around organizational goals, surpassing stretch financial targets and raising the bar for what high performance looks like. -
Inspiring a Movement within an assocation
What: Provided two separate keynotes—one to 350 C-suite leaders and another to a broader audience of several hundred—focusing on reframing industry disruption (tech, competitive, economic) as a catalyst for innovation.
Results: Achieved #1 rated session at both events, reframing challenges as opportunities. Attendee commitment soared, boosting morale and industry momentum. Key performance indicators, such as average basket size and new lines of business, trended upward post-keynotes. -
Reigniting Inspiration within the Mental Health Sector
What: Offered a keynote to reconnect 150 behavioral healthcare executives with their sense of purpose in the face of regulatory hurdles, market competition, and staffing shortages.
Results: Attendees praised the event for being exactly what they needed. Leadership left with actionable tools to address market and staffing challenges, fostering a renewed sense of purpose and measurable momentum captured in post-event surveys. -
Aligning Disparate, Diverse, and Global Teams
What: Developed a keynote and workshop for 250 cross-functional, global leaders to break down cultural barriers, spark collaboration, and drive innovation across water, waste, and energy services.
Results: Within three months, Veolia leaders reported a significant shift in collaboration, rated one of the best sessions in company history. The “No Matter What” message took hold, uniting previously disconnected units to accelerate growth and operational performance. -
Delivering High-Impact on a Tight Timeline
What: Provided a closing keynote for 600 senior-level executives at NielsenIQ’s Consumer 360 conference with only days of lead time. Content was rapidly tailored to address AI, disruptive tech, and organizational changes.
Results: The session was highlighted as a standout in post-event surveys. Teams left feeling energized and unified, reframing emerging challenges into new opportunities and aligning stakeholders on a shared path forward.
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