The Culture Keynote Speaker

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, cultivating a culture that thrives No Matter What is mission-critical. New tactics alone are unsustainable; any new technologies have a shelf-life, and even new opportunities can be short-lived. Developing an organizational approach that is collaborative, agile, and growth-oriented is the only way to sustainably thrive regardless of the circumstances. If you’re committed to developing that kind of culture for your team or audience, you need someone who has not only studied what that takes but has done it himself. Sterling Hawkins is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, culture keynote speaker, business owner, and human-growth obsessed researcher. His culture keynote speeches highlight critical research and proven practices to create an unstoppable culture. These are shared through his own moving experiences, funny stories, and unforgettable anecdotes, providing the audience with actionable insights that they can implement immediately.

Creating a No Matter What Culture isn’t just an aspiration. It’s not superficial motivation. Nor is it just a concept, as popular as ideas around growth culture, innovation culture, and resilient culture have become. With Sterling’s keynote, it’s finally audience-accessible, case-study-proven, and scientifically backed—making it an experience that serves as a true culture change catalyst. The keynote is designed to be a cultural inflection point: taking you from the droning of status quo results to meaningful, sustainable, and even surprising breakthroughs in your culture and the results you produce. Whether you’re dealing with global instability, organizational changes, budget constraints, staffing challenges, competitive threats, technology disruption, or anything else—a No Matter What Culture can produce breakthrough results in spite of all of it.

As a business speaker, Sterling shares stories as a CEO himself—from a multi-billion-dollar startup to collapse—and reveals the secrets of cultural change he discovered firsthand and through working with some of the largest companies on the planet. Sterling’s life has always demanded an accurate understanding of cultural growth to reach the next level. Now, audiences can get a behind-the-scenes perspective on what it looks like and what it actually takes. Each audience member can take on creating a No Matter What Culture for themselves, which generates the positive ripple effect of change across the entire organization.