Scott Stein

Scott Stein's Biography

Scott Stein inspires individuals and teams to reconnect with their instinctive purpose in life and to unleash their full potential. Drawing on his own Native American heritage, Scott applies ancient wisdom to help amplify and motivate people. As a speaker, trainer and coach, he has already inspired and challenged thousands of senior executives and business owners whose personal ambitions had been stifled by societal or work pressures, and helped them to reconnect with their true path.

Scott Stein has worked with thousands of leaders around the world helping them to become better leaders by fast-tracking their thinking and their approach with people.  Scott is a highly sought after international speaker and mentor who has worked with a range of global and Australian businesses. He has a Master’s Degree in Communications and taught Communication and Public Speaking at Central Michigan University.

In addition, Scott received the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from Professional Speakers Association, which recognises him as one of the top speakers across the globe.

Scott is the author of four books, his most recent titled: ‘Leadership Hacks’ that aims to equip leaders with effective and fast track strategies to boost impact and results as a leader. In ‘Leadership Hacks’ Scott identifies possible distractions that could be slowing leaders down and provides an expansive toolkit to help in streamlining delegation skills, fast-tracking productivity and re-routing meetings so that leaders come away with more productive outcomes.

So, if you are a CEO, aspiring CEO or just somebody who would like to improve their leadership skills and effectiveness, you should be adding Scott’s new book Leadership Hacks to your bookshelf.

Scott also advises individuals and organisations pulling from his Native American heritage and wilderness survival training. Scott’s desire to help others is inherent. As one of the founding board members for the charity Hands Across the Water, assisting children who lost their families in the 2004 tsunami, it is within his nature to support and encourage those who need guidance in finding their path.

Scott also guides a number of Senior Leaders and Business owners whom he mentors on a regular basis. Despite championing the business world, Scott’s ego is well and truly on the ground next to him. Humility and approachability are perhaps two of his most defining characteristics, enabling him to be so successful in what he does.

Congruently, his experience as a practical expert on leadership and influence has helped many of the world’s best-known brands and government agencies to clear the way to improve communication, connection, and results.

Speaking Topics Include

LEADERSHIP HACKS: A FASTER APPROACH FOR A FASTER WORLD

Leadership Hacks are a business leaders guide to getting things done in a smarter way.  After helping thousands of leaders implement fast-track strategies and hacks to improve results, Scott presents the insights from his book Leadership Hacks: Clever Shortcuts to Boost Your Impact and Results.

A leadership hack is anything that helps you accomplish more in less time. To accomplish more leaders need to hack their current approach with new ways of thinking and influencing that will enable them to do more with less.

In this keynote, Scott identifies major speed bumps and provides action-focused hacks that provide practical workarounds that streamline activities and help people make things happen faster.

This keynote can be tailored to select the specific Leadership Hack that you would like Scott to weave into his keynote including:

Eliminating Distractions & Hacking Productivity

Hacking Your Inbox (including 5 Email Send Hacks that get fast results)

Communication Hacks: Selecting the right approach Tell, Show or Ask

Delegation Hacks that empower staff—rather than turn them off

Coaching Hacks that work

How to Hack Team Meetings: Turning a Waste of Time into Results

Team Mobilisation Hacks: How to start an internal movement

HOW TO DELEGATE EFFECTIVELY

Let’s be honest, there are tasks that most leaders should delegate that they hold onto. Everyone knows that a leader can’t possibly complete all the tasks required by their department themselves, but this doesn’t stop many from trying.

A Harvard Business Review study titled ‘Why aren’t you delegating?’ found that almost 50% of the companies surveyed were concerned about their employees’ delegation skills—and most of them didn’t offer training on how to delegate.

In this keynote, Scott will provide your people with Delegation Hacks and how to influence people to want to take action. 

Key messages include:

Why leaders don’t delegate

The Most Common Mistake in Delegating

The Delegation Model and how to Hack your approach

How to Delegate to Peers & Upwards

THE THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ADVANTAGE

Are your market conditions getting more challenging and traditional methods of attracting business starting to lose their effectiveness?

The Thought Leaders Advantage is about developing the understanding and positioning of a market leader. Imagine what could be possible if you could get your people beyond their roles and turn them into the recognised gurus of your industry.

By identifying what a thought leader does and how you can go about looking at developing a mindset to shift the way people are thinking you can gain this competitive edge. In this keynote, Scott looks at the trends in business and how critical it is to use Thought Leadership to position your brand and your people.

Key messages include:

The 7 critical trends that make Thought Leadership an Imperative for any business

The 9 essential skills of Thought Leadership and how you can use this to start creating your expertise

How to shift from spin communication to strategic Thought Leader positioning the 3 common approaches to positioning (and why many marketing departments are getting this wrong)

COACHING HACKS

Everyone knows that coaching is valuable. The challenge is finding the time and a fast-track process to use, given how busy most leaders are with competing priorities pulling them in multiple directions.

To accomplish more leaders need to learn how to hack their current approach to coaching with new ways of thinking and influencing that will enable them to do more with less. In this keynote, Scott will provide your people with Coaching Hacks that they will be able to use to develop to their people in a more effective and efficient way. 

Key messages include:

The 3 purposes of Coaching—and why you need to start here

How to find time to Coach and why most leaders get this wrong

The Coaching Hack Model: keep it REAL

5 Coaching Hacks that help you get better results in less time