Amer Kaissi
Contact Amer KaissiAmer Kaissi is an executive coach and an award-winning professor. He is the author of the books Intangibles: The Unexpected Traits of High-Performing Healthcare Leaders and Humbitious: The Power of Low-Ego, High-Drive Leadership. Amer believes that in leadership, humility is a strength and it can be a super-power when combined with ambition.
Amer Kaissi ("Ah-mer Ky-See") is an award-winning professor of leadership, executive coach, and author. He has spent the last 25 years researching, understanding, and evaluating evidence-based practices that create intentionality for leaders to reverse their ineffective behaviors. As a sought-after coach for top-level executives, he has worked closely with hundreds of leaders and teams to apply these practices to change mindsets and behaviors, transform organizational cultures, and show that humility with ambition is the solution to leadership challenges. He is the author of four books on leadership and high performance, including Humbitious: The Power of Low-Ego, High-Drive Leadership. He is a sports fanatic and a hummus addict, and he lives with his wife and two teenagers in San Antonio.
Areas of Expertise
- Organizational Transformation
Industries
- Healthcare
Professional Associations
- Member, American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
- Member, National Speakers Association
Education & Certifications
- Graduate Program in Professional Speaking at “Heroic Public Speaking”
- Certificate in Physician Coaching, Physician Coaching Institute, Bellevue, Washington
- Certificate in Executive Coaching, College of Executive Coaching, Arroyo Grande, California
- Ph.D., Health Services Research, Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- MPH, Hospital Administration, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- B.S., Environmental Health, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Speaking Topics List
- Alignment and Accountability
- Change Management and Leadership
- Communication
- Employee Attraction and Engagement
- Executive Leadership
- Leadership
- Organizational Culture
- Resilience and Well-Being
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Top Presentations
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Leading in Times of Change: How to Connect with Humility and Elevate with Ambition
Length: Keynote, Half-day, Full dayIn today's dynamic business landscape, improving employee engagement and sparking their innovation and creativity is an uphill battle for most leaders. In this session, Amer shows that leaders who have the confidence to make hard decisions in uncertain environments and the humility to admit mistakes can better connect with their team members while empowering them to integrate novel ideas into how they solve problems. Building on the latest research evidence and his experience as a coach with high-level executives, he makes a convincing argument that “humbitious” leadership is the best way to lead for the future.
In this transformative talk, leaders will be able to immediately implement proven strategies to:
- Discover the power of self-awareness, open-mindedness, and appreciation.
- Develop leadership skills and behaviors that balance humility with ambition.
- Build “humbitious” cultures where turnover is minimal, teams are highly engaged, and innovation is sparked.
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Resilience in Leadership: Key Behaviors for Self-Care and Caring for Others
Length: Keynote, Half-day, Full dayIn today's challenging work environment, organizations and leaders face serious stressors resulting in burnout and chronic fatigue. Amer argues that leaders have the ability to influence and impact their team’s and organization’s resilience and engagement. But to do that, they have to build and maintain their own self-resilience first. Drawing on the latest research and compelling case studies from his coaching practices, he shares a practical model of resilience focusing on the importance of realistic optimism, compassion, and gratitude on the one hand, and self-care behaviors such as short reflections, strategic breaks, and calendar triage on the other.
In this transformative talk, leaders will be able to immediately implement proven strategies to:
- Discover the power of realistic optimism, compassion, and gratitude.
- Develop leadership skills and behaviors that balance self-care with caring for others.
- Build resilient cultures where burnout is reduced and teams are highly engaged.
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How Leaders Create a Culture of Psychological Safety and Accountability
Length: Keynote, Half-day, Full dayAmidst unrelenting organizational changes, leaders may hesitate to hold their team members accountable for fear of driving them over the edge. They default to “comfort cultures” where low performance is tolerated, and difficult conversations are avoided. Amer argues that the best leaders balance psychologically safe cultures where team members can speak up and contribute, with accountability systems where high performers thrive. Drawing on the latest research and examples from his coaching practices, he shares how leaders can build and maintain psychological safety while having necessary difficult conversations.
In this transformative talk, leaders will be able to immediately implement proven strategies to:
- Discover the power of psychological safety and open-mindedness.
- Develop leadership skills and behaviors to have necessary difficult conversations.
- Build learning cultures where mistakes are not covered and teams are challenged to achieve high performance.
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