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Sam Silverstein

Accountability Advocate, Organizational Culture Expert, and Best-Selling Author

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Languages: English
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  • Founder of The Accountability Institute™ and Creator of The Culture Audit™ Named one of the World’s Top 10 Organizational Culture Professionals by Global Gurus Bestselling author of 12 books including: The Accountability Advantage, Non-Negotiable, No More Excuses, and No Matter What Lays out the evidence that creating an inspired workplace culture based on accountability makes it possible for your organization to deliver steady, sustainable growth in all the metrics that matter

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Meet Sam Silverstein

Sam Silverstein’s mission is to empower people to live accountable lives, transform the way they do business, and to thrive at extraordinary levels. By challenging leaders to shift priorities, cultivate an organizational culture, and inspire both individuals and teams to take ownership in fresh and results-producing ways – he is helping companies dramatically increase productivity, profitability, and growth. Sam has been inducted into the CPAE Speakers Hall of Fame, is a Past-President of the National Speakers Association, and Global Gurus has named Sam Silverstein as one of the World’s Top Organizational Culture Professionals.

Sam is the founder of The Accountability Institute™ an organization that certifies advisors to work with leaders and organizations to build greater accountability and develop stronger leaders. He is also the creator of The Culture Audit™, a powerful assessment tool that allow organizations to do a deep-dive into the mindsets and processes of their people. Which allows leaders to better analyze what people do, how they do it, and how they feel about the organization’s ability to provide a positive, productive culture where accountability, creativity, clarity, and collaboration thrive.

Sam is the author of 12 books including The Accountability Advantage, I Am Accountable, Non-Negotiable, No More Excuses, Making Accountable Decisions, No Matter What, and The Success Model.

As a former business executive and owner, Sam successfully sold one of his businesses to a Fortune 500 company. Today, he writes, speaks, and consults with organizations around the globe to help them think differently, work with renewed purpose, and achieve record-breaking results. Commonly working with multi-national companies, corporations, government agencies, associations and entrepreneurs.

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What does it look like when EVERY member of your organization keeps their commitments? When truth and values are held in the highest esteem? It looks like next-level success. It feels like positive momentum. It lays the foundation for creativity, collaboration and high performance.

Sam knows first-hand how to create a corporate culture that engages employees, maximizes productivity, builds brand, and inspires accountability. You’ll walk away from his program with highly effective tools to build trust, enhance engagement, cultivate more meaningful relationships, and truly come together as a cohesive team. There’s never been a more important time to create a shift in culture and commitment.

During this program, participants will learn how to:

  • Discover the five critical steps to build a culture-by-design
  • Design a culture based on commitments and values
  • Leverage the power of cultural values – internally, externally, and communally
  • Effectively counteract “Quiet Quitting” and “The Great Resignation”
  • Remove obstacles and excuses to inspire collaboration and accountability
  • Create an organizational culture obsession that will drive your culture to stronger performance and customer experience

This engaging program forces a reconsideration of how we view accountability. As Silverstein explains, “Accountability is not a way of doing. Accountability is a way of thinking about people. Particularly how we think about people.” When individuals and leaders actively create the future they want to live, frame their mindset around abundance rather than fear, and take persistent, relentless action in support of the experience they are generating, their beliefs, and their relationships, they will experience personal and organizational transformation unlike any other.

During this program, participants will learn how to:

  • Identify the three mindsets of accountability and how to apply them personally and organizationally
  • Create a specific outcome/goal and achieve it every time
  • Empower a team to identify priorities, eliminate obstacles, and enhance communication
  • Discover and leverage the enormous power of commitments both individually and at all levels of the organization

Sam Silverstein has helped organizations around the world build more resilient leaders, employees, and organizations. Sam will engage your people to understand the importance of building strength from the inside out. All organizations face challenges, but it’s the most adaptable and resilient organizations who are able to effectively work through the challenges to consistently build a stronger & brighter future.

A mindset of resilience does not just happen by itself. Resilience is built into the corporate culture. Resilience becomes the standard for which you are known when a strong set of values are created and established throughout the organization. Sam will lead the conversation on what creates resilience, how all your people will benefit both individually and collectivley by forging a culture of trust, collaboration, and resilience to operate from.

During this program, participants will learn how to:

  • Get your people focused on what really matters (tactical vs. relational commitments)
  • Effective communication styles to enhance teams accepting and embracing change
  • Retain our power and resilience even in the most difficult situations
  • Help your people discover both how they individually build resilience and work together to create a resilient organization
  • Remove obstacles and excuses in order to inspire enhanced collaboration and accountability
  • Develop both current and future leaders throughout the organization

To win in today’s market, organizations need leaders who can adapt. Cultivate creativity and innovation. Nurture cohesiveness. And foster a culture that embraces change. When they do? Employee engagement soars. Collaboration gets exciting. Productivity is elevated and exponential organizational growth is possible.

Sam shares game-changing strategies with audiences that help clearly define core values, connect them to every member of an organization and make them the driving force behind every decision. Sam’s ability to help companies build rock-solid foundations and cut through the clutter and noise of distractions throughout every facet of their company culture, business processes, customer experience, and communication.

During this program, participants will learn how to:

  • Take ownership of your company’s mission, vision, and values
  • Use company values to drive decisions and comittment at all levels
  • Build massive trust through The Ten Commitments of Accountability
  • Become and develop as an impactful leader

It’s time to show excuses the door. Whether at work or at home, people often make excuses out of over-commitment, lack of understanding, or poor time management. In a world where there are more resources available than ever before – it’s time to get to the bottom line. Ultimately, they make excuses by focusing on what they cannot control instead of focusing on what they can control.

As the founder of the Accountability Movement™, Sam brilliantly lays out the relationship between what we value and what we can control and illuminates the strategies, mindsets, and tools necessary to eliminate excuses from our personal and professional lives. Accountability is a way of thinking. It is how we think about ourselves and others.

During this program, participants will learn how to:

  • Discover your foundational, relational, professional, and community values
  • Connect your values to the art of living an accountable life
  • Improve your relationships through keeping commitments
  • Eliminate excuses that hold you back from their potential

Change is an integral part of our world. The ability to get ahead of it, manage it, or initiate it for any organization falls squarely on the shoulders of leadership. Focusing on what people do won’t cut it anymore. Truly accountable leaders instead turn their focus on changing the way people THINK.

Sam brings audiences together to best understand what a powerful catalyst change can be for positively growing business, redefining relationships, and letting go of the status quo. Leaders who meet change head on and make it their partner, drive momentum and deliver results.

During this program, participants will learn how to:

  • Identify the “Change Categories” all people fall into and how to motivate each person successfully
  • Communicate more purposefully utilizing The Terms of Change™
  • Empower your team to drive positive change versus resist/fear change
  • Master the one thing organizations must believe if they are going to effectively create an organizational culture that thrives through change

Great teamwork and execution does not just happen by itself. Teamwork is built into the corporate culture. Teamwork becomes the standard for which you are known when a strong set of values are created and established throughout the organization. Another foundational element of great teamwork is the ability to identify the commitments that all members of the organization make and keep.

Sam Silverstein has helped organizations around the world build more effective teams that have led to a measurable increase in communication, collaboration, innovation, and bottom-line results.

In this talk, Sam Silverstein uniquely illustrates the difference between tactical and relational commitments and knows just how to get your people focused on executing what really matters. Sam will lead a conversation on what leaders need to do to create highly effective teams, why and how all of your people will benefit from contributing to the team, and how each individual can be accountable to each other and the mission through the course of business.

Books

The Accountability Advantage: Design a Sustainable, High-Performance Culture to Build Stronger Businesses, Communities, and People

Does culture connect to your bottom line? Absolutely! At the end of the day, there are two kinds of leaders: those who do not get why it is vitally important to build and sustain an accountable culture and those who do. This book makes a compelling case for investing in an accountable workplace culture … and offers a clear, five-step action plan for making it happen in your organization. Silverstein lays out the evidence that creating an inspired workplace culture based on accountability makes it possible for your organization to deliver steady, sustainable organizational growth in all the metrics that matter, including revenue. Powerful case studies confirm the real-world results in every one of these areas. This book is for you if you lead a company, a team, or any kind of professional alliance that can benefit from creating, sustaining, and protecting a strong workplace culture. It is for you if you want to: ● Attract and retain the very best people in your industry ● Enhance customer service ● Outperform your competition during good times and bad ● Promote the highest levels of innovation and creativity within the organization ● Significantly increase employee engagement ● Create better collaboration across work groups ● Foster dramatic improvements in communication and teamwork ● Sustainably grow your bottom line The Accountability Advantage shares a powerful, proven, five-step process for improving team culture. Those five steps are: ● Define the culture. Make yours a culture by design, not a culture by default. ● Model the culture. Show people what accountability looks like in action. ● Teach the culture. Evangelize, share, and discuss the culture in an ongoing and empowering way. Use instances of behavior that do and do not align with the culture as teaching moments. ● Protect the culture. Learn how to build and support relationships that create a working environment your best people want to stay in—and protect! ● Celebrate the culture. Make sure to celebrate all cultural victories, big and small. Keep reinforcing the successes your culture produces. There really is a recipe for creating a positive workplace culture that delivers measurable, sustainable improvements to your bottom line. This book gives you that recipe. Use it, share it, and implement it … to make accountability your competitive advantage.

The Theory of Accountability: Building a Truly Accountable, High-Performance, High-Growth Life for Yourself and Your Organization

E=mc2 You may think you know what this familiar formula means, but until you read Sam Silverstein’s breakthrough book, you will not know its true power or its potential. This is the Accountability Formula™ , and it forms the heart of the Theory of Accountability™ . Silverstein’s Theory of Accountability has nothing to do with physics, the speed of light, or the relationship between space and time. It has everything to do with personal and organizational growth, and with establishing the kind of leadership in your own life that makes excuses a thing of the past…and inspires true commitment from others. The Theory of Accountability states: Our lived EXPERIENCE is the direct result of our MINDSET and our COMMITMENT SQUARED. Silverstein’s new book examines each of these critical elements in depth, and shows you how to leverage the power of accountability to create a sustainable high-performance life and organization. Sam’s latest book offers leaders a proven system for taking control of your life and transforming yourself and your organization…by harnessing the awesome power of accountability.

PIVOT!: Three Big Questions that...Reframe Your Perspective, Maximize Your Potential, and Improve Your Life

Pivot! is a journey of personal discovery to uncover your core beliefs and untapped strengths in order to improve your mindset, your relationships, and the world around you. You can navigate virtually any challenge in a positive and empowering way if you learn to Pivot! This is not another book about doing. (There are plenty of those already out there.) This is a book about changing what and how you think. It is about discovering what you really believe and connecting your actions to those core beliefs. This is a book about becoming the best you can possibly be for yourself, your family, your organization, your community, and the larger world…by learning to do a deep dive into what you believe about yourself, other people, and the life with which you have been blessed. Pivot! shows you how to take full control of what you think once and for all…by tapping into your Source—the set of unique lessons, examples, and reference points that clarify your beliefs and instantly direct you toward your best self. Your Source enables you to turn even the gravest challenges into opportunities. Pivot! gives you three critical, life-changing questions that will make accountability the guiding reality in your daily life so that you can achieve more during good times, create the sustainability that will get you through challenging times, and bounce back more quickly from adversity. Pivot! shows you how to answer the Three Big Questions for yourself, so you can take control of what you think and live out your Purpose and Mission consistently. That is how powerful the act of generating the answers to these three questions is. You can return to the questions whenever you face a challenge, scrutinize your core beliefs, and walk through a new open door. You can Pivot!

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The Accountability Advantage: Design a Sustainable, High-Performance Culture to Build Stronger Businesses, Communities, and People

Does culture connect to your bottom line? Absolutely! At the end of the day, there are two kinds of leaders: those who do not get why it is vitally important to build and sustain an accountable culture and those who do. This book makes a compelling case for investing in an accountable workplace culture … and offers a clear, five-step action plan for making it happen in your organization. Silverstein lays out the evidence that creating an inspired workplace culture based on accountability makes it possible for your organization to deliver steady, sustainable organizational growth in all the metrics that matter, including revenue. Powerful case studies confirm the real-world results in every one of these areas. This book is for you if you lead a company, a team, or any kind of professional alliance that can benefit from creating, sustaining, and protecting a strong workplace culture. It is for you if you want to: ● Attract and retain the very best people in your industry ● Enhance customer service ● Outperform your competition during good times and bad ● Promote the highest levels of innovation and creativity within the organization ● Significantly increase employee engagement ● Create better collaboration across work groups ● Foster dramatic improvements in communication and teamwork ● Sustainably grow your bottom line The Accountability Advantage shares a powerful, proven, five-step process for improving team culture. Those five steps are: ● Define the culture. Make yours a culture by design, not a culture by default. ● Model the culture. Show people what accountability looks like in action. ● Teach the culture. Evangelize, share, and discuss the culture in an ongoing and empowering way. Use instances of behavior that do and do not align with the culture as teaching moments. ● Protect the culture. Learn how to build and support relationships that create a working environment your best people want to stay in—and protect! ● Celebrate the culture. Make sure to celebrate all cultural victories, big and small. Keep reinforcing the successes your culture produces. There really is a recipe for creating a positive workplace culture that delivers measurable, sustainable improvements to your bottom line. This book gives you that recipe. Use it, share it, and implement it … to make accountability your competitive advantage.