Overcoming Adversity and Accelerating Success
Embrace discomfort, inspire your team, and lead with resilience to ignite unstoppable growth and lasting impact.
Inspire your team with actionable insights and breakthrough tools from Sterling Hawkins — a globally recognized keynote speaker on overcoming adversity — to elevate both individual and organizational performance.
Overcoming Adversity with Sterling Hawkins for Resilience and Growth
In today’s fast-paced world, overcoming adversity is more critical than ever. External disruptions can derail even the most prepared teams, and your event needs real-world strategies to foster resilience. Sterling Hawkins, founder of the No Matter What Movement and a seasoned entrepreneur, offers a unique approach that fuses personal experience, relevant research, case studies, and actionable tactics. His high-impact keynotes equip attendees with the tools to conquer obstacles, adapt under pressure, and achieve lasting success, No Matter What.
Drawing from his own remarkable journey, leading a multibillion-dollar startup, confronting failure, and rebuilding from the ground up, Sterling reveals how embracing challenges can transform setbacks into opportunities for growth. With over 100+ companies launched or invested in, he shares firsthand insights that help leaders and organizations thrive, even amid uncertainty.
Sterling goes beyond inspiration, delivering concrete steps, proven frameworks, and a relentless No Matter What mindset that empowers teams to face adversity head-on. His straightforward yet powerful message resonates across industries: resilience, creativity, and unshakable determination can spark real change.
Whether you’re seeking insights on navigating unexpected challenges or practical techniques that teams can implement right away, Sterling’s keynotes will help your audience develop the confidence, clarity, and motivation to rise above any obstacle. Book Sterling Hawkins for your next event and watch your organization turn adversity into an engine for growth.
Empower Your Organization to Overcome Adversity
Sterling Hawkins is a globally recognized keynote speaker who equips organizations to thrive under pressure and turn obstacles into opportunities for growth. His approach emphasizes the critical role of Trust — when leaders foster a culture of open communication and genuine support, teams gain the confidence to make bold decisions and adapt swiftly in an ever-changing world.
By sharing compelling stories, proven frameworks, and real-world insights, Sterling helps organizations build resilience from the inside out. Participants leave his keynotes equipped with practical tools to boost innovation, stay agile, and maintain a clear vision in uncertain times—along with the inspiration to sustain their progress long after the event.
If you’re looking to develop future-ready teams that excel in the face of adversity, invite Sterling Hawkins to speak at your next event. Contact our team today to learn more!
As an author, entrepreneur and globally recognized keynote speaker, Sterling has guided countless individuals and companies to remarkable growth.
He believes we only discover our greatest purpose and realize our potential when we learn to move beyond the security of our comfort zone.
Fortune 500 companies invite him to speak to help leaders and teams cultivate trust-powered cultures to overcome adversity and reach exciting goals. Perhaps you’ve seen his TED Talk, his bestseller Hunting Discomfort, or him or his work featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company and Inc. — unveiling his proven growth roadmap drawn from his own journey back from rock bottom. You’re in the right place if you’re ready to improve your relationship with possibility (also known as uncertainty) and grow.
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Sterling Hawkins' Overcoming Adversity Keynotes are a key element of the No Matter What Experience—a comprehensive 5-phase program that delivers unparalleled value. Over the course of up to 12 weeks, your team gains access to personalized content, innovative leadership tools, and practical strategies, all aligned with your organization’s unique challenges and objectives. Sterling’s one-of-a-kind approach ensures the impact extends far beyond his keynote, empowering your people to turn adversity into opportunity at every level. No other speaker offers this degree of tailored, high-touch service—helping you embed real, transformative change that endures.
One keynote, 90+ days of impact
Overcoming Adversity keynotes
Adversity Unleashed: Thriving Beyond Uncertainty
In today’s unpredictable world, leaders face unprecedented challenges—from technological disruption to global instability. In this transformational leadership keynote, Sterling Hawkins equips leaders with the tools and mindset needed to thrive in any environment. Drawing from his personal experience leading a multi-billion-dollar startup through collapse and recovery, Sterling shares actionable tools for driving sustainable leadership growth and fostering a resilient, high-performing culture. Attendees will learn how to embrace discomfort, break through limitations, and lead with purpose, no matter the challenges ahead. They’ll leave with a "No Matter What" belief system that empowers them to create lasting impact and lead their teams to extraordinary success, regardless of the circumstances.
Sterling's overcoming adversity keynotes combines real-world stories, cutting-edge research, and practical tools to help leaders elevate their impact and inspire transformational change, No Matter What.
Why the World’s top organizations
Hire Sterling Hawkins to Overcome Adversity
Sterling Hawkins is trusted by leading organizations worldwide to strengthen their leadership teams with real-world, resilience-building strategies. His ability to inspire action, deliver practical tools, and drive lasting change sets him apart as a top keynote speaker on overcoming adversity. Sterling’s proven methods empower leaders to navigate uncertainty, embrace challenges, and achieve breakthrough results—making him the go-to choice for companies focused on building forward-thinking, high-performing teams. By tailoring his programs to each organization’s unique challenges, Sterling ensures that leaders not only learn how to face adversity head-on but also apply these lessons in real-time for sustained growth.
1. Actionable Tools, Not Just Inspiration
Sterling offers more than motivational speeches—he delivers practical, ready-to-use tools that leaders can immediately apply to confront adversity head-on and guide their teams to success.
2. Turning Challenges into Opportunities
Sterling’s approach empowers leaders to transform obstacles into breakthrough moments, instilling the confidence to embrace discomfort and achieve outstanding results in any environment.
3. Customized Resilience-Building tools
Every organization faces unique challenges. Sterling tailors his content to address each audience’s specific objectives, creating a powerful, personalized experience that drives lasting impact.
4. Proven Experience and Real-World Insights
Having launched and scaled over 100 companies, Sterling brings authentic, hands-on lessons from both his failures and successes—showing leaders exactly how to convert adversity into competitive advantage.
5. Building Resilient, Authentic Leaders
Sterling’s focus on resilience, vulnerability, and courage helps cultivate leaders who thrive under pressure, foster high-performing teams, and drive sustainable growth amid uncertainty.
Discover Why Sterling Hawkins is a Game-Changer for Overcoming Adversity Worldwide.
Explore how Sterling Hawkins transforms the way organizations conquer challenges across the world. Through powerful insights and real-world success stories, his dynamic speaking style and proven tools empower leaders at every level. Sterling equips teams to embrace discomfort, spark innovation, and achieve exceptional results—regardless of the obstacles in their path.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sterling’s entire career has been defined by facing adversity head-on. After building a retail technology startup to a multi-billion-dollar valuation, he experienced the collapse of the company and the loss of nearly everything he’d worked for. Instead of stopping there, he rebuilt by investing in and launching more than 100 ventures, taking on extreme challenges in business and life, and ultimately creating the No Matter What movement. His message isn’t abstract, it comes from lived experience. Today, he shows leaders and teams how to use adversity as a catalyst for growth, resilience, and breakthrough results.
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Sterling believes growth happens only when we step into the unknown and the uncomfortable. His mission is to help leaders, teams and organizations confront those moments and unlock results they didn’t think possible – what he wishes was shared with him during some of his hardest times. It’s not about theory. It’s about creating transformational experiences that move people from inspiration into action delivered with both inspiration and clear action steps.
ABOUT STERLING
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Sterling’s keynotes are high-energy, deeply human, and rooted in his “No Matter What” framework. He challenges audiences to embrace discomfort, expand what’s possible, and achieve results in business and life.
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Yes. Every keynote is tailored to align with your organization’s goals, challenges and audience. Sterling’s team conducts a discovery process to ensure examples, stories, and takeaways directly resonate with your group and are customized so that every audience can hear what he has to say.
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Absolutely! Sterling speaks live on stages worldwide and also delivers interactive virtual keynotes for distributed teams and digital events.
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Yes. Sterling is known for weaving interactive, experiential elements into his keynotes. From live audience interaction to real-time commitments. He helps audiences feel the message, not just hear it.
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Sterling goes far beyond the stage. He leads transformational retreats in places like Peru, Tanzania, and the Italian Dolomites; runs corporate workshops and Breakthrough Labs; and hosts internal podcasts for leadership and culture development. Each experience is designed to help teams build trust, resilience, and breakthrough results.
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The keynote is just the start of your own organization’s No Matter What Movement. And from working with countless organizations, Sterling and the team have developed materials and best practices including toolkits, follow-up calls, integration resources, and follow-on immersive workshops and programs to keep the momentum going long after the event. It’s an approach that reliably produces durable and long-lasting behavior change and breakthrough results.
ABOUT STERLING’S KEYNOTES
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Yes. Sterling offers discovery calls with event organizers to understand your objectives, challenges, and audience, ensuring his message is the right fit.
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Not at all. While earlier booking is recommended, Sterling and his team can often accommodate last-minute requests (our fastest turn-around was the day before!) Reach out directly to discuss availability.
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