Sales Keynote Speaker Who Unlocks Growth Through Trust
Sterling Hawkins delivers sales keynotes that go beyond motivation, empowering your team to build trust, drive performance, and close with confidence.
Ignite Your Sales Team
Sales performance today isn’t just about scripts and quotas, it’s about trust. When your salespeople trust themselves, each other, and your mission, they sell with more conviction, close with more confidence, and perform no matter the pressure.
Sterling Hawkins delivers high-impact sales keynotes that combine neuroscience, real-world results, and interactive breakthroughs that inspire immediate action, and long-term change. If you're ready to lead a sales team that adapts fast, aligns deeply, and delivers beyond expectations, you're in the right place.
Why Trust Is Your Competitive Sales Advantage
Most sales keynotes talk about techniques. Sterling goes deeper.
He teaches sales teams how to build trust…first within themselves, then with customers…so they can lead powerful conversations, overcome objections with empathy, and close the deals that matter most.
It’s not just motivating. It’s transformational.
Sterling’s signature approach helps salespeople stop performing and start connecting, leading to better relationships, bigger opportunities and stronger pipelines.
Why Sterling Hawkins Is the Sales Keynote Speaker You Need
Sales events are powerful moments to align your team and drive revenue. But only if the keynote speaker delivers more than hype. Sterling Hawkins brings a proven mix of real-world experience, science-backed strategies, and actionable insights to help sales teams grow—No Matter What.
As a top sales keynote speaker, Sterling’s journey from building a multi-billion-dollar business to rebuilding from collapse gives him a unique edge. He’s launched and grown 100+ companies, mastering the art of pitching, selling, and performing under pressure.
Sterling equips teams to:
Build trust that drives conversions
Embrace discomfort as a competitive edge
Sell confidently in uncertain markets
His content is tailored, his delivery is dynamic, and his results are measurable. When you bring in Sterling, you’re not just getting motivation, you’re giving your team the mindset, tools, and trust to win.
Inspire Your Sales Team for the Future
Sterling Hawkins is an international sales expert who can help inspire your company and show your leaders they can adapt to change. His keynote speeches push the importance of building trust in the sales process while encouraging business leaders to innovate and evolve.
Trust is everything in the sales process, and that's a universal truth regardless of technological advances. Sterling Hawkins helps leaders build a business environment that features a foundation of trust, allowing employees to make bold choices to help the company's bottom line and consumers feel good about doing business with you.
If you're looking to build high-performance sales teams for the future, bringing in Sterling Hawkins as an inspirational speaker is a great first step. Contact him today to get started!
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.
Meet Sterling
1+ Million
People impacted by the No Matter What Movement
Thousands
Of organizations transformed
No. 1
Best Selling Author
JOIN OUR CLIENTS CREATING GROWTH CULTURES
RAVE REVIEWS
TRANSFORMED OUR TEAM!
Sterling is not just a speaker, but a crucial part of hitting our company goals.
– JACK WILSON | CHEIF REVENUE OFFICER| BULLETPROOF
Sales Keynotes with Sterling are an integral part of the No Matter What Experience—a comprehensive 5-phase program designed to deliver unparalleled value. This experience includes up to 12 weeks of personalized content, tools, and strategies, all customized to align with your specific goals, challenges, and audience needs. Sterling's unique approach ensures that your team receives a tailored, high-impact journey that continues well beyond the keynote itself. No other speaker offers this level of personalized, concierge-level service to guarantee long-lasting results and transformation.
One keynote, 90+ days of impact
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Sales Resilience: Achieving Results No Matter What
In today’s rapidly changing marketplace, sales teams face challenges ranging from technological disruption to economic uncertainty. In this keynote, Sterling Hawkins shares proven strategies and practical approaches that empower sales professionals to not only adapt but thrive in any environment. Drawing from his personal journey of leading a multi-billion-dollar startup through collapse and then back to success, Sterling reveals how to drive sustainable, unstoppable sales growth outside of just mindset or tactics. Attendees will leave with actionable tools and a "No Matter What" belief to overcome obstacles and achieve extraordinary results, regardless of the challenges they face.
Why the World’s top organizations
Hire Sterling for Their Sales teams
Sterling has become a top SKO keynote speaker among meeting and event planners, speaker bureaus and business leaders because they know he and his team will deliver impact and results.
1. Proven Track Record of Boosting Sales Performance
Sterling Hawkins has a proven history of transforming sales teams, delivering actionable strategies that result in significant increases in revenue and performance. His keynotes are not just inspiring but are also grounded in real-world success stories, making him a trusted partner for organizations looking to accelerate growth.
2. Innovative Sales Methodologies Tailored to Today's Market
In a rapidly changing sales landscape, Sterling offers cutting-edge methodologies that address the unique challenges of modern sales teams. From embracing new technologies to refining sales processes, Sterling's approach is always at the forefront of industry trends, ensuring your team stays ahead of the competition.
3. Engaging and Results-Driven Keynotes
Sterling's dynamic speaking style keeps audiences engaged while delivering actionable insights that can be immediately applied to drive results. His ability to connect with diverse audiences and translate complex concepts into practical strategies makes him a top choice for organizations aiming to equip their teams with the tools needed for success.
4. Customized Solutions for Diverse Sales Challenges
Sterling understands that no two organizations are the same, and neither are their sales challenges. He works closely with each client to tailor his keynotes to address specific pain points, ensuring that the content is relevant, impactful, and aligned with the organization’s goals. This personalized approach has earned Sterling a reputation for delivering measurable results across various industries.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sterling has worked with some of the world’s largest sales organizations, including Fortune 500 companies and global associations, helping their teams stay motivated, overcome obstacles, and deliver results. He’s a regular speaker at national sales meetings, SKOs (sales kickoffs), and leadership summits, where his message of embracing discomfort and unlocking growth resonates with high-pressure, target-driven cultures. Drawing on his own background as an entrepreneur and business leader, Sterling connects directly with the challenges sales professionals face; competition, rejection, change, and the need to perform under pressure. His keynotes, workshops and follow-up programs give sales professionals practical tools to build resilience, sharpen focus, and achieve breakthrough sales no matter what.
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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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