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Sam Silverstein, CSP

Sam Silverstein will teach you how to create a corporate culture that prioritizes and inspires accountability.

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Sam's mission is to build a more accountable world. He works internationally with organizations to develop accountable leaders at all levels. Accountability is the highest form of leadership.™

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About Sam Silverstein, CSP

Accountability & Leadership Keynote Speaker Sam Silverstein’s mission is to empower people to live accountable lives, transform the way they do business, and to thrive at extraordinary levels. He has been referred to as "The most trusted voice on accountability." Global Gurus recently announced Sam Silverstein as one of the World's Top 10 Organizational Culture Professionals. Sam has authored 9 books on leadership, accountability and personal development.

Speaking

Speaking engagement:

Keynote | Conference Speaker

Expertise:

Leadership, Business | Management | Strategy, Health Care | Medical, Motivation | Achievement | Inspiration, Philosophy | Mindfulness, Performance | Change | Productivity

Field of Speaker:

Business Leaders, Authors, Entrepreneurs

Best Audience:

Csuite/ Executives, Managers/ Supervisors, Medical/ Healthcare, Sales

Travels from:

United States

Language:

English

Fee range:

Price on request

Topics

The Power of Keeping Commitments…No Matter What™

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, 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: • Design a culture based on commitments and values • Leverage the power of cultural values – internally, externally, and communally • 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

The Highest Form of Leadership™

To win in today’s market, organizations need leaders who can innovate. Explore diversity. Cultivate creativity. Nurture cohesiveness. And foster a culture that embraces change. When they do? Employee engagement soars. Collaboration gets exciting. Productivity is elevated and exponential 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 connectivity, and communication. During this program, participants will learn how to: • Take ownership of your company’s mission and vision • Use company values to drive all decisions • Build massive trust through The Ten Commitments of Accountability • Connect your organizational culture and values to your community • Become and develop as impactful leaders

The Accountable Leader's Guide to Change

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 change versus resist change • Master the one thing organizations must believe if they are going to effectively create an organization that thrives through change

I Am Accountable

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

Culture by Design VS Culture by Default

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, 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: • Design a culture based on commitments and values • Leverage the power of cultural values – internally, externally, and communally • 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

Impact of Accountability in Healthcare

It’s no longer enough for hospitals and health systems to have a mission statement hung on a wall. To meet society’s demands in our consumer-driven healthcare marketplace, organizations must change the way they think about people and relationships. Sam teaches healthcare professionals from every level to take ownership and commit to their organizational mission and values and how to weave them throughout every facet of their culture, clinical processes, patient care, and communication. You’ll walk away with highly effective tools to build trust, enhance engagement, cultivate more meaningful relationships, and truly come together as a cohesive team. During this program, participants will learn how to: • Promote engagement by creating a culture based on commitments and values • Build massive trust through The Ten Commitments of Accountability • Remove obstacles and inspire collaboration to improve patient care • Communicate more purposefully utilizing The Terms of Change™

Media

Books

Book cover I Am Accountable: Ten Choices that Create Deeper Meaning in Your Life, Your Organization, and Your World

I Am Accountable: Ten Choices that Create Deeper Meaning in Your Life, Your Organization, and Your World

What if you could transform your relationship with yourself, your family and friends, your colleagues and clients, and your larger community through the power of commitment? What if ten simple choices enabled you to enhance your leadership skills, improve your organizational culture, and make a local, national, or even global impact? In I Am Accountable, renowned speaker and consultant Sam Silverstein explains how accountability is the secret to filling your life with more meaning, more success, and more joy—and it all starts with your mindset. In order to create a truly meaningful life, we must first accept that the problem is never other people. “The real problem,” Sam Silverstein maintains, “is what we believe about other people.” Silverstein’s new book shows why everything we have been taught about accountability is wrong. Contrary to popular belief, accountability is not a way of doing. Accountability is a way of thinking. It is how we think about ourselves and others. And it is the highest form of leadership. The secret to creating accountable relationships, and elevating the personal benchmark that Silverstein calls The Accountability Index™, lies in making ten critical choices that support an accountable mindset. I Am Accountable offers a comprehensive plan to help you establish and leverage that mindset, deepen commitments, create lasting meaning in your life and relationships, transform the culture within your organization, and foster lasting positive change in the world.

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Book cover No Matter What: The 10 Commitments of Accountability

No Matter What: The 10 Commitments of Accountability

What if the secret to being your best, attracting people and leading people was merely knowing what, why and how to commit to people? All you have ever wanted was to have more meaningful relationships, attract others to your cause and be able to make a difference in the lives of the people around you. You can have all this and more when you harness the power of the commitment. No Matter What starts with a simple Yes that forms a commitment you make to yourself and to the people around you. You will discover that, No Matter What, you will be able to: • Make your word your bond • Know and live your values • Help people be their very best • Create a good reputation in a troubled world • Develop and sustain sound financial principles No Matter What is simple, powerful and life-changing. When you start right now you will be committing to a better future for yourself and the people around you, No Matter What! For over 25 years, Sam Silverstein has helped people and organizations be the very best they can be. Sam will share the truth of what accountability is, why it is the most powerful change agent in existence and how you can harness the power of commitment in 10 specific and defining areas. Sam has worked with companies, government agencies and individuals around the world helping them create their best possible self through the power of accountability. Thousands of people have put Sam's philosophies and tools to work as they have grown and prospered.

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Book cover Non-Negotiable: The Story of Happy State Bank & The Power of Accountability

Non-Negotiable: The Story of Happy State Bank & The Power of Accountability

Do you ever find yourself questioning what you believe around issues that impact your life and business? Do you ever feel lost in your decisions? Are you ever frustrated in your lack of ability to take your life or business exactly where you know you want to go? Non-Negotiable is all about understanding what you believe, what you can control, what your mission is and ultimately taking your convictions to the level of Non-Negotiable. Based on the real life story of J. Pat Hickman, a man with a purpose, and the bank he leads, Happy State Bank, you will see firsthand what success looks like. Sam Silverstein, champion of accountability, presents the inspiring story of how J. Pat Hickman transformed a sleepy small town bank from one location and $10 million in assets into 34 locations and over $2.5 billion in assets by knowing what he believes and not negotiating on what he holds dear. In the process, he assembled a team of leaders that understand what great culture looks like and a bank full of motivated people who love what they do. Read this book to: • Discover and define your own Non-Negotiables • Energize your ability to avoid distractions and make important decisions • Establish a culture that promotes personal and organizational accountability • Understand the power of true accountability • Unleash the power of knowing what it is you truly believe

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Book cover No More Excuses: The Five Accountabilities for Personal and Organizational Growth

No More Excuses: The Five Accountabilities for Personal and Organizational Growth

Accountability is not a way of doing. Accountability is a way of thinking. Those who achieve greatness know true accountability makes all the difference between success and failure. Based on extensive interviews with accountable leaders--from Fortune 500 CEOs to Hall of Fame athletes--No More Excuses identifies the five accountabilities of successful people and organizations. These tenets encourage accountability in others and performance at the highest level. When you willingly accept and embrace the five accountabilities, you encourage accountability in others and empower your teams to achieve at the highest level. The result is an organization focused on its fundamental values and committed, at the individual level, to achieving critical strategic goals. Whether you're a business owner, a top executive, or a team leader, accountability starts with you and trickles down to everyone else. If you want to build an organization that achieves its goals and beats the competition it's time for No More Excuses.

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Book cover Making Accountable Decisions - A Journey To An Accountable Life

Making Accountable Decisions - A Journey To An Accountable Life

We struggle making decisions and most times we just wish someone would make them for us. What if that could all change and you could master the decisions you face in your life? The average person makes hundreds of decisions each day. They range from the ordinary and mundane to life-altering events. Many decisions we are faced with have little affect on our lives. They deal with the simple problems and require simple choices. However, there are those decisions that impact our lives and the lives of those around us in very significant and consequential ways. In Making Accountable Decisions, Sam Silverstein presents ways to approach our life's decisions and how we interact and affect others. He does this by focusing on the most substantial decisions in our lives, how they impact us, and what decisions we can make to add value and meaning. Sam is the founder of The AccountabilityTM Movement and works with companies, government agencies and people around the world helping them build accountable cultures and live accountable lives. Building an accountable world is his life's mission. Some people choose to let life happen. Some people make it happen. What is your decision?

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Book cover The Success Model

The Success Model

What would your life be like if you achieved all your goals? How do you overcome fear and inhibition in order to accomplish things that only before were unimaginable? What if you had a five-step system that you could plug any desire into and get immediate results? The Success Model outlines a five-step system you can use in any of the major seven areas of life. Learn to overcome fear, gain balance in your life, improve your communication skills and much more. The Success Model will leave you thirsty for personal growth, ready to achieve and positioned to teach those you lead.

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News

News cover I Am Accountable™

I Am Accountable™

Powerful accountability and leadership insights on how to build a more accountable life, a more accountable business, and a more accountable world.

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Reviews

Joel W. Richardson

Sheriff, Randall County Sheriff's Department

I've brought a lot of speakers in and no one has ever said what you did. Your program would be worth it no matter how much you charge.

Beecher Hunter

President, Life Care Centers of America

Mr. Silverstein mixed his presentation with humor and dramatic illustrations contrasting the practice of excuse making with the taking of personal accountability to drive success. The wisdom he shared will help productive positive outcomes for any business.

Christopher L. Williston VI, CAE

President and CEO, Independent Bankers Association of Texas

Months after the fact, our members were still talking about Sam and his message. They were crafting their values and building their organizations' culture with intention in ways they never have before.

Sam Silverstein, CSP