She was incredible! Her personality, her message, her connection to the crowd was exactly what I had hoped for. I absolutely loved having her at the event. She is the speaker meeting planners dream of. She had the crowd laughing and up out of their seats dancing. Her afternoon breakout was full since so many people loved her keynote message.
Alyson Van Hooser
Author of “Infinite Influence” & “Level Up” and Inspirational Speaker on Leading in the Future of Work
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$15,000
Alyson Van Hooser
Biography
Keynote speaker, leadership expert, and author Alyson Van Hooser is on a sold-out mission to develop highly effective leaders who inspire positive change now and for generations to come. Having personally experienced the transformative impact that intentional acts of service can make, Alyson’s passion for helping others drives her to create extraordinary results for the clients she serves.
Despite a tough upbringing, Alyson quickly learned to embrace the power of an ownership mindset to transform the trajectory of a life and help anyone achieve audacious goals. It’s a mindset she’s brought to everything she’s done - management at Walmart, leadership in the banking and insurance industry, and elected city council member (all by the age of 30), as well as her roles as wife and mom to four.
Her experience navigating real-life leadership equips her to relate authentically with the challenges leaders are facing. She deeply understands the requirements of leadership — and she uses her experience to empower others to level up their ability to lead!
Through keynotes, training programs, books, and advising, Alyson guides people at all stages of their career to make practical changes that drive real-life results. Aligning radical responsibility with proven strategies for succeeding, her down-to-earth style will hit the heart, open the mind, and push anyone forward in their leadership!
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Alyson Van Hooser
Featured Keynote Programs
Infinite Influence
Captivate Attention, Connect Deeply, and Compel Anyone, Anytime
The Infinite Influence strategy presented in this keynote ushers the audience into a foundational perspective shift that maximizes business results, improves relationships, and empowers each person to live out their purpose more powerfully than ever. This program is perfect for executive, established, and emerging leaders:
- Challenged to successfully meet the expectations of today’s diverse, post-pandemic workforce and customer base
- Stressed out, burned out, and struggling to stay inspired, motivated, and committed to future success
- Serious about capitalizing on opportunity and dead-set on never again wasting the resources they can use to influence employees and customers
Keynote Takeaways
- A simple, future-proof process for building and achieving Infinite Influence that they can immediately implement
- The inspiration to find their unfailing compass and begin making the next right step toward their personal and professional goals…today!
- A new foundational perspective that empowers them to communicate, connect, and lead others more effectively
Stories, Not Just Statistics
How Leaders Engage And Retain Today's High-Performing Employees
The one-size-fits-all leadership approach doesn’t work anymore. This highly actionable keynote presents a new leadership strategy and mindset that empowers leaders to focus their resources on the actions and benefits that cultivate team success in a diverse workforce. This program is perfect for executive, established, and emerging leaders:
- Operating with a one-size-fits-all or ineffective leadership approach
- Losing their best employees to their competition
- Encountering lackluster employee engagement from frustrated, checked-out, and burned-out team members
Keynote Takeaways
- A better understanding of the key skill they need to earn loyalty and ignite engagement in today’s diverse workforce
- The 3 stories every leader should “know and tell” to authentically connect with their team and radically improve leader/employee relationships
- The ability to capitalize on the unlimited opportunities they have to implement the Stories, Not Just Statistics leadership strategy and elevate engagement and morale across their organization
Moving Up, Moving On
Succession Planning for Continuity and Long-Term Growth
Succession planning is vital to an organization’s long-term success, but the why, what, who, and how of planning for a transition can be difficult to navigate. This inspiring keynote offers a practical perspective on the challenges and opportunities surrounding succession planning while leaving a legacy of impact and assuring a future for continued excellence. This program is perfect for executive, established, and emerging leaders:
- Struggling to adopt the “letting go and letting others” mindset needed for effective succession planning
- Burned out from carrying the load themselves but unsure how to identify, trust, train, and ultimately transition a competent successor
- Wanting practical insights into successfully navigating the human element of the succession planning process.
Keynote Takeaways
- A practical 6-step process for successfully empowering employees for top-level management and leadership
- Actionable insights on identifying and leveraging opportunities to strengthen their professional relationships through intentional communication
- A fresh, multi-demographic approach to succession planning and developing the next generation of capable, equipped leaders
Level Up
Elevate Your Leadership Game & Crush Your Goals
Today’s post-pandemic workforce requires – even demands – a new leadership style if success is to be an option. This inspiring keynote reframes and redefines how leaders must position themselves and their teams to ignite performance results and seize new opportunities. This program is perfect for executive, established, and emerging leaders:
- Seeing accountability decrease at all levels of the organization
- Wanting to motivate their team members to take initiative and responsibility
- Needing to transform their organizational culture so they can improve recruitment and retention and empower everyone to reach their full potential
Keynote Takeaways
- A profound perspective shift and common language for creating a leadership culture that breeds high-performance
- A practical 3-step process for clarifying individual and team strategic goals and action plans
- Inspiration to develop innovative approaches for engaging their team and achieving long-term success
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Featured Books
Level Up: Elevate Your Game & Crush Your Goals
by Alyson Van Hooser
Leveling up is the only foolproof success strategy. It means owning your responsibility for taking control of who you are, what you do, and what your life will become.
This book is written for the men and women grinding it out every day at work and wanting so badly to be more valued and get to the next level.
It’s for the young professionals entering the workforce with big dreams who want to know exactly what it takes to advance in their career.
It’s for anyone who has wanted more out of life but just hasn’t been able to make the shift to take control of their future.
Many books teach you the steps you need to take to change your life. But they’re missing the critical foundational action that is necessary to ensure your new habits stick—the one element that distinguishes high-achieving professionals from those still waiting for success to find them. Most people know what they should do, and yet they don’t do it. The fact is that it does not matter how much you know—nothing will change for you unless you own the responsibility of leveling up.
Infinite Influence: Captivate, Connect, & Compel Anyone, Anytime
by Alyson Van Hooser
Unintentional or not, choosing the wrong actions while interacting with people will rob you of your ability to captivate, connect with, and compel someone to make decisions in a way that is mutually beneficial. Instead, move forward intentionally to capitalize on priceless moments using the seven simple actions that create Infinite Influence. With limitless influence, you harness your power to wake up wealthier every single day.
In a world moving and evolving at breakneck speed, your ability to authentically connect with people from all walks of life in every interaction matters. The challenge of building trust quickly—knowing what to think, say, and do—might seem impossible. However, the solution is rather simple, often overlooked, and wildly undervalued.
As someone born under-resourced and underestimated, Alyson Van Hooser discovered exactly how to build influence with anybody…and now she is sharing her top seven secrets with you. Alyson experienced firsthand how the right mindset behind simple actions enables you to attract people who become invested in you. In this book, she reveals her immediately actionable, proven approach you can use to create endless opportunity.
Infinite Influence delivers the eternal perspective and behaviors to create instant connections that endure a lifetime. Because we know that success is neither built nor destroyed by one person, you must intentionally and precisely assemble relationships with friends, family, teams, customers, and communities to advance together. Without the right strategy, you choose self-sabotage—people will disengage from you, resulting in averted attention, fading loyalty, lost sales, and more.
Others have succeeded in applying these simple actions to create Infinite Influence and wake up wealthier every day. Will you?
Accelerate Your Success: 30-Day Journey to Elevate Your Performance & Fuel Your Professional Growth
by Alyson Van Hooser
Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to earn success in today’s radically diverse, rapidly changing world with 30-Day Journey to Accelerate Your Success.
This is more than a professional development book; it is a one-month journey to establishing a firm foundation in the principles that enhance performance and drive professional growth. If you commit to intentionally focusing on accelerating your success, over the course of 30 days you will master the then catalysts for high achievement and boost your momentum on your success journey. All you need is a burning desire and willingness to work toward getting better.
With valuable insights from a boomer and a millennial leader, this book will show you exactly what it takes to succeed in a dynamic, multigenerational business world. Power-packed lessons include the following:
- How to eradicate negative tendencies and replace them with rewarding habits
- The best planning strategies to fuel professional growth
- Why emotional intelligence will help you improve communication and strengthen relationships
- How to ask for the opportunities you deserve—and then embrace them
- The secrets of peak performers
- Strategies for achieving work-life balance so that you can stay grounded in the grind
The finishing touches required to achieve success might change, but the prerequisites never do. This 30-day success program offers a roadmap for elevating your professional game by explaining the critical qualities, behaviors, and actions you need to accelerate your success.
