Greg Hawks

Keynote Speaker | Corporate Culture Specialist | Bestselling Author
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Greg Hawks is a keynote speaker, corporate culture specialist, and bestselling author of Act Like an Owner: Five Unlocks for Creating Culture People Love and Results Leaders Need. For more than 25 years, he has challenged leaders and teams to shift mindsets, expand capacity, and bring their best daily.

Greg’s work is grounded in more than theory. A real estate investor for over 25 years, he experienced owners, renters, and vandals quite literally before recognizing those same mindsets in the workplace. That observation became the foundation for a body of work exploring how people think, take responsibility, build trust, navigate change, and influence the cultures around them.

Known for creating language that sticks, Greg has developed an arsenal of concepts organizations continue using long after the keynote ends. Owners, Renters & Vandals. Thick Trust. The Maybe Mindset. Suckage. Human Operating Systems. I LOVE Obstacles. His vivid metaphors and practical frameworks create shared vocabulary for difficult conversations and lasting behavior change.

Through his Ownership Series of keynotes, Greg challenges comfortable assumptions and equips people to take greater ownership of their work, relationships, decisions, and influence. His approach combines substantive ideas, unexpected questions, real-world experience, contagious energy, and a whole lot of fun with one objective: make the message useful enough to integrate into the company’s culture.

For more than two decades, Greg has partnered with leaders to intentionally shape culture. Through consulting, advising, and long-term collaboration, he works with organizations to diagnose what’s really happening, design what needs to change, and develop the mindsets, language, and behaviors that bring an ownership culture to life.

Greg’s experience spans Fortune 500 companies and national associations to employee-owned and family-owned businesses. His clients include Coca-Cola, Cox Communications, Neighborly, TriNet, Janssen Pharmaceutical, WhitleyPenn, and organizations seeking stronger cultures, greater contribution, and people equipped to own what comes next.

Whether speaking, emceeing, advising, or collaborating behind the scenes, Greg believes people possess greater capacity than they often realize, and sometimes all it takes is the right challenge, language, or perspective to unlock it.

Away from the stage, Greg is usually moving. He loves to run, mountain bike, hike, camp, and chase the occasional mountain summit with his wife. Adventure isn’t just a metaphor in his keynotes. It’s how he prefers to live.

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Topics

Topics

Unlock Ownership Culture

Navigate the Rapids of Change

Thick Trust

Own What's Next

MAYBE

The Confidence Climb

Videos

https://youtu.be/qy9qL8rpT8khttps://youtu.be/qy9qL8rpT8k
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qy9qL8rpT8k
Greg Hawks - Demo Reel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2DOgC_h2Eo
When Compliance Isn't Enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5S5E7VSgTE
#117 Owners, Renters, and Vandals: The Mindsets Shaping Your Culture with Greg Hawks

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Testimonials

The lasting impact of this work around 'ownership' is that, now we still see our way forward using the same language to define who we are and what we are about. Our culture statements are enduring not only because they are valuable, but because we all Own them.

Randy Nail, CEO
HoganTaylor

The Ownership Mindset sparked a cultural revolution across my company. We even added 'Act Like an Owner' into our Leadership Competency Model that we use to hire, evaluate and develop our leaders. We use it as common language, and it helped us think more about how to drive the tenets of an owner mindset throughout the organization.

Cathy Manginelli, VP
TriNet

Greg's infectious energy and boundless enthusiasm light up every room he enters, making every event an unforgettable experience. I wholeheartedly recommend Greg Hawks to anyone seeking a dynamic speaker, a reliable emcee, and a true professional who brings joy and inspiration to every interaction.

Karen Breaux, VP
EisnerAmper

We have worked with Greg Hawks for nearly a decade and have thoroughly enjoyed his contagious personality and relatable delivery of his experience and knowledge. His tools have equipped us to empower our employees to excel, create more value along with creating a work environment that I'm very proud of.

Scott Case, President
Case & Associates

In January 2020, Greg helped us unveil Vision 2030 to our entire employee base. This was a bold, 10-year plan that required everyone at the company to 'step up'. Greg's idea of ownership was the perfect theme to share with everyone; however, it wasn't just his idea of acting like an owner, it was the energy and passion in which he presented that fit perfectly with what we, as business leaders, needed everyone to recognize – if we were going to accomplish something amazing, we ALL had to own it! Now, five years in to Vision 2030, we are accomplishing even more than we thought we would – I cannot help but believe it is because Greg helped us all get to ownership of the Vision together.

Sean Taylor, Chief Executive Officer
Smith+Howard Advisory, LLC CPA

Greg's Ownership Culture Blueprint was an amazing tool for us which we implemented alongside our Gallup Tools to help us better understand aspiring entrepreneurs. During the years when Greg's Ownership Culture Blueprint was a fundamental value at FirstLight Home Care, it was a major factor in our growth @ 20% or higher for three consecutive years, as well as absolutely impacted our achieving years 5, 6, and 7 running as an INC 5000 Fastest Growing Company. Thank you, Greg Hawks!

Jeff Bevis, Founder
FirstLight Home Care

A few months ago Greg shared with our team of 200+ the concept of owners, renters and vandals in the workplace. Our team was engaged from the beginning by Greg's humor and, more importantly, the truths he called out when talking about engagement and accountability in the workplace. To consider which category we fall into at work is critical and Greg gave people permission to self-reflect, then challenged us to be better; our team listened and remembered what he shared. Just last week we had an employee quote him! The message is spot on and we can't wait to partner with him again!

Leslie Runyan, SPHR, SVP, Chief Administrative Officer
WeStreet Federal Credit Union

Greg delivered an extremely impactful presentation to our team. Not only is he a talented, high energy, entertaining and passionate speaker but his content is spot on. Our staff was still talking about his presentation weeks later! I highly recommend Greg Hawks!

Amy Downs, (Past) President CEO
Allegiance Credit Union