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Erin Hatzikostas

CEO, Award-Winning Author, TEDx Speaker & Workplace Expert

Speaking Fee: $16,500 i Fees vary by event type, travel, and appearance details.

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CEO, award-winning author, and TEDx speaker, Erin Hatzikostas shows organizations how to build trust, connection, and performance through authentic leadership.

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Meet Erin Hatzikostas

Erin Hatzikostas is a former Fortune 50 executive and turnaround CEO who helps organizations build connection faster, earn trust sooner, and stand out by using authenticity as a strategic advantage. She is known for translating authenticity into clear, actionable behaviors that drive real business results.

After leading a company turnaround that tripled earnings and significantly increased employee engagement, Erin now shares her practical playbook with leaders navigating growth, change, and high pressure goals. Her engaging style blends real world leadership experience with humor and straight talk, making her message resonate across industries.

Erin Hatzikostas is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Erin Hatzikostas’s fees.

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Biography

Turnaround Leadership and Business Impact

In 2016, Erin Hatzikostas became CEO of a fledgling company and led a major turnaround. Over three years, she tripled earnings from $17M to $50M and increased employee engagement by 15%. Through that experience, she developed an unconventional approach to leadership that delivers strong results without burning people out.

Today, she brings that playbook to organizations facing change, growth, and complex challenges. Her work focuses on helping leaders replace autopilot habits with intentional, authentic actions that improve performance and culture.

Thought Leadership and Reach

Erin is a globally recognized expert on authenticity in the workplace. Her ideas have reached hundreds of thousands, including through a TEDx Talk that ranked among the Top 20 most viewed worldwide in 2021. She is the award winning author of You Do You(ish) and The 50% Rule, and co-host of the podcast b Cause Work Doesn’t Have to Suck.

She has spoken to organizations including CVS Health, General Dynamics, and Yale University, with audiences ranging from corporate teams to military operators. Her work has been featured by ABC, CBS, Business Insider, Fast Company, and more, and her company has led a national study on the impact of authenticity at work.

Beyond the stage, Erin brings a relatable and candid perspective shaped by her own career path and life experiences, connecting with audiences through both credibility and honesty.

How to Hire Erin Hatzikostas

To hire Erin Hatzikostas for an event, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with the proposed event date, location, audience size, event format, and program goals. Erin Hatzikostas is available for corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, private events, workshops, fireside chats, and virtual programs.

After receiving your request, a Mollie Plotkin Group booking agent will review Erin Hatzikostas’s availability, discuss the event details, and get back to you within 48 hours with next steps for securing Erin Hatzikostas for your program.

Erin Hatzikostas Booking Fee

The cost to book Erin Hatzikostas depends on the event date, location, format, audience size, and scope of the appearance. Erin Hatzikostas’s speaking fee starts at $16,500. Speaking fees may vary for keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events, corporate meetings, and virtual programs.

For the most accurate Erin Hatzikostas booking fee, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with your event details. Our team will help confirm availability, pricing, and the best format for your event.

Speaking Topics & Programs

Erin Hatzikostas is a former CEO who brings a clear, practical approach to improving leadership, culture, and business performance through authenticity. Drawing from her experience turning around a struggling company and her research on workplace authenticity, she delivers engaging talks filled with real stories, data, and actionable strategies that audiences can apply immediately.

Common keynote themes include: authenticity as strategy, leadership and culture transformation, trust and communication, business growth, innovation, and motivation.

The Authenticity AdvantageTM

How to turn authenticity into a measurable business advantage.

Erin shows how authenticity can be used as a strategic tool to build trust faster, strengthen relationships, and stand out in a crowded and increasingly AI driven environment. She shares research, stories, and practical examples that redefine authenticity as a skill that can be developed and applied across sales, leadership, and communication. Audiences leave with a clear framework they can use right away.

Build trust with customers and prospects to improve retention and speed to sale
Apply a practical definition of authenticity in real business situations
Use the H.U.M.A.N.S. framework to improve communication and leadership

Ideal for organizations focused on sales performance, customer experience, and competitive differentiation.

Less Polish, More PowerTM

How to use authenticity to simplify leadership and strengthen culture.

In this talk, Erin breaks down why culture efforts often feel overwhelming and replaces complexity with a clear, actionable path forward. She introduces her Six Principles of Strategic Authenticity and shows how leaders can address real cultural challenges, improve trust, and create meaningful change without overcomplicating the process.

Identify and address the hidden issues impacting culture and leadership
Turn authenticity into a practical tool for everyday decision making
Take immediate action through simple, customized experiments

Ideal for leaders and teams working to improve culture, engagement, and alignment.

The 50% RuleTM

How doing less can unlock more creativity, motivation, and results.

Erin introduces a counterintuitive approach to innovation and performance by challenging the idea that more effort always leads to better outcomes. Through stories, science, and real examples, she explains how The 50% Rule can help individuals and teams stand out, simplify their work, and achieve stronger results without burnout.

Use The 50% Rule to boost creativity and motivation
Simplify processes to innovate more quickly and effectively
Break away from comparison and competition driven thinking

Ideal for teams seeking fresh thinking, innovation, and sustainable performance.

Key Takeaway

Erin Hatzikostas shows that authenticity is not a soft concept but a practical strategy that drives trust, improves culture, and delivers measurable business results when applied with intention and consistency.

Featured Client Reviews for Erin Hatzikostas

Recently, our Sales organization had the opportunity to engage with Erin

for a second training and she over-delivered again. Erin’s sessions are high energy with a productive balance between fact-based learning and experiential sharing. It’s incredibly powerful to see Erin work through a live coaching experience with highly successful Sales team members where she helps them bring forward their approach in a manner that provides deeper connectivity to the client…in a matter of minutes! If you invest time in putting the content into practice, your return is exponential.

— Landon Reid, Sales VP, The Hartford

We hired Erin to speak to over 10,000 colleagues

across our company’s colleague resource groups. She generated so much excitement across our community and gave the group immediate, tangible action items to help them achieve success in their careers and for our company. I highly recommend Erin for anyone who’s looking for a dynamic, engaging, and easy-to-work-with speaker!

— Emily DePina, Director/WISE National Co-Chair, CVS Health

She is real. No pretense.

Just hard-core reality dispensed about how we can be more effective in our organizations.

— Tim Cowden, President, Kansas City Area Development Council

Books

You Do You(ish): Unleash Your Authentic Superpowers to Get the Career You Deserve

NAMED BEST BUSINESS/CAREER BOOK OF 2023 BY AMERICAN BOOK FEST
WINNER OF A 2023 PENCRAFT BOOK AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
FINALIST IN THE 2023 IAN BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS
FINALIST IN THE 2024 AMERICAN LEGACY BOOK AWARDS

You Do You(ish) brings you a modern, mind-bending, and inspiring approach to using authenticity as your new secret weapon to success.

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The 50% Rule: Throw Out Half the Playbook to Start Competing in a League of Your Own

"I started to see that The 50% Rule was the thread, and best-kept secret, that connects some of the most successful people, products, and companies in the world." –Erin Hatzikostas Discover the power of half with this innovative new approach to authenticity and success. In The 50% Rule, award-winning author and former CEO Erin Hatzikostas unveils the creative shortcut that has helped her and so many others go from underdog status to unmatched success in career and daily life.

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