Alyson Van Hooser

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!

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

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

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

Moving Up, Moving On: Succession Planning for Continuity and Long-Term Growth

(Joint Keynote with Phillip Van Hooser, MBA, CSP, CPAE)

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.