Mike Amato

“Culture is to Leadership as product is to marketing.”

— Mike Amato

Founder, CEO, Ambassador Wines | Former Head of Global Product, Barclays | Former Board Member, Banco Santander | Former Board Member, Tandem Bank

There are two things you need to know about Mike Amato: First, he led one of the biggest turnarounds in banking history. Second, during that turnaround he insisted that P & L stood for “people and leadership” - not profit and loss. Mike embraces a crisis as a hidden opportunity to lead with compassion and build loyalty. A crisis breaks down the walls that prevent change and forces a company to innovate and transform at the highest speed possible. Companies turn to Mike because when things get hard he maximizes P & L.

What Mike Talks About:

Innovation - Investing Vs. Empowering

There’s an enormous difference between investing in innovation and investing in innovators. Investing in innovation means allocating capital into technology, startups, and partnerships. It will give you a quick sugar rush, followed by a dangerous hangover if you’re not also investing in innovators. Investing in innovators means creating a culture in which innovators can do the best work of their lives. It means removing the obstructionism that stands in their way. Most companies get this badly wrong. In this talk Mike Amato shares his journey in getting it right.

What you’ll learn:

The 3 drivers of misalignment between innovation and innovators
How to measure cultural innovation empowerment
How to lead innovators (and how it’s different from leading everyone else.)

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It’s Their Company - You’re Just The CEO
Post-Pandemic Leadership And Winning The War For Talent

58 million Americans under the age of 37 have quit their jobs since 2021. Like it or not, they have asserted a new balance of power in the corporate world. It’s their economy and we’re just living in it. The power equation in your organization has changed. Traditional talent management concepts? Forget about it. Mike Amato shares with you a new playbook, born in crisis, that redefines the relationship between leaders and a mobile, multi-generational workforce.