Amer Kaissi

Amer Kassi delivered an inspiring and highly engaging presentation on Positive Intent and Leading with Influence that resonated deeply with leaders across all levels. His message emphasized the power of approaching conversations, challenges, and relationships with the assumption of positive intent, creating stronger collaboration, trust, and accountability within teams. Amer combined practical leadership strategies with relatable examples, offering actionable tools that leaders can immediately apply to strengthen communication, influence outcomes, and foster a more positive workplace culture. His authentic style, optimistic perspective, and focus on human-centered leadership left attendees energized, motivated, and equipped with meaningful insights to elevate their leadership impact.

Kelly Barton

MaineHealth

Amer delivered an exceptional session that was both engaging and inspiring from start to finish. His ability to connect with the audience, share meaningful insights, and present ideas in such a relatable and energizing way made the experience truly memorable. The content was enlightening, thought-provoking, and immediately applicable, but what stood out most was his delivery, dynamic, authentic, and captivating. He has a rare talent for making complex concepts feel clear, exciting, and actionable. I could have listened to him speak for hours and still wanted more. This was one of those sessions that leaves you motivated, challenged, and eager to grow long after it ends

Wendy Martin

This session discussed such an important topic that needs to be prioritized more in healthcare: resilience and taking care of ourselves so we can continue serving people. Additionally, this session talked about assuming positive intent which was such a great reminder and call to action. We often assume negative intent to quickly and I want to take action with Pausing, Humanizing, and Verifying before I judge someone or assume their intent. We need to be kinder to one another AND ourselves.

Avery Rumbyrt

WellPower

I really enjoyed this session. It was a great reminder of the impact that mindset and intent have on leadership, team dynamics, and organizational culture. The discussion was practical, engaging, and provided tools I can immediately apply in both my professional and personal life. If I were describing it to a colleague, I'd say it was an energizing session that challenged me to think differently about how I approach challenges, assumptions, and interactions with others.

Trampas Hutches

MaineHealth

I really enjoyed being asked if I have fallen asleep as a student in class because I have many times. I also liked the pictures of the cold play and piss pictures- those were funny. I totally visualized the example of the fan sitting on the ground and didn’t necessarily need to see the AI picture of it. I agree with James that some content seemed more creative/ story telling and some slides seemed more business professional

Attendee

Amer was such a welcome from our normally scheduled professional development. Amer made everyone feel as they were a leader, and that they could implement these practices on their own. I appreciate that he included everybody and spoke to us all as equals I thoroughly enjoyed his humor, storytelling, and how accessible he made the content not only for self implementation, but also as an organization.

Rachael

To me, it really keys in how to make successful, productive teams that live in the anxiety zone (all results driven at all costs) shift towards a growth zone (results and productivity are the same but with a safer, psychological environment). Easy to resonate with and apply real work situations and examples. We can be the best team while still having a (true) good culture and have happy teammates.

Trevor Spann

Dr. Kaissi’s workshop was a wonderful overview of emotional intelligence and how it forms the foundation of effective leadership. In addition to basic concepts, summaries of current research and providing resources for additional reading and learning, we walked away with practical approaches we can implement both with ourselves and our teams to be more effective leaders.

Jody Yozviak

It was funny, the humus but was ok, pumpkin spice and chocolate humus are good by the way, so I would modify that part to bragging about how good humus is and how it leads to innovation such that they sell crazy types like pumpkin spice and how you can enjoy that with your latte. I like the bit about sport teams. I was touched by the Spurs story. More about resilience.

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