Sam Horn, the Intrigue Expert, is a positioning/ messaging/branding strategist with a twenty-year track record of results with such clients as Intel, NASA, Boeing, Cisco, KPMG, British Airways, ASAE, and Entrepreneurs Organization. She was a top-rated speaker at INC 500/5000.

Sam has helped thousands of entrepreneurs and executives (e.g., Jill Nelson, founder of Ruby Receptionists; FORTUNE Magazine’s 2012 #1 “Best Small Company to Work for in the US”; Charlie Pellerin, project manager of the Hubble Telescope; and Nina Nashif, founder of Healthbox and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader) to create intriguing books, keynotes, and TEDx talks that have helped them scale their influence and impact.

Sam is the author of POP!, Tongue Fu!®, What’s Holding You Back?, ConZentrate, and Take the Bully by the Horns, which have been endorsed by high-profile individuals including Stephen R. Covey, Billie Jean King, John Gray, Tony Robbins, and Ken Blanchard.

Sam is an in-demand media resource whose work has been featured in Fast Company, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. She’s been on every major TV and radio network, including CBS, NBC, ABC, and MSNBC, National Public Radio, Jay Leno’s Tonight Show, and To Tell The Truth, where she and her Tongue Fu!® team stumped the panel.

Sam is the former executive director and 17-year emcee for the Maui Writers Conference, where she worked with top agents/editors and dozens of bestselling authors including Mitch Albom, Frank McCourt, Nicholas Sparks, James Rollins, and Dave Barry.

Inclusive Conversations

"What is impressive is not only how Winters builds a case for the urgency and need for bold, inclusive conversations but ...

Subtle Acts of Exclusion

This practical, accessible, nonjudgmental handbook is the first to help individuals and organizations recognize and preve...

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

This book is the first practical, hands-on guide that shows how leaders can build psychological safety in their organizat...

Diversity Beyond Lip Service

"La’Wana Harris has opened this coach’s eyes to the power of coaching practices to create new paths for diversity and inc...

7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change

Change is difficult but essential—Esther Derby offers seven guidelines for change by attraction, an approach that draws p...

Dig Your Heels In

Sought-after speaker and consultant Joan Kuhl arms young women with the tools they need to transform male-dominated corpo...

Compassionate Counterterrorism

Islamist terrorism is not about religion, says Leena Al Olaimy, an Arab Muslim, Dalai Lama Fellow, and social entrepreneu...

Networking for People Who Hate Networking

Most books for people who would rather get a root canal than face a roomful of strangers tell readers how to fight agains...

The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up

“This is a must-read for bosses and subordinates alike, as it exposes our flaws but teaches us how we can work together t...

Bedtime Stories for Managers

In forty-two succinct, surprising essays, legendary scholar Henry Mintzberg brings management down from the clouds and on...

The Critical Few

Without a deep understanding of your company’s culture, any change effort you undertake will fail. Bestselling author Jon...

The Law of Small Things

We are living in a time when dishonesty and duplicity are becoming commonplace. Each of us can fight this cultural corrup...

The Future of Packaging

Tom Szaky sets out to do the impossible – eliminate all waste. This book paints a future of a “circular economy” that rel...

Citizen Capitalism

Top Cornell law professor Lynn Stout and her coauthors Tamara Belinfanti and Sergio Gramitto offer a visionary but practi...

The Eight Essential People Skills for Project Management

Veteran project manager and University of California professor Zachary Wong identifies the eight most common people probl...

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

The new edition of a bestselling classic, Help Them or Grow Watch Them Grow offers advice on talent retention for the mod...

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