Known as a “dynamo who colors outside the lines" and called “the compassionate no bullsh*t coach”, Renie Cavallari is an award-winning organizational anthropologist and is the owner of four companies, most notably the founder of Aspire, www.poweredbyaspire.com, a globally recognized firm which specializes in transformational leadership training and strategic growth coaching that shifts human behavior and strategically improves organizational performance. She is also the founder of the RCI Institute, www.rciinstitute.com, an awakening human potential research and leadership optimization firm.

For over 25 years, Renie has worked with thousands of leaders, entrepreneurs, and organizations around the globe to help their companies be better at what they do by providing practical action-oriented applications and proven processes to improve performance.

An award-winning international strategist, speaker, and leadership expert with an inimitable grasp of business and its challenges, she has driven measurable results for businesses with her innovative solutions around the world for over 30 years.

Renie is a member of the prestigious National Speakers Association and Entrepreneurs Organization (EO). TrainingIndustry.com named Renie as one of the Top 20 Most Influential Training Professionals. Renie and Aspire have won an International Stevie Award in the “Most Innovative Company” category for 18 consecutive years and in 2020 Renie was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.

Cavallari is a C-Suite advisor and strategic leadership coach as well as the author of 8 books with her latest, HEADTRASH, the Leading Killer of Human Potential, an Amazon best seller and winner of the best new business book from the prestigious Hollywood Book Festival Awards.

Renie focuses and passionately believes that the answers live in how we lead and how we inspire others to play “all in.” After decades of research and working hands-on with high-performance organizations to help them unleash the human potential hidden within their employees, she found a predictable, measurable, correlation between leadership alignment and organizational success.

Renie is a Philly girl with a serious wanderlust problem; an aspiring jazz flutist, passionate cook, In 2023, Cavallari was awarded the EOAZ Citizen of the Year Award for her philanthropic and volunteerism.

Work experience:  

• Organizational strategist 
• C-Suite advisory 
• Leadership development expert 
• Brand strategy/asset value growth strategies 
• Business development strategy (Wall Street, private equity) 
• Business operations, repositioning, sales and marketing 

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HeadTrash, the Leading Killer of Potential 

Improving performance, engagement and emotional health, positive mindset 

By the author of the best seller HeadTrash, the Leading Killer of Human Potential 

Join Renie Cavallari, in this fun and engaging talk as she shares what she has learned from working in the trenches with high-performance leaders as they navigate today’s chaos. From mastering those taunting negative voices to decreasing your stress and inspiring your people, she will explore what it takes in today’s new normal to have an aligned, and high performing team.

Based on actively working with tens of thousands of leaders over the past 29 years, and extensive research on shifting human behavior, Renie uncovers the power of those nasty taunting voices in your head that cause doubt, shame and erode your confidence and leadership effectiveness. They are real and learning how to dump your HeadTrash allows you to awaken your potential and your teams.

HeadTrash is not just a personal struggle it is also a leadership one. Everyone leads as leadership is a behavior not a position. Whether it be leading at home or leading teams in the office, understanding how to navigate other people’s HeadTrash is the key to improving relationships, transforming performance and even the quality of your life!  

With manpower shortages and burnout at an all-time high, as well as the never- ending challenges leaders face today, it’s no wonder there is an epidemic of HeadTrash challenging businesses, entrepreneurs and leaders like never before.

You’ll discover: 

• How to silence the inner voice sabotaging your personal growth and stealing your power. 
• Leadership tips on how to lead the way forward  
• How to navigate other people’s HeadTrash 
• Learn the three steps to managing and dumping your HeadTrash™.  
• Survival tips to quickly pinpoint your emotional state, stay out of the danger zone, and spend more time on the healthy and happy side of your emotional brain. 
• The impact of your habits. Are they serving or disserving you? 
• What unlocks those nasty, limiting voices? Managing your HeadTrash.

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Leading the Way Forward or Creating Calm in the Storm 

Leadership Solutions for Today 

Leadership has never been a more critical than in today’s demanding world.  With manpower challenges and burnout at an all-time high, as well as the never- ending challenges leaders face today, leaders and their effectiveness at every level of your organization have never played a more important role.

Join Renie as she shares what she has learned from working in the trenches with high-performance leaders as they navigate chaos, progress and the everyday challenges your organization faces. From mastering those taunting negative voices in your head to decreasing stress, while increasing productivity and inspiring your people, she will explore what it takes in today’s new normal to have an aligned, and high performing team.

You’ll discover:  

• The 6 proven pillars that everyone can integrate into their leadership that will align and transform the effectiveness of your organization as well as break down ineffective silos 
• Understand what is holding you and your team back from growth and how to turn on your organization’s power switch 
• How to silence the inner voice sabotaging your personal growth and stealing your power 
• Coaching is the key to development and career pathing, which is one of the top 3 reasons team members stay with your organization (decrease unwanted turnover) 
• Creating emotionally engaging and personally motivating workplaces (onsite and remote) 

Please note: Renie customizes each of her keynotes and will integrate stories and content that align with your key messages. 

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What Coaches Do That Changes Performance

Embrace Proactive Leadership and Transform Your Workplace in a Post-COVID World

Key takeaways:

• Apply the 5 critical steps to shifting human behavior
• Understand the distinction between a manager and a coach and when to wear each hat
• Create a high-positivity, high-productivity organization in today's challenging landscape

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Sh*t I Wish I Knew

Discover 25 Essential Lessons to Thrive in Life and Business

Key takeaways:

• Gain insights from Renie's vast experiences in entrepreneurship, leadership and personal growth
• Explore the 25 lessons you must know to thrive in life and business, including strategies for overcoming challenges, fostering innovation and cultivating a growth mindset
• Apply these lessons to your own life and career, improving your decision-making, problem-solving and interpersonal skills

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About Powered by Aspire

We started Aspire with an epiphany: great strategy doesn’t change organizations — people do! So, we set out on a fanatical path to transform human beings and organizations, strengthen cultures, build differentiating strategies and help people execute those strategies through inspiring transformational learning.

Don’t let that last piece get diluted. Great strategy only comes to life through people. They need to understand it, believe in it and know how to deliver on it. That’s what we do best—get people in the right mindset, with the right skill set, and the right processes (aka training & development) so they can do extraordinary work.

This original vision still inspires us, and after 26 years that’s saying something!

Every day we strive to shine the light on people so they can see their potential and change their behavior to meet it.

Our job is to work with clients to bring their brands and business strategies to life. Here, it’s about you, not us. We increase our client’s value by developing their people into a competitive advantage and that ensures brand relevance.

For us, nothing else exceeds the feeling we get than seeing others achieve. Seeing them go beyond what they thought possible, fanatically engage and find the rhythm that only alignment brings. We love this work and are honored to hang with so many smart, dynamic people who love it too.

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Latest Podcasts

Moving Beyond Head Trash

In this Contractor Outlook, Heidi J. Ellsworth meets with Renie Cavallari, the award-winning author and speaker about the mental health of today’s businesses. They visit about how the Summer Olympics shined a light on the importance of working together and believing in the success of all participants. In a time ...
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