Kevin McCarthy
Through powerful storytelling and psychology, Kevin McCarthy helps organizations reveal hidden assumptions that sabotage success and drive behavioral change.
Why you should book Kevin McCarthy for your next event
- As a Certified Speaking Professional, Kevin delivers world-class content recognized globally for its depth, credibility, and transformative power.
- With a proven track record as an award-winning sales leader and tech entrepreneur, Kevin brings real-world business insight to every keynote.
- Drawing from his powerful life story of resilience and transformation, Kevin offers audiences profound lessons on ethics, accountability, and personal growth.
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Uncovering Blind Spots: The Key to Better Leadership Decisions
Discover what’s holding your organization back. Kevin McCarthy, bestselling author and Certified Speaking Professional, helps leaders uncover hidden blind spots that distort judgment and hinder performance. His powerful keynotes transform mindset, strengthen culture, and equip teams to make better decisions, build trust, and achieve lasting organizational success.
Keynote Speaker Kevin McCarthy is recognized globally for his groundbreaking work on uncovering “blind spots”, the hidden biases, assumptions, and thinking errors that distort judgment, limit potential, and sabotage organizational performance. With a rare blend of behavioral science, business acumen, and compelling storytelling, Kevin helps leaders and teams recognize the unseen forces shaping their decisions, communication, and culture.
As the bestselling author of BlindSpots – Why Good People Make Bad Choices, Kevin translates complex cognitive psychology into actionable strategies that inspire self-awareness and transform leadership effectiveness. His keynotes equip audiences with practical tools to challenge bias, strengthen collaboration, and build cultures of integrity and trust. Drawing from his own remarkable journey, from award-winning entrepreneur to a powerful story of redemption and resilience, Kevin connects deeply with audiences, leaving a lasting impact on mindset and behavior.
When organizations book Kevin McCarthy for their event, they gain more than a speaker, they gain a catalyst for change. His programs reveal the invisible barriers that undermine strategy, culture, and results, helping teams realign around clarity, accountability, and shared purpose. Engaging, insightful, and transformative, Kevin delivers the kind of keynote that drives reflection, inspires action, and creates measurable organizational growth.
Book Kevin McCarthy for your event to uncover what’s been holding your organization back and turn blind spots into breakthroughs.
Keynotes
Keynote by Kevin McCarthy:
You Can’t Read the Label from Inside the Jar
Revealing Leadership Blind Spots that Impact Performance.
It's a well-known adage that employees don't leave their jobs; they leave their bosses. To thrive, organizations must prioritize the growth and satisfaction of their good people.
Join us for a transformative keynote where we illuminate the path to exceptional leadership.
Here's a glimpse of what you'll learn:
- Insight into the Top Three Leadership Blind Spots that may be hindering your team's performance.
- Strategies for Empowering and Inspiring Excellence in your team, motivating them to bring their best every day.
- Techniques for Masterful Communication that can fast-track your team's results and foster a culture of collaboration.
- The Critical Thinking Skill to navigate emotions and resolve conflicts, turning challenges into opportunities for growth.
- A roadmap for evolving from an ordinary Manager to an Extraordinary Leader
Key takeaways: Leadership is relational. Leadership doesn’t stop with self-awareness. The manager is directly responsible for engagement or the lack thereof.
Keynote by Kevin McCarthy:
Unleashing the Leader Within: Turning Potential into Performance.
We all carry them—hidden biases, limiting beliefs, and thinking errors that cloud our perception, drive destructive behaviors, and impair decision-making. These invisible barriers silently hold us back from reaching our full potential as leaders.
In this compelling keynote, Kevin delves into the core of Talent Powered Leadership, where true leadership is about unleashing the inherent strengths within yourself and those you lead. Kevin's powerful prison story serves as a backdrop, illustrating how even the darkest experiences can reveal the blind spots that hinder us from achieving greatness.
This fast-paced and transformative presentation will challenge your audience to embark on a journey of self-awareness and growth, empowering them to:
- Expose and eliminate the blind spots that obstruct peak performance.
- Communicate more effectively and reduce conflict to foster stronger, more productive relationships.
- Make clearer, more informed decisions by overcoming the biases that cloud judgment.
- Harness and optimize talent—both their own and that of their teams—to drive exceptional results.
Prepare to unlock your true leadership potential and transform it into performance that inspires and elevates everyone around you.
Keynote by Kevin McCarthy:
Find Your Stride — How to Crush Your Blind Spots & Thrive!
How you move through the world reveals unseen influences that hobble your success. Just as biases impact your decisions, so do beliefs, environment and experiences. Kevin McCarthy spent 33 months in prison for a crime he didn’t knowingly commit.
In this humorous, enlightening and actionable program, he shares three critical insights he learned from his bunkies on the inside, who came out transformed.
Participants will learn:
- Three secrets for changing your life
- The key to garnering respect and influence
- How to recognize and break self-destructive habits
- How to become a leader that others will follow
- How small changes have a big impact on your decisions, and your future
Key takeaways: Uncover and crush your blind spots to unlock your full potential. Learn transformative insights for impactful leadership and personal growth.
Keynote by Kevin McCarthy:
Awareness Advantage® Transformational Leadership Programs
John Maxwell once said, “What undermines leadership efforts, stalls team progress, and derails careers more than anything else? A lack of self-awareness.”
Our Blind Spots Leadership and Teamwork Programs equip leaders with the people skills to uncover and address their leadership blind spots. By enhancing self-awareness and emotional intelligence, these programs empower leaders to make better decisions, communicate more effectively, and build stronger relationships, ultimately boosting performance and productivity.
Through the Awareness Advantage programs, participants will:
- Identify and mitigate leadership blind spots to enhance team performance.
- Increase self-awareness for more informed decision-making.
- Develop emotional intelligence to improve interpersonal relationships.
- Transform communication skills for clearer and more effective interactions.
- Strengthen team dynamics by fostering collaboration and reducing conflict.
These learning objectives help leaders build the necessary skills for driving both personal and organizational success.
Awareness Advantage programs can be delivered onsite in 1/2 Day, Full Day and Two Day sessions. It is also designed to be delivered virtually over five months with 20 weekly online lessons and 15 one-hour group coaching sessions via Zoom to minimize workplace disruption. Join a mixed cohort or create your own private cohorts.
