Keynotes · Workshops · Fireside Chats

Erin Bestic is an ICF-certified executive coach (PCC), recovering corporate operator of two decades, and author of If You Have to Ask If It's Appropriate… It's Not. She gives audiences what most career talks won't: the real language, the real strategy, and the candor to actually use it on Monday morning.

The truth your mentor is too polite to say.

A woman with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a black blazer and red top, smiling at the camera in an indoor setting.

Part operator. Part coach. Zero fluff.

Erin spent decades inside a leading global consultancy and more than a decade leading sales and operations teams before becoming a PCC executive coach and certified PMP. She's made the mistakes, said the wrong thing, and learned — the hard way — what actually moves a career.

On stage, that translates to talks that are smart, spicy, and immediately usable. Audiences don't leave with affirmations. They leave with scripts, frameworks, and the permission they were waiting for.

Executive Presence

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Negotiation

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Reputation Equity

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Cross-Gen Teams

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Executive Presence 〰️ Negotiation 〰️ Reputation Equity 〰️ Cross-Gen Teams 〰️

Signature Talks

Five ways to bring the message to your room.

Every talk is built on real frameworks from Erin's book and coaching practice — and tailored to your audience, from new grads to the C-suite. Mix, match, or commission something custom.

  • Keynote

    45–60 min

    Building presence, on purpose — before anyone hands you a title.

    The flagship keynote. Confidence isn't a personality trait you toggle on, and "just speak up" is useless advice. Erin reframes professional presence as a set of learnable skills and gives the audience the language to project authority instead of waiting for permission to have it.

    • Why first impressions are about velocity, not vanity

    • The "WAIT" check — and how to be unmissable without being the loudest

    • Calm, clear scripts to hold a boundary and reclaim a stolen idea

  • Keynote

    40–55 min

    Reputation equity is the career currency no one taught you to manage.

    Your résumé gets you interviews; your reputation gets you opportunities. Erin unpacks "reputation equity" — the invisible credit score built through daily consistency — and shows audiences how to make deposits, recover from withdrawals, and become the name that comes up in rooms they're not even in.

    • The difference between visibility and credibility — and why the second one promotes you

    • How your personal brand is a pattern, not a vibe

    • A four-step playbook for resetting a reputation that's drifted

  • Workshop

    90 min–half day

    Negotiation, executive presence, and the language that lands.

    A hands-on working session. Erin teaches the three pillars of executive presence — communication, composure, credibility — then moves into negotiation: reading the tea leaves, knowing your number cold, and being genuinely willing to walk. Participants leave having drafted and pressure-tested their own real-world asks.

    • Live rewrites: stripping apology and hedging out of high-stakes messages

    • The myths that keep talented people (especially women) from asking

    • Practice reps on saying the number without guilt or rambling

  • Fireside

    30–60 min

    Gen Z isn't entitled — they're early to the truth.

    Perfect for leadership offsites and ERG events. Erin leads a candid conversation on working across four generations without the eye-rolling: what each cohort is actually reading in the room, why "entitlement" is often just professional clarity surfaced early, and how managers and emerging talent can stop arguing with the message because of the messenger.

    • Translating boundaries, feedback, and ambition across generations

    • What every cohort gets right — and the blind spot each one carries

    • A frank, funny format that gets a mixed-age room genuinely talking

  • Built for your audience, your moment, your room

    Every organization is carrying something specific. A custom engagement means Erin works directly with you to build a keynote, workshop, or session around your people, your culture, and what they actually need to hear — not a generic talk retrofitted to your theme.

    Reach out with your event details and what you want your audience to walk away with. Erin personally reviews every inquiry.

    Best for: Organizations with specific leadership challenges, ERG and DEI programming, conference chairs who need a speaker built for their exact audience

"Big Sister Energy meets Harvard Business Review."

Where Erin Fits

The right voice for rooms that are done with platitudes.

Conferences & Summits

A memorable main stage keynote that gives attendees language they'll actually quote back to each other in the hallway.

Corporate & Leadership

Off sites, leadership development, and women's initiatives where teams need candor backed by real operating experience.

ERGs & Emerging Talent

Women's networks, early-career cohorts, and cross-generational groups ready for honest, practical, energizing guidance.

Let's get your room talking.

Tell Erin about your event, your audience, and the change you want them to walk out with. She'll tailor the talk to fit.