---
title: "Inspiring leadership: creating your company’s leadership journey"
description: Leadership is a journey that your employees choose to take. Learn how to inspire them to do it in this webinar with Kevin Ames and Guusto's Noah Warder.
image: https://webinars.guusto.com/hubfs/WEBINARGRAPHIC_AmesInstitute_Nov2023.png
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# Inspiring leadership: creating your company’s leadership journey

![Inspiring leadership: creating your company’s leadership journey](https://webinars.guusto.com/hubfs/WEBINARGRAPHIC_AmesInstitute_Nov2023.png)

**November 22, 2023 at 11:00 AM PST/ 2.00 PM EST**

 

People don’t just become leaders the second they are promoted to leadership roles. True leadership – and the skills and behaviors that go with it – is something professionals have to choose, and starts from within.

So how can you, as a People Leader, encourage your employees to embrace this kind of leadership? In this webinar, our Head of People Noah Warder will talk to Kevin Ames, Founder of the Ames Leadership Institute about how to inspire people to embark on their own leadership journey.

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[Kevin Ames](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-ames-487846124/)  
Founder & President - [Ames Leadership Institute](https://amesleadershipinstitute.com/)

With a mission to instill in others a passion for personal and professional excellence, Kevin Ames is an author, world-renowned speaker, and founder of the Ames Leadership Institute. In the past ten years alone, Kevin has spoken to more than a thousand companies, campuses, and conferences across the globe. A sought-after consultant and personal coach, Kevin’s work has been called, “*inspiring, dynamic, and informative”.*

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[Noah Warder](https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahwarder/)

Head of People  - [Guusto](https://guusto.com)

 

Noah has been leading people teams and helping startups scale their people process across Canada and the US.

 

Now as Head of People at Guusto, he gets to marry his passion for employee best practices and a people-centric mission of helping companies create amazing employee recognition programs to build community, connect teams, and engage employees in meaningful and authentic ways. 

 

 

 

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