Act Like an Owner: Five Unlocks for Creating Culture People Love and Results Leaders Need

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Greg Hawks Sam Ruhmkorff

Act Like an Owner

Name: Act Like an Owner
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Five Unlocks for Creating Culture People Love and Results Leaders Need

Greg Hawks, Sam Ruhmkorff, Monica Scott

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Hawks Media
21 January 2026

Management: leadership & motivation; Organisational theory & behaviour; Working patterns & practices

Markets shift. Competitors adapt. Your future is determined by the mindsets shaping your culture.

In Act Like an Owner, keynote speaker, author, and Corporate Culture Specialist Greg Hawks introduces a vivid metaphor that reframes how people show up at work: Owners, Renters, and Vandals. Owners bring their heart, head, and hands. Renters show up with only their hands. Vandals bring division and strife. These are not fixed categories, but mindsets that shape whether a workplace moves forward or falls behind.

The heart of the book is the Five Unlocks of an Owner's Mindset. These practices fuel commitment, deepen employee engagement, and unleash innovation:

Risk Bold Commitments Activate Lasting Change Reach for Responsibility Widen the Circle Think Whole House

Together, the Unlocks form a blueprint for building an Ownership Culture: a workplace culture where people contribute their best daily, leaders nurture trust and growth, and teams advance a mission that matters.

What sets Act Like an Owner apart is its practicality. Each chapter blends compelling stories, humor, and research with application prompts that invite readers to put the concepts into practice immediately. Leaders and teams will not only understand the Owner-Renter-Vandal lexicon but also walk away with a process to diagnose cultural realities and shift them toward lasting engagement.

This book connects directly to today's most pressing business needs: employee engagement, leadership development, organizational culture, performance, and talent retention. It shows how to strengthen trust, expand accountability, and create high-performance teams that achieve sustainable results.

Greg Hawks brings more than 25 years of experience working with organizations of every size and setting, from Fortune 500 companies to ESOPs and family-run businesses. Known for vivid metaphors and direct communication, Greg challenges leaders and teams to unlock ownership and provokes people to see work differently. His career has proven one truth again and again: ownership is not reserved for a select few at the top. It can be cultivated everywhere.

Act Like an Owner is more than strategies. It is a structured framework for transforming disengagement into buy-in, compliance into contribution, and fractured workplaces into thriving ecosystems of ownership.

Cultures built on ownership win. This book shows you how to build one.

Act Like an Owner delivers Five Unlocks for Creating Culture People Love and Results Leaders Need.

By: Greg Hawks
Cover design or artwork by: Monica Scott
Edited by: Sam Ruhmkorff
Imprint: Hawks Media
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 404g
ISBN: 9798993178400
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 21 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Greg Hawks is a keynote speaker, author, and consultant who equips leaders and teams to Act Like an Owner. For more than 25 years, he has worked with organizations nationwide-from Fortune 500 companies to ESOPs, credit unions, associations, and family-run businesses-helping them build workplace cultures defined by trust, ownership, and growth.Drawing from decades of leadership experience and his background as a real estate investor, Greg created the Ownership Culture framework, which is the foundation of his book Act Like an Owner. In it, he introduces the Five Unlocks of an Owner's Mindset, practices that fuel commitment, increase engagement, and foster innovation. His approach provides a practical blueprint for leaders who want to transform organizational culture, align teams, and inspire people to contribute their best daily.Known for his vivid metaphors, dynamic energy, and practical insights, Greg's keynotes and consulting engagements are designed to spark immediate action and sustain long-term change Sam Ruhmkorff has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The University of Michigan. For twenty years, he taught philosophy at Bard College at Simon's Rock, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Smith College. In addition, he has published numerous scholarly articles in various journals, including Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies. His research has concerned the scientific realism debate in the philosophy of science, religious pluralism and the problem of evil in the philosophy of religion, and observer selection effects in probabilistic epistemology. His short story ""A Net Into the Sea"" is forthcoming in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Monica's mission is to equip and motivate leaders through her designing, writing, speaking, and training. She specializes in connecting value-driven strategies, stories, and timeless leadership truths to our everyday realities.