CHELSEA HUSUM
About Chelsea Husum
Chelsea Husum is a keynote speaker, bestselling author, and construction company founder who has been featured on Next Level CEO with Daymond John, Go Fund Yourself, Business Insider, NBC, CBS, FOX, and other national media. She was named a 2024 Denver Business Journal Outstanding Woman in Business, and her bestselling book, Real Vibes Only, reached #2 on Amazon's Women in Business list.
Chelsea is the founder and CEO of American GPR & Coring, a successful company she built and leads in the male dominated construction industry. Her experience leading teams through growth, uncertainty, setbacks, and high pressure environments has shaped a leadership philosophy rooted in trust, consistency, and genuine human connection. She has created a culture where no employee has ever voluntarily quit.
Today, Chelsea brings those hard earned leadership lessons to stages across the country. Her signature keynote, Earn the Follow: How Great Leaders Create Buy-In That Lasts, shows leaders how to earn trust, inspire ownership, and create lasting buy-in by becoming the kind of leader people genuinely want to follow.
Chelsea has spoken for national organizations and events across construction, manufacturing, finance, and professional leadership, bringing a perspective shaped by actually building a company, leading people, making hard calls, getting things wrong, and figuring out what works when the stakes are real.
Her speaking journey also has a special connection to the Amplify family. Chelsea first shared one of the most vulnerable stories of her life while standing in Amplify speaker Amberly Lago's living room. That moment helped show her the power of telling the truth out loud, and today, those same kinds of honest, deeply human stories are part of what makes her connection with audiences so powerful.
Known for bold storytelling, humor, and saying what others are thinking, Chelsea gives leaders a practical framework for creating greater trust, ownership, follow-through, and lasting buy-in within their teams.
- Founder and CEO of American GPR & Coring, an award-winning company she built and leads in the male dominated construction industry
- Bestselling author of Real Vibes Only, which reached #2 on Amazon's Women in Business list
- Named a 2024 Denver Business Journal Outstanding Woman in Business
- Featured on Next Level CEO with Daymond John, Go Fund Yourself, Business Insider, NBC, CBS and FOX
- A culture where no employee has ever voluntarily quit, built on trust, consistency and genuine human connection
- Host of Lip Service & Lashes, her podcast on leadership, entrepreneurship and telling the truth out loud
- Speaks across construction, manufacturing, finance and professional leadership, for national organizations and events
Watch Chelsea Speak
Speaking Topics
Chelsea's signature keynote. Built for leadership conferences, management meetings and team development audiences.
Great leadership isn't about having all the answers. It's about becoming the kind of leader people genuinely want to follow. Drawing from her real world experience building and leading a company in the construction industry, Chelsea shows leaders how to build trust, strengthen connection, inspire ownership, and create lasting buy-in.
Through bold storytelling, humor, and her practical three part framework, audiences walk away with actionable ways to lead teams that are more engaged, committed, and ready to move forward together.
Key Takeaways Include
- Earn buy-in rather than direct it, so people believe in where they are going instead of simply doing what they are told
- Build credibility through consistency, the everyday leadership behaviors that determine whether people trust you
- Apply Chelsea's three part framework for creating trust, ownership and follow-through on a team
- Communicate through pressure and change without losing the room
- Create an environment where people bring ideas forward, strengthening collaboration and problem-solving
- Lead through hard calls and mistakes, using lessons from actually running a company rather than theory
Deeply personal and energizing. Ideal for women's conferences, association events and all-hands audiences.
What if the experiences you've spent years trying to clean up, overcome, or hide are actually the ones that can make you more powerful? In this keynote, Chelsea uses humor, raw storytelling, and hard earned lessons from entrepreneurship, leadership, motherhood, and life to challenge audiences to stop waiting for permission, trust themselves, and have the audacity to be seen.
Audiences leave ready to own their story, take bold action, and move into what's next with greater courage, confidence, and self-trust.
Key Takeaways Include
- Turn the messy parts of your story into credibility rather than something to manage around
- Stop waiting for permission and act before you feel fully ready
- Build self-trust that holds up under pressure, setbacks and visibility
- Use honest storytelling to connect, whether you are leading a team or building a business
- Move into what's next with courage and confidence, with concrete steps to take after the event
Both keynotes are available as breakout sessions or workshops and are fully customizable to your event theme and audience.
Best Fit Audiences
- Leadership conferences, management meetings and executive retreats focused on trust, buy-in and accountability
- Construction, manufacturing, finance and skilled trades audiences who want a speaker who has actually run a company in their world
- Women in leadership programs and women's conferences
- Associations building programs around culture, engagement and retention
- Organizations navigating growth, change or high pressure seasons where follow-through matters more than motivation
Testimonials
Helpful and relatable. Easy to understand. Great speaker! Interesting, engaging, knowledgeable, and intelligent. Chelsea taught me leadership skills that will hopefully prove to be invaluable.
Cathleen Vilmont, Estes ConstructionI really connected with Chelsea and her approach to work with authenticity. I loved how she emphasized showing up as your true self.
Elizabeth Humpal, Wendler, Inc.Chelsea's keynote was very positive and insightful to the human experience.
Deb Cordell, Baker GroupVery engaging and motivating! Would definitely recommend Chelsea for future events.
Lindsey SandersonChelsea is the REAL DEAL! Always leading from the front, cheering others on and making amazing things in life happen. I love how she is so willing to be authentic and share the messy parts of life to inspire and empower us all to go after it no matter what is thrown our way!
A.C.Chelsea is not afraid to share the real, the raw, the unapologetic stories of her life and journey. She is going to bring validation, solidarity and a sense of freedom to so many women through her confessions.
L.B.Books
- Real Vibes Only. Chelsea's bestselling book, which reached #2 on Amazon's Women in Business list. A candid account of building a company and a life without hiding the messy parts.
Where Chelsea Appears
Chelsea Husum is featured on these Amplify Speakers rosters: