Jeffrey Harry | SpeakerHub

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Bio

Jeff Harry combines positive psychology and play to heal workplaces, help teams build psychological safety and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges by embracing a play-oriented approach to work. Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers and has been featured in the NY Times, Mashable, Upworthy, Huffpost, Shondaland, Wired, & NPR. Jeff has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day. Over the past 15 years of facilitation and speaking, Jeff’s main goal has been to help work suck less by assisting leaders in building a playground workplace atmosphere that motivates their staff to do their most vibrant work.

Current position (1)

Positive Psychology Play Speaker

Rediscover Your Play

Achievements (2)

Top 100 HR Influencer By Engagedly

Top Influencers To Watch By BambooHR

Degrees (1)

Mechanical Engineering

Tufts University

1996 to 2000

Presentations

Presentations (4)

Building Psychology Safety At Work Through Play

Managers often associate “playing at work” with goofing off or wasting company time and money. But what if play was a crucial component to building a solid foundation for your team? What if it could help create a sense of belonging and psychological safety in the workplace and rekindle morale — especially surrounded by all this uncertainty?

In this workshop, we will explore how play is vital to building
camaraderie in this surreal new reality of work. We will analyze what is currently missing from your workplace that would create the psychological safety your staff is looking for to feel comfortable playing. Finally, we will determine what are the initial steps you need to take to create an environment where staff can do their most vibrant work.

Why Ted Lasso’s Feminine & Masculine Leadership Matters

76% of employees are disengaged at work. Staff eventually leave because they don't feel seen, heard, or appreciated. Who knew the answer to this lies in a show called Ted Lasso? Ted Lasso's leadership style, which combines both feminine and masculine traits, is vital for companies because it demonstrates the effectiveness of a more holistic and inclusive approach to being a leader. Divine feminine leadership emphasizes empathy, intuition, and collaboration, which creates a compassionate work culture. Healthy masculine leadership cultivates assertiveness, decisiveness, and accountability, which leads to a more productive and results-oriented work culture. Combined, this approach builds the strongest and most effective teams.

This session is for organizations who want to rise above the antiquated Mad Men way of managing; for the executive ready to embrace a Ted Lasso standard of leadership where our people are our priority. Is your company ready to follow through on the values pla

How Gratitude & Celebration Can Connect Your Staff Back To Their Why

he biggest reason employees leave organizations is that they don't feel seen, heard, appreciated, and valued. How managers communicate their appreciation to their employees establishes how successful a team will be.

What are your leaders doing to communicate their gratitude towards their staff? How can recognizing and celebrating your employees' successes dramatically improve team chemistry and build psychological safety? Consistent gestures of gratitude towards staff have proven to improve productivity, strengthen relationships and subsequently build a happier workforce. Gratitude, among other emotional intelligence skills, typically does not get the credit they deserve in establishing the culture of an organization.

In this workshop, we will explore the impact gratitude and celebration can have on a team, examine the psychological ripple effects gratitude can have on an entire company, and break down what actionable gratitude exercises can be implemented in real-time at

Making Work Suck Less By Fixing Broken HR Systems

How confident are you in your current HR practices and leadership team to adapt to these tumultuous times? If the answer isn't a resounding yes, then your HR systems may be broken. What about your HR approach seems antiquated? If we believe employees don't quit jobs, they quit their bosses, what have you done to improve the quality of your leaders? How is HR helping to grow the next generation of leaders that have a strong EQ foundation to manage a growing Gen Z workforce? The next generation of worker does not see an emotionally intelligent manager as a bonus but as a requirement to stay.

This workshop is a BS Meter for your HR & Leadership teams. It's an opportunity to reflect on if you have the right system in place and, if so, how you are getting leaders prepared to manage in this surreal future of work. This workshop lifts the veil on your team, on your protocols, and on all of your tried and true methods to see if they pass the litmus test needed to thrive now. You alr