Jim Haudan

Businesses are undergoing transformations. Organizations' operations have changed radically in the last 10 years for a variety of reasons like globalization, technology advancements, shifting consumer behaviors, and workers' expectations. This requires leaders to adjust behaviors, cultures, processes, and policies - be change agents. In this interactive session, Jim outlines how functions like HR can facilitate and support leaders as change agents, including identifying the behaviors and competencies that enable leaders to be most successful.

Most strategy isn’t understandable, and most engagement isn’t strategic for people. 70% percent of employees are disengaged, leaving billions of dollars on the table. Jim explores the concept of “engagement” in business and its importance in executing strategy by looking at how people learn and what holds them back from engaging/succeeding. In this interactive experience, he explains how organizations can close the gap between their aspirations and actual, tangible results by connecting people to strategy – and to each other – to enable every company to reach their strategic destination.

In unprecedented numbers, followers are not buying what leaders are selling. When 84% of U.S. employees are looking for a new job and 70% are not actively engaged in their jobs, it becomes clear that leaders have forgotten the importance of followership. Jim’s session provides insights into creating a followership that results in sustained, positive motivation and change. Best practices such as reframing challenges, connecting employees to a future positive state, and telling easy-to-identify stories are the takeaways from this session.