Harold has been featured in San Antonio Magazine and Business.com, and his writings have been featured in the Austin Business Journal, SHRM’s People & Strategy Blog, and Recruiter.com. He was recently recognized as a Finalist for the 2019 Austin Under 40 Awards, and he is on the Board of Directors for Leadership Austin, Creative Action (Secretary), and Equality Texas (Chair of Marketing & Communications Committee).

What if we didn’t wait for something bad to happen in our lives to make the changes we know we need to make—to live the life we want to live, to be happier, to live without regret.

Many of us have worked hard to get to where we are today and that often comes with sacrifice. We’ve chased getting into the best colleges, we’ve chased jobs and promotions. What if were just as purposeful and diligent about making time for and putting our resources towards the things that make us happy and bring goodness into our lives. What if we chased goodness?

Chase the Good^® is a way of living that encourages you to live your best life now.

In this talk, participants will learn…

• How to identify what goodness is for them
• The steps to Chase the Good^® in their lives
• The P.A.C.E. framework for tracking progress

Kids these days have it easy and they are definitely missing out. They don’t create mixtapes anymore, they create playlists—it takes 10 minutes and the only skill that’s required is a solid drag and drop. A good mixtape took planning, effort, and time to get right. And you were willing to spend so much time on it because it mattered.

Curating company culture is much like creating that well structured mixtape in that if you apply the same principles of selection, sequencing, and shaping, you can make your employees fall in love with the company.

When your company culture supports your strategy it results in increased productivity, happy workers, and better decision making to name a few benefits. But when your culture is not aligned and working against you, it can lead to high turnover, difficulty recruiting, sabotage, unethical behavior or decisions, lack of teamwork, and other issues that can destroy a company faster than that beloved mixtape can unravel in your boom box.

It’s important for your employees to know how you feel about them, and how you want them to feel about the company if you want to get the most from your people and culture.

In this talk, the audience will …

• Learn the three S’s for curating company culture
• Learn the benefits of having a culture that supports your strategy
• Learn the pieces that make up Cardigan’s Culture Wheel
• Make a company culture playlist (if time and audience size allows)

“The only constant is change.” This common expression is easily applied to today’s ever changing business landscape. In order to stay relevant in the digital world or attract and retain top talent, many organizations find themselves undergoing a multitude of change efforts to remain competitive. And while change is good, it is time consuming and responsibility for change management tends to fall under a vague job description of “other duties as assigned.” If you find yourself in that gray area, how do you effectively manage change that is not your job, but becomes your responsibility?

During this interactive presentation, we will present Cardigan’s Change Management Triage. This simple tool is designed to help leaders organize and lead their change efforts by grouping change initiatives into four categories: Stop It, Explain It, Do It, Park It.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Identify forces for and against change
• Prioritize change management tactics and activities
• Implement the 4 Step Change Management Triage Process