Haydn Shaw
A leading expert on the multiple generations, leadership, change management, personal productivity, and trust.
The author of Sticking Points: How to Get 4 Generations Working Together in the 12 Places They Come Apart and Franklin Covey’s bestselling workshops Leading Across Generations and Working Across Generations. He also writes on generations and leadership for the Huffington Post.
TIME wrote, “Shaw is an expert on cultural differences at the office.” He has spoken to over 100,000 people and worked with more than 1,500 businesses (from Fortune 500 companies to start ups), not-for-profit organizations, and governmental agencies. He speaks and consults in excess of 160 days each year to clients who consistently invite him back.
Hailed as a “leadership guru” by the Washington Post, Haydn Shaw has delivered hundreds of convention keynotes or intimate off-sites. Known for taking groups from hilarity to deep reflection, he combines rich content with use-tomorrow tools. His presentations make an impact because he does his homework, designing each one for your unique needs. Having worked with hundreds of organizations, Haydn connects with virtually any group in any industry, and brings practical and inspiring examples from the boardroom and the front line.
He also has worked with FranklinCovey for twenty three years as a senior consultant and one of their most requested keynote speakers specializing in their generations, leadership, execution, personal productivity and trust methodologies.
HAYDN SPEAKS EXTENSIVELY IN FOUR AREAS:
1. GENERATIONS
His generational keynotes get people laughing at the generations so they quit complaining about the generations and start learning why the generations are different and how to turn those differences into productivity and sales. People frequently refer to his presentation on generations as one of the best speeches they have ever heard.
PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE
• Sticking Points: How to Get the 4 Generations Working Together in the 12 Places They Come Apart
• Leading the Millennials: Gaining, Training, and Retaining the Text Message Generation
• Don’t Miss Half Your Market: Selling to Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials
2. THE 6 CHANGE REACTIONS
Change may be the new normal but the emotions it creates sure shakes up people. Just as the tsunami kills more people than the actual earthquake, people’s emotional reactions to change cause more problems than the change itself. When they announce changes, leaders tell their people that change is now a fact of life. But there is another fact of life: people respond to change in six ways. When leaders and managers ignore the 6 Change Reactions, they make change harder than it needs to be.
PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE
• Leading through the 6 Change Reactions: Why Change Stalls and What You Can Do about It (for leaders, managers, and supervisors)
• Understanding the 6 Change Reactions: Making Change Faster and Easier for All of Us (for all employees)
• Light Eaters, Yipper/ Yappers, and Hound Dogs: Dealing with the Three Types of Resistant and Negative Employees (for everyone)
3. PRODUCTIVITY
Productivity has two parts: how well the organization communicates priorities and how well individuals use their time. Most approaches just focus on individual time management. Haydn’s productivity presentations do both: he helps leaders and managers get clear on how to get their people focused while also helping individuals manage their time and deal with the overwhelming flood of email, technology, and information.
PRENTATIONS INCLUDE
• Franklin Covey’s The 5 Choices for Personal Productivity in the Information Avalanche
• Franklin Covey’s 4 Disciplines of Execution
• Franklin Covey’s Why Sales People Can’t Get Time to Sell and What to Do About It
4. TRUST
When trust is high, teams get things done. But when trust is low, everything slows down and costs more.
PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE
Franklin Covey’s The Speed of Trust: the One Thing That Changes Everything
Haydn Shaw travels from Chicago, where he lives in a multigenerational household with his Gen Xer wife, Laurie, his Traditionalist mother-in-law, his disabled Gen X brother-in-law, and his Millennial children.
