Human
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BUILDING A NEUROSCIENCE-BASED HIGH-PERFORMANCE CULTURE:

• Based on the latest from neuroscience, creating an emotionally safe workplace culture is an imperative for optimizing leadership, team and organizational performance and unparalleled business results.
• A neuroscience-based emotionally safe culture unleashes the unique talents of employees, teams and organizations. The impact of a safe workplace environment is powerfully influential and invites the highest potential of all employees.
• Energy, motivation and esprit de corps will rise which inspires greater creativity, innovation and growth. An unparalleled employee experience creates synergy with and translates into an unparalleled customer experience.

Summary of Benefits & Results:

• Build a high-Performance neuroscience-based workplace culture.
• Assess present and align future culture with strategy and business goals.
• Establish internal advocacy and sponsorship for all culture change initiatives.
• Identify and proactively resolve any internal resistance to culture change initiatives.
• Establish measures and milestones to inspire, monitor and ensure progress toward goals.
• Increase and sustain employee and team engagement in a neuroscience-based culture.
• Leaders at all levels are engaged, performing at their best and inspiring the best from employees, teams and the organization. Business results reflect leadership, employee and team optimization.
• Neuroscience-based culture invites and unlocks talents and unique strengths of employees, teams and the organization. Vulnerabilities (blind spots and weaknesses) are mitigated. The aggregate combination optimizes organizational performance, productivity and business results.
• Morale, motivation and esprit de corps continue to rise which inspires creativity, innovation and growth. Exemplary performance and productivity become the norm throughout the organization.
• Employees increase awareness of and assume greater ownership and responsibility for their behaviors and the impact upon teammates, the customer experience and business results.
• Employee behaviors are more deliberate, productive and focused on delivering an outstanding customer experience while creating a unique form of competitive advantage.
• Key talent attraction and retention are significantly improved while building bench strength and succession plans for the future.

Eric Hehman is CEO and principal of Austin Asset, an award-winning wealth planning and management firm, in Austin, Texas. When Hehman was tapped to succeed the founder as CEO, he immediately turned to Larry Fehd of Human Performance Strategies (HPS) for expert guidance and support.

Fehd offers a unique blend of consulting and coaching. As a consultant, he created a comprehensive road map for Hehman’s successful transition to CEO and firm leader. As a coach, he held Hehman accountable while offering guidance and constructive feedback. “Larry was always asking me, ‘So what are you going to do?’” Hehman said. “He wouldn’t let me duck when things got difficult.”

Hehman said, “Larry helped me to find my own voice, form my own opinions, advocate for myself and act on his ideas.

“Larry encouraged me to play bigger. He instilled confidence in my ability to trust myself, shine brighter and step up.”

LARRY FEHD is the founder and CEO of Austin-based Human Performance Strategies (HPS). He is a prominent thought leader and expert in optimizing leadership, team and organizational performance. Larry is regarded as a catalyst for breaking though inertia and the status quo. Clients value his unique insights, perspectives and talents in helping them to inspire the best and tap into the highest potential of employees, teams and organizations.

Larry conceived Invitational Leadership™ which offers a simplified form of predictive, proven and scalable leadership development. Invitational Leadership™ also integrates the latest from neuroscience in combination with Larry’s proprietary executive coaching, team and organization development methods. Larry offers practical advice and pragmatic solutions that deliver simple, substantive and sustainable results.

Larry is known as The Architect of Human Potential™ and guides clients to Summit the Pinnacle of Human Potential™. Larry works one-on-one with CEOs and executive teams, business owners, start-ups, management boards and investors. He serves clients in an executive leadership and business optimization advisory role and unique combination of coach, confidant and consultant.

Prior to founding Human Performance Strategies (HPS), Larry directed executive leadership, team and organization development for the premier Tylenol® division of Johnson & Johnson. He also served on the prestigious Johnson & Johnson Global Leadership Development Consortium. This team of senior Johnson & Johnson executives designed global leadership, team and organizational optimization programs.

Larry is the author of Emotional Intelligence: An Executive Handbook and popular blog, The Architects of Human Potential™. He consults, speaks and writes on optimizing leadership, team and organizational performance. Larry is a graduate of Purdue University, an Eagle Scout, and lives in Austin, Texas.

HPS has served a diverse portfolio of U.S. and international clientele since 2000.

Despite life’s challenges, sometimes we just need to trust and take a leap of faith. One of my early challenges was being born with a congenital hearing impairment. Throughout my childhood and early adult years it was difficult to understand speech during day-to-day conversations and impossible in some environments. My hearing loss was not progressive, however, the cause was not properly diagnosed until my mid-twenties.

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During my early years, I learned to cope by developing other means of listening and understanding. These means manifested as heightened senses of observation, listening, intuition, recognition of subtle facial gestures, voice intonation, body language, etc. Thanks to advancements in technology, including digital hearing technology, I was able to begin hearing and living a normal life.

The interesting thing is that I retained all of my heightened senses. These senses provide a deeper level of listening, observing and understanding in my work today with leaders, teams and organizations. In my early years, I avoided acknowledging my hearing loss and felt a lot of embarrassment, shame and a sense of being flawed in some way. Today, I embrace it with gratitude and as a unique gift.

Shortly before leaving Johnson & Johnson, I had the good fortune of having a conversation with Debra Benton who is a NY Times best-selling author and one of world’s top executive coaches. Toward the end of our conversation, she said to me, “Larry, what is obvious to you is a complete revelation to others.” Her affirmation was a life-changing experience and major turning point in my career and it continues to inspire me today.

Someone once said, “The first sale is to yourself”. I was sold and, in 2000, made the leap to launch Human Performance Strategies (HPS).

- Larry Fehd, Austin, Texas