Jeff Harry

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About Jeff Harry

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. The topics he covers include: Employee Engagement/Understanding Your Why - How Can Gratitude Connect You Back To Their Why - Extinguishing Burnout By Rediscovering Your Why - How To Help Your Staff Rediscover Their Flow Psychological Safety & Communication - Building Psychological Safety At Work Through Play - Navigating Difficult Conversations Through Play - Addressing Toxicity In The Workplace Through Play - Why Ted Lasso's Feminine & Masculine Leadership Matters Mindset - Playing With Your Inner Critic - Embracing Your Fears: We, Not Me Systems - Making Work Suck Less By Fixing Broken HR Systems For his work, Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers. His work has most recently been featured in the NY Times, Mashable, Upworthy, Shondaland, & Wired. Jeff is also an international speaker who has presented at conferences such as INBOUND, SXSW, and Australia’s Pausefest, showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play. 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. While we spend most of our time pretending to be important, serious grownups, it's when we let go of that facade and just play, that the real magic happens. Fully embracing your own nerdy genius — whatever that is — gives you the power to make a difference and change lives. Jeff believes that we already have many of the answers we seek, and by simply unleashing our inner child, we can find our purpose and, in turn, help to create a better world.