Biography of Haydn Shaw

Haydn Shaw is a leading expert on generations and turning around negative work environments and employees.  For over twenty years Haydn Shaw has helped Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen Xers, and most recently Millennials work together. He has also worked with FranklinCovey as a senior consultant for seventeen years specializing in their leadership, execution, and personal productivity methodologies.

Haydn has worked with more than 1,000 businesses, not-for-profit, and governmental organizations. He teaches in excess of 160 days each year to clients who consistently invite him back. He has worked as a senior consultant with FranklinCovey for seventeen years.

Recently 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. Haydn has worked extensively with three topics:

1.  Leading Across Multiple Generations.
He is the author of the popular training course Leading Across 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 regularly comment that it is the best speech they have ever heard.
Presentations include:
• Leading Across Multiple Generations: Helping Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials Get Past the Differences and Get Stuff Done
• 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 Big Burp®.
Nothing is more frustrating or discouraging than trying to turn around negative environments or employees. This humorous keynote uses the metaphor of burping a baby to help leaders understand how to keep their teams from turning negative and what to do when they have already have. You’ll learn how to separate the dangerously negative people from the merely irritating, how to keep negative people from taking over your team, and how to move people through changes without letting the negative people take over. Presentations include:
• The Big Burp®: Turning Around Negative Work Environments
• The Big Burp® and Change: Why Much of What We Do To Manage Change Backfires
• The Big Burp® and the Impossible Employee: Quit Letting the Bad Guys Win

3.  Productivity.
Productivity has two parts: how well the organization communicates priorities and how well individuals use their time.  Most approaches only focus on 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. Presentations include:
• Road Kill on the Information Highway: How to Get Things Done When It Never Stops
• Why Sales People Can’t Get Time to Sell and What to Do About It
• The Power of Focus: How Leaders Can Help Their People Get More Done

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.