Jason Walker

Jason Walker is an HR industry veteran, talent advisor and global speaker helping businesses transform their people practices and policies in the rapidly changing world at work.

In 2020, Walker and his partner Rey Ramirez founded Thrive HR Consulting, an Austin, TX and Denver-CO, based HR advisory firm that seeks to augment HR needs for organizations, providing fractional HR services for leading, managing, or providing guidance in all facets of HR. Thrive provides a unique model that is helpful for companies that don't need full-time support but need expertise and guidance in the areas of executive coaching, mergers and acquisitions, employee relations, diversity and inclusion and belonging, compliance, payroll, global HR expertise, talent acquisition, and digital workforce transformation.

Walker has over fifteen years of experience running all phases of a successful human resources operation. His specialties include selecting and retaining top talent, building high-performance teams, and consistently meeting and exceeding external customer’s expectations. Walker has exceptional interpersonal ability to communicate powerfully to all levels of the organization and position and feature HR as an integral part of a successful and profitable company. He also has experience in re-engineering workforces, planning for growth, and contraction throughout the last couple of decades, the dot com bust, the second economic downturn the 2008 Great Recession and is currently assisting companies with Covid-19 efforts.

Walker speaks regularly at industry conferences including WorkHuman Live, HR M&A Annual Conference & Training, South Texas HR Symposium, Denver Startup Week, HR Florida State Conference & Expo, Rocky Mountain Total Rewards Association events, Chicago HR M&A Round Table, Denver HR group, Georgia World Cannabis Conference, and The Grow Tradefest. He is also frequently asked to share his insights in articles and interviews for media outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg Tax, Thomson Reuters, HR Dive, Protocol among others.

Walker’s speaking topics and other areas of expertise include Talent acquisition, Mergers and acquisitions, HR data and analytics, C- level coaching, Board level work, Reengineering, Budget management, HRIS. Walker is also Six Sigma trained.

Walker holds a BA in Political Science from San Jose State University. He holds a Masters in Human Resource Development from the University of San Francisco as well as an Executive Management Certification from The University of Texas at Austin. "