Richard Hadden

Recruiting, Retention, Onboarding, Employee Engagement, and Leadership. Practical, high-content, high-inspiration, and fun, to help you win the war for talent.

Expert on

  • Employees / Workforce
  • Human Resources / Labor Relations
  • Leadership
  • Healthcare
  • Inspirational
  • Best-Selling Author

Fee Range

$10,000–$12,500

Travels from

FL, US

Biography

Richard Hadden is a Certified Speaking Professional who helps organizations improve business results by creating a focused, engaged, and capably led workforce. An internationally recognized pioneer in the field of Employee Engagement, his presentations are rich in content and practical application, and just plain fun to experience!

In today’s environment, his work is helping his clients win the war for talent.

He is co-author of Contented Cows Give Better Milk, Contented Cows Moove Faster, Rebooting Leadership, and Contented Cows STILL Give Better Milk, Revised and Expanded, published by John Wiley & Sons.

He has appeared on CNN and MSNBC,, and his work has been featured on National Public Radio, and in the pages of Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Workforce Management, and many trade and professional association journals.

CAREER
Before becoming an author and professional speaker, Richard Hadden held leadership positions in Telecommunications, Banking, Food Service, and Information Technology, and taught undergraduate Management, Economics, and Software Design at Jacksonville University in Florida.

Since 1990 he has delivered keynote presentations and training programs for more than 1,200 audiences on 5 continents. In 2000, he received the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association. This is the highest earned designation in the speaking profession.

Speaker Videos

RECRUITING AND RETENTION IN THE NEW WORLD OF WORK

Format: 60-90 minute keynote or multi-hour interactive workshop

 

This program is perfect for:

  • Leaders in organizations struggling to find and keep committed, engaged employees
  • Leaders who want to create an amazing place to work to fuel the growth of their enterprise

 

The audience will learn:

  • Where to look for people with the greatest potential to be happy, productive, and successful working in your organization.
  • What’s more important than skills and experience.
  • How to create and manage an employer brand that captures prospects’ attention (in a good way) before they ever even apply.
  • What the “careers” section of your website MUST do (and probably doesn’t), if you want to attract high-potential candidates.
  • How to interview to find the right people.
  • Why your onboarding “program” isn’t helping build commitment in new hires, and how to fix it.

 

Practical. Tactical. Do this. Don’t do this. How to find, and keep the talent you need to grow your business in this tough-as-ever labor market.

CONTENTED COWS GIVE BETTER MILK: YOUR PEOPLE...YOUR PROFIT

Format: 60-90 minute keynote or multi-hour interactive workshop

Making the business case for having a focused, engaged, and capably led workforce.

This program is perfect for:

  • Leaders who want to create an amazing place to work to fuel the growth of their enterprise
  • Leaders in organizations struggling to find and keep committed, engaged employees

The audience will learn:

  • All about Employee Engagement: What is it? Why do I want it? How do I get it?
  • The bottom line value of your reputation as an employer
  • How to hire the best, and keep them
  • That culture trumps pay and benefits, every time
  • How to get the system off your employees’ backs and let them do their best work
  • How to show you care, without coddling

Fact: Creating a focused, engaged, and capably led workforce is one of the best things you can do for your company’s bottom line.

It’s no coincidence that some of the most profitable businesses in the country – large and small – also happen to be among the best places to work. Richard Hadden, co-author of Contented Cows STILL Give Better Milk, helps business leaders made the connection between people practices and profit performance.

Come and learn how to build an engaged – and more profitable – workforce, in this practical, content-packed, and entertaining presentation.

LEADING FROM A DISTANCE IN A REMOTE AND HYBRID WORLD

Format: 60-90 minute keynote

This program is perfect for:

  • People who are leading teams of remote and hybrid workers
  • Those who want to be better leaders, regardless of the work setting

The audience will learn:

  • How to support your team members, individually, and as a group, when they’re working remotely
  • Four things every leader should do daily, to provide the essentials to individual and team success
  • The importance of team synergy, and how to nurture it from afar
  • How to lead teams made up of both onsite and remote workers
  • Tips and adjustments for remote location communication
  • How to manage performance when you’re not there… and neither are they
  • Leading and inspiring hope in times of tremendous change

While the fundamentals of leadership have NOT changed, the context in which leaders practice those fundamentals HAS changed forever,

Compared to practicing leadership in a traditional setting, leading from a distance carries its own special set of challenges. While people still need, among other things, vision, feedback, performance management, recognition, and community… delivering these necessities is harder, but not impossible, when we’re separated.

Even if people aren’t working in the same physical space, your job as a leader is to bring people together. I can help you do that.

THE OOMPH FACTOR: MAKING THE EXTRA MILE THE BEST PART OF THE TRIP

Format: 60-90 minute keynote

This program is perfect for:

General audiences, management and front line, who want an entertaining and inspirational program that will help them get the most out of themselves and those they work with.

In this program, designed for general audiences of managers and non-managers alike, I’ll talk about what some of the most successful men and women do every day to keep their organizations thriving, and growing in the right direction.

For example, these people:

  • Know that “just because you don’t have to doesn’t mean you shouldn’t.”
  • Adapt well to change
  • Compete with the competition – NOT their teammates
  • Care about each other as people
  • Are optimists
  • Finish what they start
  • Look for ways to do things better
  • Don’t worry about whose job it is, whose fault it is, or who gets the credit

Come and learn how to make going the “Extra Mile” the best, and most rewarding part of the trip!

LEADING A MULTIGENERATIONAL WORKFORCE

Format: 60-90 minute keynote

This program is perfect for:

Leaders and others in organizations that want to learn to be more effective in a multigenerational workforce.

Leaders who want to learn how to better recruit, retain, and engage workers of all generations.

Today’s workforce features an unprecedented five generations of workers. And leaders are challenged not only with understanding the members of each generation, but with getting maximum productivity from the BLEND of everyone.

I TAKE A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO MEETING THESE CHALLENGES FOR LEADERS.

Rather than making fun of the foibles of each generation, and teaching how to pander to the popular (and largely inaccurate) notions of what makes each group “different”, we focus on realistic strategies to make the whole workforce function well in concert.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • How to stop griping about millennials and start adapting your organization to make maximum use of the available workforce
  • Why generational (or any kind of) stereotyping misses the point
  • How to compete as a powerhouse for attracting talent of all ages
  • Three ways to develop inter-generational cooperation
  • What each generation can gain from the others

Learn to attract, retain, and ENGAGE workers of every generation to become a talent magnet, and maximize business outcomes.