The Problem Nobody Will Name
Why Smart Leadership Teams Stay Stuck
Every leadership team has one: the people problem everyone can see and nobody has been able to resolve. This talk shows how organizations adapt around it instead of dealing with it, why the usual fixes don’t stick, and what it takes to name the pattern without making one person the whole problem.
What the room leaves with
A talk won’t fix a team. It helps the right leader recognize what’s happening and decide what to do next.
RECOGNITION
A way to recognize the problem their own team has learned to work around.
WHY THE USUAL FIXES MISS
Why training the team, coaching the leader or replacing one person often leaves the pattern intact.
WHAT IT TAKES
What it takes, especially from the leader, to start dealing with it directly.
The Problem Nobody Will Name
Keynote or session, 45 to 90 minutes. A workshop component can be added for leadership teams that want to apply it to their own situation.
For leaders, owners and HR executives who have seen a people problem outlast every fix they’ve tried.
Formats
Each talk is shaped to the room, from a leadership offsite to a peer group or conference session.
Stress to Strength
For rooms focused on stress, resilience and mental health at work. The argument is the same one we bring everywhere: a team’s resilience depends on how it works together, not on each person coping better on their own.
Your speakers
Jared Haslam spent more than 18 years inside large organizations, including as Vice President of Product Strategy and Planning at Nissan North America. He speaks from the executive seat: how power, pressure and politics shape what a team can and can’t say.
Stacey Haslam, MFTC, brings training in marriage and family therapy to leaders and teams. She speaks to the human patterns underneath the business problem, and how people get unstuck.
