Jim Haudan is a different kind of leader, with a passion that goes beyond leading Root to success. For more than 25 years, he has been helping organizations unleash hidden potential by fully engaging their people to deliver on the strategies of the business. With his background as a coach, it’s not a stretch that the company Jim co-founded focuses on tapping employees’ discretionary efforts – the kind that produce winning results.
Root partners with senior teams at major companies worldwide to build creative ways to execute strategy. A unique blend of 160 business experts, analysts, artists, writers, and educators, the Root team draws an organization’s people into the business by appealing to basic human curiosity and intelligence and by comb Jim Haudan is a different kind of leader, with a passion that goes beyond leading Root to success. For more than 25 years, he has been helping organizations unleash hidden potential by fully engaging their people to deliver on the strategies of the business. With his background as a coach, it’s not a stretch that the company Jim co-founded focuses on tapping employees’ discretionary efforts – the kind that produce winning results.
Root partners with senior teams at major companies worldwide to build creative ways to execute strategy. A unique blend of 160 business experts, analysts, artists, writers, and educators, the Root team draws an organization’s people into the business by appealing to basic human curiosity and intelligence and by combining insights, art, visualization, and dialogue in innovative ways.
Root has worked with more than 500 companies and has impacted millions of people over three decades. Root’s story is captured in Jim’s best-selling book, The Art of Engagement: Bridging the Gap Between People and Possibilities (McGraw-Hill, 2008).
Jim is a frequent speaker on leadership alignment, strategy execution, employee engagement, business transformation, change management, and accelerated learning. He has spoken at TEDx BGSU, Tampa TEDx, and The Conference Board events, and has given the keynote speeches for numerous organizations throughout the world. He also writes a weekly column for Inc. and contributes to business publications and blogs, such as Switch & Shift, where he was included on the Top 75 List of Human Business Champions....more