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Jeff Harry
Psychological Safety
Workplace Culture
Employee Engagement
Build psychologically safe, high-performing teams with Jeff Harry, a workplace culture and positive psychology speaker. Jeff works with organizations to reduce burnout, rebuild engagement, and infuse play into leadership, drawing on 15 years advising Google, Microsoft, and the NFL.
Positive Psychology
HR
Business Consulting
Coach
Burnout
Mental Health Awareness
Interactive Keynote
Professional Development
Motivational
High Energy
TEDx
Jeff Harry combines positive psychology and play to help organizations build psychologically safe, high-performing cultures. For 15 years, he has worked with leaders who want their teams to do their most vibrant work, not just survive the workday.
Jeff was named one of the Top 100 HR Influencers by BambooHR and Engagedly, and his approach to workplace culture has been featured in The New York Times, Mashable, Upworthy, HuffPost, Shondaland, Wired, and NPR. He has worked directly with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff bring more play into day-to-day work. His TEDx talk on healing the division between people through play has extended that message to a wider audience, alongside appearances on NPR and at WorkHuman Live.
Jeff designs keynotes and workshops around roleplaying, brainstorming, and real-time strategic planning rather than passive listening, so audiences practice what they learn as they learn it. His engagements range from large conference keynotes to executive coaching, and he works across industries including technology, aviation, retail, and professional sports, wherever leaders are ready to challenge outdated hierarchies.
Teams walk away with a shared language for psychological safety, tools to replace burnout-driven heroics with genuine connection, and a workplace atmosphere that keeps people engaged rather than checked out.
Book Jeff to help your organization turn disengagement into a culture people actually want to show up for.
Topics, sessions and talks
Jeff Harry uses the hit show Ted Lasso to unpack what psychological safety actually looks like in practice. Drawing on Ted's mix of empathy, intuition, and accountability, Jeff breaks down why a holistic leadership style builds camaraderie while still driving results. Through play and positive psychology, attendees examine what is missing from their own management approach and leave with concrete first steps to build a culture where staff feel seen, heard, and comfortable enough to do their most vibrant work.
Jeff Harry opens with the numbers behind today's disengagement crisis: the majority of workers checked out, job hunting, or squeezed by pay and burnout, costing businesses close to five hundred billion dollars a year. Jeff makes the case for a play-oriented mindset that replaces rigid hierarchies with risk-taking and genuine connection, then puts it into practice through roleplaying, brainstorming, and strategic planning exercises. Attendees leave with tools to challenge outdated norms and rebuild engagement.
Jeff Harry challenges the idea that workplaces need more high performers and fixers, arguing instead for leaders who listen, hold space, and lead with compassion rather than ego. Jeff makes the case that vulnerability builds trust and community outperforms competition, replacing burnout-fueled heroics with everyday acts of care and connection. Whether the audience is executives, HR professionals, or individual contributors, this talk offers practical permission to stop performing and start leading with genuine empathy and emotional presence.
Jeff Harry puts broken meeting culture on trial, calling out the jargon, vague agendas, and endless check-ins that drain morale and waste hours every week. Through play, improv, and a dash of mischief, Jeff helps teams design meetings people actually want to attend, where decisions get made, and every voice matters. This session doubles as a workplace intervention disguised as fun, exposing the real cost of bad meetings and replacing them with gatherings that energize rather than exhaust.
Jeff Harry tackles the question every organization avoids: what happens when someone in a position of power refuses to step aside for growth. Jeff explores why organizations stall when succession is left unplanned and how leaders who check their ego and prepare others to take their place thrive. Through a play-oriented approach, attendees build succession plans rooted in shared values, learn how to have the hard conversations that seniority tends to avoid, and gain buy-in from every level of leadership.
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Email jeff.harry@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Jeff's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
Jeff Harry structures sessions around active participation rather than passive listening, using roleplaying, brainstorming, and real-time strategic planning exercises so that attendees practise concepts as they are introduced.
Jeff Harry structures sessions around active participation rather than passive listening, using roleplaying, brainstorming, and real-time strategic planning exercises so that attendees practise concepts as they are introduced.
Jeff Harry structures sessions around active participation rather than passive listening, using roleplaying, brainstorming, and real-time strategic planning exercises so that attendees practise concepts as they are introduced.
Jeff Harry's sessions cover psychological safety in leadership, employee disengagement and play-oriented culture, and human-centred leadership over high-performance heroics. He has been named a Top 100 HR Influencer by BambooHR and Engagedly, with 15 years of work spanning Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and the NFL, and coverage in The New York Times, Wired, NPR, and HuffPost.
Jeff Harry's sessions cover psychological safety in leadership, employee disengagement and play-oriented culture, and human-centred leadership over high-performance heroics. He has been named a Top 100 HR Influencer by BambooHR and Engagedly, with 15 years of work spanning Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and the NFL, and coverage in The New York Times, Wired, NPR, and HuffPost.
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