SHRM PDCs: Each attendee will receive a record of their participation and an activity code which they can use to earn their SHRM PDCs for each program.
Meet the Speakers
Jeff Harry
Jeff Harry shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. Jeff has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day.
Jeff is an international speaker who has presented at conferences such as INBOUND, SXSW, and Australia’s Pausefest, showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play. Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers of 2020 for his organizational development work around dealing with toxic people in the workplace. His play work has most recently been featured in the NY Times article: How Do We Add More Play To Our Grown-Up Life – Even Now. He has also been featured on AJ+, SoulPancake, the SF Chronicle, and CNN.
While we spend most of our time pretending to be important, serious grownups, it’s when we let go of that facade and just play, that the real magic happens. Fully embracing your own nerdy genius — whatever that is — gives you the power to make a difference and change lives. Jeff believes that we already have many of the answers we seek, and by simply unleashing our inner child, we can find our purpose and, in turn, help to create a better world.
Jeff is an international speaker who has presented at conferences such as INBOUND, SXSW, and Australia’s Pausefest, showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play. Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers of 2020 for his organizational development work around dealing with toxic people in the workplace. His play work has most recently been featured in the NY Times article: How Do We Add More Play To Our Grown-Up Life – Even Now. He has also been featured on AJ+, SoulPancake, the SF Chronicle, and CNN.
While we spend most of our time pretending to be important, serious grownups, it’s when we let go of that facade and just play, that the real magic happens. Fully embracing your own nerdy genius — whatever that is — gives you the power to make a difference and change lives. Jeff believes that we already have many of the answers we seek, and by simply unleashing our inner child, we can find our purpose and, in turn, help to create a better world.
Hear Jeff on our Podcast:
Traci Duez
Traci Duez has an international reputation for performance improvement, impactful change, and leadership development. She is a renowned Axiologist and focuses on the generation of value through this mathematical science.
For the past fourteen years, she has shared her inspiring and compelling messages with over 40,000 professionals around the globe. Executives and managers from 95 of the Fortune 100 companies have completed her development programs and workshops. She teaches a novel development framework based in neuro-axiology that focuses on measuring cognitive assets and emotional intelligence. Her three-dimensional approach to growth and transformation is unique and powerful.
In every presentation and course, she uses humor and real-life stories to show her audience how to use their cognitive gifts and talents to enhance their productivity and satisfy their purpose. Her mission is to help individuals and organizations get unstuck, master their minds and mental wellbeing, and finish each day’s work feeling fulfilled.
For the past fourteen years, she has shared her inspiring and compelling messages with over 40,000 professionals around the globe. Executives and managers from 95 of the Fortune 100 companies have completed her development programs and workshops. She teaches a novel development framework based in neuro-axiology that focuses on measuring cognitive assets and emotional intelligence. Her three-dimensional approach to growth and transformation is unique and powerful.
In every presentation and course, she uses humor and real-life stories to show her audience how to use their cognitive gifts and talents to enhance their productivity and satisfy their purpose. Her mission is to help individuals and organizations get unstuck, master their minds and mental wellbeing, and finish each day’s work feeling fulfilled.
Hear Traci on our Podcast:
Jessica Brustad
Jessica Brustad is the Co-Founder & Chair-Mom of Playful Mind Project. She’s an experienced sales and project manager who now does improv and stand-up comedy! Jessica earned her stripes in the corporate world early, with managing positions from start-ups in NYC to household names like Myspace. After taking an improv class in Los Angeles, she quickly realized the corporate world was not for her (or maybe the corporate world wasn’t ready for her?). Play had to take center stage.
She continued to pursue her joy, which included studying improv and stand up comedy at Mission Improvable in Los Angeles and The National Comedy Theatre in San Diego. She received her 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) through YogaWorks at the Prana Yoga Center in La Jolla, California. She also became a certified Laughter Yoga Leader through the International Laughter Yoga University. These contradictory interests lead her to create her own business: The Funny Yogi. Not funny ha-ha, more funny weird. With The Funny Yogi Jessica started teaching her own classes, leading workplay-shops & seminars, and became a popular motivational speaker. Her passion is to help those suffering find relief by connecting & committing to their joy.
She has worked with individuals struggling with mental health issues like anxiety, OCD and postpartum mood disorders. She has helped companies like Google and Microsoft improve their cultures through her original style and mindfulness programs, as well as transformed communities from California to Norway! Skol!
She continued to pursue her joy, which included studying improv and stand up comedy at Mission Improvable in Los Angeles and The National Comedy Theatre in San Diego. She received her 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) through YogaWorks at the Prana Yoga Center in La Jolla, California. She also became a certified Laughter Yoga Leader through the International Laughter Yoga University. These contradictory interests lead her to create her own business: The Funny Yogi. Not funny ha-ha, more funny weird. With The Funny Yogi Jessica started teaching her own classes, leading workplay-shops & seminars, and became a popular motivational speaker. Her passion is to help those suffering find relief by connecting & committing to their joy.
She has worked with individuals struggling with mental health issues like anxiety, OCD and postpartum mood disorders. She has helped companies like Google and Microsoft improve their cultures through her original style and mindfulness programs, as well as transformed communities from California to Norway! Skol!