3/3/22– Bergen Chapter Virtual Meeting – “Create a Culture of Agreements” - 6:30pm – 8:30pm – Jeff Harmon speaker

The world works primarily based on unspoken or unclear expectations. Expectations are those thoughts that we have about how something should go or about how someone would behave. 
Agreements, on the other hand, are created and live in a conversation between two people or a group. 

The combination of operating from expectations and a team with a diversity of ideas and perspectives is a recipe for disappointment, misalignment and less than optimal performance.  When an organization is small these can be addressed and the impact mitigated; however, as an organization grows, these become more difficult to address and create dysfunction that significantly impacts the team’s ability to achieve its goals.

The goal of “Create a Culture of Agreements” is to facilitate a shift from individual and/or collective expectations to conversations where they create agreements on the areas that drive the success of the team and the organization.

The intended outcomes from the workshop with the SwanBio leadership team are:
• An understanding of the practice of agreements and eliminating unclear or unspoken expectations
• A set of core agreements for each participant to start using in their leadership context
• Preparation and equipping of team members to bring the practice of agreements to their teams

Our speaker for the evening is Jeff Harmon. Jeff runs a leadership consultancy for leaders in the pharma, biotech and technology worlds, based in the New York City metro area. He is called upon by CEOs and senior leaders, who have been tasked with growing the business 3 - 5x. Over the last 20 years, Jeff has led or supported others to lead the delivery of over 200,000 hours of strategy in the financial services, information technology, pharmaceutical, and non-profit industries.

A thought leader in the leadership and culture development world, Jeff is the author of “The Anatomy of a Principled Leader” and “Become a Better Leader 10 Minutes at a Time” and his work has been published in Life Science Leader, Inc and Business Insider magazines. He has worked with 1000s of leaders all around the globe. 

A financial analyst by training, Jeff has a background in project management, systems analysis and servant leadership. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Central Florida and a certificate in servant leadership studies from the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. He is a certified consultant with the Barrett Values Centre, was a certified project management professional (PMP) for over a decade, and achieved an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) designation from the International Coach Federation.