Speaking and Workshops - Harris Whitesell Consulting, LLC

Speaking, Facilitation & Strategic Convening

Customized Keynotes | Workshops | Retreats | Forums | Moderation

From the stage to the strategy table.

Harris Whitesell Consulting designs and delivers customized experiences that help people see more clearly, think together, make useful choices, and move important work forward.

Ideas that move people. Conversations that move work forward.

Four ways to engage Harris Whitesell Consulting

1. Speak: Speaking and Keynotes

For conferences, summits, corporate events, leadership meetings, panels, fireside conversations, and community events that need a compelling idea, credible perspective, and memorable message.

May include:

Keynotes and plenary presentations
Conference and corporate speaking
Panels and fireside conversations
Executive presentations
Moderation and event hosting

The audience leaves with: fresh perspective, shared language, meaningful reflection, and a focused invitation to act.

2. Facilitate: Retreats and Working Sessions

For boards, executives, leadership teams, and cross-functional groups that need to surface perspectives, work through differences, establish direction, or make consequential decisions.

May include:

Board and leadership retreats
Executive offsites
Strategic working sessions
Team-effectiveness sessions
Planning and alignment meetings
Facilitated decision-making

The group leaves with: shared understanding, clearer priorities, decisions, working agreements, and defined next steps.

3. Engage: Workshops and Interactive Learning

For audiences that need to explore, discuss, practice, and apply—not simply listen.

May include:

Interactive keynotes
Workshops and seminars
Masterclasses
Leadership and professional-development sessions
Lunch-and-learns
Multi-session learning experiences

Participants leave with: practical insight, relevant tools, applied learning, and individual or team commitments.

4. Convene: Strategic Convening

For organizations, industries, institutions, or communities that need to bring multiple stakeholders together for structured listening, collective sensemaking, alignment, and action.

More than gathering people in the same room

Strategic convening is the deliberate design and guidance of a consequential gathering. HWC helps determine who should participate, what the group must understand, how different perspectives will be heard, how insights will be synthesized, and what should move forward afterward.

May include:

Employer and stakeholder listening sessions
Industry and community forums
Executive roundtables
Symposia and summits
Advisory councils
Leadership institutes and connected series

Stakeholders leave with: captured perspectives, visible themes, stronger alignment, shared priorities, and a pathway for continued action.

What should your audience be able to understand, discuss, decide, or do next?

Tell us about your people, your priorities, and the moment you are preparing for. HWC will help you determine the speaking, facilitation, workshop, or convening experience that best serves your intended outcome.

Customized By Design

Every engagement is customized. The depth of design reflects the work required.

Calibrated

HWC aligns an established topic with the audience, event theme, organizational context, examples, and desired call to action.

Contextualized

HWC incorporates client materials, sector realities, tailored examples, discussion questions, exercises, and participant resources.

Custom-designed

HWC conducts deeper discovery and may design an original agenda, stakeholder process, facilitated experience, multi-session architecture, synthesis, or defined client output.

Outcomes

Designed to create movement appropriate to the moment

Depending on the engagement, HWC can help participants:

Gain a new perspective or challenge an existing assumption
Establish shared language around an important issue
Participate in more candid and constructive dialogue
Strengthen leadership or workforce capability
Clarify priorities, choices, and responsibilities
Reach decisions or establish working agreements
Convert insight into practical commitments
Capture stakeholder intelligence and identify next steps

Topics and Expertise

Relevant ideas for the challenges leaders and organizations are navigating now

Human capability and organizational performance
Leadership effectiveness and leadership transitions
Culture, trust, climate, and engagement
Communication, influence, and constructive disagreement
Teams, collaboration, and shared accountability
Talent, workforce capability, and succession
Change, innovation, resilience, and adaptability
Sustainable performance, well-being, and self-regulation
Purpose, stewardship, ethics, and legacy

Featured Titles, such as:

Maximize Excellence: Turning Human Capability into Organizational Impact
Leadership Is Infrastructure
The Capability Gap: Why Training Alone Does Not Change Performance
The Team That Got Quiet
From Technical Expert to People Leader
Culture Is Built in the Everyday

Who HWC Serves

Designed to create movement appropriate to the moment

Gain a new perspective or challenge an existing assumption
Establish shared language around an important issue
Participate in more candid and constructive dialogue
Strengthen leadership or workforce capability
Clarify priorities, choices, and responsibilities
Reach decisions or establish working agreements
Convert insight into practical commitments
Capture stakeholder intelligence and identify next steps

HWC defines outcomes at the level an engagement can reasonably influence. We measure what the experience helped clarify, connect, catalyze, or mobilize without claiming that a single event creates organizational transformation by itself.

Meet HWC's Top Speakers and Facilitators

People. Leadership. Impact.

Speaker • Facilitator • Executive Coach

Lori Harris, MBA, PCC, PMC

Co-Founder, Managing Partner & Principal Consultant

Executive Coach • Human Capital and Organizational Strategist • Speaker • Facilitator • Podcast Host

Lori helps leaders see the human dynamics beneath organizational performance and translate insight into more intentional choices, stronger leadership, and greater impact. She brings research, executive experience, curiosity, and warmth to the room—creating conversations that are intellectually rigorous, personally relevant, and practical enough to use.

In the roomWarm, intellectually curious, energizing, candid, and reflective. Lori has a distinctive ability to ask the question beneath the question—and help people connect what they are learning to how they lead.

Credentials and professional foundation

International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach
Human Capital Strategist
Leadership Development and Succession Strategist
Human Synergistics Accredited Practitioner
Center for Creative Leadership Practitioner and Coach
Advanced Innovation Coach
Executive, leadership, team, and performance coach

People. Leadership. Impact.

Speaker • Facilitator • Executive Coach

Lynn Whitesell, MBA

Co-Founder, Managing Partner & Principal Consultant

Human Capital Strategist • Executive Coach • Organizational Effectiveness Consultant • Speaker • Facilitator

Lynn helps leaders connect people strategy, leadership behavior, and organizational performance. Drawing on global executive experience in talent management and organizational effectiveness, she brings calm authority, candid insight, and practical judgment to rooms where leaders must address what matters and move forward together.

In the roomGrounded, thoughtful, clear, pragmatic, engaging, and appropriately direct. Lynn helps groups examine what is happening, address conversations that may have been avoided, and convert discussion into responsible action.