New Horizon Strategies LLC

We're Speaking at the Women's Global Leadership Conference in Energy
2023-11-09 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Mexico_City)
Join New Horizon Strategies and many other fabulous speakers at the Women’s Global Leadership Conference in Energy in Houston, Nov 1st and 2nd at the Hilton of the Americas. This includes a full day of on-demand speakers you can watch from your own office on Nov 9th!!
We’ll be presenting “Building Momentum – Igniting Motivation and Success” virtually on Nov 9th. But we’ll be at the conference in person, too. Let’s meet up!
Finding our inspiration in life is critical to understanding our unique path to success. But this is often the hardest part of our lives; figuring out what it is we really, really want. It also CHANGES all throughout our lives. How do we navigate all this?
Gain calibration from your fellow audience participants that you’re not alone. Understand what success means to you right now and what you already know you’re ready to do to achieve it.

Transformational Change Leadership - the Hidden Element to Successful Change at PMI Houston's 2023 Conference
2023-08-29 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Mexico_City) | Houston Marriott Westchase, 2900 Briarpark Drive, Houston, TX, 77042, United States
We’re presenting Transformational Change Leadership – the Hidden Element to Successful Change at the 2023 Project Management Institute Conference in Houston on August 28th and 29th. Please join us!
“Calling all leaders of change efforts. Why are only a quarter of all change management efforts successful? Is it our strategies and processes? Or is it how well people understood the issues, agreed with decisions, and ultimately felt inspired? Both!
There is no shortage of change on the horizon, and leadership alignment to navigate all that change is a significant ingredient to successful transformation. When we are aligned together, great things happen. When alignment falls short, change efforts fail, people feel disgruntled, and talent leaves (or burns out and stays, which becomes a potentially larger burden).
So, how do we achieve alignment to truly transform? This experiential session led by industry expert, Laurie Hall, Owner of New Horizon Strategies, LLC will facilitate participants through the distinguishing concepts of leadership alignment for transformational change in a highly participatory format. Come prepared to explore what it takes and discover what might be holding you back from achieving Transformational Change with your teams. Are you ready?
Learning Objective 1: Understand the difference between Change Management and Change Leadership.
Learning Objective 2: Learn the fundamental principles of Change Leadership.
Learning Objective 3: Consider applications for Change Leadership in your current projects and programs to implement right now.

Gulf Coast Symposium on HR Issues - July 12th & 13th, 2023
2023-07-13 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Mexico_City) | NRG Center, Houston, TX, United States
New Horizon Strategies is honored to present “Facilitation LIVE – Tips for Better Facilitation within your Organization” at the annual Gulf Coast Symposium on Human Resources at NRG Center on Thursday, July 13th at 2:30 PM.
Facilitation pulls out the answers within a group to build alignment and dedication. You may have some experience facilitating groups of people through decision-making, consensus, strategic planning, team building, and good old-fashioned meetings. But we tend to get stuck in using the same tools over and over or don’t have clear expectations to maximize participation. Join seasoned facilitators, Laurie Hall, Dr. Ellen Zimmerman, and Rich McLaughlin, from New Horizon Strategies, as they lead participants through tips, tricks, and activities to enhance your skills, get clear on expectations, and discover FUN ways to build consensus and dedication, reach decisions, and grow trust within teams.
Register for the Symposium here: https://www.hrhouston.org/mpage/GCS23_Home
This “toe-in-the-water” opportunity will help spark your interest and awareness to jump into our Next Level Leadership: Facilitation MasterMind Series. Register for that here: https://newhorizonstrategies.com/facilitation-mastermind/

Transformational Change Leadership at the Texas Municipal League's Leadership Academy
2023-05-18 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Mexico_City) | Sheraton Georgetown in Austin, TX
New Horizon Strategies (NHS), LLC will deliver in-person facilitation on “Transformational Change Leadership” for the Texas Municipal League Leadership Academy.
This skill-building session will occur on May 18th, 2023 from 10AM to 11:45AM at the Sheraton Georgetown in Austin, TX.
Transformational Change Leadership:
Calling all leaders of change efforts. Why are only a quarter of all change management efforts successful? Is it our strategies and processes? Or is it how well people understood the issues, agreed with decisions, and ultimately felt inspired? Both! There is no shortage of change on the horizon, and leadership alignment to navigate all that change is a significant ingredient to successful transformation. When we are aligned together, great things happen. When alignment falls short, change efforts fail, people feel disgruntled, and talent leaves (or burns out and stays, which becomes a potentially larger burden). So, how do we achieve alignment to truly transform? This experiential session led by industry expert, Laurie Hall, Owner of New Horizon Strategies, LLC will facilitate participants through the distinguishing concepts of leadership alignment for transformational change in a highly participatory format. Come prepared to explore what it takes and discover what might be holding you back from achieving Transformational Change with your teams. Are you ready?

Building Great Partnerships with the Amegy Bank Formal Mentoring Program - April 25th, 2023
2023-04-25 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Mexico_City)
Partnerships create the backbone for almost everything we do. In fact, it’s not partnership (the noun), it’s really partnering (the verb) that we focus on every day to create more impact in the world.
This live, interactive, in-person opportunity to focus on partnerships provides mentors and mentees alike the opportunity to dive into ways they can maximize their experiences together. References from Dr. Brene Brown’s “Dare to Lead”, Charles Feltmans’ “Thin Book of Trust”, and Jean Oelwang’s “Partnering” are all shared to help enhance what we already understand.

Guided Drawing and Brainwriting for Individual and Group Coaching - ICF All Texas Retreat Webinar
2023-03-07 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Mexico_City)
Coaching allows our clients to connect with themselves on a deeper level. Sometimes our clients need a new way to access their subconscious. Join us for this interactive presentation to experience these guided drawing and brainwriting tools yourself and see what rises to the surface in your own world. No artistic skills are required!
New Horizon Strategies has used this technique both individually and in groups with clients for almost 5 years with amazing results. We first learned of these tools at an Elisabeth Kübler-Ross “Growth and Transition” workshop in 2012 and while facilitating the 3-day “Leading Yourself and Others” at the world’s largest chemical company. We’ll start with a quick review of the conscious competence model. Then dive into a drawing activity and then a brainwriting activity. You will leave with an understanding of where and how these tools can apply when your clients need a different way to access themselves.
Learning Outcomes:

Connect more deeply with yourself using guided drawing and brainwriting.
Learn how and when to use guided drawing and/or brainwriting with your clients.
Collaborate with your fellow colleagues while sharing your own ah-ha moments.

Laurie Hall – a certified facilitator, certified coach and seasoned speaker – founded New Horizon Strategies in 2011 to inspire sustainable change in the professional world. Laurie has almost 2000 hours of professional coaching experience, applying Socratic questioning to help clients seek their own answers. She coaches clients from Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and around the world: Australia, Malaysia, Canada, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Netherlands, Brazil, Honduras and Great Britain.
She is a frequent keynote and breakout session speaker on technical and motivational topics to inspire personal and professional growth. Laurie brings a unique perspective to coaching and facilitation since she spent the first part of her career in project- and system-level engineering and management, facilitation, and organizational development to support human life in space and operational excellence on the ground. Her work affected change at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Lockheed Martin, Jacobs and Schlumberger.

Are We Employers or Are We Parents - HR Houston In Your Neighborhood
2023-03-01 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Mexico_City)
Are We Employers or Are We Parents?*
Presented by Laurie Hall, MS, PCC, LSS BB, Founder & CEO, New Horizon Strategies LLC

Have you ever felt like your employees expected you to be more of a parent than an employer as their HR manager? Using Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis theory, we’ll investigate the parallels between the Parent-Child-Adult model and the insidious roles we can fall into as both employers and employees. Through comical, interactive exercises, join us to uncover how you can influence expectations with awareness and communication

Date:
Wednesday, March 1

Time:
11:15 am – 1:00 pm

Location:
Cadillac Bar – Houston
1802 Shepherd
Houston, Texas 77007

Directions:
Map

Pricing:
HR Houston Member – $45.00
Non-Member – $60.00

Putting the FUN Back in Strategic Planning with Networking in Action - Jan 12th, 2023
2023-01-12 11:30 - 14:30 (America/Mexico_City)
I hope you have had a great start to the New Year! 2023 will be a great year as we prepare for new ideas, directions, and goals. What are you going to do differently this year that will help your business move the needle in the right direction? What planning strategies have you written down that map out where you will be in 12 months?
If you haven’t taken the time yet to think about where you are and where you want to be with your business, now is the time! I would strongly encourage you to participate in a very powerful yet economically priced strategic planning workshop. I have led many strategic planning sessions in the past, so you would think I already know how to plan my business strategy. Well, it’s much more effective when you have someone from the outside leading the workshop or session. The analogy is like, “Don’t represent yourself in legal matters; Hire an attorney!” That’s why I’m signing up for New Horizon Strategies – Strategic Planning Workshop on January 12th at Weights & Measures, from 11:30am – 2:30pm.
This is an incredible value and you will walk away with:

A Solid Foundation of what success means beyond $ and why
Prioritized goals rooted in what really matters
Categorization of goals into themes of your business
Catalyzed start on your 2033 Operating Rhythm
Mini coaching follow-up session (30 mins)

There are only 6 seats left and we are going to open up the invitation to people outside of our Cougar Connection Network after today!
I have attached a flyer that provides additional details. Here is the LINK to register for this remarkable event.
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

Putting the FUN Back in Strategic Planning - ATD Houston 11/8/22 Evening Presentation
2022-11-08 17:30 - 20:00 (America/Mexico_City) | United Way, 50 Waugh Drive, Houston, TX, 77007, United States
Putting the FUN Back in Strategic Planning
Listen to the Podcast introduction of this event here: https://share.transistor.fm/s/498797f5
In-Person Meeting
Does strategic planning give you nightmares? (Or have you never really sat down to actually do it?) All too often, we start strategic planning by looking forward. You will learn how to look back to make sure you’ve set the right foundation for a year of prosperity ahead. Plus, you’ll discover how to make strategic planning fun and leave with two solid exercises to turn your goals into realities.
Objectives

Many of us and our organizations, start each year by conducting a strategic planning session. Join us to learn how to better prepare in advance for strategic planning, conduct a strategic planning session in a fun and engaging way, as well as develop concrete and obtainable goals.

ATD Capability Model – Impacting Organizational Capability, Building Personal Capability, Developing Professional Capability
To learn more about this model see: https://tdcapability.org/#/
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Laurie Hall – CEO New Horizon Strategies
A certified coach, certified facilitator, and seasoned speaker – founded New Horizon Strategies LLC in 2011 to inspire sustainable change in the professional world. She provides transformation to leaders through coaching, facilitation, consulting, and speaking. She is a frequent keynote and breakout session speaker on technical and motivational topics to inspire personal and professional growth.
Laurie brings a unique perspective to coaching and facilitation since she spent the first part of her career in project- and system-level engineering and management, facilitation, and organizational development to support human life in space and operational excellence on the ground. Her work effected change at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Lockheed Martin, Jacobs Sverdrup, and Schlumberger-Dowell.
Follow Laurie on Social Media
https://twitter.com/NHS_coach
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauriehallformerlypeterson/
http://www.facebook.com/newhorizonstrategies

"Real Change for My Business and My Clients" Complimentary Webinar for ICW
2022-05-18 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Mexico_City) | virtual
Laurie Hall, Founder and CEO of New Horizon Strategies, will be offering insight into real change for your business and your clients during the 2022 International Coaching Week (ICW).
Session title:
Real Change for My Business and My Clients
Session summary:
Whether you’re just getting into coaching, have been coaching clients for decades, or are investigating coaching for yourself and your leadership team, it’s all about CHANGE. Within the last 10 years, data suggests only 26% of change management efforts are successful. Why is it so low? Coaches know the answer to this. It doesn’t matter how good our processes, systems, and tools are if people don’t get what they need. If we don’t get what we need and are motivated by, we don’t engage.
Join us for this 1-hour webinar during International Coaching Week to investigate what it is you need and are motivated by followed by an exercise to prioritize what you’re already doing to achieve REAL CHANGE.
Laurie Hall – a certified facilitator, certified coach, and seasoned speaker – founded New Horizon Strategies in 2011 to inspire sustainable change in the professional world. New Horizon Strategies guides leaders who are facing a change by themselves – and feeling stuck. We help them reflect, resonate, resolve and refocus so they get bigger breakthroughs faster. Through our executive coaching, facilitation, and consulting, leaders move from transition to transformation. We provide individual, team, and enterprise transformation services to not only survive transition (which seems never-ending) but thrive with sustainable, positive change. Transformation can be an overused term, but it indicates a simple thing. Have we adjusted our beliefs enough that we don’t even question why we’re doing something a new way? If the answer is yes, you’ve achieved transformation!

Session date & time:
5/18/2022 from 1pm to 2pm Central
Speaker/Presenter:
Laurie Hall
Learn more & register in advance here

"Be Your Own Business Coach" Workshop @ All Texas Retreat and Conference 2022
2022-04-01 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Mexico_City) | T Bar M, 2549 State Hwy 46 W, New Braunfels, TX, 78132, United States
Laurie Hall will be hosting a workshop at TCC’s All Texas Retreat and Conference 2022.
Session title:
Be Your Own Business Coach
Session summary:
Does running your own business ever give you nightmares? Are there areas you already know you could optimize if you just had the time or information? Most of us didn’t start our coaching practices to do the business side of it (scheduling, taxes, legal, marketing, sales, etc.) yet it’s required nonetheless! How well are you working both “in” and “on” your business?
Join us for “Be Your Own Business Coach”, an interactive presentation to ensure your future intentions come to fruition. Often, we start our planning by looking forward, but Laurie will encourage us to look back to make sure you’ve set the right foundation for this year of prosperity (using the skills we already honed by becoming a coach!) You’ll leave with three solid exercises to help bring your goals to fruition.

Diagnose why FUN and Running our Businesses don’t often overlap.
Set up the right mindset with data and intent.
Build upon our foundation of success to catalyze future successes using an easy set of tools.

Session time @ date:
4/1/2022 from 2pm to 3:30pm Central
Speaker/Presenter:
Laurie Hall
Learn more & register here

"Making Perfect People Better" @ TML Elected Officials Conference
2022-02-03 10:20 - 11:30 (America/Mexico_City) | Houston Marriott Sugar Land, 16090 City Walk, Sugar Land, TX, 77479, United States
Laurie Hall will be one of the guest speakers at the TML Elected Officials Conference.
Session title:
Making Perfect People Better
Session summary:
You would probably laugh if someone told you that you need to be perfect. Yet, many of us strive to appear perfect as professionals. In this session, you will learn an array of transition models to help navigate the seemingly endless changes we face. This motivational and timely presentation will help you assess where you are and increase your professional resilience moving forward.
Link to Personal Values Assessment: https://www.valuescentre.com/tools-assessments/pva/
Session time @ date:
2/3/2022 from 10:20am to 11:30am Central
Speaker/Presenter:
Laurie Hall
Learn more & register here

Navigating Change Leadership Through Energy Management Conference
2022-01-28 08:30 - 15:00 (America/Mexico_City) | Stafford Centre, 10505 Cash Road, Stafford, TX, 77477, United States
Texas Women Leading Government’s Gulf Coast Texas Chapter welcomes you to our fourth annual leadership conference on January 28 2022! This year, Dare to Lead™ facilitator Laurie Hall of New Horizons Strategies facilitates as we come together to take on Navigating Change Leadership Through Energy Management. Leadership starts with understanding our own journey to ultimately impact the lives of others with integrity, compassion and meaning. We’ve all adapted to unprecedented change over the last two years that have affected us personally and professionally. We will continue to experience more changes. With that comes energy depletion and burnout on a new level. Join us in exploring how to take a different approach to transforming our lives and those of others by giving yourself a day at the Texas Women Leading Government Annual Conference. Share stories from your own experiences so we can learn from each other and from the guidance of our wonderful presenter, Ms. Hall.
Prework –Attendees, please take your complimentary Personal Values Assessment on or before the conference by clicking here: https://www.valuescentre.com/tools-assessments/pva/ (It will take about 5 min to take and about 10 min to get the email back with your results.)
Learn more & register here

Creating Transformational Change at the TML Conference (Oct 7th)
2021-10-07 15:30 - 16:45 (America/Mexico_City)
Join us for an interactive presentation of “Creating Transformational Change” at the Texas Municipal League’s 109th Annual Conference and Exposition on Thursday, October 7, from 3:30-4:45 p.m.
Get ahead by doing the prework before we meet! Take your free Personal Values Assessment here. It will take about 3 min to complete, and you will receive your results within about 10min via email. We’ll be asking all participants to do this as we get started. Get your results early!
https://www.valuescentre.com/tools-assessments/pva/
Calling all leaders of change efforts. Why are only a quarter of all change management efforts successful? Is it our strategies and processes? Or is it how well people understood the issues, agreed with decisions, and ultimately felt inspired? Both?
There is no shortage of change on the horizon, and leadership alignment to navigate is a significant ingredient to successful transformation. When we are aligned together, great things happen. When alignment falls short, change efforts fail, people feel disgruntled, and talent leaves (or burns out and stays, which becomes a potentially larger burden). Transformational change through leadership alignment catalyzes our organizations in not only surviving transitions but using change opportunities to transform into something even better than before. So, how do we achieve alignment to truly transform?
This experiential, skill-building session led by industry experts, Laurie Hall, Owner and CEO of New Horizon Strategies, LLC and Kelly Baughman, Change Leadership Consultant at New Horizon Strategies, LLC, will facilitate participants through the distinguishing concepts of leadership alignment for transformational change in a highly participatory format.
Come prepared to explore what it takes, and discover what might be holding you back from achieving Transformational Change with your teams. Are you ready?

Developing Your Leaders: How To Select And Conduct Meaningful Leadership Assessments - SIG Virtual
2021-09-30 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Mexico_City) | virtual
Leadership Assessments are about understanding and developing a person’s leadership capability across a number of competency areas. Lack of clarity about what leadership is, how it is related to personality, and how to measure leadership potential can prevent organizations from hiring and developing the best leaders. With so many choices of different leadership and personality assessments in the talent development industry it is easy be overwhelmed with what would work best for our organizations and clients.
In this webinar session, we will discuss three common leadership assessments: The Birkman Method, DiSC, and Hogan Assessment. Each assessment is used by talent development professionals to assess leadership behavior traits, communication skills, and enable leaders to improve team building skills. We will also uncover best practices in selecting and conducting these assessments in your workplace, and how you can even become certified in leadership assessments. Meet our panelist speakers, Michael Goodfriend, Laurie Hall, and Amy Hart, who are talent development consultants specializing in the application of popular leadership assessments used across several work industries. Join us for this phenomenal discussion on developing your leaders using leadership assessment data.
Assessment Insights
Birkman Method
Birkman Intl was founded by innovative organizational psychologist Dr. Roger W. Birkman in 1951 to help people understand how individual differences in perception and the resulting interpersonal dynamics have far-reaching impacts on relationships, performance, and morale. The Birkman Method uses positive psychology to empower individuals, teams, and leaders with access to the most-trusted, advanced personality data to improve communication, foster understanding, and optimize organizational success.
DISC
Powered by 40+ years of research, DiSC® is a personality assessment tool used by more than one million people every year to help improve teamwork, communication, and productivity in the workplace. DiSC solutions develop critical interpersonal business skills such as sales, leadership, management, teambuilding and communication.
Hogan
Founded in 1987 by Drs. Joyce and Robert Hogan, Hogan leads the world in personality assessment and leadership development.
Hogan challenged decades of academic tradition and criticism to become the first to demonstrate personality’s impact on organizational success, pioneering the use of personality assessment to improve workplace performance.

"Creating Transformational Change" at the Gulf Coast Symposium on HR 2021
2021-08-04 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Mexico_City) | NRG Center, Houston, TX, United States
Join us Aug 4th, 2021 from 8:45AM – 9:45AM CST for “Creating Transformational Change“.
Calling all leaders of change efforts.
Why are only a quarter of all change management efforts successful? Is it our strategies and processes? Or is it how well people understood the issues, agreed with decisions, and ultimately felt inspired? Both?
There is no shortage of change on the horizon, and leadership alignment to navigate is a significant ingredient to successful transformation. When we are aligned together, great things happen. When alignment falls short, change efforts fail, people feel disgruntled, and talent leaves (or burns out and stays, which becomes a potentially larger burden). Transformational change through leadership alignment catalyzes our organizations in not only surviving transitions but using change opportunities to transform into something even better than before. So, how do we achieve alignment to truly transform?
This experiential workshop led by industry experts, Laurie Hall, Owner of New Horizon Strategies, LLC, and Kelly Baughman, Leadership and Culture Transformation Consultant will facilitate participants through the distinguishing concepts of leadership alignment for transformational change in a highly participatory format. Come prepared to explore what it takes, and discover what might be holding you back from achieving Transformational Change with your teams. Are you ready?
Learning Objectives:

Participants will experientially gain a clarifying understanding of the impact of people and processes on transformational change efforts.
Key indicators to proactively understand what aids and prevents transformational change efforts will be shared/discussed.
Effective leadership future casting tools for alignment, trust, values, and strategy will be shared/discussed.

Register in advance today!

"Our New Normal is CHANGE" at the ABPW July Breakfast Meeting
2021-07-08 07:30 - 09:30 (America/Mexico_City) | Bay Oaks Country Club, 14545 Bay Oaks Blvd., Houston, TX, 77059, United States
Join us on July 8th, 2021 from 7:30AM-9:30AM for “Our New Normal is CHANGE” at the Association of Business and Professional Women (APBW) July breakfast meeting.
At the start of 2020, we were already riding wave after wave of fast-paced change in our VUCA (volatility-uncertainty-complexity-ambiguity) world. No one would have anticipated how drastically we would all be forced to change together to deal with COVID19 impacts. It has been the longest sprint ever. We keep thinking, “it will just be another month and then it will go back to normal.”
Join us for an interactive experience on July 8th to get curious about what is different in your personal and professional life, what you’ve learned, and where you want to go from here.
Register in advance!

Breaking the Ice of Nice™ with TX Bay Area SHRM (May 13th 11:30AM-1PM)
2021-05-13 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Mexico_City)
Join us for an interactive virtual presentation to Break the Ice of Nice™ and get clear on feedback you’re ready to both give and receive.
Many leaders tell us their organizations are pretty good, but a little too nice. When we avoid having tough conversations because we don’t want to hurt people’s feelings, are we effectively communicating? The answer is no! Dr. Brené Brown’s research around Daring Leaders shows the number one barrier to braver leaders is the lack of courage to have tough conversations. What would happen if leaders replaced being nice with being more courageous? What impact could this have with teams, organizations, and customers? This presentation will help process the fears and feelings associated with saying what needs to be said and understanding the potential positive outcomes of sharing our unique perspectives.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand why Courageous Conversations matter to you.
• Determine when you’re acting already courageously and what might be getting in the way when you’re not.
• Learn a new tool to simplify and create confidence around the process for giving courageous feedback.
Register in advance here.

Virtual Seminar: Creating Transformational Change
2021-01-21 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
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Calling all leaders of change efforts. Why are only a quarter of all change management efforts successful? Is it our strategies and processes? Or is it how well people understood the issues, agreed with decisions, and ultimately felt inspired? Both? There is no shortage of change on the horizon, and leadership alignment to navigate is a significant ingredient to successful transformation. When we are aligned together, great things happen. When alignment falls short, change efforts fail, people feel disgruntled, and talent leaves (or burns out and stays, which becomes a potentially larger burden). Transformational change through leadership alignment catalyzes our organizations in not only surviving transitions but using change opportunities to transform into something even better than before. So, how do we achieve alignment to truly transform?
This experiential workshop led by industry experts, Laurie Hall, Owner of New Horizon Strategies, LLC and Kelly Baughman, Leadership and Cultural Transformation Consultant, will facilitate participants through the distinguishing concepts of leadership alignment for transformational change in a highly participatory format. Come prepared to explore what it takes, and discover what might be holding you back from achieving Transformational Change with your teams. Are you ready?
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT IN ADVANCE REQUIRED: https://www.hrhouston.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1397976&group=
*The workshop offers 6 PDCs for the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP and 6 hours of Business credit towards PHR and SPHR recertification requirements.
LAURIE HALL a certified facilitator, certified coach, and seasoned speaker founded New Horizon Strategies, LLC (NHS) in 2011 to inspire sustainable change in the professional world. Today, NHS guides clients in four major areas: transformational coaching, transformational teams, transformational leadership, and transformational organizations. Best heard from a client…“With Laurie’s guidance, honesty and vision of inspiring sustainable change in the professional world, I have achieved every business, personal and professional goal which I defined. Now, with a solid strategic framework in place for my company, I look forward to continued growth and development.”—Lawyer, Scientist, Earth Space Tech
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KELLY BAUGHMAN is a Leadership and Cultural Transformation Consultant who focuses on helping leaders achieve their fullest potential and push beyond fear and discomfort. She knows that success is always uphill and that it takes a careful, deliberate, and consistent approach. So, knowing that transformational change is complex, she uses integrated approaches with her clients that is rooted in the principles of leadership growth, values-based behaviors in action, and forging authentic connections. “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Session Resources:

Pre-work (Please complete this Personal Values Assessment and have the results handy before the workshop begins. This takes ~10 min)
Handout
Session Survey
Certificate of Completion

Payment & Terms:

HR Houston Member $325.00
NonMember $350.00

"Creating Transformational Change" at the PMI North Alabama Conference (Oct 23rd, 2020)
2020-10-23 10:00 - 11:00 UTC
Calling all leaders of change efforts. Why are only a quarter of all change management efforts successful? Is it our strategies and processes? Or is it how well people understood the issues, agreed with decisions, and ultimately felt inspired? Both?
There is no shortage of change on the horizon, and leadership alignment to navigate is a significant ingredient to successful transformation. When we are aligned together, great things happen. When alignment falls short, change efforts fail, people feel disgruntled, and talent leaves (or burns out and stays, which becomes a potentially larger burden). Transformational change through leadership alignment catalyzes our organizations in not only surviving transitions but using change opportunities to transform into something even better than before. So, how do we achieve alignment to truly transform?
This experiential workshop led by industry experts, Laurie Hall, Owner of New Horizon Strategies, LLC and Kelly Baughman, Principal of Planning Design Research (PDR) will facilitate participants through the distinguishing concepts of leadership alignment for transformational change in a highly participatory format. Come prepared to explore what it takes, and discover what might be holding you back from achieving Transformational Change with your teams. Are you ready?

Learning Objectives:

Participants will experientially gain a clarifying understanding of the impact of people and process on transformational change efforts.
Key indicators to proactively understand what aids and prevents transformational change efforts will be shared/discussed.
Effective leadership future casting tools for alignment, trust, values, and strategy will be shared/discussed.

Register in advance here: https://pmi-nac.org/meetinginfo.php?id=174&ts=1597001198

Navigating Change Leadership at the AIAA SpaceGeekSpeak
2020-05-16 08:30 - 09:30 (America/Chicago)
These are highly unusual times. We’ve navigated a change that feels unprecedented for most of us. How are you leading yourself and others? The only thing we know for sure is we will see more change. It’s not about time management; it’s energy management.
Join former NASA colleague Laurie Hall, now founder, coach, consultant, and facilitator of New Horizon Strategies, LLC as she gives us a chance to analyze the unique impact(s) of the last 2 months. In this interactive and educational experience, she will provide tools, references, stories, and opportunities for you to examine your own ability to successfully navigate change.
Bring your questions and maybe answers?!
Saturday morning, 8:30-9:30 am or as long as conversations last… Bring your coffee and conversation starter, share a story, and enjoy the community!

Thursday, May 14th, 2020: "Breaking the Ice of Nice™" at the Gulf Coast Symposium on HR Issues
2020-05-14 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Reliant Center, Houston, TX, United States
Join us for “Breaking the Ice of Nice™” at both 7:30AM and 8:45AM on Thursday May 14th. This is our 6th year to present engaging, inspiring, and high impact topics you can take back to your organizations to apply right away!
Many leaders tell us their organizations are pretty good, but a little too nice. When we avoid having tough conversations because we don’t want to hurt peoples’ feelings, are we effectively communicating? The answer is no! Dr. Brene Brown’s research around Daring Leaders shows the number one barrier to braver leaders is the lack of courage to have tough conversations. What would happen if leaders replaced being nice with being more courageous? What impact could this have with teams, with organizations, and with customers? Laurie is a “Dare to Lead” certified facilitator.
Register in advance!

March 6th, 2020: New Horizon Strategies Keynote at the GHSHRM Education Day 2020
2020-03-06 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Greater Houston Society for Healthcare Risk Management
Join us for the kick off keynote
“What a Can’t Fail Culture Costs your Bottom Line”
at the 2020 Greater Houston Society of Healthcare Risk Management (GHSHRM) Education Day conference on March 6th, 2020 at The Houstonian hotel.

“We do things right and we do things well.” Would you say this describes your organization? Hopefully it does! Read the values, vision, or guiding principles of most organizations and you’ll find some form of this description centered on the quality and integrity of the service or product being delivered. In juxtaposition then, for most organizations the word fail brings about an instantaneous reaction of something to avoid. Innovation and Integrity can be competing values. Though we may logically understand that trying anything for the first time will inherently provide the opportunity to succeed or fail, emotionally and culturally we are not okay with actually failing. The extent to which your organization promotes or chastises failure is in direct correlation with innovation, creativity, trust, collaboration, growth, and resiliency.
Objective 1: Gain qualitative awareness of failure resiliency both personally and as perceived within your organization.
Objective 2: Understand the foundation formula for creating and sustaining a culture of innovation.
Objective 3: Increase organizational awareness following the presentation with a checklist of scenarios and keywords that help define missed opportunities for innovation.
Register in advance!

Jan 10th, 2020: "Breaking the Ice of Nice™" at the Gulf Coast Chapter of Women Leading Government 2020 Leadership Conference
2020-01-10 08:00 - 15:30 UTC
Want to be a more effective leader? If yes, please join us for an in depth focus on “Breaking the Ice of Nice™”, a day-long Leadership Conference for the Gulf Coast Chapter of Women Leading Government on January 10th, 2020, at the Stafford Center in Stafford, Texas.
Breaking the Ice of Nice™ includes:

An opportunity for attendees to get to know each other better and have fun (create joy) in a face-to-face environment.
Building a container of safety to encourage participants to share wants, needs, opportunities, and obstacles openly.
An overview and exercise on our own unique Calls to Courage (individual and group).
Procession to a significant awareness increase on effective communication and feedback using “Breaking the Ice of Nice™” around concepts in Dare to Lead™. Participants will use their own Calls to Courage to determine stakeholders for their calls, consider steps to make their calls a reality, and simulate taking that first step (most likely a communication with someone else.)
A review of feedback from various perspectives: why it’s difficult to give, why it’s difficult to get, what type of feedback culture we want, what type of feedback culture we have, and tips for giving/receiving feedback and a simple feedback model. Participants will have an opportunity to practice giving feedback to each other during the conference.

Nov 20th, 2019: Hear "Breaking the Ice of Nice" at HR in your Neighborhood (Inner Loop)
2019-11-20 11:30 - 13:00 UTC | Location: McCoy Workplace Solutions, 6869 Old Katy Road, Houston, TX 77024
Based on overwhelmingly positive reviews from our presentation at the 2019 Gulf Coast Symposium on Human Resources, an encore presentation will be given!
Join us for “Breaking the Ice of Nice™” with Laurie Hall, MSc, PCC of New Horizon Strategies, LLC. As a “Dare to Lead™” certified facilitator, Laurie bases this presentation on Dr. Brené Brown’s recent best-selling book of same title. In the presentation, you’ll explore how to hone your communication effectiveness by determining your unique Call to Courage. The gem of the presentation is a discussion of the fears and needs linked to giving and receiving feedback — and a specific tool to use going forward. Are you ready to Break the Ice of Nice?
Many leaders tell us their organizations are pretty good, but a little too nice. If we’re avoiding having tough conversations because we don’t want to hurt people’s feelings, how are we effectively communicating? The answer is we aren’t! Dr. Brené Brown’s research around Daring Leaders shows the number one barrier to braver leaders is the lack of courage to have tough conversations.
What would happen if leaders replaced being nice with being more courageous? What impact could this have with your team, with your organization, with your customers? Your first reaction may logically be, “let’s do it!”, but emotionally, we are reminded of the many ways courageous conversations have turned out badly for us in the past. This presentation will help process the fears and feelings associated with saying what needs to be said aware of the fear but more motivated by potential positive outcomes of sharing what we really, really want with the world.
Register in advance!

Nov 19th, 2019: "Being Vulnerable is a Key to Innovation" at the Animal Welfare Advancement Fall Conference
2019-11-19 08:00 - 2019-11-21 17:00 UTC
New Horizon Strategies will be keynoting The AAWA 2019 Fall Conference: Advancing Animal Welfare through Collaboration, Leadership, and Innovation (November 18-21, 2019) at the Marriott Marquis, Houston, TX.
Join us on Tuesday, Nov 19th for the Kick Off Keynote at 2:00 – 3:15PM for “Being Vulnerable is a Key to Innovation”.
“We do things right and we do things well.” Would you say this describes your organization? Hopefully it does! Read the values,
vision, or guiding principles of most organizations and you’ll find some form of this description centered on the quality and integrity
of the service or product being delivered. In juxtaposition, for most organizations the word “fail” brings about an instantaneous reaction of “something to avoid”.
Innovation and integrity can be competing values. Though we may logically understand that trying anything for the first time will inherently provide the opportunity to succeed or fail, emotionally and culturally we are not okay with actually failing. The extent to which your organization promotes or chastises failure is in direct correlation with innovation, creativity, trust, collaboration, growth, and resiliency.
This riveting presentation is based in part on Dr. Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™ concepts. You’ll gain qualitative awareness of failure resiliency, both personally and as perceived within your organization. Laurie will share the formula for creating and sustaining a culture of innovation to increase organizational awareness, plus a checklist of scenarios and keywords that help define missed opportunities for innovation.

Oct 29th, 2019: "Breaking the Ice of Nice™" at the SouthEast ICF Regional Webinar
2019-10-29 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
Understanding and Practicing Courageous Conversations:
Many leaders tell us their organizations are pretty good, but a little too nice. When we avoid having tough conversations because we don’t want to hurt people’s feelings, are we effectively communicating? The answer is no! Dr. Brené Brown’s research around Daring Leaders shows the number one barrier to braver leaders is the lack of courage to have tough conversations.
What would happen if leaders replaced being nice with being more courageous? What impact could this have with teams, with organizations, and with customers?
This webinar will help process the fears and feelings associated with saying what needs to be said and understanding the potential positive outcomes of sharing our unique perspectives.
Join us for “Breaking the Ice of Nice™” with Laurie Hall, MSc, PCC of New Horizon Strategies, LLC. As a “Dare to Lead™” certified facilitator, Laurie bases this webinar on Dr. Brené Brown’s recent best-selling book of the same title. This webinar is designed to help coaches explore how to hone communication effectiveness by determining their unique Call to Courage. You’ll gain a better understanding of the fears and needs linked to giving and receiving feedback – and a specific tool to use going forward. Are you ready to Break the Ice of Nice?
Topics Covered:

Call to Courage
Daring Leadership™
Vulnerability
Resilient Organizations
Team Effectiveness
Communication and Feedback
Dare to Lead™

Learning Outcomes:

Understand why Courageous Conversations matter to you.
Determine when you’re acting courageously already and what might be getting in the way.
Learn a new tool to simplify and create confidence around the process for giving courageous feedback.

About the Speaker
Laurie Hall is a certified facilitator, certified coach, seasoned speaker, and founder of New Horizon Strategies, LLC (NHS). She provides executive, career and business coaching for individuals and groups to help people achieve their vision, goals and desires. She has coached clients from Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and around the world: Australia, Malaysia, Canada, Singapore, The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, The Netherlands, Brazil, Honduras and Great Britain. In addition, Laurie facilitates programs and events to help companies, government agencies and professional associations achieve the highest possible levels of effectiveness. Topics for facilitated programs and events include Operational Excellence, Culture of Innovation, Change Management, Organizational Development, Strategic Planning, Process Improvement, Project Management, Leadership Development, Team Building, and Dare to Lead™. A frequent keynote and breakout session speaker on technical and motivational topics to inspire personal and professional growth, Laurie has presented at dozens of conferences and professional meetings from small groups to over 350 people. She holds a B.S. in BioProcess Engineering, an M.S. in Technical Management, 128 hours of Executive Coach Training, and has over 1,000 hours of coaching experience.
TICKETS
$15.00 Member Ticket
$25.00 Non-Member/Guest Ticket

2019 Association for Talent Development Conference and EXPO
2019-09-19 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Calling all leaders of change efforts. Have you experienced Transformational Change, the kind of change that’s a step function in growth, satisfaction, and ROI/E for our teams and organizations? This experiential workshop led by industry experts, Laurie Hall, Owner of New Horizon Strategies, LLC and Kelly Baughman, Principal of Planning Design Research (PDR) will facilitate participants through the distinguishing concepts of leadership alignment in a highly experiential format. Come prepared to explore what it takes and discover what is holding you back from achieving Transformational Change in your teams. Are you ready?

Participants will experientially gain a clarifying understanding of the impact of people and process on successful change efforts.
Key indicators to proactively understand what aids and prevents transformational change efforts will be shared/discussed.
Effective leadership future casting frameworks for concepts such as alignment, trust, values, and strategy will be shared/discussed.

Register in advance for the September 19th, 2019 Annual Association for Talent Development (ATD) Houston Conference and EXPO.
There is no shortage of change on the horizon, and leadership alignment to navigate all that change is a significant ingredient to successful endeavors. Leadership is a critical piece of our talent performance as well as the driving factor in strategically utilizing talent in organizations. When we are aligned, great things can happen. When alignment falls short…we’ve seen that show. Change fails, people feel disgruntled, talent leaves. Leadership future casting catalyzes our abilities to allow talent to not only survive but thrive.

Are we Employers or Parents at the PMI Annual Houston Conference
2019-06-04 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | NRG Center, Houston, TX, United States
On Tues, June 4th from 4:00-5:10PM, hear Laurie give another engaging, fun, and funny presentation of “Are we Employers or Parents” at the 2019 Project Management Institute (PMI) Houston Conference at NRG Center.
Have you ever felt like your employees expected you to be more of a parent than an employer as their project manager? Using Eric Berne’s Transactional Analysis theory, we’ll investigate the parallels between the Parent-Child-Adult model and insidious roles we can fall into as both employers and employees. Through comical, interactive exercises, join us to uncover how you can influence expectations with awareness and communication.
Register for the conference here: http://pmihouston.org/meetinginfo.php?id=1013&ts=1539800042

Daring Leadership at the Gulf Coast Symposium on HR Issues
2019-05-16 07:30 - 08:30 UTC
Join New Horizon Strategies, LLC and fellow HR professionals, facilitators, coaches and consultants in the Gulf Coast Region at the 2019 Gulf Coast Symposium on HR Issues. We’ll be presenting “Daring LeadershipTM – Proactively or Reactively”. Leading proactively requires up-front work, but we spend more time managing ineffective, unproductive behavior without it. Research by Dr. Brené Brown in her most recent book, Dare to LeadTM encapsulate many messages we need to lead with purpose. Laurie Hall is a certified Dare to LeadTM Facilitator and will present key findings, applications and take away opportunities to catalyze proactive leadership within your organization.

Register in advance at https://www.hrhouston.org/mpage/GCS19_Home
