About Jason
When I entered the working world as an ambitious twenty-two year old, what I found was one bad experience after another. Each job seemed more terrible than the last.
When I became a recruiter, I saw the same thing with almost every organization who hired me to help them find people.
Dysfunction.
Work seemed to suck nearly everywhere I looked. In time, I decided I wanted to be part of fixing it. So, I found my way into corporate HR where I spent nearly ten years of my career. During this time, I found that work didn’t have to suck. That leadership and culture could be shaped to create great experiences for employees.
This became my calling — to help leaders and organizations fix work.
I believe that work can and should be a fulfilling experience for people. When people have a good experience at work, they go home as better people, better friends, better spouses, and better parents. And, they perform better at work.
It was true for me. It’s probably been true for you. The consequences of a good or bad work experience are huge. So, I will spend the rest of my life working to make work a more human experience.
On the personal side, I live on an acreage just outside of Omaha, Nebraska with my badass wife, Angie, our three kids and our little dog Cleo. When I’m not working, I love hanging out with my family, running, and watching sports
Partial List of My Online Publications
3 Ways to Become a Beloved Leader
– Huffington Post
3 Ways to Tap Into the Power of Progress
– Workhuman
5 Ways to Hack Your Performance Management Process
– Saba Blog
Approaching Work as a Relationship is the Key to Employee Engagement
– Saba Blog
Could Eliminating Managers Improve Employee Engagement?
– ADP Spark Blog
eBook: Human-Friendly Performance Management
– Small Improvements
eBook: Creating a Performance Management Process that Works
– Small Improvements
Feedback too critical? Try the feedforward approach
– Small Improvements Blog
How to Design the Employee Experience Part 1: The Impact of Experience
– PeopleDoc Blog
Prepare for the future of work: What the decline in trust means for organizations
– PeopleDoc Blog
Should Work Be “Like a Family?”
– ADP Spark Blog
Why Inclusion is Vital to Performance
– Workhuman
Why Your Survey Isn’t Improving Employee Engagement
– ADP Spark Blog
Work is a (Dysfunctional) Relationship
– Huffington Post