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Grant Harris, MBA, CDE®
Keynote Speaker & Consultant | Human-Centered Performance Strategist
Grant Harris, MBA, CDE®, is a Human-Centered Performance speaker and consultant who helps people leaders stop losing time, talent, and value by fixing workplace friction before capable people get misread as performance problems.
His core message is simple: Fix your process, not your people.
Grant’s work is built from both professional rigor and lived experience. As a late-diagnosed autistic professional, he knows what it feels like to be misread by workplace systems that reward comfort, familiarity, speed, polish, and one dominant way of working. He has also learned the lesson from the other side: as a founder and consultant, he has created friction for buyers, overcomplicated decisions, lost opportunities, and had to redesign his personal process.
That dual perspective gives his work its edge. Grant does not approach workplace friction as an abstract idea. He has experienced it, studied it, created it, and learned how to name it.
In his signature session, Fix Your Process, Not Your People: Human-Centered Performance, Grant shows leaders how capable people get mislabeled as difficult, disengaged, resistant, not ready, or not a fit when the work around them is unclear, inconsistent, or built around hidden rules. By the time someone is labeled difficult, disengaged, resistant, or not ready, the process has often been sending bad signals long before the label appears.
His sessions help audiences examine the everyday systems that shape performance: expectations, manager habits, handoffs, meetings, communication norms, support pathways, and talent decisions that can reward comfort over capability.
Built for HR conferences, L&D teams, ERG/BRG programs, leadership events, and people-manager audiences, Grant’s work gives leaders practical language for distinguishing people problems from process problems before friction becomes a retention, credibility, manager-effectiveness, or performance issue.
Grant is the founder of GTH Consulting and has worked across enterprise, government, higher education, and mission-driven environments where complexity is real and performance matters. His clients and audiences have included The Washington Post, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Loudoun County Government, and ASICS.
He brings executive-level rigor, lived experience, and uncommon pattern recognition to the stage — translating complex workplace dynamics into clear, practical questions leaders can use immediately.
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Fix Your Process, Not Your People: Human-Centered Performance
How HR and L&D leaders reduce workplace friction, improve manager judgment, and stop avoidable talent loss
A practical HR/L&D session on reducing workplace friction, improving manager judgment, and helping leaders distinguish people problems from process problems before capable talent is overlooked, burned out, or lost.
Organizations often treat repeated breakdowns as people problems: poor communication, lack of readiness, weak performance, or bad fit. But when the same issues keep showing up across teams, roles, and managers, the problem is often deeper. The work itself may be designed in ways that reward comfort, familiarity, speed, and one dominant communication style while making other kinds of capability harder to see.
In Fix Your Process, Not Your People, Grant Harris helps HR, L&D, and people leaders apply a Human-Centered Performance lens to workplace friction. Using his Friction to Flow™ method, attendees learn how to identify the work conditions that cause capable people to be misread, underused, burned out, or lost.
This is not a generic awareness session. It is a practical work-design conversation about expectations, handoffs, manager interpretation, meeting norms, decision paths, and the signals organizations use to judge performance.
Grant brings professional expertise and lived experience as a late-recognized autistic speaker, with audience feedback from HR, disability inclusion, military, and leadership settings, including DisruptHR, Disability:IN, and Virginia Military Institute.
Best fit for:
•HR association conferences
•L&D conferences
•manager effectiveness programs
•talent management events
•leadership development sessions
•ERG/BRG and neuroinclusion programming
•corporate people-leader events
Key Outcomes:
•Identify where workplace friction is causing capable people to be misread as difficult, disengaged, not ready, or not a fit.
•Distinguish people problems from process problems by examining expectations, handoffs, communication norms, manager assumptions, and decision paths
•Apply the Friction to Flow™ method to redesign one work condition that improves performance without lowering standards.
Fix Your Process, Not Your People: Human-Centered Performance
How HR and L&D leaders reduce workplace friction, improve manager judgment, and stop avoidable talent loss
A practical HR/L&D session on reducing workplace friction, improving manager judgment, and helping leaders distinguish people problems from process problems before capable talent is overlooked, burned out, or lost.
Organizations often treat repeated breakdowns as people problems: poor communication, lack of readiness, weak performance, or bad fit. But when the same issues keep showing up across teams, roles, and managers, the problem is often deeper. The work itself may be designed in ways that reward comfort, familiarity, speed, and one dominant communication style while making other kinds of capability harder to see.
In Fix Your Process, Not Your People, Grant Harris helps HR, L&D, and people leaders apply a Human-Centered Performance lens to workplace friction. Using his Friction to Flow™ method, attendees learn how to identify the work conditions that cause capable people to be misread, underused, burned out, or lost.
This is not a generic awareness session. It is a practical work-design conversation about expectations, handoffs, manager interpretation, meeting norms, decision paths, and the signals organizations use to judge performance.
Grant brings professional expertise and lived experience as a late-recognized autistic speaker, with audience feedback from HR, disability inclusion, military, and leadership settings, including DisruptHR, Disability:IN, and Virginia Military Institute.
Best fit for:
•HR association conferences
•L&D conferences
•manager effectiveness programs
•talent management events
•leadership development sessions
•ERG/BRG and neuroinclusion programming
•corporate people-leader events
Key Outcomes:
•Identify where workplace friction is causing capable people to be misread as difficult, disengaged, not ready, or not a fit.
•Distinguish people problems from process problems by examining expectations, handoffs, communication norms, manager assumptions, and decision paths
•Apply the Friction to Flow™ method to redesign one work condition that improves performance without lowering standards.