Eric Harkins

STOP PRETENDING MONDAY IS THE PROBLEM.

Eric Harkins is the President and Founder of GKG Search & Consulting, a Minneapolis-based consulting firm that helps organizations Get talent, Keep talent & Grow talent. His goal is simple: Help every company he works with make sure Monday morning doesn’t suck for their employees. Eric is a motivational speaker, consultant, executive-coach, and an expert in helping companies create a culture high performers want to be a part of.

Eric held a number of positions in corporate America. He was a head of HR three times, working for companies that were Fortune 500, Fortune 100, Fortune 50, publicly traded, privately held, family owned, private equity owned, and consulting based in the retail, healthcare, business-to-business, consumer packaged goods, technology, and career transition services industries. What matters is that he spent that time as a living rejection of that warm advice. Eric became the kind of leader he wanted to follow.

Today, as the president of GKG Search & Consulting, he pulls no punches with the companies that hire him. He is quick to find out what is working and what doesn’t. He knows that work can and should be fun. He knows that low-performers don’t leave on their own. And he knows that assholes don’t change their stripes.

Beyond his consultant work, Eric is a keynote speaker helping leader’s around the world realize that work can be better: that dreading Mondays is simply a managerial failure that can be corrected. His book distills his message into relatable, indispensable guides for the modern leader.

KEYNOTE TOPICS Fun, engaging, but edgy and in your face messages around leadership and workplace culture.

• How to make sure Monday morning doesn’t suck

• Why a bad leader will never create a good culture

• The three lessons I’ve learned along the way

• How to create a culture high performers want to be a part of

• Performance Management is not a one-time event