Designing and Facilitating Workplace Learning, Leadership, and Collaboration
Hi, I'm John!
I design and facilitate workplace learning and leadership programs that solve important business challenges while strengthening the human connection that makes collaboration work. I primarily support teams and leaders through engaging facilitation, coaching, and consulting, and I’m incredibly lucky to have led impactful programs on 5 continents and with some of the world’s best-known organizations.
Prior to founding Leadership Labs, I most recently spent 6 years teaching at Stanford University, including Stanford's famous Designing Your Life class and other courses that take an innovative approach to applied positive psychology, decision analysis, and career strategy.
I’m also featured as a meditation guide on the Calm app, the top app for meditation and mental wellness, where I’ve led workshops for Calm’s business clients and had the good fortune of blending my personal interest in mindfulness with my professional work in learning design.
I'm passionate about supporting impactful leadership and collaboration, and developing more connected, engaged, and effective teams and organizations.
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Closing keynote speaker for Bill’s Unity Design Summit, bringing Bill’s global design team together in-person for the first time following 2 acquisitions and nearly 3 years of remote work.
Offsite facilitation for Slack’s Future Forum, a consortium pioneering the future of work through Fortune 500 executive roundtables and research on 10,000+ knowledge workers.
Human-Centered Design Program for Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) Lahore Chapter on design thinking for entrepreneurship. Partnered with local practitioners to tailor content to cultural and business context.
Traveling Resource Program for the global leadership community of YPO, delivering a workshop series for CEO’s in chapters across the Middle East and North Africa
Career development for gTech with a focus on community-building and exploring opportunities outside of “traditional” paths
Keynote speaker at Global HR Day, sharing mindfulness and stress-management techniques through the lens of DHL’s internal feedback frameworks and evolving post-pandemic EVP.
Teaching Stanford's famous 'Designing Your Life" class and several related courses that draw on positive psychology, decision analysis, and career strategy.
Worked with Emmy Award-winning producers from Ellen DeGeneres and the Oprah Winfrey Network to film live workshops on mindfulness, focus, and burnout for Calm's business clients.
Online series supporting organizational change management and personal energy and focus for elite athletes turned business leaders.
Strategy and ideation for senior Spotify executives in the Content and Ads BU focused on emerging challenges/opportunities in synthetic media, the metaverse(s), and AI.
Design Thinking for Workday Xplore Week, helping Product & Technology Early Talent apply human-centered design to professional challenges.
Designing Your Life workshop series for Snap employees, with colleagues from the Stanford Design Lab
Career Development series for Olympic Athletes transitioning from sports to business, with a particular focus on decision-making and communicating transferable skills.
Supporting increased program satisfaction and conversion rates for eBay Interns and Recent College Grads through tailored professional development content.
Facilitating on-sites and Summits focused on strategy and rapid prototyping for Pinterest I&D, Global ERG Leads, and Leadership & Culture teams.
YouTube Partner Operations Team Day facilitator, a hybrid learning experience on the theme of Purpose, bringing employees together across 4 different office locations.
Supporting Stanford GSB HR in building an even more robust, inclusive, and consistent employee onboarding experience through collaborative sessions and research-backed recommendations.
Learning and Leadership sessions in-person and online for University & Emerging Talent Recruiting Leaders, Including Leaders Summit and URx Conferences.
SERVICES
I design and facilitate leadership development programs, team onsites/offsites, design sprints, and company retreats in collaboration with an outstanding set of colleagues. Offerings include:
Innovation and design sprints supporting strategy, problem-solving, and collaboration
Leadership development programs, manager training, and org effectiveness facilitation
Using Stanford’s Designing Your Life tools to get un-stuck and power thriving teams and careers
Science-based approaches to increasing focus and decreasing stress and burnout at work.
Strengthen retention, drive conversions, and develop essential skills for professional success.
Supporting teams and leaders navigating uncertainty and organizational change
