WHERE CONNECTION BECOMES THE STRATEGY THAT DRIVES RESULTS
Jason Lauritsen helps leaders and organizations build the connection that turns strategy into execution, so people, performance, and retention all move in the same direction.
Best For: Organizations struggling with engagement, retention, or getting the best out of their people, where connection is the missing ingredient that turns strategy into results.
Key Outcomes:
- Stronger connection that fuels execution, engagement, and retention
- A practical framework for building the kind of workplace people don’t want to leave
- Research-backed leadership tools grounded in the Human Connection Study
- Immediate strategies to turn connection into competitive advantage
A RESEARCH-BACKED APPROACH TO ENGAGEMENT AND RETENTION
Jason Lauritsen has spent more than 15 years helping leaders and organizations understand what actually drives employee engagement, retention, and performance.
As a keynote speaker, author of Unlocking High Performance, former HR executive, and creator of the Human Connection Study, Jason brings real-world leadership experience, rigorous research, and a genuinely engaging stage presence to audiences worldwide.
His new signature keynote, Connection Is the Strategy, debuted at Workhuman Live 2025 where it was rated the second-highest session of the entire conference (4.88 out of 5). It is built on the Human Connection Study, one of the largest studies of connection at work to date, drawing on data from 286,000 employees across more than 1,600 organizations.
Jason speaks to HR conferences, leadership summits, associations, and any organization where engagement, retention, and getting the best out of people are on the agenda.
BUILDING THE KIND OF WORKPLACE PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO LEAVE
Most engagement problems aren’t a mystery. They’re a connection problem in disguise. When people feel connected to their work, their leaders, and each other, execution accelerates, retention improves, and cultures become the kind of place people don’t want to leave.
Jason’s approach, grounded in the Human Connection Study and his Connected Performance System, gives leaders the language, the framework, and the practical tools to turn connection into a competitive advantage, one conversation, one check-in, one relationship at a time.
SIGNATURE KEYNOTES
Connection Is the Strategy
The Advantage Most Leaders Underestimate
A keynote built on the Human Connection Study (286,000 employees, 1,600 organizations) that reveals why connection is one of the main ways strategy actually turns into meaningful action, and what leaders can do about it.
- Understand how connection functions inside organizations and why it drives strategic execution
- Identify the leadership, cultural, and operational conditions that shape connection at work
- Learn the Connected Performance System, grounded in leadership clarity, organizational alignment, and management capability
- Walk away with a practical way to turn connection into a competitive advantage
Performance is Cultivated, Not Managed
Unleashing the Power of the Check-In Conversation
A keynote focused on the Cultivation Mindset, and the four-step check-in conversation that helps leaders remove the barriers keeping their people from reaching their full potential.
- Actionable strategies to create conditions where employees naturally choose excellence
- A powerful four-step check-in process that cultivates employee potential
- Proven methods for building a retention-friendly culture based on human-centered principles
- A leadership style employees want, and a culture that delivers their best
Lead With Relationship
The True Path to Employee Engagement
A keynote grounded in one fundamental truth: we ALL experience work like a relationship. That means we crave the same things from work that we do from any important relationship in our lives, acceptance, appreciation, and commitment.
- A better understanding of what it takes to keep people engaged
- Deep insights into how to get the best out of their people
- A new outlook on leadership that puts relationship at the center
- Practical tools to liberate employees to deliver their best
IMPACT BEYOND THE STAGE
Jason doesn’t just deliver a keynote. He sends audiences home with a framework they can put into practice Monday morning. He is known for the research he brings to every stage, the humor that makes complex ideas land, and the practical, ready-to-use tools that keep audiences quoting him long after the event ends.
His work has appeared in HR Executive, Forbes, and Fast Company, and he is a sought-after voice on employee engagement, connection at work, and the future of leadership. Meeting planners value his ability to combine deep research, real-world leadership experience, and immediate takeaways in a way that resonates from the front-line to the C-suite.
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There are many speakers on the circuit who tout their ability to drive performance, culture, and stronger leadership. Few speakers can both engage audiences AND partner with companies to ensure their message aligns with business needs. Jason is one of the special ones.
I have had the pleasure of working with him on a ton of speaking and content opportunities, and he consistently crushes it.
– Workhuman Live
– HR Source
– SeniorAge
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