Austin, TX
Keynote speaker and talent strategist serving Austin, TX
Austin's hyper-growth culture creates intense pressure to hire fast and hire right. Harry Lakin helps organizations in Central Texas make better people decisions through behavioral science, emotional intelligence, and evidence-based hiring.
How Harry works with Austin organizations
Keynote speaking
Engaging keynotes on emotional intelligence in the age of AI and multi-generational communication, for organizations that host events at the Austin Convention Center, JW Marriott Austin, and Fairmont Austin and corporate events throughout Central Texas.
The Decision Room
A structured advisory process for Austin executives navigating high-stakes hiring, team restructuring, or leadership transitions in technology, venture-backed startups, and creative industries organizations.
Behavioral assessments
Science-backed assessments that help Austin hiring teams stop selecting who interviews best and start identifying who will actually perform.
The problem
Most Austin organizations are making their most consequential decisions on instinct
In Central Texas's technology, venture-backed startups, and creative industries sectors, the pressure to fill roles fast pushes organizations toward hiring decisions based on interview performance rather than behavioral evidence. The result is predictable: wrong hires, disengaged teams, and leadership gaps that cost real money to fix.
Austin, TX
Why Austin organizations bring Harry in
Austin's hyper-growth culture creates intense pressure to hire fast and hire right. Harry works specifically with leaders in technology, venture-backed startups, and creative industries — sectors where a wrong hire at the senior level is expensive, visible, and hard to undo.
Whether the engagement is a keynote at the Austin Convention Center, JW Marriott Austin, and Fairmont Austin, a half-day workshop for a leadership team, or a Decision Room advisory process for a C-suite hire, the work is the same: bring rigor to the decisions that matter most.
Industries served in Austin
Technology, venture-backed startups, and creative industries organizations across Central Texas.
Common Austin venues
the Austin Convention Center, JW Marriott Austin, and Fairmont Austin.
Engagement formats
Keynote address, half-day workshop, executive retreat session, or Decision Room advisory process.
"Get your people decisions right. Everything else gets easier."
Harry Lakin
Bringing Harry to Austin
Whether you're planning a conference keynote, an executive offsite, or a leadership development initiative, Harry works with Austin organizations to deliver measurable impact.