ABOUT HARTIFY BRANDS
Gayla DeHart
Gayla is an entrepreneur, avid learner, brand ambassador, culture fanatic, willing to go to the lunatic fringe to make a positive impact in business and in life. She has a Ph.D. in Psychology, is an executive coach, and Family Enterprise Advisor, and works with companies to provide leadership on branding, culture, communication, execution, governance and strategy. Gayla is a problem-solver and a talented project manager.
Devoted to working with like-minded enthusiasts who want to bring culture and core values alive, who want to be disruptive in their dedication to building new types of companies, who want to create brands that transcend the latest fad, Gayla works with leaders who aren't afraid of working hard and putting the systems in place to build a strong, profitable business.
Family business advising is a passion, digging deep in multi-stakeholder environments, group facilitation and advocating for transformation change among families and leadership teams, including shaking up business strategy development to align with core values and purpose, the people side of business is her playground.
Gayla and John also work with companies who want to harness and use their culture as a competitive advantage. They have developed a program that walks organizations through the necessary steps to articulate their core values, core purpose and teach how to bring them to life throughout the company.
John DeHart
John is the change agent at Hartify. He won’t do anything that won’t be radically unique. His unique talent is the ability to create something from nothing - and doing it at hyper-speed. He calls it his "to 80% completion" talent.
Before co-founding Nurse Next Door, John attended Cornell University, and spent his early years starting and building B2B web-based technology companies. After starting Nurse Next Door, John also co-founded CareSource Solutions, a hyper growth staffing company that he and his partner, Ken Sim, divested to focus on Nurse Next Door.
John is a professional speaker (known as the "Core Values Guy"), avid cross-fitter and trail runner (he ran a race called the "Canadian Death Race" - he is not competitive at all!) He loves spending as much time with his wife, Gayla, and his daughters Daisy and Aja, adventuring in all ways.
John is on the executive committee of the Canadian Franchise Association, and sits on the advisory board of a large family-run franchise system.
Speaking
John performs keynotes across North America for large corporations, business organizations, conferences, health care organizations and industry associations. Based on his personal, entrepreneurial experiences of building a national brand, John speaks on how to build vision into your organization’s culture and into your own leadership.
Be warned, though, you won’t be getting a corporate, buttoned-down speaker.
Equal parts inspiration and practical business best practices, John takes the traditionally stodgy, boring topic of vision - core values, core purpose and the envisioned future - and turns it on its head.
With a roll up your sleeves approach, John will show you vision with a fresh perspective, leaving you energized, reinvigorated, a little smarter, and definitely inspired to go make change.
Here is how participants feel after seeing John speak:
“Thank you for this. John did an amazing job; the group has been buzzing about his session since he left last week. They have a group email address and John is by far the most talked about speaker! ”
“I learned so much from you and I wanted to let you know that I didn’t sleep last night!”
“Thank you John! The passion with which you shared your many insights has inspired me to get my team together and rediscover our core values. I’m very excited about the coming year, and I will be in touch whenever I feel stopped along the way. Thank you for being an inspiration to us all!”
“John, comments from the event included “Best talk of the year”, “Fantastic”, numerous “Greats” and “Very motivational”. ”
To book John for a speaking engagement, please contact us at Hartify gayla@hartify.com or go to http://nsb.com/speakers/john-dehart/