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Lights. Camera. Advocacy.
What We Can Learn From Hollywood About
Self-Awareness in the Workplace
By the end of this session, you'll have the skills to take charge of your own success and use resources to gain a deeper understanding of advocacy in the workplace.
Key Learning Objectives
1. Adopt a Self-Directed Talent Development Mindset
Learn strategies to advance your career without a sponsor by taking charge of your own success and leveraging available resources effectively.
2. Understand the Importance of Advocacy in Career Advancement
Recognize how having an advocate in the workplace can eliminate barriers to success and increase opportunities for talent development.
3. Develop Self-Awareness to Enhance Job Performance
Explore the role of self-awareness in navigating workplace challenges and achieving intentional growth through comparisons and insights.
ATD Capability Model: Building Personal Capacity
About the Speaker
Larnzell Harper serves the talent development community as a Sr. Consultant, a role he assumed in 2023. His passion for transit, adult learning methods, and enhancing organizational capabilities through people, strategy, and processes drives his work. Since managing Training and Development at VIA Metropolitan Transit in 2016, Larnzell has focused on forging connections between personal and professional growth.
Larnzell began his career in transportation as a bus operator at the Chicago Transit Authority, where he also held positions as a Training Coordinator and Transportation Manager (bus/rail). He gained experience in Human Resources by developing and facilitating training programs for over 32 departments as a Training Specialist at the City of Chicago. He enjoys being a board member and is honored to belong to the Association of Talent Development, San Antonio chapter since 2018. He is also a board member of San Antonians for Rail Transit (SART) and considers himself a transit geek/nerd.
He holds a master’s degree in educating adults from DePaul University in Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. Larnzell’s current areas of focus are determining and establishing programs, policies, and procedures to improve organizational effectiveness and departmental performance of customers, employees, and the public.
His background in adult education, transit operations, and communication has led him to support the implementation of comprehensive training programs that are cohesive and compliant with talent development initiatives, transportation industry standards, and leadership development methods. He enjoys public speaking, roller coasters, transit trains, and DC Comics animation movies when outside of work.
