Richard Hadden is a Certified Speaking Professional with a focus on employee relations and creating a great place to work. He is the co-author of Contented Cows Give Better Milk and Contented Cows MOOve Faster. Richard's programs will show you how to make a difference - improve employee retention, employee relations, and profits in his interactive keynotes and seminars.

Richard Hadden was a manager for a large savings and loan association in the 1980's. He learned computer programming and worked as a programmer and systems analyst in the field of multi-user microcomputer software, before the advent of PC's. He was Director of Product Development for a software house in North Florida before starting his own software consulting business in 1986.

While consulting, he taught software design, principles of management, and international economics at Jacksonville University. He began working as a trainer and consultant to corporations and left the university in 1991. Since 1990 he has delivered keynote presentations and training programs for more than 500 audiences throughout the US, Canada, Australia, the Caribbean, and Europe.

• Contented Cows MOOve Faster: Work is Contractual...Effort is Personal - As an adjunct to his latest book of the same name, Richard answers four questions about Discretionary Effort and Employee Engagement in this program: What is it? What good is it? Where does it come from? How do you get it?
  
  
• Leading Through a Tough Economy - The only way to survive shaky economic times is with the willing and enthusiastic engagement of everyone on the payroll. This program examines the truth and myths about today's economy and what leaders must do to survive a downturn, more ready than ever for the next upturn!
  
  
• Contented Cows Give Better Milk: Your People...Your Profits - Based on the book Contented Cows Give Better Milk, this is not your average "leadership" speech. The Contented Cows keynote presentation helps leaders make the connection between the work environment you create and your organization's profitability. It teaches managers how to achieve lasting competitive advantage by creating a great place to work and increases retention, commitment, productivity and profitability.
  
  
• The Journey Thus Far: Foundations for a Fabulous Future! - Celebrate, recognize, energize and reward members of your winning organization with this program designed for award and recognition events, milestones, annual meetings, or entering a new era in your organization's history. This is your story. Using information gathered through indepth research from your organization, Richard takes a look at your past and what it took to get where you are today. He'll present the current-day challenges facing your industry then combine the two to project the exciting future that lies ahead.
  
  
• Bottom Line Leader$hip™ (seminar) - Bottom Line Leadership is designed to guide participants through a process of discovery illustrating the three "employment imperatives" outlined in Contented Cows Give Better Milk. Each learning unit begins with a high-impact exercise to illustrate that unit's theme. Then, the main points of the unit are illustrated through presentation, discussion and additional interactive exercises. Feedback from our survey lets participants discover the relevance of each topic to their own workforce, and develop a personal action plan to do something about it.