Hi! Chad Kearns here.
Trusted People and Culture Advisor to Destination Leadership
I come alongside destination marketing and management leaders, empowering them to cultivate the organizational culture and team they dream of leading to drive remarkable outcomes.
Outcomes I Empower Destination Leaders to Drive Every Single Day
Cultivate the Right Organizational Culture
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Work in the destinations industry is hard work.
And when leaders struggle to attract, hire, engage, develop, and retain the right team members, the work gets a whole lot harder.
Intentional talent strategy empowers leaders to build the right team of people to deliver remarkable results.
Engage the Right Team Members
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I define an organization’s culture by the set of everyday working norms that are expected, praised, tolerated, and rejected within the team.
Get those norms right and many of the behavioral headaches holding destinations back go away.
Drive Remarkable Organizational Outcomes
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When the right people show up in the right way over and over and over again, remarkable work, meaningful relationships, and impactful outcomes for the stakeholders a destination organization serves follow.
Find Joy in the Journey
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Executive leaders invest too much time and effort to not enjoy the ride along the way.
It’s a whole lot of fun when leaders are surrounded by the right kind of people, showing up in the right kind of way, delivering the right kind of outcomes. Everyone deserves that.
I Count it as an Honor to Support These Organizations and Many More Like Them
Get to Know Me.
I partner with executive leaders and leadership teams to build highly-aligned, high-performing organizations through a focus on people and culture to drive meaningful impact and business outcomes.
My expertise sits at the intersection of organizational culture, talent strategy, leadership development, and performance management, with a focus on making implicit expectations at work explicit, so organizations and the team members working in them clearly know exactly what is expected, and what will praised, tolerated, and rejected.
I was born and raised in Seattle, WA, and still reside here today.
Watch out for me across the West: skiing, biking, hiking, running, and golfing and keeping my heart rate above 140 beats per minute as often as I can.