SAN ANTONIO ATD
MONTHLY LEARNING MEETING
Lights, Camera, Advocacy:
What Lessons Can Hollywood Teach Us About Self Awareness in the Workplace
Do you think having an advocate at work would be effective in advancing your career? Have you ever felt that having an advocate would eliminate a barrier that limits your success in your current role? In today’s fast-paced workplace, having an advocate can make all the difference in advancing your career and overcoming challenges. This session will help you recognize the value of self-awareness regarding advocacy in the workplace and how lessons from Hollywood can lead to professional development.
Attending this session can help you understand how being more self-aware of advocacy improves your job performance. Join us to explore intentional comparisons that show why self-awareness matters at work. We will explore intentional comparisons to highlight the importance of self-awareness in the workplace. We will also discuss navigating without a sponsor, as well as obtaining a mindset based on self-directed professional development and more.
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.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the Importance of Advocacy in Career Advancement
o Recognize how having an advocate in the workplace can eliminate barriers to success and improve professional development.
2. Develop Self-Awareness to Enhance Job Performance
o Explore the role of self-awareness in navigating workplace challenges and achieving intentional growth through comparisons and insights.
3. Adopt a Self-Directed Professional Development Mindset
o Learn strategies to advance your career without a sponsor by taking charge of your own success and leveraging available resources effectively.
About the Speaker:
Larnzell Harper serves as a Sr. Consultant with Insight Strategies, Inc. a role he has held since 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 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 including the role as President of the Association of Talent Development, San Antonio chapter. He is honored to belong to an organization that is focused on providing leadership and resources to subject matter experts in adult-learning and talent development. 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.
