Leadership Development and Training Expert
As President and CEO of Fierce, Inc., Halley Bock is at the forefront of the leadership development and training industry. A popular and engaging public speaker, Halley speaks with leaders across the globe. She has keynoted at events such as the National Business Growth Summit and to organizations including Microsoft, MICA Knightsbridge, and Institute of Management Consultants.
Articles and Publications
A prolific writer, Halley has a monthly column in Seattle Business Magazine, contributes regularly to various publications including Training Magazine and Chief Learning Officer, and is sought out as an industry resource for media outlets including Forbes.
Leadership Experience
Halley joined Fierce as COO in 2006, was promoted to President in 2009, and became CEO in 2011. Under her leadership, the company has enjoyed double-digit growth across all business units and is consistently honored by the design industry and business community.
Recognition
Fierce was named in Seattle Business Magazine’s 2011 list of the 100 Best Places in Washington to Work, was recognized by TrainingIndustry.com as a 2011 Top Company To Watch, and was listed in Inc.’s 2011 500|5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies.
Prior to joining Fierce, Halley spent over 13 years in the high-tech industry innovating for the emerging online media space. Her focus was on interactive media, large-scale streaming broadcasts, and leading teams to success. During her time with RealNetworks, Halley produced numerous award-winning web events, original programming, and web content.
Entrepreneurial Success
Halley founded LUX Media, a highly successful design, production, and consulting agency specializing in multimedia content and focused on serving progressive non-profits such as Amnesty International, World Wildlife Fund, and UNICEF. Halley credits her accomplishments as leader to her lifelong commitment to revisit, challenge and improve her leadership skills. She attributes much of her success to straightforward conversations, surrounding herself with brilliant people, and always staying curious.
Halley contributes her expertise to several local startups, think tanks, and nonprofits. As an active industry leader, Halley ensures Fierce stays up-to-date on the latest trends and most innovative solutions for clients.
Fierce Conversations
Are you and those around you openly discussing the most important issues…right now? Or is lack of communication putting your goals at risk? As a leader—of projects, programs or people—your central function is to ensure conversations drive results, inspire innovation, and support necessary change. Fierce Negotiations You’re always negotiating. It’s part of daily life. Yet negotiating is often viewed as a struggle in which one side must lose for the other to win. Fierce Negotiations reframes the process of negotiation using Fierce techniques and models to yield the best deal and enrich the relationship.
Fierce Leadership
Have some of the long-accepted “best practices” within your organization become “worst practices” that hinder success and growth? Fierce Leadership is not about following blindly. It’s about openly questioning and exploring practices and policies—and setting aside those that no longer (and perhaps never did) serve your organization.
Fierce Accountability
Do people in your organization actively seek and demonstrate personal accountability? Or do they seek safe projects that keep them off the hot seat? Do they deliver agreed-upon results, despite obstacles? Or do they play the blame game? Fierce Accountability training fosters accountability within teams and throughout the organization, builds a new context around accountability, uncovers the dangers of diluted strategies and playing it safe, and develops effective responses to those who have a context of blame, protection, or defense.
Fierce Generations
Are differences a source of strength within your team or a point of contention and division? For the first time in history, organizations are comprised of four unmistakably different generations, each with their own approach to, view of, and desired outcomes from work. Fierce Generations is multigenerational training that provides a framework for uniting people and realizing the rewards of an inclusive culture.
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Fierce Conversations has proven to be one of the most practical, thought provoking and relevant programs we offer to our associates today. It gives them tools, skills and courage to have those 'needed conversations' with authenticity and grace, whether in the workplace or in their homes. Everyone's talking now!
- HR Director of Human Resources and Development | Crate and Barrel
