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The Art of Saying Goodbye – Turning Employee Exits into Strategic Opportunities
Employee departures are inevitable, but how organizations manage those transitions can have a lasting impact on culture, compliance, reputation, and future talent attraction. This session explores how HR professionals can transform offboarding from a transactional process into a strategic opportunity that strengthens the employee experience and protects the organization.
Participants will examine best practices for creating a compliant, consistent, and employee-centered offboarding process while navigating the risks and opportunities associated with voluntary and involuntary separations. The session will also cover strategies for preserving employer brand, supporting remaining employees, and building long-term goodwill through thoughtful transition and outplacement support.
Reputation Re-Tool™ – Building Trust to Accelerate Success
The purpose of the keynote is to empower audiences to:
- Understand what their reputation is saying about them today
- Identify what they WANT it to say
- Close the gap through intentional behavior, clarity, and consistency
- Repair areas of trust that have weakened or fractured
- Create a repeatable framework for maintaining a strong, trustworthy, high-impact reputation
It’s about taking ownership of the perceptions you create, reshaping them with purpose, and building a reputation that opens doors, accelerates influence, and reflects your true values and leadership. In short: Reputation Re-Tool helps people reboot their credibility, re-establish trust, and realign their identity with the impact they want to make.
You don’t define your reputation—others do, often within seconds. Every interaction silently scores your trustworthiness, impacting promotions, influence, and results.
In this high-impact keynote, Scott Carley (The Change Energizer and author of Can I Trust You?) equips professionals to intentionally shape, repair, and elevate their reputation using his Trust Credit Score™ framework.
Attendees will learn how to align behavior, perception, and performance to build credibility that drives influence, strengthens teams, and accelerates success.
About the speakers:
Nancy Brooks is a trusted advisor to HR teams with a background in staffing and career transition services. She is passionate about delivering impactful talent management solutions infused with kindness and service.An expert in strategic planning, coaching, outplacement, and career transitions, she partners with C-suite leaders and individuals to support their goals, ensuring they feel valued and empowered to reach their full potential.
Scott Carley, known as The Change Energizer, is a nationally recognized speaker, consultant, and author of Can I Trust You? The Silent Question Everyone in Business Is Asking. He has energized thousands of leaders across all 50 states and 9 countries, helping them build trust, elevate performance, and accelerate results.
He is also the host of the Change Energizer HotSeat Podcast and creator of the Trust Accelerator Mastermind, where high-performing leaders sharpen their reputation, influence, and impact.
At Salt Lake City SHRM, Scott delivers his high-impact keynote Reputation Re-Tool™, equipping HR professionals with a practical framework to assess, repair, and strengthen workplace trust using his Trust Credit Score™ system.
Scott’s message is clear: trust is the ultimate competitive advantage—and your reputation is how it’s measured.
Ben serves as the lead educator with MyRetire and is a Partner at Alliance Wealth Advisors where he serves as the Chief Development Officer.
