Pete Havel

Pete Havel

IOM

TX, US
Become a better leader & manager & thru learning to deal w/ the tough people problems of toxic, difficult people, ethics, workplace culture--issues that put companies in headlines, court, & worse!

Pete Havel has served as a lobbyist and political strategist for some of America's leading business advocacy associations, including his time as the Southwest and South Central Regional Director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

In those roles, he served as a lobbyist, media spokesman, negotiator, crisis communicator, and fundraiser.

He's also served at top strategic communications firms like Burson Marsteller, The Wolf Group, and Sunwest Communications, helping businesses create brands, protect reputations and help companies tell their stories to their customers.

Pete is now an author, speaker, trainer, and consultant. He wrote The Arsonist in the Office after a surreal experience inside a fictionalized company he calls 'The Firm'. The Arsonist in the Office provides readers the tools, tactics, and tips necessary to protect or transform toxic organizational cultures and survive toxic behavior. He provides his fireproofing strategies to organizations through speeches, training and consulting.

He speaks and offers training services regularly to businesses, chambers of commerce, trade associations, and law enforcement groups.

Pete is a 1992 graduate of Baylor University, an avid Red Sox and Patriots fan, and leads a never-ending search for the perfect plate of brisket. He and his wife Janie live in Dallas with their 16-year old daughter Reagan.

Pete Havel has served as a lobbyist and political strategist for some of America's leading business advocacy associations, including his time as the Southwest and South Central Regional Director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

In those roles, he served as a lobbyist, media spokesman, negotiator, crisis communicator, and fundraiser.

He's also served at top strategic communications firms like Burson Marsteller, The Wolf Group, and Sunwest Communications, helping businesses create brands, protect reputations and help companies tell their stories to their customers.

Pete is now an author, speaker, trainer, and consultant. He wrote The Arsonist in the Office after a surreal experience inside a fictionalized company he calls 'The Firm'. The Arsonist in the Office provides readers the tools, tactics, and tips necessary to protect or transform toxic organizational cultures and survive toxic behavior. He provides his fireproofing strategies to organizations through speeches, training and consulting.

He speaks and offers training services regularly to businesses, chambers of commerce, trade associations, and law enforcement groups.

Pete is a 1992 graduate of Baylor University, an avid Red Sox and Patriots fan, and leads a never-ending search for the perfect plate of brisket. He and his wife Janie live in Dallas with their 16-year old daughter Reagan.

Fireproofing Your Company, Culture and Career

Through a 30, 45 or 60 minute format, Pete Havel teaches leaders and managers how to protect themselves from destructive people and behaviors in their companies that Pete called 'the Arsonists'--those who burn down companies, cultures, and careers, if not addressed.  In a fast-moving and funny presentation, Pete profiles an arsonist, their behaviors, and what the factors are that allow arsonists to thrive. And most arsonists thrive because of leadership and management challenges that...
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Leading Your Culture--To the Top or into Trouble?

Leaders set the tone for their organization with their actions and inaction. For organizations to succeed in 2020 and avoid the challenges of so many companies that find themselves in scandals, company leaders need to instill core values from top to bottom.  Havel will show your company's leadership how to build a strong cultural base, how to avoid problem behaviors that take down executives every day, and how to ensure buy-in from top to bottom in your organization.  It's the...
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Fireproofing Training 101--Protecting Against Toxic People Who Burn Down Companies and Cultures

In a 4 or 8 hour session, Pete Havel, author of 'The Arsonist in the Office, will teach company leaders and managers how to protect their organizations, cultures and themselves against difficult people Havel calls 'Arsonists' and toxic behaviors.  

Via examples taken from Havel's book and from current event crises within organizations that are pulled from the news, attendees will learn the following:

  • Learn the responsibilities of leaders and managers in...
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