Halelly Azulay

Halelly Azulay

CA, US
Halelly Azulay is an author, speaker, facilitator, and leadership development strategist and an expert in communication skills and emotional intelligence.

In 2006, Halelly founded TalentGrow LLC, a consulting company focused on developing leaders and teams, especially for enterprises experiencing explosive growth or expansion. TalentGrow specializes in people leadership skills, which include communication skills, teambuilding, coaching and emotional intelligence. TalentGrow works with all organizational levels, including C-level leaders, frontline managers, and individual contributors.
Halelly is the author of two books, Employee Development on a Shoestring (ATD Press) and Strength to Strength: How Working from Your Strengths Can Help You Lead a More Fulfilling Life. Her books and workshops build on her 20+ years of professional experience in communication and leadership development in corporate, government, nonprofit and academic organizations.
Halelly works with organizations such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz Allen Hamilton, the World Bank, the Food and Drug Administration, Office of Naval Research, Deluxe Corp., FINRA (formerly NASD), and the University of Maryland among others. She is a sought after speaker at conferences and meetings for various organizations such as ATD (formerly ASTD) International Conference, The Training Magazine Conference, Turkey's HR Dergi Training Conference, AFSA, GMAC, GAMA International, the Human Resource Leadership Forum, the International Coaches Federation, The Training Officers' Conference, and the ATD (formerly ASTD) Leadership Conference.
Halelly is an active leader in her professional community: She has been selected to serve on three key volunteer committees for ATD, the world's largest professional association in the Talent Development profession: The 2014-2015 ATD International Conference & Expo Program Advisory Committee (ICE PAC), Chair of the 2014 ATD Chapter Leaders Conference PAC, and the 2014 ATD National Advisors for Chapters (NAC) Committee. She is a field editor for ATD's LINKS newsletter. Halelly is Past President of the Board of Directors of the award-winning Metro DC chapter of ATD where she served in various Board leadership roles for six years. She was selected to judge the 2009 and 2010 Apollo Awards for excellence in employee development.
Halelly is a contributing author to numerous books such as The ASTD Handbook (2nd ed.), The ASTD Trainer's Toolkit App, Active Training, 101 More Ways to Make Training Active, The Insider's Guide to Supervising Government Employees, The Pfeiffer Annual: Training, The Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting, and The Trainer's Warehouse Book of Games, as well as articles and blogs. She was recently described as a "Leadership Development Guru" by the leading magazine in the field of Talent Development, "TD". Halelly blogs at www.talentgrow.com/blog, publishes a leadership podcast at www.talentgrow.com/podcast, and has a popular free bi-weekly subscription newsletter – sign up at http://eepurl.com/PTIRn.
Halelly earned a B.A. (cum laude) and an M.A. in Communication from the University of Maryland with a focus on training and development and intercultural/organizational communication. She holds professional certifications in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), the Apter Motivational Style Profile (AMSP), the Index of Emotional Intelligence, Development Dimensions, Inc. (DDI) training, Conner Partners' Change Management methodology, and PDI's Profilor 360° Assessment.

In 2006, Halelly founded TalentGrow LLC, a consulting company focused on developing leaders and teams, especially for enterprises experiencing explosive growth or expansion. TalentGrow specializes in people leadership skills, which include communication skills, teambuilding, coaching and emotional intelligence. TalentGrow works with all organizational levels, including C-level leaders, frontline managers, and individual contributors.
Halelly is the author of two books, Employee Development on a Shoestring (ATD Press) and Strength to Strength: How Working from Your Strengths Can Help You Lead a More Fulfilling Life. Her books and workshops build on her 20+ years of professional experience in communication and leadership development in corporate, government, nonprofit and academic organizations.
Halelly works with organizations such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Booz Allen Hamilton, the World Bank, the Food and Drug Administration, Office of Naval Research, Deluxe Corp., FINRA (formerly NASD), and the University of Maryland among others. She is a sought after speaker at conferences and meetings for various organizations such as ATD (formerly ASTD) International Conference, The Training Magazine Conference, Turkey's HR Dergi Training Conference, AFSA, GMAC, GAMA International, the Human Resource Leadership Forum, the International Coaches Federation, The Training Officers' Conference, and the ATD (formerly ASTD) Leadership Conference.
Halelly is an active leader in her professional community: She has been selected to serve on three key volunteer committees for ATD, the world's largest professional association in the Talent Development profession: The 2014-2015 ATD International Conference & Expo Program Advisory Committee (ICE PAC), Chair of the 2014 ATD Chapter Leaders Conference PAC, and the 2014 ATD National Advisors for Chapters (NAC) Committee. She is a field editor for ATD's LINKS newsletter. Halelly is Past President of the Board of Directors of the award-winning Metro DC chapter of ATD where she served in various Board leadership roles for six years. She was selected to judge the 2009 and 2010 Apollo Awards for excellence in employee development.
Halelly is a contributing author to numerous books such as The ASTD Handbook (2nd ed.), The ASTD Trainer's Toolkit App, Active Training, 101 More Ways to Make Training Active, The Insider's Guide to Supervising Government Employees, The Pfeiffer Annual: Training, The Pfeiffer Annual: Consulting, and The Trainer's Warehouse Book of Games, as well as articles and blogs. She was recently described as a "Leadership Development Guru" by the leading magazine in the field of Talent Development, "TD". Halelly blogs at www.talentgrow.com/blog, publishes a leadership podcast at www.talentgrow.com/podcast, and has a popular free bi-weekly subscription newsletter – sign up at http://eepurl.com/PTIRn.
Halelly earned a B.A. (cum laude) and an M.A. in Communication from the University of Maryland with a focus on training and development and intercultural/organizational communication. She holds professional certifications in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), the Apter Motivational Style Profile (AMSP), the Index of Emotional Intelligence, Development Dimensions, Inc. (DDI) training, Conner Partners' Change Management methodology, and PDI's Profilor 360° Assessment.

Three Keys to Communicate Success

Today's business environment offers endless communication challenges. Dealing with clients, team members, and vendors, among others, has become a bit like walking in a minefield. In this engaging and interactive workshop, consider three keys that can really make a difference in the quality of your interactions with others; listening to understand, connecting with others on a human level and gaining commitment rather than enforcing compliance.
Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changingCommunication

Engaging Employees across the Generations by Using Social and Informal Learning

Businesses are abuzz about the multiple generations in the workplace. Leaders are struggling to bridge generational gaps and create more ways for different employees to share ideas and add value. In this interactive workshop, examine ways to capture and share tacit organizational knowledge while helping engage employees across the different generations and organizational silos using today's emerging social and informal learning methods.
ManagementAudience ActivityEducational / Informative

Strength to Strength: How Your Strengths Can Help You Lead a More Fulfilling Life

Everyone possesses strengths, defined as "Talent + Knowledge + Skills." When you use your strengths at work daily, you will be happier and fulfill your greatest potential. Plus, your employer will benefit from your increased productivity and engagement. It's a win-win proposition. In this interactive workshop, learn how to identify and cultivate your strengths and maximize them every day.
Personal DevelopmentAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Employee Development on a Shoestring: Developing Talent Outside the Classroom

In this interactive and engaging workshop, explore non-training ways to develop employees on a tight budget. Consider the pros and cons of various non-training development methods, consider the requirements and specifications of specific employee development ideas, and begin to develop a strategy for implementing new employee development methods for your organization.
ManagementAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Make Feedback Work

When delivered poorly or maliciously or when avoided altogether, feedback can get a 'bad rap'. Yet, all feedback should have one key goal: sustain or increase effective performance. It may be positive feedback geared to highlight what's working well in order to encourage more of the same.  It may be constructive feedback geared to encourage tweaks and improvements in performance that enhance its effectiveness. Employees and managers alike have...

Personal DevelopmentEntertainment-basedAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

Influencing with Integrity

In today's workplace, the command-and-control style of influence has given way to a more democratic, inclusive and participatory style. Organizations are flatter and less hierarchical and professionals in all fields of work find that they can, and need to, use their influence skills more often to get their ideas accepted and to get their work tasks accomplished. Influencing with integrity is a way to undersand and use your own and others' deeply held values and standards in order to reach...
ManagementAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing