As President and Founder of Pivot At Work, founded in 2002. Larry works with individuals and organizations to increase effectiveness. This is done in a variety of ways; individual and cohort coaching, outcome based experiential cohorts, and facilitated process work. Recently, he has dedicated his time to working with content creation with experts in various disciplines, coaching officers in the military, and advising organizations in learning architecture. Clients include Surest, Best Buy, Boston Scientific, Carlson Companies, CHS, Carlson School of Management, Williams Energy. In addition to Pivot At Work, Larry has worked inside organizations including UnitedHealth Group, CVS/MinuteClinic, Adaytum, Carlson School of Management. In 2012, his book “A.R.T.ful Leadership The Path to be Admired, Respected, and Trusted as a Leader” was published.
For two years, Larry went underground, producing a podcast to uncover the impact of individuals who experience trauma from being led by poor or abusive leaders in organizations. Through interviews, people came forward to describe how their experience impacted their professional lives, their financial lives, their home, and what recovery has looked like for them. Towards the end of this journey, Larry shifted his attention to focus on how leaders and organizations were responding to the Pandemic.
Larry’s approach to his work has been described by a colleague as “whole-person leadership”. “He understands that we are complex and multi-dimensional creatures. He often references that how we communicate is formed at age 3 – that means, how we respond to conflict, how we interact, how we engage in feedback, how we play in the sandbox has roots in our earliest experiences.”
When Larry works with people – whether individually or in groups, he often pushes them to explore family dynamics, self-awareness, self-confidence, and work. Each impact the other. Understanding each of the components is necessary to not only realize strengths, but to uncover barriers and challenges that exist.
In graduate school, Larry studied Marriage and Family Dynamics, Dyadic Communications, Management, Diffusion of Innovation, Group Dynamics, Organizational Communications, Interpersonal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Economics, Marketing, and Public Relations. All of this was intentional, and he had to fight academia to make it happen. He never stopped looking at tackling issues from a multi-discipline approach. Looking at Leadership, or Teams, or Organizational Culture from a variety of perspectives – and collaborating with a variety of disciplines to solve a problem.
Being constantly curious is an amazing and wonderful thing.
Larry lives in Minneapolis area with his wife Nancy. They have two children, Alex and Kathryn who also live in the area.
