DisruptHR Omaha 6.0
Stop Building Fences — Twenty slides, fifteen seconds each, five minutes total, and one question for every leader in the room: are you building fences to keep people in, or launch pads that help them take off?
Five minutes.
No hiding.
DisruptHR is a global event series built to shake up the way people talk about talent, culture, and leadership. The Omaha chapter brings HR leaders, executives, and people-first practitioners together for an afternoon of rapid-fire talks and real conversation, hosted at Supportworks in Papillion.
The format is deliberately unforgiving. Every speaker gets twenty slides, fifteen seconds per slide, five minutes total, and the slides advance whether you are ready or not. DisruptHR Omaha 6.0 was hosted at Supportworks in Papillion and organized by Claire Mueller and the team at The Olson Group.
Stop Building Fences
Build launch pads instead.
The most expensive thing in any company never shows up on a spreadsheet. It is not turnover and it is not a bad hire. It is the person who stays and slowly stops becoming.
Most retention strategy is fence building. Bigger salaries, retention bonuses, golden handcuffs, stay interviews. Every year the fence gets a little taller, and the people standing inside it can feel exactly why it is there. Chris makes the case for the opposite structure: a launch pad, built to lift people rather than hold them, and the shift in leadership that comes with it. Because it was never the fence that kept your best people. It was the growth.
The Fence Reflex
Why retention strategy defaults to holding people in place.
Why People Actually Leave
They go when they stop growing, not when the money gets better somewhere else.
Build the Launch Pad
Investing in people well beyond what the role in front of them requires.
Success and Significance
Measuring leadership by who is better because of you.
See It Live.
The full five minutes of Stop Building Fences, recorded on the DisruptHR Omaha 6.0 stage.
What Attendees Took Away
A clearer read on why good people leave even when the pay is right.
The shift from trying to keep people to actually growing them.
Language leaders can use to invest in someone past their current role.
One person to pick this week and start building for.
Feedback from leaders in the room.
He was engaged, responsive, and invested throughout the planning process and created a presentation that resonated with our audience and challenged us all to look at employee retention from a different lens. Chris brought both expertise and authenticity while making the most of DisruptHR’s fast-paced five-minute format.
His topics are well researched, and he weaves in practical tips and real-life examples that make every session realistic and relatable.
Chris consistently brings knowledge, insight, and practical advice to every presentation, elevating the value he brings to every engagement.
I always have takeaways to put into action after Chris’ sessions. He cares deeply about uplifting the entire profession.
You Are Capable of More
The bestselling book behind the talks — ten principles for closing the gap between what people are doing and what they are actually capable of. The launch pad idea starts here.
Events regularly pair a session with copies for attendees. Bulk pricing and signed editions are available.
You Are Capable of More.
Chris is the author of the bestselling You Are Capable of More. Copies can be bundled for attendees, and Chris can run a signing table in the exhibit hall — which drives traffic for your sponsors.
Winner, How-To Category2026 Paris Book FestivalAbout the Book →DisruptHR Omaha.
DisruptHR is a global information exchange built to energize, inform and empower people in HR, running in more than 200 cities. The format is deliberately unforgiving: twenty slides, fifteen seconds each, auto-advancing. Five minutes, no hiding behind a deck.
The sixth Omaha event, hosted by The Olson Group at Supportworks in Papillion, ran under the theme Jailbreak — breaking free from outdated HR norms. Chris shared the lineup with Brett Hoogeveen of BetterCulture, Carol Horner of Synchronicity, Dr. Amy Luckenbill of HR Helix, Dr. Kylie Ensrud of Humanized HR and Dr. Tricia Diamond of Diamond PMO Consultants.
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