Randy Haveson

Randy Haveson has spent his career building toward one idea. People are at their best, at work and in their relationships, when they know they matter. He's a TEDx speaker and the author of Party with a Plan and Becoming Your Own BFF. His work has reached audiences on CNN, Fox News, and campuses including Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins, and Brown. For Randy, this is personal. He's been in recovery for more than 40 years, and discovering his own worth is where the work began.

With Kat Nisson, he co-wrote Worth at Work for the person who cares deeply about everyone else, but tends to neglect themselves, who magnifies every mistake and brushes off every win. He wants them to see what he once had to learn himself. Their worth has been there all along.

It's the foundation of WORTH@WORK, where he helps service organizations, from hospitality to customer service, move past burnout and turnover to a place of value and internal worth. His own path gave him a rare understanding of what service work asks of people. He trained as a counselor, earned more than 500 guest compliments as a greeter at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort, and on one of his campuses, was recognized for building one of the most effective university health education programs in the country.