Event Details
Leading Change Without Losing Your Shell Featuring Hermie the HR Hermit Crab
| Date: | December 18, 2025, 9:00am |
| Organizer: | SSCHRA |
| Location: | Zoom - See emails from the chapter with the link to register |
| Price: | Free for members |
| Event Type: | Webinar |
| iCal link | Add to Calendar |
Presented by - Rich Cruz, SHRM-CP, CMC, MBA, MSIOP
Organizational Development has always centered on people, but in today’s
world of burnout, fast change, and unclear purpose, we need new ways to engage the
human side of transformation. This session introduces Hermie the HR Hermit Crab, a
cartoon character and natural change expert navigating the messy modern workplace.
Using humor and visual metaphor, we’ll explore how OD’s past wisdom (e.g., Schein’s
artifacts and Lewin’s freeze unfreeze model) meets today’s need for psychological
safety, analysis and diagnosis, narrative intelligence, and transparent leadership.
Participants will reflect on how storytelling can surface hidden resistance, rebuild trust,
and make complex change initiatives more human.
