Let’s HEAL!: How Survival Patterns
Shape Leadership — And
How to Lead Beyond Them
Presented By: Beth Jones
Legal Update and Educational Luncheon
Thursday, December 10, 2026: 10:45 am - 1:00 pm CT
** LOCATION TBD **
10:45 am to 11:00 am: Check-In
11:00 am to 11:30 Legal Half Hour
11:30 am to 12:00 pm Lunch Service and Networking
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Speaker Presentation
Presented by: Beth Jones
Every leader has developed patterns for how they operate under pressure. Control under uncertainty. Emotional distance when the stakes are high. Overperformance to prove value. Most leadership development calls those skills. But here’s what thirty years of investigating people under pressure taught Beth Jones: many of those patterns didn’t start in a boardroom. They are survival patterns shaping leadership in ways most leaders can’t see. Through visceral storytelling and practical frameworks, this session gives HR professionals and leaders a behavioral lens on why high performers are running on empty and calling it excellence, and introduces the HEAL Framework™ — a structured methodology for moving from reactive, survival-driven patterns to more grounded, sustainable leadership. Attendees leave with tools to recognize survival patterns in themselves and their leadership teams, as well as a structured framework for addressing them.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify how survival-driven behavioral patterns — control, overperformance, emotional distance — develop in response to personal experiences and shape leadership decision-making, communication, and trust without the leader’s awareness
- Apply the HEAL Framework™ as a structured methodology for recognizing and moving beyond reactive, survival-driven leadership patterns toward more grounded, sustainable authority
- Distinguish between compartmentalization (which intensifies survival patterns) and integration (which builds clarity), and implement practices that build leadership credibility and team trust
Beth Jones is a leadership performance strategist, speaker, two-time bestselling author, and creator of the HEAL Framework™. A former CPA and Certified Fraud Examiner, she spent more than 30 years as a senior forensic accountant at firms such as FTI Consulting and EY, investigating complex fraud and white-collar crime worldwide. Through hundreds of witness interviews, high-stakes investigations, and decades of leading teams through intense pressure, Beth developed a sharp ability to identify how people respond when the stakes are highest, and how their survival patterns shape decision-making, communication, relationships, and trust. She is the host of the Let’s HEAL! with Beth Jones podcast and the author of Becoming an Empowered Survivor.
Legal Update
Legal Presentation by John Hagan
John is an HR lawyer who represents employers and HR professionals. He has been practicing for 25 years. He is both a counselor to HR professionals and trial lawyer who defends them. He is past president of DallasHR, Mid Cities HR and Collin County. He is presently serving as Vice President of Programs at NTSHRM. His wife is a big-time federal prosecutor, and both of their sons are Eagle Scouts.
This program will be submitted for 1.5 SHRM PDC. North Texas SHRM is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. For more information, visit the SHRM certification website at www.shrmcertification.org.
This program will be submitted for 1.5 General recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, or SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).
North Texas SHRM is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDC) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
HR Certification Institute’s® (www.HRCI.org) official seal confirms that North Texas SHRM meets the criteria for pre-approved recertification credit(s) for any of HRCI’s eight credentials, including SPHR® and PHR®.
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