Larry Hawkins
Talent Management Manager | Succession Planning | Leadership Development | Employee Engagement | Scaling employee engagement for 12,000+ employees from startups to Fortune 500
- Role
- Talent Management Manager at Thrive Pet Healthcare
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Larry Hawkins
I have a heart for people, a mind for systems, and a spirit for challenging the status quo. I know that culture drives emotion, emotions drive people, and people drive performance. I\'ve dedicated my career to creating scalable talent development frameworks that improve succession planning efficiency by 75% and boost leadership effectiveness by 22%.Career Highlights:• Senior Talent Development Leader with 11+ years of talent development experience and 12+ years leading teams, delivering enterprise-wide HR solutions to employees across startups to Fortune 500 organizations with up to $1.29B in annual revenue.• Improved succession planning efficiency by 75%(cutting cycles from 4 weeks to days) and boosted manager effectiveness by 22%, scaling digital talent reviews and coaching across venues.• Improved workforce readiness by 50%(time to quota), reduced annual talent development costs by $600K (17% reduction), and enabled custom development plans for global sales hires by uniting sales, marketing, operations, and R&D teams on a modular data-driven talent development strategy.• Achieved an 87.5% retention rate and increased eNPS by 21 points, driving a 30% engagement increase through targeted talent and leadership programs.• Increased EBITDA by $500K (2.4% uplift in 3 months) through workforce planning and organizational effectiveness strategies, enabling executive collaboration and sales-operations alignment.I\'m most excited by opportunities to shape a culture where everyone can thrive and be their best selves. This lifelong passion allows me to thrive in any industry. If you care about your people, I care about you.Focus areas:Talent development, succession planning, performance management, employee engagement, culture transformation, organizational development, learning & development, and stakeholder engagement.Beyond the resume?I\'m joyfully married for 15 years to a woman who is the love of my multiverse,\"brother-dad\" to a sister-in-law I love very much, and probably somewhere reading a book, playing a survival game on Xbox with my friends of over 20 years, or theorizing on behavioral influences from childhood. I also enjoy a good run-on sentence. Oh, and I\'m 6\'7\'\' and no, I don\'t play basketball. See? Status quo challenged:)
Experience
Talent Management Manager
Jan 2026 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Education
Mississippi School for Math and Science
High School Diploma
2003 — 2005
Mississippi State University
Bachelor's, Electrical Engineering
2005 — 2011
Skills
- Automation
- C++
- Mentoring
- Embedded Systems
- Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- Ni Labview
- Linux
- Brand Development
- Public Speaking
- Labview
- Data Acquisition
- Program Management
- C
- Programming
- Technical Writing
- Vhdl
- Simulations
- Problem Solving
- Leadership
- Electronics
- Digital Signal Processors
- Personal Branding
- Instructional Design
- Training
- Electrical Engineering
- Project Management
- Leadership Development
- Troubleshooting
- Pspice
- Matlab
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