About Grant
From Friction to Flow
Human-Centered Performance Strategist
Speaker & Consultant | Neuroinclusive Performance
Grant Harris, MBA, CDE®, helps people leaders save time, keep talent, and stop leaking value by fixing the workplace friction that gets capable people mislabeled.
His work is built around a simple belief:
Organizations keep blaming people for problems their processes create.
A missed deadline becomes a motivation problem.
A communication difference becomes a professionalism problem.
A broken handoff becomes an accountability problem.
A poorly designed meeting becomes an engagement problem.
Before anyone inspects how the work was designed, the person gets labeled.
Grant calls this Human-Centered Performance: examining the conditions around performance before deciding the person is the problem.
Through his Fix Your Process, Not Your People work and Friction to Flow method, Grant helps HR, L&D, managers, and executive teams:
Read the signal without rushing to a diagnosis
Locate friction in expectations, communication, handoffs, meetings, feedback, and decision-making
Separate capability from conditions
Fix the part of the work creating unnecessary drag
The goal is not to remove accountability. It is to improve the quality of judgment before accountability decisions are made.
Grant’s work helps leaders see where unclear expectations, inconsistent manager interpretation, hidden communication norms, broken handoffs, and poorly designed systems are slowing execution, distorting talent decisions, and making good work harder than it needs to be.
Neuroinclusion is an important lens in that work because different ways of thinking, communicating, learning, and working often expose workplace friction first. Grant’s lived experience as a late-diagnosed autistic professional informs that perspective, but the application is broader: capable people should not be mislabeled because the work was poorly designed.
Grant founded GTH Consulting and has worked across enterprise, government, higher education, and mission-driven environments. His clients and audiences have included The Washington Post, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Loudoun County government, and ASICS.
He is a Certified Diversity Executive (CDE) that brings both lived experience and organizational strategy to his speaking and consulting work.
His core message:Before you label the person, locate the friction.
Fix Your Process—Not Your People
I do this work because I know what it means to move through systems that don’t recognize every kind of mind.
That perspective has shaped a clear point of view: broken workflows, unclear expectations, and outdated performance signals often misjudge capable people. The answer is not to keep pushing people harder. The answer is to improve how work is designed.
That is the commitment behind my work with leaders and organizations: fix the process, reduce the friction, and make performance easier to see.
A Personal Commitment
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“Grant was a delight to work with. He is knowledgeable, knows this area well, has great experience, and on top of all that humble, open, and flexible. It has been a pleasure working with Grant. We will rehire him in the future.” - 80/20 Consulting, Inc.
Fix your process—not your people.
GTH Consulting shows people leaders how to stop misreading talent by fixing workplace friction. We identify where time is being lost, where talent is underused, and where value is leaking across teams, workflows, and decision paths.
Through executive advisory, keynotes, and strategic consulting, we help leaders reduce execution friction, strengthen capability utilization, and build systems that support stronger performance under pressure.
This is not generic culture work. It is human-centered performance work designed to make execution clearer, faster, and more reliable.