The HAP Journey: From Insight to Impact
HAP was founded by Stan Davis based on a profound insight: most performance problems are relationship problems in disguise.
After decades working in diverse environments from wilderness therapy to corporate leadership, Stan observed a consistent pattern: when relationships improve, performance naturally follows. Yet most training programs focused only on skills or knowledge, missing the fundamental human dynamics that determine how effectively people work together.
This insight led to the development of the HAP model—a comprehensive approach to improving relationships with self, others, and environment. What began as an experimental program with at-risk youth quickly demonstrated transformative results, leading to applications in schools, businesses, sports teams, and government agencies.
Today, HAP Training has helped thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations transform their relationship dynamics and achieve breakthrough performance. Our team of experienced facilitators brings decades of combined expertise in organizational development, psychology, education, and leadership to each client engagement.
Our mission remains the same as when we started: to help people develop the relationship mastery that unlocks their highest performance—and creates more connected, effective communities in the process.
We Provide
Health & Wellness
HAP’s Health and Wellness Training is taught to groups of people yet is targeted for the individual. The intention is to provide each participant with a set of Awareness and Skills focused on Relationship with Self. This set of skills focuses on understanding of personal triggers and pathways to stress and conflict, and how to navigate through these situations as smoothly and quickly as is possible. Through a better understanding of one’s self and how to clearly communicate, the individual can get their needs met without causing damage to themselves and those around them.
Behavioral Standards
The Behavioral Standards Training is geared for groups of people. This training teaches and establishes a set of skills and strategies focused on bringing all team members to the same set of standards for workplace behaviors. By setting standards for how particular situations will be managed, organizations can reduce time and energy spent navigating and repeating details of why a situation has occurred and how it will be solved. HAP’s client data shows less intervention from management and less conflict in the workplace.
Workplace Culture
By leaning on the individual and groups skills of the two trainings described above, the Workplace Culture Training adds in focus on language and traditions to shape your organization’s culture as prescribed. This ongoing practice formalizes the concept of a “desired culture” and is effective when the training is installed throughout your organization, refined by your team members and practiced consistently.
Mission/Vision Seminars
Part of our teams expertise comes from years involved with non-profit sports organizations and facility management. We have learned that processes just don't carry over year to year for volunteer boards so we assist with putting these in place. Through Mission/Vision training seminars and group coaching calls we have found great success in watching organizations change into positive direction with a lasting process in place.
The Bottom Line
Because of the influx of new Emotional Intelligence programs, the industry is allowing misconceptions to emerge. One general misconception is that Emotional Intelligence is about holding hands to solve interpersonal challenges. HAP Training sees it different; we believe Emotional Intelligence is a way to maintain accountability to ourselves and our peers and to be able to get our job done. We see it as an assertive discipline and assertive accountability model. We call it accountability with compassion. HAP Training trainers collectively have over 90 years experience creating and teaching SEI curriculums.
In Person Training
Online Learning
Group Coaching Calls
