Meet the Speaker: Jason Gardner of Southwest Gas

We’re excited to introduce you to Jason Gardner, Manager of Organizational Change Management at Southwest Gas. Jason is a featured speaker at The Utility Change Conference, and Southwest Gas is hosting both The Utility Change Conference and The Power Conference to ADVANCE Women in Energy. We had the opportunity to ask Jason 10 questions to get to know him better.

Jason Gardner , Manager of Organizational Change Management, Southwest Gas

1. Name, Title, Company Jason Gardner, Manager of Organizational Change Management, Southwest Gas

2. Family, Hometown, Where You Live Married, originally from Seattle, I now live in Las Vegas where I’ve been for 33 years.

3. What is Your Industry Experience? I joined Southwest Gas back in 2013. Having never worked in a utility before, I made it a goal to understand the business and was helping turn on gas and work with customers in my first couple of years.

4. What Do You Do When You’re Not at Work? Hobbies? Family? I love to build Legos and have an expansive collection, including many Star Wars sets. I also love to travel and visit family in Seattle and St. Louis.

Jason Gardner out for a hike.

5. Where Do You See Yourself One Year from Today? Growing the OCM capabilities within our HR team. I’m in a unique role where I do project management, OCM, and communications for our many HR initiatives. We’re building capability with the leaders to be equipped to handle day-to-day and week-to-week change within their workstreams. We’ll support them when it gets larger than that.

6. What is Your Biggest Challenge? The volume and velocity of work. We take great care in planning for all possible contingencies, and we keep getting an above-average amount of internal and external curveballs.

7. Who Are Your Role Models (and Why?) Laurie Ruettimann for her bold, confident, and unapologetic way she helps leaders be successful and reinvent the world of work. My parents who instilled in me strong values and ethics that help me to this day.

8. What is Your Number One Goal? Equip leaders and employees with the tools and tactics to successfully and confidently navigate change. As a former L&D professional, maximizing people’s potential to be successful has always been a north star for me.

9. What Are You Most Excited About RIGHT NOW? The time savings that appropriate use of AI brings – see the volume and velocity of work above. Getting back 30-60 minutes a day because I can be effective and efficient means meeting more deadlines and deliverables.

10. What Are You Most Grateful for RIGHT NOW? My incredible network of friends and family who unconditionally support me through planned and unplanned personal and professional change.

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