Inside Halff: A Look at April 2025

April kicked off at Halff with its annual People Leader Forum and inaugural Awards Gala, followed by team bonding and community service. Keep reading below for a look at Halff in April!

Halff Holds Annual People Leader Forum | HCI Updates | Teaming Together | Halff Bag Travels

Celebrating Our People

Congratulations to our people’s certifications, licenses and accomplishments in April!

• • • Francisco Navarro – passed CST II exam
    • Calista Calderon – passed FE exam
    • McKenzie Anderson – passed FE exam
    • Brandon Laures – passed FS exam
    • Alvin Lubis – passed PE exam
    • Austin Chesser – passed PE exam
    • Kailey O’Connor – passed PE exam
    • Katie Berglund – passed PE exam
    • Kyle Schare – passed PE exam
    • Steven Miller – passed PE exam
    • Sydney Conner – passed PE exam
    • Kevin Michael – passed RPLS exam
    • Michael Puckett – passed RPLS exam
    • Cavel Williamson – earned PE license
    • Matthew Buchter – earned PE license
    • Ben Black – earned RPLS license
    • Hossein Roshani – article published in Roads & Bridges magazine

Halff Holds Annual People Leader Forum

Halff held its annual People Leader Forum that aims to invest in the growth of Halff leaders. People Leader Forum kicked off with the inaugural Awards Gala, dedicated to recognizing and celebrating excellence across the firm by highlighting remarkable achievements and contributions of talented individuals and projects.

Leaders then heard from a keynote speaker and participated in a series of sessions and activities. It was a week filled with learning, connection and strategy—equipping our leaders to develop their teams and guide Halff into another 75 years of excellence and growth!

Watch a recap of the event here!

Halff Recognized as National Top Workplace

For a fourth consecutive year, Halff was recognized among the nation’s top workplaces, coming in at No. 10 in the 2025 Top Workplaces USA award ranking presented by USA TODAY. This marks the firm’s highest ranking to date in the category for employers with 1,000 to 2,499 employees.

HCI Updates

Cynthia Roy and Sandra Ratchford delivered HCI’s $1,000 donation to CareLink, an organization that provides a wide range of services to meet the needs of older adults in the community.

Richardson volunteers cooked stuffed zucchini, fettuccine alfredo and coleslaw for 50 families at the Ronald McDonald House.

Austin volunteers delivered HCI’s donation of toothpaste, shaving cream packs, body wash, shampoo, conditioner, and disposable cups and plates to The Charlie Center, a navigation center whose goal is moving people from homelessness into housing.

HCI donated 70 teacher appreciations kits and a monetary donation of $3,100 to United to Learn, an organization that unites schools and the community to accelerate student achievement and develop purposeful leaders across Dallas. The Frisco and Richardson offices banded together for a campus community day at Jerry Junkins Elementary, where they used these donations to build picnic tables and a storage shed, create a sign for the fence and paint activity boards on the blacktop in the outdoor space.

Servant leadership was on full display during Halff’s annual People Leader Forum! Leaders came together and participated in giving back to the community by assembling dozens of snack bags and hygiene kits for four local charities, with HCI donating more than $10,000 to the charities. Watch a recap of the volunteering event here!

Teaming Together

The San Antonio office celebrated Fiesta San Antonio by hosing its third annual Fiesta client event at Costa Pacifica along the scenic San Antonio River Walk. Guests were treated to an evening filled with live music, festive medals, delicious bites and refreshing margaritas.

The Baton Rouge office hit the lanes at Surge Entertainment for a night of bowling.

The Jacksonville office put together a fun “Build Your Own Terrarium” event, where Halff parents created their own habitats with their kids for Bring Your Child to Work Day.

Halff represented at the WTS Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter’s Annual Awards and Scholarship Banquet.

Halff Bag Travels

Xari Somme (left) took her Halff bag to Germany on a trip to visit a friend, where they hiked to the Waldeck Castle in Kemnath and explored the ruins.

Newlyweds Elizabeth McBride and Nathan Bohn spent their honeymoon on the beaches of St. Lucia, where they snapped a picture with their Halff Bag.

Read more about the History of the Halff bag here.

DID YOU KNOW?

Halff sits at No. 10 nationally in the companies with 1,000 to 2,499 employees in the 2025 Top Workplaces USA award rankings presented by Energage. Halff has been recognized as a Top Workplace in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Jacksonville, Orlando, Oklahoma, San Antonio and Tampa. We have also been recognized as a Top Workplace in Austin and Dallas nine times each since 2015, seven times in Houston since 2016, four times in San Antonio, and twice in Jacksonville, Orlando, Oklahoma and Tampa.

Cumulatively, Halff has been recognized as a Top Workplace 44 times.

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