By Chester Elton & Adrian Gostick Speakers on Organizational Culture, Employee Engagement and Leadership We were chatting with a CEO last week about the crisis that is 2020 and how it has affected employees’ mental health. He confided, “As leaders, it’s time to remove our…
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5 Steps to Booking a Speaker
Updated May 21, 2025 In March, our world changed and the speaking business was not immune. With grace & skill, our great speakers rose to the occasion, developing fascinating and inspiring content that they could deliver virtually. The good news is that booking a speaker with The…
To Survive 2020, Reverse Everything You Believe About Your Industry
By Lisa Bodell, Global Leader on Culture Change Focused on Simplification and Innovation Despite the enormous challenges of this year, I’ve drawn inspiration from the industrial evolutions that are happening in real time. From the medical profession’s pivot…
How Nice Leaders Become Angry
By Pat Lencioni, Management Consultant and Speaker on Organizational Health Anger is a funny emotion. No, check that. It’s not funny. It’s angry. But it is often strange and hard to understand. That’s especially true when otherwise affable or thoughtful people become leaders and start to exhibit anger…
Stay Standing: Hitting Turbulence
By Janet Lapp, Expert on Change and Employee Motivation A few years ago, my small plane and I were flying in clouds, when unexpected severe turbulence hit, and the aircraft became hard to control. We train for these moments. If everything suddenly seems out of control,…
Top 10 Trending Speakers of Summer 2020
The world changed in unprecedented ways in early 2020 and the effects of those changes are being felt on a global scale. With approximately 40 million people working remotely or working from home across North America right now, we have had to shift our ways of thinking about our businesses…
4 Keys to Capture the Window of Opportunity
By Ryan Estis, Speaks on Business Performance, Leadership and Sales More than 33.5 million (1 in 5 American workers) have filed for unemployment over the past seven weeks as states move to reopen, a number we haven’t seen since the Great Depression. It hasn’t been easy,…
13 Habits of Mentally Tough People
By Brent Gleeson – – Navy Seal Combat Veteran & Motivational Leadership Speaker “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison Mental toughness is paramount for achieving any lofty goal or overcoming extreme hurdles. Few great things in this world come without a…
After COVID-19: Where Do We Go From Here?
By Mike Walsh, Author of Futuretainment and Speaker on Change, Technology and Innovation. Over the last few months, leaders have had a chance to respond to the impact of COVID-19. Plans for contactless service, process automation, remote work, Cloud infrastructure, and virtualization have been accelerated and implemented. While…
Are You Doing What’s Important?
By Molly Fletcher – Inspiring Speaker on Leadership, Business Development, and Peak Performance Discipline is doing what you want most; not necessarily what you want right now. When we set goals, whether short- or long-term, we’re clear on what we want to achieve. We have goals, we…