A great closing speaker is one who sends your audience away on a high note. They are inspiring, motivational, and energizing – often with a compelling story that reaches people on an emotional level. After two or three days of heavy content, a speaker…
Innovation
Change as Opportunity: 5 Quotes to Help You Motivate Your People
Managing Change is one of the most requested topics for guest speakers. The emergence of new technologies is continuously shifting the way we navigate our personal and professional lives, and these shifts are happening faster than ever before. Change can be overwhelming but by altering our mindsets we can learn…
Top Speakers On Innovation
We are constantly gathering recent reviews and references on both our existing speakers as well as new additions to our roster. We tabulate the data to see who clients are picking as the best. As of September 29, 2014 here are our highest rated Innovation Speakers:…
How Patterns Boost Our Performance… Without Even Knowing It
Humans are creatures of habits, and these habits can be analyzed and codified into rules that help us perform better. Many times, we’re not even aware of the habits that control our choices. Conside the child’s game, Rock-Paper-Scissors. The odds of winning are one in three. At least, that’s…
The Birth of Innovation
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. Back then, most people went from drinking beer to consuming coffee (i.e. from being tipsy to being wired) and ideas started exploding. The details of this story are important (and fun) one…
“Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation,” New Book from Tony Seba
Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation: How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030 We are on the cusp of the most radical transformation in energy and transportation in a century. Exponentially improving technologies such as Electric Vehicles, Autonomous…
Let’s Simplify Innovation
What’s your biggest challenge? Remember the Rule of 3 to 5 Start small Innovation. Big, complicated subject. Let’s try to make it just a little simpler together, with a few easy steps… 1. Know Your Biggest Innovation Challenge It’s not some break-the-rules start-up, or a 14 year-old who…
The Future of Enterprise Strategy: Why Organizations Who Master Über-Connectivity Will Dominate the Markets
Nicholas J. Webb’s third book, Über-Connectivity: The Future of Business Strategy is slated for release in Spring 2014.[/caption]Historically, organizations have viewed engagement, insights, and connectivity as separate strategic initiatives. When new connection technologies began to emerge, they were viewed in a similar separated manner as nothing more than advertising and…
10 Game-Changing Hard Trends That Will Create Both Disruption and Opportunity on a Global Level
Daniel Burrus is considered one of the World’s Leading Futurists on Global Trends and Innovation, a top LinkedIn Global INfluencer, and is the founder and CEO of Burrus Research.[/caption]No matter what industry you’re in, your company can’t survive without technology. From smart phones and tablets to mobile apps and cloud-based…