By Josh Linkner – Speaker on Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership Getting someone to take a chance on you is one of the most important steps to achieving success in both business and life. Yet mastering the art of persuasion is often overlooked and misunderstood. Alexander Fleming, the inventor…
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Release the Keynote! 3 Ways to Disrupt the Virtual Event
Over the last year, we’ve worked with organizations around the world on virtual events and have learned a few things in the process about how to make the most out of your events. Virtual Events have released the keynote from the stage, presenting…
5 Lessons Leaders Say They Are Taking Away From 2020
By Adrian Gostick – Speaker on Leadership, Anxiety in the Workplace and Employee Engagement I received a holiday card this year that summed up 2020 perfectly. It read: “Well, that was weird.” For businesses, 2020 has indeed been like nothing we’d experienced before. We saw pandemic-related closures, a…
Speakers That Are Trending
Each month we keep careful track of the Speakers and Topics Clients are asking about. Covering a vast range of topics, these speakers have been booked by organizations across North America. Here are the most requested speakers in January 2021: Dr.
You’re More Creative Than You Think
By Josh Linkner – Speaker on Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership In a recent experiment at the University of Sydney in Australia, neuroscientists gave 128 volunteers a puzzle to solve that can only be conquered with creativity. The subjects were asked to connect nine dots, arranged in three…
Failure Is Just Part of the Game
By Daniel Burrus – Futurist Expert and Speaker on Business Strategy, Technology, Innovations & Their Impact: Given the recent release of the documentary series The Last Dance, I found this example to be more prevalent than ever. Basketball great Michael Jordan once famously stated that he had missed more than…
Mentoring: From The Ballpark To The Boardroom And Beyond
By John Baldoni – Internationally Recognized Leadership Expert, Speaker and Author “Jeffrey [Hammonds] learned from Eric Davis, and Eric Davis learned from Dave Parker, and Dave Parker learned from Willie Stargell and Willie Stargell learned from Roberto Clemente. You see where the gravy train is going?” That is Dmitri…
Are You Just Making the Donuts?
By Erik Qualman – Top Technology Speaker, #1 Bestselling Author & Futurist In the 1980’s, Dunkin’ Donuts produced a television commercial so successful that the company decided to make over 100 slightly different versions. People would get up in the morning and humorously repeat its popular tagline to…
Finding your COVID Altitude
By Kaihan Krippendorff – Futurist, Strategy and Innovation Expert & Founder of Outthinker When an airplane hits turbulence, it seeks a new altitude. One without turbulence. Even better, one with tailwinds. Now, COVID has certainly injected turbulence rarely seen in history. But is this turbulence universal? Is every sector…
Why this is the Era of Crossroads for Technology
By Peter Hinssen – Serial Entrepreneur, Acclaimed Author, Sought-after Innovation & Technology Keynote Speaker When digital became the New Normal, a silo that used to be the safe dwelling place of nerds and geeks all over the world suddenly opened up to the mainstream. When I was studying…