Great Speakers to Inform and Inspire
MIKE ABRASHOFF
Author, It’s Your Ship, with over 1.4 million copies sold. Captain who created the best ship in Navy is a top business speaker whose common-sense approach to leadership helps transform every aspect of organizational performance.
MARIANA ATENCIO
Her TED talk captured the hearts of tens of millions. Peabody Award-winning journalist. Author of Perfectly You helps people supercharge their career, workplace culture, and happiness by embracing their authenticity. An amazing moderator and event host, too.
CHRIS BARTON
Creator of Shazam, the music app downloaded over two billion times. Entrepreneur, inventor, and investor. Formerly with Google and Dropbox. Inspires people to defy odds and make big ideas come to life.
LISA BODELL
World’s best-known expert on simplicity. Author, two bestsellers – Why Simple Wins and Kill the Company. Helps organizations banish complexity so people can be their best and focus on the work that matters most.
GEOFF COLVIN
Senior editor-at-large at Fortune unpacks the technological, competitive, and worker/workplace forces disrupting business. His insights help companies compete in a world of relentless change. Author of two New York Times’ bestsellers.
DARYL DAVIS
He was Chuck Berry’s piano player. Renowned Black blues musician has a side obsession – engaging KKK leaders who hate him for being Black. Daryl shows how to have civil conversations that ignite positive change. Inspiring lessons.
FELIPE GOMEZ
Combining his business and music backgrounds, Felipe Gomez uses his piano to unpack the traits that define a virtuoso musician. The virtuoso mindset can also be applied to business. Felipe’s presentation is fun and interactive.
SUNEEL GUPTA
Entrepreneur, author, Harvard Medical School visiting scholar, and host of Business Class docuseries & podcast. Shows why managing energy is more important than managing time and clearly makes the connection between well-being and performance.
RON INSANA
40-year veteran of financial news reporting. CNBC senior analyst delivers clear insights business leaders and financial professionals can use to make smarter decisions. Ron is the author of four books on investing and market trends.
KATTY KAY
Veteran award-winning journalist and popular keynote speaker on American politics, global affairs, and issues impacting women and girls. Co-author of four New York Times bestsellers.
POLLY LaBARRE
An authority on leading organizational change, Polly is co-founder, Management Lab; founding team member, Fast Company; and co-author, Mavericks at Work. Her insights help leaders create cultures that can adapt as fast as change happens.
COL. NICOLE MALACHOWSKI, USAF (RET.)
Combat veteran and the first woman Thunderbird pilot brings lessons from her 21-year Air Force career – inspiring message on leadership, change, creating a high-performance culture, and overcoming adversity.
BOB WOODWARD
Legendary Washington Post reporter broke the Watergate story. Author of 23 bestsellers. The most respected political journalist of our time. Speaks on inner workings of Washington, a historical look at ten presidents he’s covered, and the role of the media.
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Simplifying Work: Unlocking High-Performance Culture With Lisa Bodell
Every leader knows how important culture is.
LISA BODELL approaches creating a high-performance culture from a different angle. “If organizations get the work right – they get the culture right,” she says.
Leadership, culture, innovation, mental health, profitability – they’re all connected by how we spend our days.
Harnessing the Power of Simplification: Your Strategic Advantage
A few years ago, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world conducted their annual employee engagement surveys, eager to gauge the pulse of their workforce. The results revealed something odd: while employees ranked "Being an Innovative Company" as one of the highest aspects, there was a glaring contradiction. They also ranked "Ability to Get Things Done" as one of the lowest. How could a company be considered innovative while simultaneously lacking the ability to execute?
SPEAKER TRAVEL HEROICS: HOW MIKE ABRASHOFF DEFIED WEATHER TO KEEP HIS EVENT STREAK ALIVE
AN EVENT PLANNER’S BIGGEST FEAR
What’s your worst speaker nightmare?
Mine is that the speaker doesn’t show up for the event.
The only two things that can really derail a speaker’s appearance is bad weather/mechanical problems or ill health.
You can’t avoid a health issue but travel can be guarded against. I’ve been doing this long enough to know that before we ever even accept an offer, we scope out travel to make sure there are sufficient backups in case of weather or mechanical issues. One more booking is not worth putting an event in jeopardy.
In spite of careful planning, the unexpected can happen. That is my segue to talk about our speaker MIKE ABRASHOFF and his travel heroics last week.
OUR BLOG
Simplifying Work: Unlocking High-Performance Culture With Lisa Bodell
Every leader knows how important culture is.
LISA BODELL approaches creating a high-performance culture from a different angle. “If organizations get the work right – they get the culture right,” she says.
Leadership, culture, innovation, mental health, profitability – they’re all connected by how we spend our days.
Harnessing the Power of Simplification: Your Strategic Advantage
A few years ago, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world conducted their annual employee engagement surveys, eager to gauge the pulse of their workforce. The results revealed something odd: while employees ranked "Being an Innovative Company" as one of the highest aspects, there was a glaring contradiction. They also ranked "Ability to Get Things Done" as one of the lowest. How could a company be considered innovative while simultaneously lacking the ability to execute?
SPEAKER TRAVEL HEROICS: HOW MIKE ABRASHOFF DEFIED WEATHER TO KEEP HIS EVENT STREAK ALIVE
AN EVENT PLANNER’S BIGGEST FEAR
What’s your worst speaker nightmare?
Mine is that the speaker doesn’t show up for the event.
The only two things that can really derail a speaker’s appearance is bad weather/mechanical problems or ill health.
You can’t avoid a health issue but travel can be guarded against. I’ve been doing this long enough to know that before we ever even accept an offer, we scope out travel to make sure there are sufficient backups in case of weather or mechanical issues. One more booking is not worth putting an event in jeopardy.
In spite of careful planning, the unexpected can happen. That is my segue to talk about our speaker MIKE ABRASHOFF and his travel heroics last week.