Great Speakers to Inform and Inspire
MIKE ABRASHOFF
Author, It’s Your Ship, with over 1.1 million copies sold. Captain who led the best ship in Navy is a top business speaker whose common-sense approach to leadership will transform every aspect of organizational performance.
KATTY KAY
BBC World News America anchor and popular keynote speaker on American politics, global affairs, and issues impacting women. Co-author of three New York Times’ bestsellers: The Confidence Code, The Confidence Code for Girls, and Womenomics.
BOB WOODWARD
Legendary Washington Post reporter broke the Watergate story and has authored 19 bestsellers since. The most-respected political journalist of our time speaks on what’s really going on in Washington – working to expose secret government.
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.
DAVID MEERMAN SCOTT
Turn fans into customers and customers into fans by making business personal. Bestselling author of eleven books on real-time marketing strategy and social selling shows companies an action plan to take customer relationships to the next level.
POLLY LABARRE
Co-founder and director of Management Lab, a consultancy to top global firms; founding writer, Fast Company; Mavericks at Work co-author. Polly’s offers practical advice on leading organizational changes, innovation, and transforming organizational culture.
RON INSANA
CNBC contributor and trailblazing financial journalist has interpreted the message of the markets since 1984. Tracks the intersection of Main Street, Wall Street, and Washington and what it means for the business and investment climate in the U.S. and globally. Bestselling author of four books.
GEOFF COLVIN
Senior editor-at-large at Fortune unpacks the economic, technological, political, and competitive forces driving disruption. Offers a game plan to compete in the friction-free economy with an uncertain future. Author of two New York Times’ bestsellers.
BILL WALTON
NBA and college basketball legend and ESPN broadcaster inspires audiences with lessons from a storied career filled with success and setbacks. Great sports motivational speaker on personal excellence, leadership, teamwork, and overcoming adversity.
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It’s amazing how quickly the events world has changed and how much we’ve all learned about virtual events in such a short time. From my experience, the early attempts at virtual events ranged from OK to terrible. But that's to be expected. I’ve likened it to the early days of the internet when dial-up was horrendously slow and it was text only. Still, we were all so excited to read a newspaper on the screen, even though there were no graphics and it took forever for pages to load. But quality quickly improved and high-speed connectivity put it over the top. I expect the same will happen with virtual events – new platforms will evolve and the bar will be raised as execution improves.
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If you are feeling down…if you’re feeling like you just can’t face one more curveball that life has to throw at you…you need to spend some time with basketball legend BILL WALTON. And if you need to get something done…anything done…BILL WALTON is the guy you want on your team.
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David Meerman Scott is well-known for his groundbreaking work identifying the new rules of marketing, PR, and social selling. He pioneered the word “newsjacking” to define a strategy he refined for getting attention for your product, service, or idea by tying it to breaking news. We thought it might be fun to look…
1983 – THE YEAR THAT CHANGED THE SPEAKING BUSINESS
As I was thinking back on 2018 I realized that this year is the 25th anniversary of a milestone event that rocked the speaking industry; something that’s not been repeated since. If you were in the industry back in 1983, you’ll remember just how profoundly things changed. Three blockbuster business books were…
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