Let’s face it:  corporate meeting and convention audiences are filled with multi-taskers.  A short time go, our greatest distraction as meeting planners and speakers was USATODAY.   Now it’s the fact that there is free wireless in every ballroom, smart phones, and USATODAY.
That’s why this short email from Re/Max international made my day.  (I worked [...]

If I were trying to pick one motivational speaker among many, I’d want to know:
1. Are they really funny? (Or do they just say they are?)
2. Will my group or organization feel like he “gets” us? Or is he just presenting the same old crap to my audience he delivered last month [...]

Here’s a really cool testimonial from my peeps at the Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance.   It feels nice to speak for a client and know their happy afterwards.  Thanks for taking the time, Kenneth!
Here’s what he said.
I’m Ken McCardle and I’m the Vice President Information Technology for Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance.  And we’re right [...]

Ok. That’s not funny. Yes it is. Well… it depends.
Humor is relative. (No, I don’t mean your relative is funny. I mean that what is funny to some people in some circumstances isn’t funny to others, and that’s OK.)
I recently spoke in Colorado for the Kaiser Permanente Palliative Care department. [...]

I was flattered to speak at a diabetes forum in Canon City, Colorado recently.  I love my job as a speaker.  And I love being a Colorado Speaker because I live here.  (Yay, no airplanes today!)
But this one was personal:  my daughter has Type 1 Diabetes.  This is a big deal, requires constant vigilance, and [...]

I just got back form Richmond, Indiana (near Indianapolis, Indiana) where I spoke to the entire staff of First Bank Richmond.  They have been going through some tough times lately— and not just the general strife all of the banking industry is enduring.  They just updated some huge systems, and the process has been good [...]

I recently worked in San Diego, California for a group of teachers from the Department of Defense called STARBASE.  It was a cool group of educators tasked with getting “at risk” kids fired up about math and science.   It’s not a military group, but these “schools” are mainly on military bases, so there are plenty [...]

My new friend George Walther recently spoke in my home town of Denver, Colorado for the Colorado region of the National Speakers Association. He arranged for me to be there and to coach him on his presentation. He flattered me with a very kind note. What do you think? Do [...]

I recently blogged about how one of my clients (The Air Force) was able to make up some missing budget by partnering with their convention hotel. Read that article here.
The Renaissance Hotel in St. Louis was as happy with the arrangement as the Air Force was.   I was thrilled.
Check out this video [...]

I love nurses. Not in the way you’re thinking. : ) I mean I love speaking to audiences of nurses.
I recently was in Kansas working for a group of oncology nurses (or is it a pride of nurses? A gaggle?) and had an absolute blast.
What set’s nurses [...]