Scott Burrows, Insurance and Financial Services Keynote Speaker
Complacency is Not on the 2022 Outlook As I speak to audiences on Insurance and Financial Services sales in the year ahead, I am quick to point out that while the year holds promise, 2022 could be the worst time in insurance sales history to be complacent. Writing for Forbes Advisor (December 27, 2021) […]
Scott Burrows, Goal Setting and Resilience Speaker
Most Resolutions Guarantee Failure. So, Now What? “Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.” – James Clear, Author Forbes magazine just ran an insightful article (December 31, 2021) on the importance of goal setting rather than making resolutions. One of my favorite observations as a motivational resilience speaker […]
Scott Burrows, Grit, Change and Resilience Speaker
What Were Your 2021 Resolutions, Anyway? After my last keynote speech on Grit, Change and Resilience, I asked the participants a simple, yet revealing question: “What were your 2021 resolutions?” The question was met with lots of nervous laughter. The typical answer was “to forget about 2020.” But that’s not a resolution Everyone, including […]
Scott Burrows, Insurance and Financial Sales Speaker
Financial Sales are Being Tested as Never Before. Be Exceptional. As an insurance and financial sales speaker, I have seen, first-hand, the challenges affecting our industry from the start of the pandemic until now. I am not only a motivational speaker on the industry, but I started my career as an insurance and financial […]
Scott Burrows, Motivational Safety Speaker
Safety Did Not Take a Pandemic Holiday As a workplace safety keynote speaker, it is sad to report that during the pandemic period, safety did not take a holiday. In fact, certain measures worsened. While those outside of the safety “industry” predicted a lowering of workplace accidents, in fact, they increased. From the Ride […]
Scott Burrows, Resilience Keynote Speaker
Don’t Confuse Resilience with Elasticity “Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But you keep going. – Yasmin Mogahed, Author As a motivational resilience keynote speaker, I am puzzled when people confuse resilience with elasticity. Resilience is what happens after the […]
Scott Burrows, Insurance and Financial Services Speaker
Financial Advisors: You are Valued as Never Before; Will You Be You There? “In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information… the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react […]
Scott Burrows, Medical Device & Pharmaceutical Sales Motivational Speaker
Nothing is a Given in Healthcare Sales, and That’s a Good Thing Remember the old slogan, “There are no guarantees?” As a medical device and pharmaceutical sales speaker, I started 2020 speaking in-person to groups, then switched to virtual, and now the entire healthcare industry is somewhere in-between. One common thread from the sales […]
Scott Burrows, Insurance and Financial Services Speaker
In The End, “AI” is No Match for Your Intelligence As a keynote speaker for insurance and financial services groups, there is a new fear I am hearing that has swept across the industry: the fear of AI or artificial intelligence. While we know that the post-pandemic period has seen one of the biggest […]
Scott Burrows, Resilience Sales Speaker
What Does it Mean to Be a Resilient Sales Person? In my motivational talks on sales resilience, I talk about the shift that happened from the start of the pandemic to this post-pandemic, yet still wary and uncertain time. Sales teams, as never before, have learned to better coordinate and to work together. It’s […]