The 2023 News Can be Good or Bad – It Depends on Your Vision As a national association keynote speaker with a particular interest in small business, I know that the topic of vision has never been more important than it will be in 2023. How do you personally see the coming year?…
Resilience Also Means Gratitude As an inspirational resilience speaker, I am aware that there has been a lot of research into the strong brain-link between resilience and gratitude. As scientist and psychologist Dr. Jeff Thompson said in his article for Psychology Today entitled Resilience and the Practice of Gratitude: “Gratitude practices are not…
Not an Easy Time to Lead Others “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” John C. Maxwell This has not been an easy time to navigate through change, especially for leaders. As a motivational change management speaker I can assure you that leadership is…
Resilience in Florida! My work as a motivational resilience speaker takes me from the sunny convention centers of Florida to the manufacturing facilities of the “Rust Belt.” No matter the industry, 2022 has been a year filled with change and the workplace challenges that demand resilience. Resilience is an essential skill and yet…
What is the Path through a Turbulent, Uncertain Market? As a banking and mortgage financial speaker, who began his career in the financial services arena, I understand the challenges of uncertainty in a complex and chaotic industry. How do you continue to grow and attract new clients with interest rates doubling, rising to…
Why has resilience become so important? “Let me tell you something you already know. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving…
If You Think Resilience is Difficult, Try Inflexibility! About a year ago Wired magazine wrote an inciteful business article on why bosses don’t listen to employees. The article pointed out three problems in what they called a disconnect between bosses and workers: Bosses are more likely to be content to be back at…
Resilience in Pharma Sales: Now More than Ever As a motivational sales speaker for the pharmaceutical industry, I tell my audiences that COVID-19 might also be characterized as the disease that changed an industry. It is kind of ironic. While the pharmaceutical industry has changed the way medicine has treated nearly every disease…
Resilience: More than just a word to Florida Florida is thriving! As a Florida motivational resilience speaker, I have to tell you how proud I was of my home state after reading this recent special report from the Florida Department of Financial Services. The section on “Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Top 10 Industries…
There are Bigger Obstacles than Price When I deliver pharma keynote presentations to sales reps, I sometimes point out that there are much bigger sales obstacles than overcoming objections to price. My comment may be met with disbelief and denial. My concern is that the pharmaceutical industry has been so inundated with negativity about…