Scott Burrows, Resilience Speaker for Associations

We Need Our Associations, We Need One Another   As a motivational speaker on resilient associations, I was naturally interested in the 2022 Global Meetings and Event Forecast as reported on November 9, 2021 by Janeen Christoff for American Express Travel. Some numbers that came out from the forecast were that: “Two-thirds (67 percent) of […]

Scott Burrows, Creating Resilient Healthcare Teams Speaker

What Can We Expect for Healthcare This Year? Change.   What do I predict? Change, lots of it. As a motivational speaker on the topic of managing change and creating resilient healthcare teams, I can forecast that nobody knows exactly what lies ahead. Am I hedging my bets? Not really. Don’t take this vision of […]

Scott Burrows, Building Resilient Sales Teams Speaker

What Does a Resilient Sales Team Look Like?   The most frequent question asked of me as I am about to deliver a motivational speech on building resilient sales teams is: “What is the one thing all resilient sales teams have in common?” It is an honest question, but as 2022 has come around, I […]

Scott Burrows, International Insurance & Financial Sales Speaker

Global Insurance Outlook Looks Strong for 2022, so Why Should The Industry Worry?   As an international speaker who specializes in virtual and live speeches on insurance and financial services sales, I frequently emphasize that the topic is quite personal to me. Prior to my speaking career I sold insurance, and after five years, worked […]

Scott Burrows, Automobile Leasing & Sales Speaker

Automotive Sales & Leasing Professionals: The 2022 Difference is You   As a motivational sales speaker who closely tracks automotive sales and leasing trends, I tell my many friends in that industry, “Nothing in automotive sales is ever a given, you must be the difference maker.” In a January 27, 2021 Forbes magazine article entitled […]

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, 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 […]