Scott Burrows

Scott Burrows, Motivational Resilience Speaker

  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 […]

Scott Burrows, Pharmaceutical Sales Speaker

  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 […]

Scott Burrows, Florida Motivational Resilience Speaker

  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 […]

Scott Burrows, Pharmaceutical Sales Speaker

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 […]

Scott Burrows, Texas Motivational Resilience Speaker

Hang Tough: Texas Can Do, What Texas Has Always Done…IF   As a motivational resilience speaker who loves the people of Texas, what I have always admired about Texas is its attitude. It is a can-do attitude. However, as a keynote Texas motivational speaker I know that the pandemic crippled the economy and often, the […]

Scott Burrows, Education Keynote Speaker, Developing Resilience and Overcoming Adversity

Why Did the Country Not “See” Your Sacrifice?   In one of my recent motivational talks on educators developing resilience and overcoming adversity, an administrator at a large university timidly raised her hand and asked: “Scott, while I appreciate the sacrifice of the healthcare profession, first responders and the like, why does it seem that […]

Scott Burrows, Resilience & Grit Speaker

Resilience and Grit, A Physical Impossibility?   It’s a funny comparison, resilience and grit, but as a resilience and grit keynote speaker, I know that what seems opposite are connected. When we think of “resilience,” we think of a strand of cooked spaghetti, a rubber band, stretch-band or something that bends every which way in […]

Scott Burrows, Resilience Speaker

You’re Much Tougher Than You Think   Speaking to audiences across the country about overcoming adversity and developing resiliency, it has been my honor to motivate organizations going through tough periods of change and challenges. In my keynotes about overcoming adversity, I recall my own challenges while still in my hospital bed,  formulating my life […]

Scott Burrows Change Management Keynote Speaker

If Change is the New Normal, What Must Stay the Same?   “Everything is changing, Scott. What do I do now?”   Not long ago, as I was about to deliver a change management keynote speech, a harried chief executive manager asked me the question that you see above. If 2020 was a year of […]

Scott Burrows, Motivational Speaker on Grit in Healthcare

There is no Medicine Like Grit   In my motivational presentations on Grit for healthcare organizations, my audiences are sometimes puzzled when I stress the importance of grit in every aspect of medicine and patient care. The relationship between grit and healthcare is stronger than you might imagine. The Predictor From physicians in training, to […]