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, 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, 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 & Grit Motivational Speaker
The Power of Resilience in Hard Times As a motivational speaker on resilience, flexibility and grit, since the start of the pandemic I stressed that the power of resilience would get us through the toughest times and that the organizations most flexible in their outlook would thrive. In fact, the most resilient companies would […]
Scott Burrows, Motivational Healthcare Speaker
It’s Time for Me to Return a Favor “A lot of doctors and nurses are exhausted and overwhelmed. Like many of us, they thought COVID vaccines would get us closer to life as normal. That hasn’t happened. What has happened is burnout in the medical profession” – Yuki Noguchi, NPR (September 15, 2021) […]
Scott Burrows, Motivational Sales Speaker
What are you afraid of? As a motivational sales speaker, it’s strange that more people don’t want to go into sales. This is especially true after most of us spent more than a year locked down, and many of our family, friends and neighbors got laid off. Did you know that according to the […]