Scott Burrows, Grit and Resilience Speaker
Resilience is Forged by Determination & Grit Last year in a virtual speech on resilience, I was asked if a resilient manager is the descriptor of someone without conviction or an objective. “Oh no,” I said, “it is quite the opposite.” In fact, as a keynote speaker on resilience, I know that the most […]
Scott Burrows, Motivational Sales Speaker
The Post-Covid-19 Recovery Looks Promising, But Nothing is Automatic As a motivational sales speaker, I keep hearing from my colleagues in sales all of the “happy news” about how great 2021 will be for sales professionals. On the surface, everything does look positive, but that’s when I start getting worried. Joyce Chang, Chair of […]
Scott Burrows, Florida Keynote Speaker
Florida is Coming Back Stronger than Ever – Are You Ready? As a Florida Motivational Speaker who resides in Florida, you don’t have to remind me how badly the pandemic affected our state. A lot of my friends described the pandemic as a massive hurricane. In a way, that’s good. As a Floridian and […]
Scott Burrows, Insurance and Financial Services Keynote Speaker
Are You Determined to Know the Truth About Insurance Sales? My career as an insurance and financial services keynote speaker wasn’t something, I fell into one fine day. I learned the insurance and financial services industry from the bottom up. Despite personal and physical hardship and sacrifice, I made it into the Million Dollar […]
Scott Burrows, Goal Setting and Success Speaker
“Dealing with It,” Isn’t a Game Plan In a recent virtual presentation I gave on goal setting and success for 2021, I commented that “Dealing with It” isn’t a game plan. Goal setting and success require determination. Times may be uncertain but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t set goals. Who will win in 2021? […]
Scott Burrows, Resilience and Adversity Keynote Speaker
Adversity is Not a Four-Letter Word Several years ago, the Harvard Business Review ran an article entitled “How to Bounce Back from Adversity.” It is as important now as when it was first written a decade ago. One of my favorite passages rings true to me now, more than ever: “Even for the less […]
Scott Burrows, Healthcare Industry Motivational Speaker
Healthcare Employee Burnout Doesn’t Cure Itself As a healthcare motivational speaker, I know the healthcare industry is going through one of the most difficult periods of low morale in decades. It is not just the pandemic, but a changing landscape that includes ever-changing insurance reimbursement issues, new software and systems, coding challenges, compensation issues, […]
Scott Burrows, Pharmaceutical Sales Speaker
Staying at Home Doesn’t Mean Stuck at Home In my work as a motivational pharmaceutical sales speaker, one of the most often asked questions I hear these days is, “With all of this social distancing stuff, I’m stuck at home. How can I do my job?” The answer is that the challenge isn’t one […]
Scott Burrows, Team Building Motivational Keynote Speaker
The Glue That Holds Teams Together As a team building motivational keynote speaker, I know that we are in the midst of an unprecedented time. Indeed, there have been three phases to this time. Hubert Joly, writing for the Harvard Business Review (May 8, 2020) wrote that these phases are: The Shelter-in-Place Phase, the […]
Scott Burrows, Real Estate Sales Speaker
Be Determined to Be the Difference in Real Estate Sales As a virtual motivational speaker for those in real estate sales, I know that “the numbers” don’t tell the story. In 2019, about 6 million new and existing homes were sold and there were about 1.4 million realtors. Sounds easy, right? Hardly. Along came […]
