Speaker Hall of Fame

Hiking trail
Led from the back of the pack yesterday.

 

From an email yesterday.

To be in the Speaker Hall of Fame, each candidate must excel in seven categories: material, style, experience, delivery, image, professionalism and communication.

There are only about 150 speakers who have ever been inducted into the NSA Speaker Hall of Fame.

Can’t help but wonder, if only for a moment, how i’d stack up.

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The CEO is primarily interested in the bottomline

Disney's Celebration Place
Woman using umbrella for shade, not rain, at Disney’s Celebration Place.

 

CEO’s and other senior executives want quick, cost effective solutions to things they’ve been unable to conquer.

My main job is finding creative ways to help them see their blindspot.

It’s gonna take time and money.

And a level of commitment they’ve never experienced before.

Note to self: Selling is the transfer of enthusiasm.

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The world needs more of this

Disney Customer Service Speaker
Nine days ago. Photo: David Smith.

 

This LinkedIn message came last night, in response to a Leadership Keynote speech i gave nine days prior:

The 72-hr challenge was a good kick to start on something good. I was visiting a client this week who spoke very highly of your presentation. She was very impressed, inspired and working (continuing) on her 72-hr challenge 🙂
So, the impact you were hoping for is definitely taking place!

Be amazed and be amazing. The world needs more of that, as evidenced in the unsolicited message above.

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It takes a long time for lucky breaks to begin happening

Letter in mailbox
Had our 14-year old write a thank you note to the Director of Admissions two days ago.

 

After a third and final High School tour at 9am, i’ll begin the drive to Ft Lauderdale to deliver tomorrow’s Leadership Keynote Speech at the 2015 gMed Summit.

This is the first post-Disney retirement speech in which the audience is a mixture of attendees from many diverse healthcare providers.

This is the type of engagement in which future speaking opportunities generally come from.

Note to self: Hand-written thank you notes are rare, hence valuable.

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