A current area of interest for a lot of my clients is how to create a more connected culture–– one with less isolation and exhaustion, and with more collaboration and support. The focus is frequently on sweeping plans, new systems and structures but it’s so often in the micro-moments that the difference is really made. …
One question I get asked a lot (and got asked 3x last week) is how I stay in shape. So I made a video to provide a glimpse. It’s 33 seconds long. Ha. As a keynote performer, being in shape is part of my job… but I feel it’s part of each of our jobs …
“What do you mean by ‘collaborate’?” I smiled at John, a top executive at a multinational software company in Silicon Valley. The other execs in the room looked at me like I was insane. I was coaching 6 leadership team members on their presentations for the big upcoming company event. I continued. “What kinds of …
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The Sting Earlier this summer, I delivered a keynote to a few hundred people. It went well. I got a standing ovation. I received a lot of nice comments from audience members who stopped me after in the halls. But a few days later, my agent reached out to say the client “thought it was …
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When I was a child, in late summer of every year, my mother would take me and my sister to the local shoe store to pick out our “school shoes” for the coming year. This was for me the start of a new year. I still feel that same excitement each September. Client projects are …
This past week, 3 consecutive flights were canceled for a trip to Ohio. So, I got in a rental car and drove 10+ hours through the middle of the night from Newark airport all the way to Columbus. Here’s a 1-minute video that tells the story. Driving was the only way I could get to …
Every so often, a window of opportunity opens, allowing you to stay in a special spot longer than you anticipated. When that opportunity arises, take it. This 1-minute video, which I recorded this week the evening before a high-stakes keynote, tells a bit more. The extra time you have in the actual space makes all …
This weekend, I’m back at the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, NY. If you don’t know about it, you can read more online… but suffice it to say, the NCC is to museums what the iphone is to a rotary phone: state of the art. It’s interactive, customized, physical and digital. The video I have …
Each year of my life, going back to childhood, I’ve come to this lake in the Adirondack mountains. . . sometimes hosting a creative retreat, sometimes arriving alone with family. It’s always a time of restoration and an opportunity to develop, review and revise material. Given a few high-stakes events ahead, I figured I’d come …
In the summer of 2004, I had come through a very, very rough breakup and decided to soothe my sore heart by renting a little motel room out on Long Island by the beach. I brought with me one book, THE WAR OF ART, which two colleagues had just mentioned was a must-read. Well that …
