Legendary Leaders are Readers & Writers
What is the top need from today’s meeting professionals when they reach out to me to speak at their event? This is a summary of their typical needs after some explaining on a call: “We need someone entertaining enough to engage our employees in a dark conference hall, but not too entertaining!…addressing jet lagged travelers while crossing all demographics, who are jaded and have seen every kind of speaker, who are bored of a lecturer and experts in our industry, but a speaker who seems like they are a part of our industry, and can pull attendees away from their phones by getting attention for at least the time you’re on stage, and help our audience feel connected to one another through laughter, while learning something, and becoming better leaders. You’ll have about an hour.” OK – roger that. Yes folks, miracles are requested and granted regularly 🙂 But seriously, how is it possible all of this can be met? (here’s the video we send them to understand something of what we do on stage for an audience) As I research why this skillset is such a challenge for an events professional to find among all of the
