Video : Brand authenticity is the new benchmark
How is social networking impacting brands? Take a look!
Branding & Marketing · Customers & Branding
14 Key Innovation Strategies for Financial Advisors & Financial Organizations
(This post was originally written back in 2010 after I did a talk for the National Australia Bank financial advisory team. Sometimes, trends posts don't bear up well…
Financial Services & Banking · Keynotes & Events
US Air Force & Navy Child Youth Programs, Dallas: Aligning To The Future of Counselling & Recreation
Michelle Obama believed that a big challenge existed with military families, and specifically, that not enough was being done to help social counsellors and recreation…
Event Highlights · Event Highlights - Major
Column: "Don't be a one night brand"
>by Jim Carroll, CAMagazine, August 2009 When you travel like I do, you spend a lot of time reading. One ofthe recent books on my list provides a fascinating look back…
Branding & Marketing · Social Networking
The Impact of Social Networking on Brands
There are 147 million people interacting on social networks through mobile devices today - expect that to grow to 1 billion within 5 years. A clip from a recent keynote…
Branding & Marketing · Customers & Branding
Reinventing brand relevance
Here's a clip from a recent keynote in Las Vegas. I'm challenging the audience to think about the issue of maintaining brand relevance, in the era in which customers…
Consumer & Food · Customers & Branding
Recent keynote: Innovating for growth in the restaurant industry!
I was thrilled to be the opening keynote speaker for Yum! Brands 2009 Global Leadership Meeting. It's the world's largest restaurant company. The organization, the owner…
Consumer & Food · Growth Strategy
Reaching the new travel consumer
I'm off to keynote Tourism Alberta -- and will speak to some 200+ tourism marketing professionals on trends within the sector. Alberta, located in Canada, has an…
Keynotes & Events · Megatrends
A new era of "social wealth management?" Innovating banking at high speed!
I'm about to head out the door to keynote a leadership team, business analysts and IT staff for a leading multinational bank. The theme of my luncheon talk is, of…
Financial Services & Banking · Keynotes & Events
Innovating in the era of the celebrity baby blog!
I just returned from a keynote for the Direct Seller Association; the industry dedicated to selling products to individuals in their homes. One might think in the…
Branding & Marketing · Consumer & Food
"65% of the kids in preschool today will work in jobs or careers that don't yet exist"
Whether I've got an audience of 3,000 people in Vegas, or a small CEO-level meeting of 20 people, I always open with the same observation. It's from an Australian study…
Education · Megatrends
Faster is the new fast: innovating for the new, high velocity customer
In the fast paced world of instant obsolsolescence and rapid innovation, time-to-market is becoming a key factor for success. This is a video clip from a recent keynote…
Branding & Marketing · Consumer & Food