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Keynote: “Toward the New Energy Paradigm” – My Keynote for the 115th annual RMEL Conference

This September, I’ll headline what must be the longest running conference in the energy industry – let alone the event industry. I’ll focus on the themes found in my energy keynote topic, “Accelerating Energy: Why Science & Technology Are Accelerating the Future Faster Than You Think!” I put together this promotional event video for them, and […]

Video: Are You Structured for Speed?

Probably not. Agility and flexibility in the retail sector is critical; I’m on stage in Orlando speaking to the issue of speed in retail.

Tariffs, Trade Wars, the Conundrum of Politics, and My Good Friend Jim Carroll of the Arkansas Soybean Board!

Just over 18 months ago, I opened the annual meeting of the United Soybean Board in St. Louis, a group that represents most of the US soybean industry. I was on stage with a message for over 300 soybean farmers about opportunities for future growth. In addition, I spent 2 hours in a private session with […]

Do More! Accelerate Your Keynote with a Private Leadership Meeting!

You can book a boring keynote speaker who will do the same old. Or, you can call me. Your choice. Here’s what you need to think about. The Trapeze Group had me in to headline their annual user group conference – individuals thourhgout the global urban transit industry. As with many of my events, I […]

Video: For 20 Minutes, I’m on Fire (If You Pardon the Pun!)

Last week, in Las Vegas, I was the opening keynote for 3,000 people at the National Fire Protection Association annual conference. I was asked to limit my remarks to 20 minutes. I don’t do TED talks – it’s difficult to fit in all the trends involving a fast future into a short time span! But […]

Trend: The Future of Intelligent Roads and Intelligent Highway Infrastructure

This morning, I have a situation where a client is considering me to headline an event in the road building industry. I’m encouraging them to get on the phone with me to help them understand I’m the right guy for a highly customized keynote on the future of roads and highways, but while waiting on […]

Daily Inspiration: “Never underestimate the ability of remarkable individuals or successful companies to implode!”

It probably means that you are in pretty big trouble. Over the last 25 years, I’ve been brought into an extensive number of Fortune 1000 leadership meetings at a senior level in order to speak about future trends an innovation – simply take a look at my client list to get a sense of who […]

Article: 7 Tech Trends to Watch: Successful Meetings

Right after 9/11, everyone predicted that we would see the end of meetings, events and conferences: people would recoil in fear, stop travelling, and cocoon at home. That was the dumbest thing I ever heard, and I said so in a column I wrote for Successful Meetings, the voice of the global meetings and events […]

Aligning to Acceleration: Early 2018 Keynote Highlights!

Wow, is it almost May 1? What a fabulous start for 2018, with keynotes in the lsat 4 months at events in Dubai, Dallas, Houston, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Calgary, San Antonio, Austin, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Nashville, Chicago, Albuquerque, and the Town of the Blue Mountains! (You’ll have to read to the end to understand that last one!) These […]

Big data? Hype? Real? I Dunno, but I’ve Got Real BIG DATA on my Golf Game!

A good friend just posted on LinkedIn that he thinks “big data” is a hoax. Let’s start with my golf game. As I describe on stage, I get really good real time data on how bad my golf game is! The pace and reality of big data depends on the industry, the company, and so […]

The Story Behind the Picture: “A Child Is Alive Today Who Will Jump Into A Flying Car In the Future!”

“The future happens slowly, and then, all at once!” – Kevin Kelly, Founding Editor at Wired magazine. That, in a nutshell, was the modern day leadership dilemma that I presented to the CEO and senior team of a major company in the US financial services industry, at their corporate meeting last Monday in Dallas. Before […]

The Story Behind the Picture: Saving People From Themselves

It was pretty ironic to be doing a talk a month ago on the future of manufacturing – at the Trump Doral Resort in Miami nonetheless – at the same time that trade barriers were being put in place to try to take an industry back to where it was in the 1950’s. What […]