Bringing closure to the year, and your talk.
As we close out 2012, I have produced another ‘best clips’ video (you may remember the first one on opening hooks), this time, on great
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As we close out 2012, I have produced another ‘best clips’ video (you may remember the first one on opening hooks), this time, on great
Last weekend I assisted with prepping some of the speakers for TEDxSanDiego, a wonderful TEDx run by Jack Abbott, a longtime marketing executive in the area.
As the co-host and lead curator for TEDxColumbus, I’m supposed to act as an information waitress. I help select and then introduce the talks to people
About this time every year as we begin to promote TEDxColumbus, I still get the question: What is TED? So here’s a quick primer and a
We were invited into a major financial institution this week to help check the pulse of their culture. And we did it thru stories. A
I just finished reading one of the most compelling stories I think I’ve ever read: Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden. It is the incredible tale
I just finished a six week assignment with a major health corporation in town, helping them to cascade their 10 year vision into a repeatable
Yesterday morning I delivered a keynote address on influential storytelling to 80 executives at the company DSW, headquartered in Columbus. They sell shoes and lots
Last week I went to my first graduation ceremony since my own in 1990. Mine was filled with caps, gowns, traditional music, flags and honorary
Every now and then, we get an invitation to work with a different type of client – and we love the opportunity to adapt what
Last week, we suggested an outrageous idea to a client who was addicted to PowerPoint (as in she had sent at least 200 pages of
Last week we re-launched our Influential Storytelling class. Like all good motors, it needed a tune up, and just in time too. These 15
As I was dropping my son off in his kindergarten room he was quizzing me about how and why rental cars worked. I don’t know
My favorite quote from the TED Conference this year was from the (now former) head of DARPA, the defense agency that plans our strategic responses on surprise
On March 8, 2012 I was privileged to give the hardest talk of my life – a eulogy for my father. This is an
Every car has four wheels, a radiator and glove compartment. It is not those things that make a car fancy, fast or memorable. But without
(Live from TEDActive 2012) I was asked to play Bob Costas, or rather Mary Corillo, by a fellow TEDactive attendee during session 8 at TED2012.
Using a word like curriculum sounds rather formal, as we really intend for this to be a guide to inspire and adapt for your own