If Disney ran your Speakers Bureau

Bags of sugar
Great leaders don’t sugar coat anything. Photo from Internet, source unknown.

 

If Disney ran your Speakers Bureau, your experience would be different than the current industry standards.

And second, your Disney experience would vary depending on who the Disney leader is.

It’s insanely easy for a large, growing, and reputable organization to rest on their laurels.

Responding to client emails within 24 hours is not a standard when you are building your business and your brand, it’s the standard, everyday, all day.

Forgetting that is the beginning of an insidious cultural decline that may prove overwhelming.

 

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Boring versus not perfect

ATT International text
Wifi is the best option. But that means no checking for messages as soon as you land. Weird.

 

Reliable (aka boring, because of it’s predictability ) versus something that’s not perfect, not reliable? Which would you pick? A reliably consistent speaker who entertains the audience and looks good onstage in their cuff links or pearl necklace? Or would you pick the unpredictable artist who is likely to say things that some might take offense to, or at the very least, listen in disbelief, while others – sitting beside them – have the missing link that launches their transformation?

 

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Speaker Hall of Fame

Hiking trail
Led from the back of the pack yesterday.

 

From an email yesterday.

To be in the Speaker Hall of Fame, each candidate must excel in seven categories: material, style, experience, delivery, image, professionalism and communication.

There are only about 150 speakers who have ever been inducted into the NSA Speaker Hall of Fame.

Can’t help but wonder, if only for a moment, how i’d stack up.

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It’s not a business until…

Orlando Based Disney Keynote Speaker
Orlando Based Disney Keynote Speaker.

 

It’s not a business until…

People are recommending you.

Goodman Speakers Bureau called yesterday wanting to know my availability in May for an Orlando engagement. They have a client wanting a Disney Keynote Speaker. Their client wants me to hold a Tuesday and a Friday, until they decide if they want an opening or closing keynote.

It ain’t over until it’s over. Hopeful this leads to a signed contract, but cognizant there’s no guarantee.

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