💥Hiring a Keynote Speaker: 10 Great Questions to Ask, Part 1

When clients knock on our door to speak, we make sure it’s a good fit for both sides. In this episode we shed light on the business of speaking, and share the questions you should ask any speaker you are considering.

↳ The speaker selection process

↳ How to identify real quality speakers, and

↳ Speaker budget vs budget speakers: Do you get that much more for paying that much more…?

💥Building Your Business with Partnerships Part 3💥

We had so much to talk about we got three episodes out of it. Getting into the details here… 

Topics include:

↳ Reasonable partnership contracts clauses

↳ Doe the 50/50 partnership work? , and

↳ Developing our ability to identify and secure strategic partnerships…

💥Building Your Business with Partnerships, Part 2

Diving deeper in part 2 on sustaining strategic partnerships.

Topics include:

↳ Managing brand transfer: Absorbing the reputation of our partners

↳ Due diligence: What to be aware of, and

↳ Partner Disputes: Who decides, and how to avoid a deadlock…

Partnerships are tremendously valuable in your business growth strategy – let’s talk about it.

Topics include:

↳ How to focus your partnership strategy

↳ Best practices for partnership agreements/contacts

↳ Most partnership dissolve for the same reasons… why do companies keep falling into the same trap?

💥2026 AI Executive Briefing Part 2💥

We continue in Part 2 of our AI conversation with Q&A. 

Topics include:

↳ What happens when your leaders or middle managers are resistant to adopting AI?

↳ Why are people preoccupied with AI errors (i.e. hallucinations) when human error is more frequent?, and 

↳ What will be the human-only skills that will be valuable in the workplace in the near future?

💥2026 AI Executive Briefing Part 1💥

We’ll leave the compilation of how-to generative AI demos and ‘hacks' to the talented Youtube creators – This session is about how leaders should be thinking about AI, and how we see can be strategic about using it to shape the future of our organizations.

Continuing with the second part of our discussion on proactive, forward-thinking human resource management.

Topics include:

↳ Building out your HR capabilities: Where to prioritize?

↳ Tackling the pervasiveness of underperformance and disengagement

↳ For growing companies, is the solution better HR or leadership coaching?

People strategy, strategic planning, succession planning, and career paths – it’s never been more complicated to find the right people in the right seats.

Topics include:

↳ Managing people strategy for AI-forward organizations

↳ Who really shapes the culture?

↳ When HR is decentralized…

Rounding out this full conversation on conference strategy and execution... 

Topics include:

↳ How do we measure if a conference was a success

↳ How can we offer more value to attendees (or members)

↳ The conference post-mortem: capturing the right lessons

Further digging into conference planning, from effective content marketing to risk management. 

Topics include:

↳ How to influence registration

↳ The right and wrong ways to hold panel discussions

↳ Conference finances