How to Train Yourself to be a Great Leader
Mark Sanborn is the president of Sanborn & Associates, Inc., an idea lab for leadership development. In addition to his experience leading at a local and national level, he has written or co-authored 8 books and is the author of more than two dozen videos and audio training programs on [...]
Can Friendships Survive the Trump Era?
Dr. Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy®, works with organizations that want to do the right thing every time and know the key to their success is the high character of their employees. Bruce gives high-content, interactive keynote presentations on ethics at conferences around the world. He also writes for Fortune [...]
Your Not To Do List for the New Year
Jeff Davidson, "The Work-Life Balance Expert®," is the world's leading personal brand in terms of speaking, writing, or reflecting upon work-life balance issues. He is the author of "Simpler Living," "Breathing Space," "The 60 Second Self-Starter," "The 60 Second Organizer," "The 10 Minute Guide to Managing Your Time," and "The [...]
What Scares Tomorrow’s Business Leaders? 7 biggest work and on-the-job Fears Revealed
Hailed as “The Master of Innovation” by Fortune magazine, award-winning professional speaker Scott Steinberg is among today's leading business strategists and strategic innovation consultants, as seen in 600+ outlets from CNN to Time and The Wall St. Journal. The CEO of management consulting and market research firm FutureProof Strategies, he [...]
Five Ways to Maintain Your Most Important Asset: YOU!
Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE is an award-winning keynote speaker, bestselling author, and noted authority on employee and team productivity. She is the president of The Productivity Pro, Inc., a company dedicated to helping leaders increase workplace performance in high-stress environments. Stack has authored seven books, including Doing the Right [...]
2017 Meetings and Conventions Forecast
Michael J. Shapiro is a writer for Meetings & Conventions, an industry think-tanks and newsletter. His 15 years of editorial experience include stints at magazines that range from Embedded Systems Programming to DigitalFOTO. Along the way he has written for CNET, Mac|Life, Maximum PC and others, and edited white papers [...]
Twelve Observations about Work and Life
Jeff Davidson is a work-life balance expert specializing in helping a time-pressed workforce. He helps career professionals overcome the relentless burden of information and communication overload. As a speaker, author, and columnist, Jeff Davidson has attracted clients such as America Online, American Bankers Association, NationsBank, Swissotel, IBM, American Express, Westinghouse, [...]
8 Reasons Why People Won’t Follow You
Mark Sanborn is an author, professional speaker, and entrepreneur. He is best known for his book The Fred Factor: How Passion In Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary, which sold over 2 million copies worldwide and became a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA [...]
What Research Tells Us About Effective Selling
Brent Adamson, co-author of The Challenger Sale, recently sat down with Jill Konrath, author and speaker, to discuss challenges in today’s buying process and what you can do to close the sale. Here are the takeaways from their discussion. Your #1 competitor is your own prospect. Research shows that prospects aren't even [...]
Red Props Launches Showcase of Top National Professional Speakers
Red Propeller Speakers Bureau will play host to a special speaker showcase on Monday, November 21, 2016 at the Deer Creek Golf Club in Overland Park, Kansas. Over twenty nationally recognized speakers will present 15 minutes of their best content to an audience of meeting professionals, planners and executives. Speakers [...]
I’ll Renew if My Company Will Pay
It's no secret associations are struggling with membership. Between the economic downturn and a shift in attitude towards association membership, organizations are struggling to keep their membership up. Ed Rigsbee, CAE, CSP, knows all too well the struggles of selling membership. In his books The ROI of Membership, Ed lays [...]
Spending on Meetings Expected to Rise in 2016
According to the American Express Meetings and Events 2016 Forecast, meeting planners are expecting their budgets to increase in the coming year. A study of around 450 businesses showed an upwards tick in meeting activity in Europe. Expectations are the U.S. market will follow due in part to improving economies, [...]