Speaking

Kevin delivers impact – lasting and memorable. He shares stories and ideas that challenge the status quo to reveal new solutions to difficult problems and problems we have taken for granted.  You will be able to take the principles in his speeches and apply to your individual situation. In fact, you will be thinking about them for days.

Keynotes & Other Speaking Engagements

A few recent examples:

Using the right blend of theory, story, mental & visual eye candy, each presentation is balanced for the specific audience.  Even though most of the time they are sitting and listening, Kevin’s goal is to engage them as much as possible. (See Speaking Topics below)

“Kevin’s style was engaging, funny, story-telling and thought-provoking – a winning combination for the audience.  (Audience participation)  was extremely high.  He challenged the audience to think about the concepts and apply them to their possibilities.”
- Conference Organizer

“I love how creative (his) keynote is!”
- CEO of a conference

Tweets during keynotes:

Workshops

Workshops on a variety of subjects are always engaging.  It’s called a WORKshop for a reason.  Each person will not only learn, but will also be an active participant in creating their outcome.  They will be challenged, broken out of the daily grind and refined until they have specific actions they can take when they return. (See Workshops below)

“Personally, I felt like I was challenged to open my mind, to consider new possibilities, to try something new and not worry about potential failures… The content … was not just Kevin’s. The content came from everyone who attended… It was about people sharing ideas, challenging current thinking and discussing new possibilities.”

- Dick Handshaw, President ISPI, Charlotte Chapter

Speaking Topics

Failure
It is taboo in just about all circles of life.  Yet if we were to discuss our failures we would be able to learn and grow much more than only sharing our successes.  How should we view failure and how will it make us stronger?  What type of culture must we have to profit from our shortcomings? We will look at specific cases where failure has led to fabulous results.
(Video example – E2 Santa Clara 2011, Embracing your E2.0 Failures)

Control – Letting Go or Holding On
If you don’t have enough control, chaos will reign in your organization.  If you have too much control you will squeeze the life blood out of it.  How do you find the right balance?  What should you keep control of and what should you just let go?

The Art of Accountability
We claim to hold people accountable.  We put people in responsible positions and claim to hold them accountable.  Oh, by the way, do you know the difference between responsibility and accountability?  I didn’t think so – neither does anyone else.  Then how can you be accountable and responsible.  Knowing the difference gives you the clarity to truly hold people accountable without guilt.  And you will discover ways you might be robbing others of their accountability.

Creating Communities in Your Organization
Everyone talks about social media.  Less people talk about using it within an organization.  Even fewer people understand that taken by itself, social media will fail if not integrated into the business.  How is that done and what does it look like?

Top 10 Culture Killers
You will recognize these Top 10 Culture Killers because you have lived them yourself, if you don’t live them now.  If nothing else, you will be able to step back and look at your organization from a different perspective and assess your culture against these deadly characteristics.  Then you will learn what to do about them.

Securing Social Media
Sure, anyone can copy/paste the information from your organization to Twitter or an outside blog and share it with the world.  This has IT security people buzzing about how to keep social media secure so that confidential information isn’t handed to the wrong people.  What do you do?  More strict hardware or software?  Better policies?  You will learn the answer…

Workshops

Failure
We will learn how to properly look at failure and turn it into a strength.  We will also go over many case studies and talk about how we can avoid similar failures or what to do if we fall into the trap.  This workshop is tailored for your industry or organization with familiar case studies and situations.

Creating Communities in Your Organization
Working as a team we come up with a strategy for creating online communities in your business.

Basics of Internal Social Media & Networking (Enterprise 2.0)
Not only will you learn why you should be taking a hard look at this and even what “this” is, but you will come out with the beginnings of a plan for your business.

Social Learning
Traditional learning comes up short.  It takes lots of resources and usually doesn’t give us the return we were looking for.  Instead of trying to fully dictate training, adding social learning in an organization helps the learner to learn how, when and what they need.  From onboarding to informal learning, from blended learning to mentoring, learn how to use social learning to enhance your learning offering.