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2024 will be a challenging time for us all. How can we navigate crisis and find new opportunities? We must learn to collaborate and...

Your Team's Big challenge for 2024 This is a year-end wake-up call.  I'm convinced that 2024 will be one of the most challenging years...

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion...

We pitch new ideas to our colleagues We pitch innovative solutions to our customers We pitch expansion and growth to investors And we...

I had been in the sweat lodge for almost 45 minutes. It was unbearable and I thought I might faint. It was so hot that the air burned my...

Are you Hiding in your Comfort Zone this Summer? It’s summertime. That means it’s time for us to do some unusual things; things that we...

Most entrepreneurs think that pitching is something you do in an elevator or to win a competition. While these are indeed 2 types of...

As an entrepreneur, there is really only one way to fail. But before I tell you how, let me define what I think an entrepreneur is. My...

My best friend’s wife died recently. Suddenly. Nothing can explain a tragedy like this. But in the midst of bottomless grief and sorrow,...

For me, Christmas is about giving; giving gifts to express appreciation and gratitude to the people in our lives we care about the most....

One of the biggest reasons why so many pitches fail is that we fail to CONNECT with our listeners. Connection is where it all starts....

I felt numb. Yet another cruel shooting in my home country of America. In sunny Florida even. Yet another senseless slaughter of innocent...

Words on a page can convey meaning. But words that are spoken can move hearts. Your voice belongs to both your body and your mind and it...

With first impressions, your voice is more important than you may realise. It takes less than 1 second for people to judge your...

When I was a rowdy kid (yes, just ask my 4 brothers), my mother would (often) send me to my room. Being forced to sit alone was the...

One of my life’s biggest missions is to help other people to find their voices. Not their singing voices, but their speaking voices....

Just before Christmas I competed in the Finals of the Techtour European Venture Contest. Oddly enough, I was one of the category winners...

I just listened to an old speech by Martin Luther King Jr. from April 4th, 1967 at the Riverside Church in New York City. It wasn’t his...

Last week I did a talk in front of 600 people. I was naked. No colorful Powerpoints, no music, no flashy videos to hide behind. Just me....

It’s Friday morning and I’m sitting on a crowded plane in the midst of 8 young men who are headed to Amsterdam for a big weekend...