Even though I am downsizing my involvement with Toastmasters significantly due to my increased time required for my professional speaker career, I will still help out at Toastmasters by conducting one of the club officer training workshops for them. J ...
Failures Are Really Learning Experiences
After my inspirational speech last night in a small town about an hour from Toronto, one man came up to me and thanked me for my presentation as it gave him the confidence to move on after he lost an organization's district election. I told him that fail ...
Diversity Day at The Office
Saw the rerun of the TV show 'The Office' and it's episode 'Diversity Day'. It was a spoof on diversity training in the workplace. I just hope that companies out there do not run their workplace diversity training like that in real life. A good work ...
Company Employees Need Motivation During Recession
Company employees need motivation especially during recessions. Motivational speaker Clint Cora makes a comment on this claim in a new short video clip about company business motivation.
Should We Embrace Diversity Video Comment
Here's my short video comment on whether we should embrace diversity. Although most people will say that we should, we wonder if we really are. Is diversity a positive or just a negative to be tolerated?
Financial Services Pro Reviews Motivational Speaker
Here's how a financial services professional reviewed one of my recent motivational speeches; "I wanted to thank you again for your excellent presentation Monday evening. You did an outstanding job on getting our attention and holding it for the en ...
Interesting Breakfast Crowd For Inspirational Speech
As I expected, we had a very interesting morning breakfast crowd for my inspirational speech today. The morning talks I've done so far were usually quite good audiences but this one was better than I had even anticipated. Lots of energy in the room at 7 ...
Early Morning Motivational Talks
I have another very early morning motivational talk to do tomorrow at 7:30 am. These are always hard to get up for but once I'm there, the audiences are surprisingly good (and alert). I suppose there are people out there that just like to do things earl ...
Universities and Colleges Stressing Diversity
As I've been exploring many websites of universities and colleges in the past week, I've noticed that many have been stressing the importance of diversity on campuses. Some of even set up a special office to make students and staff more aware of diversit ...
New Experience As Motivational Speaker
I had another interesting new experience as a motivational speaker last night. I was the guest speaker at a local community dinner event and in the front row was a seeing-eye dog. This was the first time in my entire speaking career that I have had a do ...