If you want to see what a quintessential success story actually looks like, you can find it with how Ashley Rhodes-Courter has lived her life thus far. She was born to single teen mother and by the age of 3 she was in Florida’s foster care system. After being shuttled between 14 homes, she finally…
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Great keynote speakers move an audience in three ways: they engage it through genuine interaction, inspire it through story and emotion, and motivate it by turning feeling into belief and action. The very best do all three in a single talk — and understanding how they do it makes it far easier to spot the…
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The seven tools that make event planning easier fall into a few buckets: a project manager to track everything, a registration platform, an email and promotion tool, a design tool, a budgeting tracker, a survey tool for feedback, and a speakers agency to handle your keynote. Put these in place and you spend less time…
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Before you book a keynote speaker, ask about their availability and fee, whether they customize, their experience with audiences like yours, what they need from you, their references, how they handle Q&A, and their cancellation policy. The right questions up front save you from surprises later — and quickly reveal whether a speaker is a…
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If you’re looking for a keynote speaker on business growth, you’ve come to the right place. Jeff Havens is not your typical keynote speaker. He wields an uncanny ability to provide actionable answers to today’s biggest business challenges in an undeniably entertaining way. When he’s on stage, you’ll gain insights, reconsider your perspective, and even…
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Event planners juggle nine recurring challenges: tight budgets, tight timelines, last-minute changes, competing stakeholder demands, finding the right speaker, technology, attendance and engagement, staying on schedule, and proving the event worked. Every experienced planner knows them — and the best ones have systems to handle each. Here is the honest list, and how to stay…
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Events usually fall flat for a handful of avoidable reasons: no clear purpose, a low-energy speaker, poor pacing, zero audience engagement, logistics problems, weak promotion, and no follow-through. The good news is that every one of these is fixable once you see it coming. Here are the seven most common reasons events fizzle — and…
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The fastest way to save time as an event planner is to systematize the repeatable parts — templates, checklists, trusted vendors, and clear communication — so your energy goes to the decisions that actually need you. These fourteen tips are the shortcuts experienced planners lean on to run better events in less time. Plan smarter…
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To plan a corporate event, work through nine steps in order: define your goals, set your budget, lock your date, choose your venue, book your speaker, line up vendors and logistics, drive promotion and registration, finalize the run-of-show, and follow up afterward. Tackled one at a time, even a big event becomes manageable. Here is…
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