How can your organization stand out, attract customers, and grow your brand to become something remarkable? In recent years, the market has seen exponential growth in the amount of content being pushed out by brands, making it harder than ever to be seen. Marketing speaker Jeremy Miller helps audiences in making their brand stand out. […]

Recently, I spoke to a large global engineering firm on the topic of safety leadership and building strong safety cultures. The tools I brought? A few powerful stories that keep the workplace safety leadership conversation fresh.

Today’s Speaker Guest blog is from Jim Carroll. Jim is one of the world’s leading futurists, trends & innovation experts, with clients that include NASA, Godiva Chocolates, the GAP, Johnson & Johnson and Dupont.    It would be pretty difficult to have missed the news about the United Airlines situation in the last 48 hours. It’s not […]

By now, you’ve undoubtedly run across a story, or heard a speaker at a conference point out some random similarity between Baby Boomers and Millennials. I know I have.

In fact I heard about these similarities enough times, it prompted me to start actively hunting for these references to overlapping inter-generational wants and needs. The more I found the less random they seemed.

How many of you have attended planning sessions where facilitators conducted a S.W.O.T Analysis, asking participants to brainstorm your organization’s Strengths. Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats?

Break things down. We are often told to ‘think big,’ but sometimes, in so doing, we intimidate ourselves with the enormity of the task that lies ahead. To get around this, in my start-up days, my co-founder and I jokingly developed the “sushi principle,” – that is, break things down. The best way to break a 1000 mile journey down is to start with a single step. Nobody becomes an expert and virtuoso overnight. That comes through hours of labour and years of practice. So whether you want to learn to play the piano or how to be an aerospace engineer, the key is to break things down into bite-sized pieces – just like sushi (or tofu-shi, for us vegetarians).