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What If You Aren’t Naturally Creative?

Jan 4, 2023 | Creativity

What can you do if you aren't naturally creative? New research proves that you can be creative even if it's not in your nature to be. Emotional flexibilty and creativity is there a connection between emotional flexibility and creativity? According to a new study from...

Motivational Lessons to Learn From Keynote Speakers

Jan 2, 2023 | motivational speakers

I like to think I have one of the best jobs in the world - motivational keynote speaker. That's the speaker who either starts a conference or closes it and speaks to all attendees. The role of a keynote speaker is literally to set the tone for the conference or event....

Why Are There So Few Women Inventors?

Dec 28, 2022 | inventors

As a woman inventor, I love being able to encourage other women to invent. Fewer than 15% of all women in the world are inventors. At least that's better than 1977 when only 3% of women even had their name on a patent. Even fewer, around 4%, are sole patent owners...

Why You Should Invest in Corporate Motivational Speakers

Dec 12, 2022 | motivational speakers

If you're a corporate executive or meeting planner you might be wondering why you should invest in corporate motivational speakers. You might be looking through your budget and wondering if it's worth the money. You could just have a panel of your industry peers at...

Women Inventors Who Changed the World

Dec 8, 2022 | Inventing

Women Inventors Do you know how many women inventors have changed the world? As you sip your morning coffee you probably don’t give any thought as to how the actual process of coffee brewing came to be. If it wasn’t for a frustrated housewife in Dresden, Germany, you...

The Future of Hospitality

Dec 4, 2022 | futurism, Innovation

It's nice to see after 2 years of being couped up that people are involved in the hospitality industry again. According to Wikipedia, "The hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, food and drink service,...

Inventor of the Shopping Cart

Dec 3, 2022 | inventors

Smart businesses are always trying to figure out how to get their customers to buy more. So was the case with the inventor of the shopping cart, Sylvan Goldman. He was the owner of the Humpy Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma City. The struggling supermarket chain...

5 Major Benefits of Hiring an Innovation Keynote Speaker

Nov 28, 2022 | Innovation

In today's uber-competitive environment innovation is more important than ever. If you're not innovating your competitor is and you will fall behind. Customers, even your best ones, can fall prey to the "shiny new thing syndrome". If you're not innovating you're not...

Inventor of the Electric Guitar

Oct 12, 2022 | inventions, inventors

Blues legend B.B. King loved his electric guitar so much he risked his life to save it in a fire. Afterwards he named all of his guitars Lucille. We can't imagine blues or rock without the electric guitar. But who was the inventor of the electric guitar? Like many...