Speakers Reviews

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Howard Putnam

“Thank you for your hard work to connect with the students of Montana State University. We’ve received great feedback from your lectures. Your advice, anecdotes and photos were meaningful and inspiring to many in the room. You were the perfect inaugural keynote lecturer for MSU Career Week, as you set the tone from the ‘employer’s perspective’. The students were anxious to have more time with you and most of them will remember that experience for a long time to come.” –Montana State University

Howard Putnam

“Your words were inspiring and your down-to-earth advice for navigating the sometimes rough skies of ethical decision making were right on-target. We could not have asked for a more appropriate—or a more entertaining—keynote speaker for this year’s event.” –Goodwill Industries International, Inc.

Scott Klososky

  • “This material is fascinating. I will endeavor to apply this to internal connections in our company as much as with external connections.”
  • “Great timing. Great sense of humor and delivery! You can teach an old dog new tricks.”
  • “A good wake-up call for how technology is proliferating society and business.”
  • “Great presentation. Received actual tactics we can use today- thanks.”

–Georgia Tech College of Management

Scott Klososky

“Scott did not just meet our expectations, he surpassed them. He gave us lots of food for thought that was applicable to everyone in the audience. He also challenged us to think about the information, not just in a professional sense, but to integrate it into our personal perspective, as well. Scott was a home run!” –Society of Insurance Trainers & Educators

Scott Klososky

“I introduced Scott and facilitated the questions…let me say he was phenomenal! After talking with many people after the presentation, all said they are going to start exploring new social technologies to at least try to catch up with the modern times… Scott exceeded my expectations. One of the key points I took away from the message was the idea of social relevancy and that we must work on our personal web presence if we are to be taken seriously as a professional. The other idea that intrigued me was instead of individual authors, we are moving towards aggregators, using the crowd sourcing concept to write books. For anyone who needs to understand the trends in Social Technologies, you must see Scott Klososky – his program has opened my eyes to the importance of building a web presence and to consciously work on my personal social relevancy.” –Society of Insurance Trainers & Educators

Dr. Nido Qubein

“THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! They/we LOVED your presentation. Really hit them between the eyes. Sometimes CEOs get jaded, but you spoke directly to their nature, and they were captivated. And it was a pleasure for me to meet you personally after hearing about you for three years. Everything they said was true – and good, by the way!” –CEO Council of Tampa Bay, Inc.

Dr. Nido Qubein

“Nido’s presence as a speaker exemplifies the right mix of style and substance to captivate audiences. His moving messages moved our audience to reach beyond success – challenging our participants to reach for the path of significance in their life and business.” –Dynamic Directions

Dr. Nido Qubein

“Thank you so much for the great program you did for us! You are truly the best! You are a class act and one of the few people who is the same on the stage as off the stage. You truly preach what you practice! As Always, I’m looking forward to the next time.” –High Achiever’s Network

Peter Vidmar

“Peter Vidmar was absolutely charming and delightful. Many people commented that he was the highlight of the Conference!” –Toastmasters International

Peter Vidmar

“Peter is a delight to work with. He was absolutely outstanding!” –Aspen Education Group

Peter Vidmar

“I know you hear this often, but you need to truly take this in – you made a huge impact on our Paul Mitchell School Leadership Group. I could not have scripted you better than the message you delivered. What a gift! You truly, truly made a huge impact. Our own educators in our school world facilitate about 1800 events per year on the road. We have an ongoing training for them about their performance ‘off stage.’ Not only were you brilliant on stage, you were just as brilliant and kind off stage. How you treated everyone with your kindness and warmth was what really made these Paul Mitchell School Leaders fall in love with you. And trust me; they fell in love with you.” —Paul Mitchell Schools

Peter Vidmar

“Thank you so very much for coming up to San Jose and giving our keynote address at our recognition dinner. We have heard back from many in attendance, and all raved about your presentation. From experience, I knew that would be the case. Again, thank you Peter. You’re a great Scout!” –Boy Scouts of America

Shawn Achor

“Shawn was phenomenal! His topic and style of delivery was very well-received by our audience of highly technical and analytical staff. The time flew by and the people I spoke with later in the day had some takeaways to implement to improve their positivity as leaders. We are thrilled that he was able to kick-off our leadership offsite with such a powerful message.” —SRC

Howard Putnam

“Thanks for your keynote at our Spring CLO Symposium in Miami. It was a genuine pleasure to meet you in person…the initial feedback I received from attendees on your keynote was great. Here’s a sample from one of our magazine’s editorial advisory board members: – phenomenal, engaged with audience, inspired the audience, identified with the audience, and I was disappointed when it was over – I wanted to hear more…. most of those around me said similar things…. In fact, if I had opportunity to work for this man, I would…Homerun, Touchdown, etc….”  –Chief Learning Officer Magazine

Sally Hogshead

“Sally Hogshead and her Fascination Advantage Assessment were a perfect complement to our more academic programming. Everyone was so excited to learn more about themselves and how to apply their greatest strengths to their professional and personal lives. Comments and Tweets confirmed that participants were engaged, having fun, and learning.”  –National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals

Shawn Achor

“Excellent. By far the best speaker we have ever had in any company meeting I have attended. He was funny and entertaining and best of all, gave us advice that we can easily follow, if we choose to do so. He was brilliant and I am so grateful to CCC for bringing him in to speak with us.”

  • “Really enjoyed Shawn Achor and I am excited to read his book.  I want to say thank you for giving us a speaker that was more focused on us then the company!”
  • “Awesome.  I liked how it was not just a lot of fluff.  He clearly had a lot of science to back up his assertions.”
  • “Very dynamic and wonderful speaker – already trying some of the things he mentioned Fun-fitness-doubler-3 gratitudes.”
    -Comments from Copyright Clearance audience members

Dr. Tasha Eurich

“Tasha Eurich has a wealth of personal and professional experience and was an excellent guest speaker for my graduate-level course. Tasha spoke enthusiastically and credibly about employee engagement and motivation. She provided quantitative and qualitative examples of work that helped the students see that any successful HR project must have senior leadership support, context and a clear line of sight to strategy to be successful. She did a great job of leading a discussion that helped better equip students to meet the challenge of providing superior development programs in their organizations.” –University of Denver Faculty Member

Dr. Tasha Eurich

“Dr. Eurich’s presentation was both informative and engaging. She spoke eloquently and was very approachable. As a first year graduate student… I was unsure of which direction I wanted to go in the I/O realm. After Dr. Eurich’s presentation, I am positive that my future career will involve leadership development.”–Allison Kolick, Graduate Psychology Student

Dr. Tasha Eurich

“Dr. Eurich is a wonderful speaker: enthusiastic, well-informed, and articulate. We enjoyed her presentation but, more than that, we learned a great deal.” –Daniels College of Business

Desi Williamson

“Desi exceeded our expectations. Our attendees made comments that they would ‘Reignite their purpose’ and one commented, ‘Desi Williamson is awesome! He is a true inspiration!’ His presentation itself was exceptional.”
–Region 4 Education Service Center