I tried my hand at designing because it meant something to me to be able to give something more than bookings to those professional speakers and consultants that we have identified as modern-day members of The Intelligentsia. I have a theory. "It is better to give than to receive." I have [...]
Every day that I wake up I am thankful for our Speaker Relations Manager: Bianca K.S. Brown. Where do I begin? For starters, I want to share with you that Bianca and I go way back. We have known each other and worked together for years. I believe wholeheartedly that [...]
I'll get straight to the point. I don't and I will not lie about a speakers fee to a prospective or current client. No lying and no stealing. It's really quite simple. I don't want it on my conscience, and personally, I do not believe that I can sow that kind [...]
Our world is filled with persons who designate themselves as 'professional' speakers. Anyone can get business cards and a website made these days, and that's not a bad thing necessarily. I am a big believer in having healthy ambition and using our minds and intelligence to create success by adding [...]
The professional speaking and consulting industry is indeed a unique one. My business for example, is in the business of disseminating intellectual property and vetting human capital or maybe that's disseminating human capital and vetting intellectual property. :-) It doesn't get much more unique than that. Humans, being the fluid, staccato, and evolving [...]
One of my pet peeves has always been 'bad,' 'customer' service (even before I became an entrepreneur). This is due to my sense of what is right and wrong, what is fair or not fair, just or not just, or balanced versus unbalanced. At some point each of us on [...]
I take my job very seriously. This is most likely due to the fact that, I take life very seriously. I am the quintessential Type A personality which comes with its positives and negatives. I am a natural perfectionist. I am naturally very driven. I am naturally very studious because [...]
The first time that I heard a professional speaker, I was a junior high school student attending Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in Southwest, Washington, D.C. The speaker was an African-American older woman, who literally came to talk to the students about: sex, and various methods of pregnancy and disease [...]