Meaningful Meetings Lessons Shared EEA YouTube Shows With Leaders, Entertainers, Athletes, and More
Consistent with its effort to promote more purpose-driven interactive meeting and incentive travel experiences, the Enterprise Engagement Alliance RRN media platform profiles successful or otherwise noteworthy people from all walks of life on what they have learned from their professional and/or personal journeys and how they share their insights at events to help make them more purposeful, interactive, meaningful, sustainable, and measurable.
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Upcoming Episodes
Past Episodes
These 30-minute shows, hosted by Bruce Bolger, Founder of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance and Jaki Baskow, Founder and CEO of Baskow Talent, highlight what people can learn and how at live events from the life experiences of accomplished people in all walks of business and life. The hosts ask guests about what they have learned from their journeys both good and bad and how they bring these insights to life for organizations at live or hybrid events.
Live show attendees can ask questions. Otherwise, the shows become available in the following weeks on the Enterprise Engagement Alliance Purpose Leadership and Stakeholder Management YouTube channel along with a summary article in EEA ESM or RRN media.
Upcoming Episodes
Dec. 11, 1 pm ET: Josh Linkner, tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, best-selling book author, and innovation specialist. Click here to register.
Past Episodes
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Reimagining Business Meetings and Incentive Travel in the Post-Covid Era
Four meetings and incentive travel executives and a research expert on all aspects of engagement joined an Enterprise Engagement Alliance RRN at RewardsRecognitionNetwork.com live and streamed YouTube Show on “Reimagining Business Meetings and Incentive Travel in the Post-Covid Era.” This show and the one following it were the genesis of this new series. Panelists are Jacque Busby, Founder, CEO of Luxe Incentives, a 32-year-old meetings and incentive travel firm; Kate Cardoso, Founder, Travel With Purpose Pact; Charlotte Frederick, Vice President, EGR International; Dr. Rick Garlick, Founder, Rick Garlick & Associates, with decades of research experience in engagement; and Melissa Van Dyke, Senior Vice President, Integrated Marketing and Innovation, The Creative Group, founded in 1970. Click here for the summary article.
Reimagining Business Meetings and Incentive Travel Part 2: Getting Specific
Do people really want to travel to sit in auditoriums hearing the same keynotes and panel discussions that they can access online whenever they wish at home or in the office? This Enterprise Engagement Alliance YouTube webinar with event management experts focuses on new ways to format events in a way that people could never experience online. Panelists are Andrea Doyle, Executive Editor, Skift Meetings; Jaki Baskow, Founder, Baskow Talent, Las Vegas; Ira Ozer, Founder, Innovation Meetings, Melissa Van Dyke, Senior Vice President, Integrated Marketing and Innovation, Creative Group Inc. Click here for the summary article.
Jesse Ferrell on Communications, the Platinum Rule, Self-Assessment, and MoreThis Enterprise Engagement Alliance series on meaningful meetings kicks off with Jesse Ferrell, Founder of JessTalk, a public speaking and advisory firm focused on helping organizations reach higher levels of performance through better communication across the enterprise. Click here for the summary article.
Marvelless Mark Kamp--Breaking Down Barriers to Alignment Through Music
The speaker Marvelless Mark Kamp doesn’t need to change his format to ensure that what he does can’t be done on a video show. His “rock star” theme and use of drumsticks at events can only be accomplished live, he says. Click here for the summary article.
Maria Romano-- The ROI of Love and Respect in the Workplace
Maria Romano, an entrepreneur, minister, officiator at weddings and a counselor to women experiencing loss, shares the power of love in the workplace. The principles she says, are demonstrated by the practices of none other than W. Edwards Deming in total quality management. Even the best systems fail, she underlines, unless practiced with love and respect. Click here for the summary article.
Murray SawChuck: Magician and Comedian on the Power of Deception, Listening, Appreciation, and More
Murray Sawchuck has dubbed himself "The Dennis the Menace of Magic.” He has been a headliner at Las Vegas for more than 22 years. He burst on to the scene after becoming a semi-finalist on NBC TV’s “America’s Got Talent,” on which he was seen by over 22 million people nationwide. He apparently astonished judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandell when he produced a Ferrari out of thin air, transformed a girl in a locked cage into a 450-pound tiger and when he made steam train locomotive disappear, all before a live audience. Click here for the summary article.
Nick Santonastasso: The Power of Resilience and Failure
Corporate speaker and advisor Nick Santonastasso shares what he has learned from overcoming a severe disability to achieve his goals in life. You think you have challenges. Santonastasso has no legs and only one arm with a single finger due to a rare birth condition, and yet he has led a highly successful and enriching life. Knowing his condition before birth, and understanding the risks, his parents proceeded with his birth and did everything to help him create a fulfilling life despite the many challenges he recounts. Click here for the summary article.
Ryan Estis: A Human-Centered Approach to Sales, Leadership, and Life
A corporate advisor, author, keynote speaker, and Founding Partner of ImpactEleven, Ryan Estis shares his insights on human-centered leadership, the role of meeting and motivational events, and advice he’d pass on to people starting out in their careers. He believes human-centered leadership provides a sustainable competitive edge. Leadership goes beyond presenting a vision—it requires systematic follow-through, he emphasizes.
Darlene Lyons, T3 Events Group on ROI, New Formats
A veteran meeting planner, Darlene Lyons says the climate is right for organizations to place much more emphasis on the return on investment of their meetings and events and to radically change event formats so that people are spending up to 80% of the time collaborating or sharing experiences, and only 20% in presentations and traditional panel discussions. Click here for the summary article.
Ryan Pyle, Adventure TV Producer: Takeaways From the Edge
Ryan Pyle was born and raised in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, according to his Wikipedia page. He played basketball, beginning at the age of six all the way through college at the University of Toronto. While there, he studied modern Chinese history and politics. He had a comfortable life near home. Suddenly, when it was clear he would not turn pro, he decided to make a big change—a dramatic move from his comfortable life in Toronto to China. Click here to view, listen to, or read a summary of the show.
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Connor Fields, Olympics Gold Medalist, From Near Death to Glory
Through three Olympics games, Connor Fields has a unique claim to fame. He is the only Olympic athlete who has both won Gold at the Olympics, and nearly died while in competition. He went from the highest of highs, to the lowest of lows, and says he gained unique experience on performance, as well as a perspective on life through this journey that he shares when speaking at events.
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John O'Hurley on Imagination, Contemplation, Appreciation and Common Sense Probably best known for his role as J. Peterman on the Seinfeld show, John O’Hurley, the actor, game show host, ballroom dancer, father and more, will focus on what he has learned from his long journey in entertainment and business and what he believes can add value to organizational meetings and how. It all starts with imagination, contemplation, appreciation, and common sense if you wish to have an extraordinary life and business, he says.
Ferreira, Environmental Innovator: What to Learn From Early Success: Video and feature article coming soon.
It’s not every day that a teenager from a remote part of Ireland bursts on to the international scene as an environmental innovator. Fionn Ferreira’s passion: To clean up the environment by removing microplastics from water and contribute to the achievement of a more circular economy. Today, at only 23 years old, Ferreira is a scientist, inventor, and sustainability advocate focused on removing microplastics from water. Click here for the summary article.
Chris Noth, TV, film, and Broadway Actor on the Challenges of Success
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This show features Chris Noth, an actor best known for his roles in Sex and the City and Law and Order and a long list of award-winning performances, who also owns businesses and is raising a family. He shares some of what he has learned from his journey from his upbringing in suburban Connecticut to achieving an award-winning career as a film, television, and stage actor, and the insights he shares to help organizations make their events more meaningful.
Enterprise Engagement Alliance Services
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1. Information and marketing opportunities on stakeholder management and total rewards:
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2. Learning: Purpose Leadership and Stakeholder
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4. Advisory services and research: Strategic guidance, learning and certification on stakeholder management, measurement, metrics, and corporate sustainability reporting.
5. Permission-based targeted business development to identify and build relationships with the people most likely to buy.
6. Public speaking and meeting facilitation on stakeholder management. The world’s leading speakers on all aspects of stakeholder management across the enterprise.
