This Speaker Lives & Breathes Franchising
To say Evan Hackel lives and breathes franchising may be an understatement. Evan has helped to launch and found numerous franchise businesses and worked with and for many more. Plus, he is a CFE, a member of the IFA’s franchise relationship committee, co-chairman of the IFA Knowledge Share committee, and a board member of the New England […]
When Your Keynote Speaker Fits Your Franchise Culture Like a Glove
My title is Chief Match Maker. 😊So for me, it’s more than just suggesting any skilled professional speaker to keynote at our Client’s franchise convention. In addition to: 1) franchise event learning objectives matching speaker content, 2) a speaker being franchise savvy, 3) passing the no-Diva test, and 4) fitting the Client’s investment level, matching […]
Kelly McDonald: How to Work With and Lead People Not Like You
I had the pleasure of dining with one of our Colorado-based speakers, Kelly McDonald, last week and I became more excited about her relevant, cutting-edge content which addresses what so many franchise systems are immersed in—working with, leading and marketing to people “not like you”. Whether a diversity among franchise owners, within franchisee staff or your […]
Dan Thurmon: Delivering WOW & Ramping up Performance!
Beyond the energy and WOW of Dan’s presentation, he delivers skills and ideas which will move your franchisees to improve their performance—performance under stress, during change and when it matters most. Dan says the key to being able to “perform,” or deliver excellence when it matters the most, is to prepare properly and understand the […]
Kelly McDonald: People NOT Like You
Named #1 on the list of “26 Hot Speakers” by Successful Meetings Magazine, Kelly McDonald has a NEW, best-selling book titled, “How to Work With & Lead People Not Like You”. We’re asked frequently about speakers who can help franchise teams address the topic of millennials—how to engage, retain and create highly productive teams which […]
Scott Greenberg: Collective Mindset = Franchise Culture
SO many of our franchise friends know and love Scott Greenberg, and for good, no GREAT reason (we do too)! Scott has real-life, real-time experience running 2 award-winning franchise units of his own. With this history, Scott is lock step with franchisee audiences from the moment he takes stage. Scott’s passion is elevating franchisee performance—and […]
Seth Mattison: Where Does Your Leader Sit?
“In the new world of work, the leader no longer sits on the top of the chart. The leader sits in the middle of the network—and what a powerful place to be. The leader can connect with everyone—and more importantly, everyone can connect with them.” Looking for a fresh keynoter that rocks your next franchisee convention? […]
Dan Thurmon: Off Balance On Purpose
So your franchise system is dealing with change, right? Does uncertainty cause your franchise team to grab tight to stay safe? To protect what they have, know or do? OR does change look like opportunity? If you do nothing else with this newsletter, there are a couple quick segments of Dan Thurmon’s video which I highly […]
John Francis: For the Love of Franchising
In keeping with the “love” theme this week 🙂 , we couldn’t come up with a better example of a speaker who loves franchising than John Francis. And franchising loves him! When talking to our clients, I cannot tell you how often we hear, “he’s worked with us, we love John, and our franchisees love […]
Why a Gen Y’s Average Time On Job Is 3 Years and What To Do About It
Cheryl Cran (a new addition to our SPEAK! roster and an expert on the future of work), recently wrote down a few thoughts and tips regarding retaining Millenials. I found it useful and thought you might as well, so I’m passing it along. Feel free to forward it to your franchisees if you find it […]
