Thrive Within Your Franchise and Struggle Less with Andy Core

Struggle less? I’m in! I mean, who doesn’t want to struggle less and thrive more?! Andy Core’s message of how to achieve health and wellness in your personal life AND your work life really hits home with me. Andy fully understands the myriad of stresses that come with growing a franchise organization or an individual franchise business as a […]

Ensuring your Franchise Has True Impact

SGT. Ken may look tough. And he certainly means business. But he’s as warm and as personable as they come. Not only is he an award-winning international speaker, six-time US Army Soldier of the Year, Master Fitness Trainer, Master Resilience Trainer, Counterintelligence Agent and decorated combat veteran, he turned his attention to speaking and graduated from […]

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 […]

Scott Greenberg: Recruiting, Engaging & Retaining Employees with Intrinsic Motivation

I sat down recently with extraordinary franchise keynote speaker, Scott Greenberg, to talk about all things franchise: the top performing franchisee mindset, franchise culture, millennials, game-changing customer service, franchisor/franchisee relationships and more. As a past elite performing multi-unit franchisee himself, Scott has a unique perspective— and franchisees connect to it immediately. Here, Scott talks about the […]

Shhh, don’t tell…but the holidays have me stressed.

Those of you that know me well, know that I view the holidays differently than the often overwhelming, version of the holidays that envelopes us. Peace and presence is more the goal than hustle and bustle. Does that sound nice? (Well…for some reason, this year I’m feeling the stress a bit more than usual, despite […]

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 […]

Why Franchising? You Don’t Need to Invent the Wheel to Make Money Selling It

Scott Greenberg opened his first Edible Arrangement franchise ten years ago in California (where competition is fierce) with great success, opened another 2 years ago, and also happens to be a 22-year motivational speaker. It’s incredibly valuable to have Scott on the SPEAK! roster because of his unique position of being a veteran speaker/trainer and […]