Tips on Setting Your Franchise Convention Speakers Up for Success – Part 1

In this three part video series, Troy Hazard and I chat about some simple things franchisors can do to set their professional speakers up for success. We split some great ideas up into three key areas covering: The pre-program preparation that best enables your speaker to fully customize their session and meet your desired learning […]
Making Franchise Awards Events Meaningful & Memorable
Everyone wants to make your awards event meaningful and memorable for all of your franchisees, not just your award winners, but how do you do it? In our work with hundreds of franchise organizations and the most in-demand franchise speakers, we have a chance to hear some really great ideas for how creative franchisors are […]
Alright Mr. Hazard, I'm Ready for My Close-Up!

I certainly hope I'm not as creepy as Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard, but I WAS equally excited to get in front the camera with Troy Hazard for some major franchise talk! One of my favorite topics that Troy talks about as a franchise speaker is “Truth or Fear”. He explains one of his many […]
Simple 4-Step Process to Creating Your Vision
In an earlier post, I mentioned the importance of writing a personal vision and referred to Troy Hazard’s process for creating a vision that encompasses our full life, not just our business life. Troy is our most in-demand franchise speaker and he makes this process simple by asking us to evaluate four key areas: Personal […]
Review Your Vision!

I love this time of year. I love the time to think and plan and reassess accomplishments, opportunities, and challenges. Though we hammered out our 2012 strategic plan for SPEAK! in late October, really digging into the vision for my personal life, my relationships and our business has been top of mind these last few […]
Hot Pizza Speaker Who Delivers Without the Cheese
p> Hello! We’re looking forward to a fabulous event next week at Pizza Expo. Troy Hazard will be delivering two dynamic, content-rich, business strategy sessions, and we hope you will join us. Future Proofing Your Business Tuesday, March 1st, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30, Room N259/N261 Leadership Lessons From the Naked Entrepreneur: How to guide your […]
Well, that’s not my fault…!
Troy Hazard, Franchise Industry Expert and Certified Speaking Professional delivers street smart business tools to help franchisees and franchisors future-proof their businesses. Troy will be a featured keynote presenter at the IFX Strategic Franchise Conference December 9, 10, & 11, 2010 in San Diego. For more information and a detailed agenda check out www.ifxconference.com/kmitchell or […]
Franchise Business Review Webinar Series

Franchise Business Review Webinar Series helps Build Profits Through Relationships with Franchisees and Customers Many of you know Eric Stites and his talented team of research professionals at Franchise Business Review. Next week, Eric launches 3 weeks of Power Sessions via his annual Webinar Series. Whether you are a franchisor or a franchisee, this series […]
Troy Hazard Delivers to Denver Franchise Leaders
At SPEAK! we love finding the perfect match for our clients and recently we had the pleasure of helping the Denver FBN (Franchise Business Network) find the right after dinner keynote speaker for their group. When given the meeting objectives, it became clear that Troy Hazard, CSP and Franchise Business Expert was the right fit. […]