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How to Score Those Sweet Paid Speaking Gigs Like a Boss

Are you tired of talking to your cat about your passion for public speaking? Do you dream of standing in front of a crowd, captivating them with your words, and getting paid big bucks for it? Well, my friend, you're in luck. In this article, I'm going to show you how...

How to Detect a Selfish Leader

It may be the person you see in the mirror—executives often miss the blind spots that let them confuse dominance with collaboration. “I’m a great collaborator—everybody says so.” It’s not hard to detect the flaw in a statement like that. A leader who takes pride in...

Five Tools for Difficult Conversations

Dr. Poornima Luthra is the author of Can I Say That? and The Art of Active Allyship. The world we live in today, characterized by complexity, uncertainty, and change, is also one where rising polarization has made it “really difficult to have conversations at work, at...

What Makes Orlando a Meetings Destination That Keeps Winning

A rendering of the Orange County Convention Center’s Grand Concourse Expansion at the North-South Building. For 11 years and counting, Orlando has been named the No. 1 meetings destination in the U.S. by Cvent — and 2026 makes the case for why. A $560-million...

Less Traveled Roads in the Digital Landscape

Editorial Note: Originally published in the August 2024 issue of Trade Show Executive magazine. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.” I find these lines from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”...

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A Destination on the Rise

A Destination on the Rise

There’s a lot happening in Sioux Falls, and locals know it. Now, people around the country are starting to take notice of this booming city on the prairie.   Getting to Sioux Falls  South Dakota’s largest city sits in the southeast corner of the state, near the...

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