Category: Public Speaking

  • No Experience is Wasted…

    …if you can think analogically: a mini-memoir. Last week, a young colleague and I visited La Profesora’s Digital Skills class at Portland State University. We were there to talk about career readiness and what my friend Rishad Tobaccowala, in his terrific book Restoring the Soul of Business, calls “the turd on the table.”** In this case, the…

  • What should I ask Google’s Susan Wojcicki onstage at ad:tech SF?

    I’m delighted to be interviewing Google’s SVP of Advertising Susan Wojcicki next week at ad:tech San Francisco 2013. She’ll make a brief presentation and then the two of us will sit down for a fireside chat. So what should I ask her?  What burning questions do you have for Google when it comes to their…

  • Fascinating TED talk by David Brooks

    This is well worth all 18 minutes.  

  • The Shakespeare Brand: Yesterday’s iMedia Talk now UP on YouTube

    UPDATE: More of the talk now embedded below. Yesterday I had the great pleasure of speaking at the iMedia Brand Summit– an event that I’ve been intimately associated with for years but at which I’ve rarely presented while wearing my research hat.  This talk is the seed of my next book length project, and I…