My ten-year-old grandson, Liam, has a creative and inventive mind. When he is at Camp YaYa (i.e., over at our house), he is constantly looking for materials he can experiment with. Sometimes he builds with no specific project in mind, but he’ll continue to create until he ends up with something, like a cardboard fort. […]
Category Archives: Education
Our Future is in Good Hands
As a frequent speaker to financial services audiences, I talk often about the future customers of financial institutions, including Gen Z, the youngest generation, who are mostly still in some form of school as I write this. So when I have a chance to interact with an actual Gen Z member, I generally ask a […]
Counting the Apples in a Single Seed …
Every July, I teach at the University of Colorado’s Graduate School of Banking for two weeks. This is an amazing experience for these bankers since they are being groomed by their institutions to become future leaders. Many of the students I teach will become C-Suite members in the years to come, so I take my […]
Eliminating Out-of-the-Box Thinking
You have most probably heard of the phrase, “thinking out of the box.” This comes from a classic exercise where a diagram is presented in this manner: If you have never done this exercise, see if you can following the rules and complete the challenge before reading on. How did you do? In order to […]
Insights into Influencers
I had a chance to meet the fascinating Jon Levy at the Destination Experience. He said, “I’m a behavior scientist. When I’m not consulting, doing research out of C Lab or speaking, I spend my life convincing strangers to cook me dinner and I travel around the world studying the science of adventure.” Sounds like […]
Dr. Kingsley Chin and Knowing Your Why
Upon arrival in Jamaica, I was alerted that one of the Destination Experience advisory board members would come to the airport and pick us up for the long ride from Montego Bay to Kingston. This saved us from an even longer bus ride. We met up with Ron McKay and during that 3-hour drive, I got […]
Asking for Donations? Ask High and Accept What You Get!
I was recently exhibiting at the National Association of College Activities (NACA), pitching my Grounded keynote to student activities committees from colleges and universities from the Southeastern U.S. One of the activities that occurred during the conference was a fundraiser for a foundation that supplies scholarships for future NACA events. There were multiple appeals to […]
Positively Impacting a Life
I recently exhibited at the South Regional Conference of the National Association of College Activities. This conference allows vendors who have a lecture, act, or other form of entertainment suitable for a college campus to all come together in one place. Students, who represent the activities committees from colleges large and small, public and private, […]