Economic Speakers Provide Leadership and Motivation

The problem was finding a speaker within the budget who still carried sufficient clout to impress the audience with credentials. There were a couple of ways to go. Top CEO's had the clout and experience, but were mostly out of the price range for an aggressive but small work force. Innovation speakers with only academic credentials might lose the audience since many of the employees had worked for larger companies and had interacted daily with top people experienced in the realities of everyday business.

The new company owners had assigned me the thankless task of locating the first keynote speaker to reassure and motivate a skittish workforce. The previous CEO, who had once been a top salesperson, had rescued the company by strength of will when her business partner had absconded with company resources. Accountability and quality had become the main thrust of the company to reassure and stabilize clients and associates. For 15 years the strategy had worked very well. High quality and close personal relationships characterized corporate philosophy, but the company had succumbed to economic hardships and was sold to a larger conglomerate to strengthen its economic position in the marketplace.

The new owners essentially were budget cutters committed to streamlining operations and reducing costs by cutting corners. Many of these legitimate business practices were diametrically opposed to the previous philosophy under which we had operated. Now I was charged with smoothing the transition by providing economic speakers to justify the new policies and motivate employees in an entirely new way. I needed a motivational speaker just to get started on this thankless project. I could easily see myself being the first casualty; the new owners would hate the speaker and my fellow employees would consider me a traitor.

Fortunately, I discovered an online agency offering many qualified economic speakers to motivate employees in this type of situation. The agency provided comprehensive biographies of speakers and videos to demonstrate their speaking styles and motivational techniques. They helped me narrow the field by budget and specific industry criteria. As I reviewed the material, I realized that many companies were essentially facing the same kinds of changes due to technological advances. To remain competitive, companies had to adapt or risk insolvency. Speaker after speaker emphasized that business history had repeatedly proven that innovation was the key to success during tough economic times.

In an age of enhanced communication, change occurs more rapidly and businesses must learn to adapt; the most successful actually lead the way by introducing ground-breaking approaches. The correct strategy 15 years ago was no longer entirely applicable a paradigm shift had occurred in global marketing and communications. I was able to locate economic speakers with both academic and real world experience. One of these experts seemed to understand the necessity of passion, but used it to embrace change with innovative techniques to meet the challenges of modern business. I saved company resources by choosing this speaker since he was already scheduled to speak in the area, reducing travel expenses. The affair went over without a hitch and provided a great motivational boost for everyone.