I’m comfortable with a stage. Always have been. When I gave a speech, a Zen-like peace comes over me. It’s not that I’ve never flopped, or that I never get nervous before an event begins, but when I’m out there, things start moving too fast for me to process it all analytically. The sensory feedback [...]
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Here’s the clip from the Big 10 event where I presented last week. If you’re looking for networking opportunities, the crowd there was great. Very open; I’d recommend taking advantage. BTW, I haven’t seen the video yet. Hope it’s good: Enjoy this blog? Listen to my new podcast, Beyond Social.It’ll help you use social [...]
Last Thursday night, I had the distinct pleasure of speaking to a sellout crowd of 270 Big 10 graduates. By all accounts, the night was a hit. I was glad to be able to do my share. Inevitably at an event like this, a few people will ask me what it’s like to be the [...]
“Screw Forget your career path, live your story!” is a message that’s catching on… I’ll be speaking at the Big 10 networking event on 1/20 in Chicago. Kellogg’s alumni association is hosting me out in Boston on 2/10. And on 3/3, I’ll open the Young Professionals Summit in Omaha. (Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, is [...]
This is a presentation I found on Slideshare: MBTI Introduction That’s one heck of an “introduction,” no? What did you learn… that you’ll retain? Did you ask yourself what happens if you’re both an “accute” observer and also “future oriented”? Did it cross your mind that the fact the test is based on Jung’s work [...]
Watching a conference event from the back of a 300-person room last week, I noticed a number of people on their laptops during a panel. Some of the laptop-ers were on Tweetdeck, some were in Outlook/Mail, and a handful were clearly working on client projects—I saw a “coupla two, tree” PowerPoint decks being built. All [...]
It has taken me 18 months to get comfortable with the fact that I wrote a successful book. Yes, How to Self-Destruct is funny. Yes, it really does help people stop being so damn afraid of their own shadows. Yes, reading it has translated into real performance improvement. These things were evident immediately, but it [...]
I'm Jason. I make people shine. My mission is to help 1 million people tell their stories better. 