Speaking

The Bit

In the past I’ve made a considerable portion of my income from consulting, speaking, training, courseware development and writing. These days, most of my time is taken up by b5media, though. However, I do still occasionally do speaking, consulting and training. Typically this revolves around 3 key areas: blogging, time management and recruiting.

Most of this is based on written and published works (a book, dozens of articles, courseware I’ve developed and debates I’ve participated in … not to mention the thousands of posts on this blog), as well as exposure from previous speaking engagements.

However, I get asked often enough what I speak on, where I do it, whether or not I do consulting and the like that I felt it would be useful to put some information out there - though ultimately I’m happy to talk about any opportunity.

Speaking

Broadly speaking, I’m available to do speaking on the topics of blogging and time management given enough notice. I’m happy to speak at conferences, to do keynotes, to participate in panels, to moderate panels, to do workshops - ultimately anything that is useful and informative for an audience.

In the past 4 years I’ve spoke at more than 20 events, including mesh, the New Communications Forum, industry events to the airline industry, automotive industry, PR and marketing events, technology events, social media events and journalism events (typically on how blogging and journalism collide and how to make the most of that intersection).

Normally I speak in North America, though in June of this year I’ll be speaking in Romania to PR and Marketing professionals there - and I do hope to do more international speaking and training.

Consulting

I often get asked if I do consulting. The short answer is “no”. The long one is that I’m happy to take an hour or two to do virtual meetings, or to do a 1-3 day on-site, but I simply don’t have the time or mindspace to dedicate to extended projects. Over the past 3 years I’ve consulted with Microsoft, Ebay, CASMA, McGraw-Hill, IBM, Intel and dozens of other organizations in industries as diverse as technology, media, energy, airlines, consumer services, PR and marketing.

I really do love doing consulting work, as it’s really about solving problems, something that’s ultimately one of my biggest passions. Creative solutions to difficult problems.

Interested?

If you are interested, you can contact me and we can chat about either speaking or consulting work.

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