Executive Presence – The Standout Edge
There are people who walk into a meeting, get up to give a presentation, or answer a difficult question and immediately seem to have a little more weight in the room. It is not always because they have the biggest title or the most experience. Sometimes they are not...
The Community Builder’s Code
I've spent most of my career talking about people. Not networking as a numbers game. Not working a room or collecting business cards you'll never look at again. People. Because everything I've learned in twenty years of speaking and writing about relationships comes...
10 Leadership Keynote Speakers in Austin to Know
This list of speakers in Austin, Texas is republished from Jonno White's Clarity Group Blog from August 2026. I am honored to show up on this list alongside some people I know (and a few I don't know). These are some good humans, beyond just being good speakers. ...
The 1-2-7 Strategy
I have been thinking again about an idea I have talked about for years. I call it the 1-2-7 Strategy. The concept is simple. Pick one national trade or professional association that matters to your career. Choose two local business or community organizations where you...
Welcome to Austin: A Local’s Guide for NSA Influence 2026
NSA Influence Austin The National Speakers Association is bringing Influence 2026 to Austin, and as someone who has called this city home since 1991, I am excited to welcome hundreds of my speaker friends to my hometown. Influence officially runs July 25–27 at the...
Texas Embassy Podcast: Austin Texas Leadership, Technology, and the Power of Showing Up
I recently joined Marc Cervantes, founder and CEO of Q-Branch, for a conversation on The Texas Embassy Podcast. We covered a lot of ground, including leadership, networking, the growth of Austin’s technology community, and why collaboration across Texas matters more...
Stop Being an Efficient Stranger
If you lost your job tomorrow, how many of the 5,000 people you are connected to on LinkedIn would pick up the phone, call you, check in, and offer to help? Be honest. For most people, the answer is not very many. That is not because people are bad. It is because we...
Business Development for Lawyers – Newsletter
Why I Built the "Lawyer Level Up" Newsletter Business development for lawyers is not a talent you are born with. It is a skill you build, and most attorneys never build it because nobody ever made them practice. I spent five years running marketing and business...
Twenty Years Speaking About Human Connection and Networking
Twenty Years In: What I Got Right About Human Inteaction (H.I.) and What I Didn't See Coming In March of 2005 I started a blog to go along with my first book, Some Assembly Required: How to Make, Grow and Keep Your Business Relationships. Back then, if you told a room...
How to Find the Right Keynote Speaker for Your Event
The keynote is the backbone of your event. Get it right and you unify a room, set the tone, and give people something to carry home. Get it wrong and you spend the rest of the day fighting a flat energy you can't recover from. What a Keynote Speaker Actually Does A...