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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
