Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
“The Surprise and Delight speaker is the one who provides a bright spark of energy, entertainment, and insight that no one expected,”
Michael Port • The Referable Speaker: Your Guide to Building a Sustainable Speaking Career—No Fame Required
Before you’re famous, meeting planners buy your speech, your ideas, and then you—in that order. When you become famous, the inverse is true: event organizers buy you, your ideas, and then your speech.
Michael Port • The Referable Speaker: Your Guide to Building a Sustainable Speaking Career—No Fame Required
This is a revolutionary idea for our times: build your business based on your values. There’s nothing small about that. This book is a treasure’ Mitch Joel, founder, Six Pixels Group, and author of Six Pixels of Separation and Ctrl Alt Delete
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business

Measure the quality of your speech not by the post-event surveys or the number of people who tell you it was great, but by the number of stageside leads you garner. Leverage the power of compounding gigs to increase your fee and measure your demand in the marketplace.
Michael Port • The Referable Speaker: Your Guide to Building a Sustainable Speaking Career—No Fame Required
the most valued thing about our film producer is not that he makes films. The greatest value comes from his ability to facilitate the analysis of situations to get absolute clarity, so that messages can be brilliantly communicated.
Helen Blake • Creating and Delivering Your Value Proposition: Managing Customer Experience for Profit
successful leveraging of top professionals is at the heart of the success of the professional firm.
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
leverage your referable speech to reliably generate stageside leads.