Erik Wahl & The Art of Vision

July 21, 2008

I don’t tend to deviate from the topic of eLearning on this blog, but I’ll make an exception today. I just returned from an internal training event, which featured the requisite (and often dreaded, at least for me) keynote speaker. Now, I’ve seen a lot of keynote speakers in my day, most of them ranging anywhere on the quality scale from bad to horrible. There have been a few shining stars. Erik Wahl was one of them.

Of course, every presenter hits every viewer differently. What is inspirational to me may be cheesy and contrived to you. And vice versa. Heck, your opinion of a keynote speaker may be based almost entirely on your particular mood that morning. The amount of sleep you got the night before. The unbearable temperature and humidity in the bleak “undesirable but affordable” outpost of a city you are staying in for your conference. So one’s evaluation of a keynote speaker is highly subjective.

That said, if you have any say in the choosing of keynote speakers for your organization’s training events, I highly recommend you take a look at Erik Wahl.

I was inspired. And I was entertained. Keynote speaker mission accomplished!

YMMV. But you could do far, far worse.

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