You've gotta love folks from the Heartland.
My favorite at the moment is Tim Hibbard for speaking his mind about a recently user group meeting in KC. While I'm not sure I feel the same way about the speaker in question -- I wasn't there of course -- but I have seen him do his thing at other community events. He did the same thing there. I guess that's his style. Hey, I'm all for whatever works for you, and I'm sure my style would drive lots people nuts. At the same time, I've got to wonder if us heartlanders really do some stylistic preferences in presentations that clash with those styles from speakers from the East Coast. I've experienced it alot over the years, but I didn't really think much about it until Tim brought it up. I really enjoyed my visit with the KC folks and they seems enjoy having me come in. Was that because I was one of them, or because of the content or because of the my style? That's something I guess I need to dig into if I'm going to keep growing as a regional speaker.
And just to be clear: there are some speakers from the East Coast that I really feel an affinity with: Dan Sullivan, Robert Hurlbut and Michael Earls to name a few of them. Now if I can just figure out what they are doing that makes that happen, I've got something to work from.