Innovation Insights
by Stephen Shapiro

Voices of Experience

Differentiation, Expertise and Opposites

Voices of ExperienceI was recently interviewed for the National Speakers Association’s “Voices of Experience” CD.

Each month, experts are interviewed about topics relevant to the speaking industry.

For the September 2014 issue, I was asked to talk about innovation and professional speaking.

In this 6 minute minute interview, I discuss why:

  • we need to differentiate ourselves as speakers – and how to use this to focus our investments
  • expertise is the enemy of innovation – and how we can overcome the resulting blindspots
  • opposites actually detract – and what this means for innovation

 

You have three options for listening to this interview:

 

A transcription of this interview will be posted next week.

If you want to learn more about the National Speakers Association, visit their website.