What Vaccines and Perseverance Say About Us

What Vaccines and Perseverance Say About Us

  Merriam-Webster released their word of the year for 2021 and I'm not sure how to feel about it.  If you haven't heard, the word is 'vaccine', a search that has increased by more than 600% over the past 12-months. The prominence of the word is difficult to think about because we have been through so much - some of us much more than others. So, I began to wonder...is ‘Vaccine’ as the word of [...]
The True Cost of Mental Health for Organizations

The True Cost of Mental Health for Organizations

Unprecedented market failures and widespread loss of revenue highlight some of the devastating effects of the pandemic. Mental health keynote speakers have been busy lately as stress levels in the workplace continue to rise. Managers realize that the coronavirus has hurt more than their bottom line. It’s also affected human resources across the board.  Adam Markel is a mental health speaker on a mission to extinguish the stigma of mental health and help businesses rebuild [...]
Building a Change Proof Company Culture

Building a Change Proof Company Culture

If you are nervous about the future, you are not alone. We are in the midst of a massive cultural shift in the way people prefer to work. It has affected us and the ones we touch in vastly different ways. Yet, with change comes opportunity.  Adam Markel, resilience keynote speaker, shares hard-hitting, creative solutions for high-performance organizations and tips for changing company culture. Why Is It Scary to Embrace Change?  Neuroscience research from the [...]
How To Show Up And Compete To Be The Best

How To Show Up And Compete To Be The Best

(Spoiler Alert: It's about being better than you were yesterday. Cheesy? Yes. And is this really how true progress happens? Also Yes.) On some level, aren’t we all trying to figure out how to live our best life? Aren’t we all semi-obsessed with being the best? Having the most? Achieving it all? (Whatever “it” is for each of us?) It seems to me, if the questions above resonate with you, there comes a specific pivot [...]
Resilience: The “IT” Factor of People Who’ve Changed the World

Resilience: The “IT” Factor of People Who’ve Changed the World

You know those people who really energize you when you spend time around them? The ones who are easy to be around and even easier to talk to. The ones who make you feel comfortable being exactly who you are but who also make you want to be even better. I have an idea of what exactly their “it” factor is and you have it too. In life, the more I feel dialed in, the [...]