Drum Café: Hands-On Team Building Like You’ve Not Seen!

Despite what their name suggests, Drum Café West Coast is not a physical venue—it’s an absolutely unforgettable rhythmic experience! Drum Café provides an exhilarating and immersive franchise team-building experience that uses drumming as a medium to promote teamwork and communication, for any group size! Talk about bam!! Check this out: Can you envision it? Opening […]

Stellar Service! You don’t have to take our word for it!!

Here at Franchise Speakers, we appreciate hearing frequently that we’re doing great things for our clients. “Stellar Service” is our mission and carefully anticipating our client’s needs is the foundation of how we have built our business.  Did you know we run a one-hundred-point checklist on every speaker engagement? But don’t take our word for […]

Choosing the Right Franchise Speaker

There are some absolutely fantastic franchise speakers out there but how do you choose the right one? Of course some fit your franchise culture better than others—and depending on the year, likely only a couple will dovetail perfectly with your theme, learning objectives, event budget parameters and where you are as a franchise system that […]

IGNITE YOUR SALES with Meridith Elliott Powell!

3 Proven Sales Techniques to Start 2021 Strong Wednesday, December 9th at 2 pm EST or Thursday December 10th at 1. P.M. EST  Join us with Franchise Speakers partner, Meridith Elliott Powell, in this virtual webinar guaranteed to strengthen your sales strategy, to build your sales pipeline and land more deals. In this program she will […]

Chris McChesney & The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Everyone who knows me, knows that I’m a nut about The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) practice.  I speak from personal experience when I say 4DX is a game changing read for those interested in successfully hitting big vision goals, both personal and professional, while also effectively managing the non-negotiable […]

Zoom Tips and Tricks

As a 100% remote company, we have always relied heavily on Zoom to communicate and we understand that this new way of doing business can be challenging! As we continue to navigate this new world, I thought it may be helpful to share some of our favorite Zoom hacks. 1) Quick Invite When you’re in […]

Turning 60 & A Grateful Heart

This week, I celebrated my 60th birthday! I’m lucky, my birthday is always near the U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday.  The world feels kinder and more generous of spirit this time of year. Like many, I use my birthday season to reflect and plan, to take stock of where I have been and where I want to […]

A Thanksgiving 2020 Poem

Chris Heeter is a Leadership Speaker, Wildnerness Guide, and Poet who freely admits that much of what she’s learned about humanity comes from dogs and rivers—from her team of 16 sled dogs, who she helped breed, raise, and train, to her decades of guiding whitewater canoe trips. Combined, they create the perfect back-drop for memorable, […]

How to Create a Stable Franchise Relationship from Greg Nathan

We just LOVE how Greg Nathan is able to reframe his own experiences to help us better improve the way we think about the way we conduct ourselves in business and in our relationships. Take for example, his relationship to one Professor Oscar Mink…Professor Mink and the 3-Legged Stool “Early in my professional career, I […]

Planning Template for Virtual and Live Events

Virtual meetings and events are the norm now and for the foreseeable future for the franchise industry. As franchise meeting and event planners are busy adapting to the many new ways to connect virtually and digitally with their franchisees and are adopting new technology and tools to engage franchise teams, we are getting a flood […]