The Keynote on Speaking Engagement

AI-Voice generated reading of Courtney Stombock's article, "Could Volunteerism be the Remedy to Shrinking Donor Pipelines." This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.speakingengagement.org/subscribe

This week’s Keynote is a personal one for me. My guest is Meghan Buzby from the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) , and our conversation centers on advocacy, volunteer engagement, and the challenge of building community around a devastating disease that many people still know very little about. My mom passed away from FTD in 2012 after a long battle with the disease, and listening...

Published by Speaking Engagement Authored by Ryan Catherwood About the content this week I’ve been mulling over the idea of an “all-comer” university. During the Keynote this week, Michael Latsko described Arizona State’s efforts to make it possible for anyone who wants to attend, at any phase of life, to have access. The doors are open. I very much appreciate the idea of an institution putting ac...

Published by Speaking Engagement Authored by Dave Hail Michael Latsko came to Arizona State University in January 2023, about a month after ASU had wrapped its first-ever faculty and staff engagement survey. Sixty percent of employees responded. Affinity for the institutional charter landed in the upper 90s, not just agreement with what it said, but belief that the university actually lived it out...

In this episode of Keynote, Ryan is joined by Michael Latsko, Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Arizona State University, for a conversation that challenges a core assumption in advancement: that engagement starts with alumni. Michael offers a different perspective — one rooted in workforce strategy, culture, and institutional design. We explore how employee experience shapes lon...

The Closing Keynote remarks is a reading from a weekly newsletter that wraps-up the week on Fridays. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.speakingengagement.org/subscribe

In this Breakout episode, Ryan is joined by Annie Quade to unpack a provocative question from the Harvard Business Review article “ Has AI Ended Thought Leadership ?” — and what it means for professionals trying to build credibility in an increasingly crowded digital world. They explore the tension between thought leadership and what the article calls “thought doership,” questioning whether AI has...

Hey Listeners! I have an updated Keynote podcast hitting your feed. Note on format: Beginning with this episode and moving forward, we’ll be publishing a condensed ~30-minute version of Keynote conversations here in the podcast feed. If you’d like to watch the full-length, edited version , you can find it on YouTube as part of the Speaking Engagement channel. Link here: https://youtu.be/IahIhJsPXE...

In the first-ever Breakout episode, Ryan is joined by Kristin to unpack the biggest ideas from the debut Keynote conversation with John Hill—and what they actually mean for leaders building communities today. They dig into a provocative shift: what happens when it’s no longer about finding a job, but being the job—and how that reality is already reshaping higher education, alumni engagement, and t...