The woman at the front of the room, closest to me, knew exactly what was going on, was loving every second of it, and was (mostly) silently laughing her ass off. At a recent working session with a client, we…
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Awkward Meetings – Volume I
Tagged with: awkward, customers, meetings, presentations, sales, tradeshows, travel
Posted in Careers, Everything, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Everything, Marketing
The Story Behind (Another) Video
A while back, I told the story behind Sandvine’s most popular corporate video. The goal of that video was to show prospective customers – who already know what Sandvine does – why they should choose Sandvine as their solution vendor.…
Tagged with: differentiation, Josh Cronk, Matt Trushinski, Miovision, online charging, presentations, public speaking, Rob Carey, Sandvine, Talking Telecom, technology, thought leadership, video content, video marketing, whitepapers
Posted in Marketing
Posted in Marketing
The Meeting for Selling
“Selling is not just what the Sales department does. We are all selling, all the time. This includes selling stories, ideas, products, and, let’s not forget, ourselves.” – David Pearl In The Reasons Why People Meet, I introduced seven different types…
Tagged with: David Pearl, meetings, presentations, sales, selling, Will There Be Donuts?
Posted in Leadership, Management, Marketing
Posted in Leadership, Management, Marketing
My Story, Part 2: Challenge Accepted
The journey was long and tough, but that made me stronger. Not once in my professional career have I faced anything that has even remotely stressed me out the way that UW did. [This is the third of a series…
Tagged with: academics, Canadian Space Agency, challenges, Computer Engineering, Duong Tran, ECE 100, fear of failure, Lee Brooks, mechatronics, my story, presentations, University of Waterloo, UW
Posted in Careers, Everything
Posted in Careers, Everything
Social Networking for Professionals (for Academics)
A little over a month ago I received an email from my friend Stacey: “We are looking for a speaker for our biomechanics graduate seminar to speak on social networking in a professional setting and/or internet presence for researchers in…
Tagged with: biomechanics, Dan Deeth, Facebook, Google Plus, Johnny Lee, Lee Brooks, LinkedIn, Meetup, presentations, public speaking, social media, social networking, Stacey Acker, Twitter, University of Waterloo
Posted in Careers, Everything, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Everything, Marketing
My Story, Part 1: The Accidental Engineer
It turns out that if you make your university choices for reasons other than passionate interest and enrol in what can accurately be described as a hellishly difficult program while completely lacking any study skills or positive work habits whatsoever,…
Tagged with: adversity, Dana Porter Library, education, engineering, ENSS, failure, Lee Brooks, MacLean's, my story, presentations, public speaking, The Big Apple, University of Waterloo, UW
Posted in Everything
Posted in Everything
Sharing my experience with today’s students
Last week, as part of the Alumni Speaker Series (haha, I know…right?), I returned to the University of Waterloo to speak to a group of (mostly) engineering students about my experience at UW and my career since then. It was…
Tagged with: alumni, ask me anything, Lee Brooks, lessons, my story, Nino, presentations, public speaking, storytelling, University of Waterloo
Posted in Careers, Everything, Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Everything, Leadership, Marketing
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