by Tommy Spaulding | Oct 7, 2016 | Blog
Last week I had the honor of being the closing keynote speaker for AutoZone’s national sales meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. 3,000 “Zoners” filled the Memphis Convention Center all dressed in the same pressed gray shirt uniform. In my seven years on...
by Tommy Spaulding | Oct 7, 2016 | Blog
Last week I had the honor of being the closing keynote speaker for AutoZone’s national sales meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. 3,000 “Zoners” filled the Memphis Convention Center all dressed in the same pressed gray shirt uniform. In my seven years on...
by Tommy Spaulding | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog
Last week I had the honor of being the closing keynote speaker for CVS Health’s National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida. I spoke to 1,800 of the CVS senior team who lead their 243,000 colleagues (they don’t use the e-word at CVS). CVS Health is...
by Tommy Spaulding | Sep 15, 2016 | Blog
The most dangerous thing about being a professional speaker is being a professional speaker. Meaning: there are thought leaders writing books and speaking on the circuit who have never started a company, made payroll or led an organization (other than their own...
by Tommy Spaulding | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog
A few weeks ago Jill and I took the kids to one of our favorite spots in the world – Vail, Colorado. I’m not a big “spread your ashes” kind of guy – but if I died and had to spread my ashes somewhere, I would spread half my ashes in Italy and the other half in...
by Tommy Spaulding | Aug 15, 2016 | Blog
Just in time. The Olympic Gods aligned our family summer vacation with the exact timing of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. There is no other time in my life that I sit on the couch and watch beach volleyball. My television is usually programmed to watch the NFL, MLB...