An Exclusive Conversation with the Masters of Our Craft
We are honored to invite you to a truly special experience, an exclusive, live, virtual conversation featuring three legendary voices who have shaped the professional speaking industry and inspired audiences worldwide.
Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE, founding President of National Speakers Association Northern California, will be in an intimate, unscripted conversation with two extraordinary Hall of Fame speakers,
Don Yaegar, CPAE and
Scott McKain, CPAE.
This is not a keynote.
This is not a traditional panel.
This is a rare masterclass, an honest, behind-the-scenes conversation about what it really takes to build a lasting, meaningful, and profitable speaking career.
Together, they will share insights on:
- The evolution of craft and stage mastery and how they are using AI in their business
- Career longevity in a changing industry
- Building a speaking business that endures
- The subtle art of becoming truly unforgettable
Whether you are early in your speaking journey or a seasoned professional ready to elevate your impact, relevance, and income, this conversation will offer wisdom you can apply immediately.
This is more than an event.
It’s an investment in your future as a speaker.
About Our Host:
Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE is a Hall of Fame keynote speaker, executive speech coach, and one of the most influential leaders in the speaking profession.
She is a three-time Cicero Speechwriting Award winner, creator of the FrippVT Powerful, Persuasive Presentation learning program, and served as NSA’s first woman president. Patricia is also the co-author of Deliver Unforgettable Presentations and has coached speakers and leaders around the globe to command the stage and move audiences to action.
Learn more at https://fripp.com/keynote-speaking
About our Guests:
Scott McKain, CPAE is an internationally known distinction expert, bestselling author, keynote speaker and virtual presenter.
Scott’s unique style has earned him induction into the Professional Speakers Hall of Fame, and his remarkable content earned him membership (along with Dale Carnegie, Zig Ziglar, and Og Mandino) as one of only 24 selected for inclusion in the Sales and Marketing Hall of Fame.
He is currently “Corporate Educator in Residence” at High Point University, named by U.S. News & World Report as the nation’s “most innovative” university.
Scott has over three decades of research and experience and has spoken and consulted for the world’s most influential corporations, presenting his business strategies on platforms in all fifty states and twenty-two countries.
Scott McKain’s latest book, ICONIC, named as a Forbes “Top 10 Pick of the Year,” is the instruction guide for professionals and organizations to become so distinctive they not only stand out in their industry, but set the benchmark for innovation, customer experience and employee culture.
Learn more at www.scottmckain.com
Don Yaeger, CPAE
As a Hall of Fame keynote speaker, a recent inductee to the National Speakers Hall of Fame, a twelve-time New York Times Best-selling author, host of the top-ratedCorporate Competitor Podcast, Publisher of Forbes Books, Storyteller in Residence for National Geographic, Executive Leadership Coach, and longtime Associate Editor for Sports Illustrated, Don Yaeger has fashioned a career as one of America's most provocative thought leaders.
He is primarily sought to discuss lessons on achieving Greatness, learned from first-hand work alongside some of the greatest sports and business legends in the world. Additionally, Don has been retained by companies and organizations to coach their leaders on building a culture of Greatness, using the framework built through his exhaustive study of Great Teams in sports and business, discerning the lessons we can learn from them.
Throughout his writing career, Don has developed a reputation as a world-class storyteller, in fact, renowned thought leaders such as John Maxwell and Simon Sinek have called Don the best storyteller they have ever worked with! Because
of these achievements, Don has been invited as a guest to every major talk show - from Oprah to Fox Business News, from CNN to Good Morning America.
In 2020 Don launched the Corporate Competitor Podcast, which Podcast Magazine quickly recognized as one of the Top 50 Podcasts in America. By 2022 Spotify had listed Corporate Competitor Podcast in the top five percent of the most followed and shared podcasts in the world. Among the guests interviewed by Don for episodes of the podcast have been former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the CEOs of Disney, Delta Airlines, Bank of America, Hendrick Motorsports, KPMG, FanDuel, Chick-fil-A, Insight Enterprises, TopGolf, Mayo Clinic, BET Media and Ritz Carlton.
Born and raised in Hawaii, Don has traveled extensively through his career. A graduate of Ball State University where he was selected as one of the university's “50 Graduates of Distinction” over its first century and subsequently was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2022, Don now resides in Tallahassee, Florida. He and his wife, Jeanette, have a son (Will) and a daughter (Madeleine).
Learn more at www.donyaeger.com or contact don at donw@greatnessinc.com