Customer Comments for Malcolm Gladwell

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Thanks Robin. Malcolm was extremely well received and many of our attendees indicated he was the best we’ve ever had, which is a huge compliment considering we’ve been lucky enough to have had President Clinton, Marcus Buckingham, Kjell Nordstrom, Colin Powell and other highly respected individuals speak at our convention.

Thanks again!

    ~ A global fitness trade association

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Malcolm was excellent. Truly, everyone raved about him. He seemed so down-to-earth and such a gentle person. The world needs more people like him.

    ~ A non-profit health care network

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Gladwell was fabulous rating on the evaluations, best speaker they have ever had, want to have him back. He was very appreciative and gracious with us.

    ~ An organization of the professional liability industry

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Karen:

Malcolm was great in every sense Wed morning – he was terrific both on-stage & off. [The event host] was very happy with his presentation. . .same for all my colleagues. Thank you both for your help in making this successful engagement happen. Please share my thanks with Malcolm as well. Many thanks.

   ~ A business communications company

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Malcolm was "the most awesome speaker we have had in a while", I couldn't be more pleased. Everyone loved, loved him! We had 350 people in his presentation and I hope to have him again sometime. He was so nice and personable too!

   ~ A business information company
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"Blew them away!!! He was energetic, positive and fabulous! You have a scale - he blew past it. Next year's event is leading towards thought leaders."

   ~ A major event for association executives
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Dear Malcolm,

In all my years of producing conferences, I have never had a keynoter be so much on target, be so aware of the context and the concerns of the audience, and be so nice to work with as you were this week.

Our people will be talking about your presentation for years. Not merely were you very informative in a practical way, you did it with such delightful humor. Even more importantly, you set the stage perfectly for the "rally" session that followed. In that forum, numerous members who addressed the group referred to points you made and terms you used. …

Malcolm, again thank you so much for joining us and being so responsive to our needs. It was a pleasure and honor to work with you.

   ~ Director, Education and Conferences, for a state-wide public sector association

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Dear Leigh Bureau

In one word?? Amazing!!!!

I told Malcolm right after he finished that he made my career—and I was right! They've already asked me to design next year's meeting agenda and hire the speaker!

I had so many compliments from people who are usually very cynical about corporate meetings and events. You wouldn't even believe it! I can't wait to see the evaluation results!

Thanks again!!! He was a hit.

   ~ Annual Senior Executive meeting for a major hospitality & travel firm

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Malcolm was wonderful on Saturday, he won us over from the beginning, and he did a great job tailoring his presentation to the legal audience. He was also terrific about fielding questions from the larger audience as well as one-on-one. Thanks so much for facilitating Malcolm's appearance with us.

   ~ A university dean's dinner
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Dear Malcolm:

I want to thank you again for your participation in our recent management group meeting. My colleagues and I enjoyed the opportunity to meet with you, and you got rave reviews from our member.

Your thoughtful insights resonated with our global leadership group. I think many of them were surprised at the relevance of your perspective to their own leadership challenges. This is high praise from a group of largely technically oriented, engineering types!

We ask. . .members to give us feedback on speakers, and I wanted you to know that they gave you the highest ranking of any external speaker in the last 7 years – basically as long as we’ve been keeping track of the ratings.

The most repeated comment on your speech was, "thought provoking". Some representative comments…

"Unique perspective, engaging, thought provoking"
"Good food for thought. Not America centered, very interesting, excellent analogies."
"Certainly thought provoking. Great use of non-technical analogies to draw similarities, yet get out of the box."

Thanks for getting our meeting off to a great start.

I hope that we meet again in the future.

   ~ A major glass company
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He was great, great, great. We could have gone all day. He told me he had fun. I hope we made him comfortable. Our CEO and COO were astounded and I am sure want to do other things with him. He is really fun.

    ~ A major civic association

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Gladwell was terrific, so perfect, the board members thought that he was the highlight of the conference, he was most impressive and a great storyteller. He took the time to understand and relate it to their group—he did it beautifully. He was simply dynamite. He was funny and engaging and he hit it out of the park.

   ~ An advertising association