by Paul Quinn | Jan 24, 2023 | Asking - Business, Asking - Leadership, Asking - Professional Development, Asking - Workplace, Presentation Skills
One afternoon many years ago, after hours of coaching McDonald’s corporate presenters for a company-wide conference, I stepped out to grab some lunch. It had been a full morning of back-to-back rehearsals at the company’s Chicago-area headquarters. And it...
by Paul Quinn | Sep 14, 2022 | Asking - Business, Asking - Empowerment, Asking - Entrepreneurs, Presentation Skills
In September 2020, Don Lessem and Valerie Jones drove from their home in Philadelphia to Las Vegas, where they walked onto the famously intimidating set of ABC’s Shark Tank to ask $500,000 for a 10% stake in Dino Don Inc., their $1.8M animatronic dinosaur...