David is a published writer and has been teaching and lecturing in the professional community for many years on various topics. He will often guest lecture at York University, Redeemer University College and the University of Guelph where he has spoken on such topics as fear, choice, ideas and wonder. He recently published an article at the University of Guelph entitled: What's the Big Idea?
For the past two years he has served on the Mentorship advisory committee at York University in Toronto. He has remained involved and active in the Alumni community by speaking and writing about mentorship.
With twenty-five years experience as a stage performer and eighteen years in the business world, David is now turning a new corner and is on the road to a PhD in Philosophy. He offers a unique perspective and an eclectic edge as a corporate speaker. He will challenge your group to take their thinking to the next level.
Four Ideas That Shook the Universe
"A mind that is stretched to a new idea never goes back
to its
original dimension". - Oliver Wendell Holmes
David believes, with Socrates, that just as the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined idea is not worth having. Great ideas often appear out of day-to-day situations and are generated by some of the world's most unlikely people.
His approach has been called anti or post-prescriptive, as he does not apply special techniques or twelve step programs. David believes there are no easy answers. He also believes that the eighth habit of highly effective people is realizing first and foremost that there are more than seven habits of highly effective people.
Using personal anecdotes, legendary quotes, stories of charismatic, colourful and famous people, film clips and significant statistics, he details some fascinating historical paradigmatic shifts that have occurred as a result of realizing and implementing simple ideas.
In this talk he situates the extraordinary nature of great ideas in a common and sometimes ordinary perspective. Important ideas are generated from normal, average, everyday experience and yet David goes on to explain that there is nothing ordinary or average about human experience or the development of a great idea.
- What idea might you realize that will alter the way you do business in the future?
- How will your new idea improve your relationships at home and at work?
- What is your next great idea going to be?