Meaningful Meetings Lessons Shared: EEA YouTube Shows With Leaders, Entertainers, Athletes, and More

Consistent with the mission of the Stakeholder Management Forum and Library to foster discussion and learning through live and recorded video discussions published on our YouTube channel and summarized in EEA media feature articles, and stored in our library. These shows share what panelists or guests have learned from their experiences about stakeholder engagement in all areas of leadership, practical mplementation, academic research, or as investment managers or investors.

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Upcoming Episodes
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These 30-minute shows, hosted by Bruce Bolger, Founder of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance highlight business leaders and experts in all areas of stakeholder management and engagement sharing their views on how to enhance organizations through a strategic focus on people. In programs co-hosted with Jaki Baskow, Founder and CEO of Baskow Talent, we highlight what people can learn and how at live events from the life experiences of accomplished or people committed to improving lives in all walks of business and life.

Live show attendees can ask questions. Otherwise, the shows become available in the following weeks on the Enterprise Engagement Alliance Purpose Stakeholder Management YouTube channel along with a summary article in EEA ESM or RRN media.

Click here for all the EEA YouTube Stakeholder Managemet Forum YouTube shows. Click here for the top 25 as of November 2025.

Upcoming Episodes

Nov. 13, 11 am ET: In Pursuit of Marketing Results: Insights From Jack Phillips and Patti Phillips, ROI Pioneers. Register here.

The Internet and social media promised to significantly enhance the ability to target the impact in marketing and yet in many cases it remains as elusive as ever. This show not only provides an overall framework for better marketing measurement but also focuses on what two ROI veterans have learned about the most effective approaches to business development.

Nov. 25, 3 pm ET: An Anti-Woke Capitalist on Stakeholder Capitalism. Register here.
Explore whether a disciplined, value-creation model of stakeholder capitalism can strengthen—not replace—shareholder capitalism, aligning profitability with purpose while protecting free enterprise from politicized distortion. Stefan J. Padfield is Professor of Law at the University of Akron and Executive Director of the Free Enterprise Project at the National Center for Public Policy Research,

Coming soon: Stakeholder management session on culture issues in international business; Total rewards session on enhancing the gift card experience in a digital world.

Past Episodes

The Human Factor: What Investors Need to Know to Uncover New Value or Risks. The Human Factor: What Investors Need to Know to Uncover New Value or Risks. Perspectives from four experts looking at the issue from different points of view:

Business valuation: Dave Bookbinder, Executive Director, Valuation Services, Haefele Flanagan, Maple Shade, NJ, an accounting and advisory firm.
Investment management: Jason Britton, Founder, Woelf Royce Companies, a Charleston, SC based wealth management firm
A human capital analytics firm for investors: Bart Houlahan, Partner, Irrational Capital, Paoli, PA, creator of the Human Capital Factor,
A mergers and acquisitions firm: Laura Queen, Founder, CEO, 29Bison, a Doylestown, PA, mergers and acquisitions and due diligence firm specializing in human capital.

Economics of Mutuality Is Out to Change Capitalism With Jay Jakub, Executive Director, Economics of Mutuality Foundation.
This EEA YouTube Show and ESM feature article continue the series of movers and shakers in stakeholder management as part of our Enterprise Engagement Alliance YouTube Channel and Meaningful Meetings series. ... [ read more ]

Actor Patrick Warburton and Professor John Paul Voss at t the Crossroads of Acting, Business, and Comedy, and What the Three Have in Common. This show features the actor and comedian Warburton and Professor John Paul Voss, Associate Professor of business at Georgia State University. Warburton discusses what it takes to beat the incredible odds of making a living in theatre and company. Voss shares how some of these lessons apply to any business or career.

Mark C. Crowley on The Power of Employee Well-Being
This show and ESM feature article continues the series on movers and shakers in stakeholder management as part of our Enterprise Engagement Alliance YouTube Channel and Meaningful Meetings series.... [ read more ]

Reimagining Business Meetings and Incentive Travel in the Post-Covid Era Part 1
Four meetings and incentive travel executives and a research expert on all aspects of engagement joined an Enterprise Engagement Alliance RRN at RewardsRecognitionNetwork.com live and streamed YouTube Show on “Reimagining Business Meetings and Incentive Travel in the Post-Covid Era.” This show and the one following it were the genesis of this new series. Panelists are Jacque Busby, Founder, CEO of Luxe Incentives, a 32-year-old meetings and incentive travel firm; Kate Cardoso, Founder, Travel With Purpose Pact; Charlotte Frederick, Vice President, EGR International; Dr. Rick Garlick, Founder, Rick Garlick & Associates, with decades of research experience in engagement; and Melissa Van Dyke, Senior Vice President, Integrated Marketing and Innovation, The Creative Group, founded in 1970. Click here for the summary article.

Reimagining Business Meetings and Incentive Travel Part 2: Getting Specific
Do people really want to travel to sit in auditoriums hearing the same keynotes and panel discussions that they can access online whenever they wish at home or in the office? This Enterprise Engagement Alliance YouTube webinar with event management experts focuses on new ways to format events in a way that people could never experience online. Panelists are Andrea Doyle, Executive Editor, Skift Meetings; Jaki Baskow, Founder, Baskow Talent, Las Vegas; Ira Ozer, Founder, Innovation Meetings, Melissa Van Dyke, Senior Vice President, Integrated Marketing and Innovation, Creative Group Inc. Click here for the summary article.

5 Veteran Meeting Planners Share Insights and Recommendations to Make Meetings More Meaningful
In the 18 months since the Enterprise Engagement Alliance and its RRN media property began the Meaningful Meetings series, the early forecasts are gradually being fulfilled. The world of motivational events and incentive travel are headed for fundamental change, according to Jaki Baskow, Principal of Las Vegas Speakers Bureau; Greg Bogue, Vice President of Experience at Maritz; Andrea Doyle, Executive Editor of Skift; Marc Matthews, Founder of Pulse Experiential Travel, Melissa Van Dyke, Senior Vice President at Creative Group Inc.

Actor ohn O'Hurley on Imagination, Contemplation, Appreciation and Common Sense
Probably best known for his role as J. Peterman on the Seinfeld show, John O’Hurley, the actor, game show host, ballroom dancer, father and more, will focus on what he has learned from his long journey in entertainment and business and what he believes can add value to organizational meetings and how. It all starts with imagination, contemplation, appreciation, and common sense if you wish to have an extraordinary life and business, he says. Click here for a summary of the show or to view it.

Jesse Ferrell on Communications, the Platinum Rule, Self-Assessment, and More
This Enterprise Engagement Alliance series on meaningful meetings kicks off with Jesse Ferrell, Founder of JessTalk, a public speaking and advisory firm focused on helping organizations reach higher levels of performance through better communication across the enterprise. Click here for the summary article.

Entertainer Clint Holmes essons From Las Vegas: Kindness, Humility, Respect, Introspection, and Perseverance
This Enterprise Engagement Alliance YouTube show covers decades of lessons from Las Vegas from two local "institutions." The entertainer Clint Holmes and talent agent Jaki Baskow. Click here for the show.

Chris Noth, TV, film, and Broadway Actor on the Challenges of Success
This show features Chris Noth, an actor best known for his roles in Sex and the City and Law and Order and a long list of award-winning performances, who also owns businesses and is raising a family. He shares some of what he has learned from his journey from his upbringing in suburban Connecticut to achieving an award-winning career as a film, television, and stage actor, and the insights he shares to help organizations make their events more meaningful. Click here for the summary article.

Josh Linkner, Jazz Guitarist, Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist
Embrace your inner misfit. Jazz is a metaphor for life and business. Find a way, no matter what. Start before you're ready. Give generously without keeping score. Remember the Judo flip—looking at or doing exactly the opposite of what others are doing. These are some his lessons shared in this 30 minute show. Click here for the summary article.

Gary Chapman, Author, 5 Love Languages and Paul White, Author, Appreciation at Work
The languages of appreciation apply equally to love and the workplace. Many people have difficulty expressing appreciation because they are unhappy, in many cases because they have never found a true purpose in life. The same forces that end marriages can also end organizations—taking without giving in return can produce results in the short-term but rarely leads to sustainable success either in love or business. Click here for the summary article

Ryan Estis: A Human-Centered Approach to Sales, Leadership, and Life
A corporate advisor, author, keynote speaker, and Founding Partner of ImpactEleven, Ryan Estis shares his insights on human-centered leadership, the role of meeting and motivational events, and advice he’d pass on to people starting out in their careers. He believes human-centered leadership provides a sustainable competitive edge. Leadership goes beyond presenting a vision—it requires systematic follow-through, he emphasizes.

Marvelless Mark Kamp--Breaking Down Barriers to Alignment Through Music
The speaker Marvelless Mark Kamp doesn’t need to change his format to ensure that what he does can’t be done on a video show. His “rock star” theme and use of drumsticks at events can only be accomplished live, he says. Click here for the summary article.

Maria Romano-- The ROI of Love and Respect in the Workplace
Maria Romano, an entrepreneur, minister, officiator at weddings and a counselor to women experiencing loss, shares the power of love in the workplace. The principles she says, are demonstrated by the practices of none other than W. Edwards Deming in total quality management. Even the best systems fail, she underlines, unless practiced with love and respect. Click here for the summary article.

Murray SawChuck: Magician and Comedian on the Power of Deception, Listening, Appreciation, and More
Murray Sawchuck has dubbed himself "The Dennis the Menace of Magic.” He has been a headliner at Las Vegas for more than 22 years. He burst on to the scene after becoming a semi-finalist on NBC TV’s “America’s Got Talent,” on which he was seen by over 22 million people nationwide. He apparently astonished judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandell when he produced a Ferrari out of thin air, transformed a girl in a locked cage into a 450-pound tiger and when he made steam train locomotive disappear, all before a live audience. Click here for the summary article.

Nick Santonastasso: The Power of Resilience and Failure
Corporate speaker and advisor Nick Santonastasso shares what he has learned from overcoming a severe disability to achieve his goals in life. You think you have challenges. Santonastasso has no legs and only one arm with a single finger due to a rare birth condition, and yet he has led a highly successful and enriching life. Knowing his condition before birth, and understanding the risks, his parents proceeded with his birth and did everything to help him create a fulfilling life despite the many challenges he recounts. Click here for the summary article.

Darlene Lyons, T3 Events Group on ROI, New Formats
A veteran meeting planner, Darlene Lyons says the climate is right for organizations to place much more emphasis on the return on investment of their meetings and events and to radically change event formats so that people are spending up to 80% of the time collaborating or sharing experiences, and only 20% in presentations and traditional panel discussions. Click here for the summary article.

Ryan Pyle, Adventure TV Producer: Takeaways From the Edge
Ryan Pyle was born and raised in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, according to his Wikipedia page. He played basketball, beginning at the age of six all the way through college at the University of Toronto. While there, he studied modern Chinese history and politics. He had a comfortable life near home. Suddenly, when it was clear he would not turn pro, he decided to make a big change—a dramatic move from his comfortable life in Toronto to China. Click here to view, listen to, or read a summary of the show.

Connor Fields, Olympics Gold Medalist, From Near Death to Glory
Through three Olympics games, Connor Fields has a unique claim to fame. He is the only Olympic athlete who has both won Gold at the Olympics, and nearly died while in competition. He went from the highest of highs, to the lowest of lows, and says he gained unique experience on performance, as well as a perspective on life through this journey that he shares when speaking at events.

Ferreira, Environmental Innovator: What to Learn From Early Success: Video and feature article coming soon.
It’s not every day that a teenager from a remote part of Ireland bursts on to the international scene as an environmental innovator. Fionn Ferreira’s passion: To clean up the environment by removing microplastics from water and contribute to the achievement of a more circular economy. Today, at only 23 years old, Ferreira is a scientist, inventor, and sustainability advocate focused on removing microplastics from water. Click here for the summary article.

Eric Boles on Overcoming Emotional Barriers in Business
A former college football star and NFL player before founding the Game Changers leadership advisory firm and podcast series shares what he has learned from both his life in football and in business. Click here for the show.

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