Speaker Academy #18: Client Honor Roll – great and valued business partners

This is the latest in the Speaker Academy series, which started here. The series is addressed to patients and advocates who basically know how to speak on a subject but want to make a business out of it. I’ll try to be clear to all readers, but parts may assume you’ve read earlier entries.

In #16 I said “For a small business, cash is king.” This is especially true for patients who are trying to build a small business in speaking, with no financial backing. In this post I want to “spotlight the spotless” – my clients who have honored our partnership by paying every single invoice within the agreed time of 30 days. Thank you!! A couple of foonotes before we start:

• Date range: This is for events starting January 2013 and ending April 2014. (This May’s events haven’t reached 30 days yet.)
  • I hope to dig back earlier, but before 2013 I was in survival mode and my records were sometimes not accurate. Meanwhile, clients – if you remind me that you paid promptly I’ll be glad to include you – just let me know!

• Special honor: Some clients are so great that they’re in a special category – they paid on-site or EARLY! (And they reimbursed my out-of-pocket expenses promptly.) So I’ll start with them:

Special honor: at the event (or before!) Last updated March 30, 2017

These clients paid their deposit and expenses on time, and paid the rest of my fee at the event – or even before! In chronological order, starting 1/1/2013:

1. Dignity Health, March 2013
2. Michigan Hospital Association, May 2013
3. SAS Institute, May 2013 (via Collaborative Agency)
4. PFCC Partners annual meeting, June 2013
5. Iowa HospitalAssociation (Executive Speakers Bureau), June 2013
6. National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Aug. 2013
7. Kansas Hospital Association (Executive Speakers Bureau), Aug. 2013
8. Qualidigm (CMS’s Connecticut Quality Improvement Organization), Sept. 2013
9. ESRD Webinar (End Stage Renal Disease), Sept. 2013
10. Tennessee Hospital Association (Executive Speakers Bureau), Nov. 2013
11. Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association (Executive Speakers Bureau), April 2014
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12. Arizona Hospital Association  (Executive Speakers Bureau), May 2014
13. Arkansas Hospital Association  (Executive Speakers Bureau), October 2014
14. IPPOSI (Irish Patients Platform), Nov. 2014
15. ANA, May 2015
16. Phreesia, June 2015
17. University of Colorado Denver, Aug. 2015
18. IBA Italy, March 2016
19. Coalition of Compassionate Care of California, May 2016
20. Health2 Resources, Oct. 2016

Honor Roll  Last updated March 30, 2017

These clients (2013 and later) paid every single invoice within 30 days. Thank you!

1. Aligning Forces for Quality speaking tour, Humboldt CA, Jan. 2013
2. Health Action Council, Columbus OH, Jan. 2013
3. “My Health Counts” TV program (WNED-TV), Feb. 2013
4. Institute of Medicine roundtable, Feb. 2013
5. Regional Telehealth Conference (Billings, MT), March 2013
6. IKF (my Swiss host), March 2013
7. Saskatchewan Health Quality Council Summit, April 2013
8. Wharton MBA Lecture, April 2013
9. British Medical Journal (essay honorarium), April 2013
10. BMJ / IHI Quality Forum, April 2013
11. Michigan Hospital HR Conference, April 2013
12. Maine Hospital Association (Executive Speakers Bureau), June 2013
13. The Alliance (book order), June 2013
14. U of Wisconsin web lecture (Patti Brennan), July 2013
15. AHRQ / Westat, July 2013
16. Meditech (LSS Data Systems), Aug. 2013
17. Book order – National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Aug. 2013
18. Stratis Health (project work), summer 2013
19. Trillium Partners “Back to School” conference, Sept. 2013
20. Book order – Orion Health, Sept. 2013
21. Schulman Associates IRB, Sept. 2013
22. Facilities Guidelines Institute, Sept. 2013
23. Berci’s social media course at Semmelweiss University, Budapest, Sept. 2013
24. NEHI annual meeting, Oct. 2013
25. NEHI book order, Oct. 2013
26. World Parkinson’s Congress, Oct. 2013
27. Penna Hosp. & HC Association (Executive Speakers Bureau), Oct. 2013
28. National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, Oct. 2013
29. Partnership for Quality Care, Nov. 2013
30. Nebraska Hospital Association (Executive Speakers Bureau), Nov. 2013
31. AMIA Fall Symposium, Nov. 2013
32. Heartland Kidney Network, Nov. 2013
33. Executive Speakers Bureau (internal event), Jan. 2014
34. NQF Annual Meeting, Feb. 2014
35. HIMSS consumer symposium, March 2014
36. Wharton MBA lecture, March 2014
37. National Board of Medical Examiners 100th annual meeting, April 2014
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38. Mississippi Healthcare Symposium, June 2014
39. Mississippi Hospital Association, June 2014
40. American Association of Nurse Practitioners, June 2014
41. Telligen, June 2014
42. Rhode Island Quality Institute, July 2014
43. A.I.R. PCORI project, July 2014
44. National Quality Forum outcomes project, August 2014
45. Vancouver Island Health Authority, August 2014
46. Health Informatics Society of Australia, August 2014
47. AHRQ / Westat, Sept. 2014
48. Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Sept. 2014
49. Summit of the Southeast (HIMSS Tennessee chapter), Sept. 2014
50. UMC Radboudt (Lucien Engelen), Sept. 2014
51. Montana Hospital Association (Executive Speakers Bureau), Sept. 2014
52. Philippine Society for Medical Oncology webcast, Oct. 2014
53. AMIA (Cerner event), Oct. 2014
54. Vintura (Dutch consulting firm), Oct. 2014
55. Association of American Medical Colleges (Leading Authorities agency), Nov. 2014
56. SC Hospital Association, Nov. 2014
57. Brown University, Dec. 2014
58. Roche National Conference (Eagles Talent Speakers Bureau), Jan. 2015
59. NEHI, Jan. 2015
60. Wharton MBA Lecture, Feb. 2015
61. HealthSparq, Feb. 2015
62. InterSystems, March 2015
63. Informed Medical Decisions Foundation/Healthwise, April 2015
64. UNH Durham, June 2015
65. InterSystems, June 2015
66. Hospital Association of Pennsylvania, Sept. 2015
67. Boucha Group, Sept. 2015
68. APB, Nov. 2105
69. diaTribe, Jan. 2016
70. BMJ, March 2016
71. IHS, May 2016
72. Harvard Medical, June 2016
73. NH Foundation for Healthy Communities, Aug. 2016
74. AADE, Aug. 2016
75. Colorado Hospital Association, Nov. 2016
76. Leigh Bureau, Nov. 2016
77. Radboud, Nov. 2016
78. APB, Nov. 2016
79. ResMed, Jan. 2017

Thank you, every one of you. It’s such a blessing to close out an event on schedule, with no follow-on paperwork!

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Next in the series: #19 “The Big Ugly” meets Speaker Academy #19: What’s up with expense checks??