Disney Institute – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Disney Institute executive resource debrief, home

team meeting in small room — We drove from Disney to Orlando International Airport’s Hyatt Regency. Photo: This morning’s ‘debrief room’.

Today was the most important day in 10 years, for this organization, from my perspective.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.

Disney Institute Leadership Excellence, home

Disney map — Jungle Jeff’s favorite stairwell.

Commitment is the final Disney Leadership blueprint.

What does that mean?

It means making your 30th and final year at Disney (or anywhere) as amazing as your first, honeymoon-year.

Note: My final, and 30th, year was the best year ever in my Disney career. #truth

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Disney Institute Employee Engagement, home

red backpack in mountains — Cheryl in the background. Photo from late September 2021. This same backpack is with me in all three (consecutive) one-day Disney Institute classes this week. Note: The ‘ridge’ is the Continental Divide’s Eastern profile.

Someday, maybe, the 100-episode podcast called If Disney Ran Your Life might get released from the vault.

While still at Disney, i took everything i learned, did, and taught at Disney and Disney Institute and applied it to my life.

The transferable insight from this class is that you either have a life by design or a life by default.

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Disney Institute Customer Service, home

mountains and lake — Far off the beaten path.

If i never try anything, i never learn anything. If i never take a risk, i stay where i am.

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Going to Walt Disney World, home

To know is to do. To know and not do is to not yet know.

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