Michael Gorton

In an age of rapid information dissemination we can sometimes lose sight of the impact that real stories can make and how they can quickly imprint themselves in our minds and hearts. Serial entrepreneur and disrupter Michael Gorton is a treat for any audience. While dropping valuable gems about how to face disruption head on and how we can learn to push through mistakes into creating real innovation, his talent as a true storyteller shines through. Where else can you hear from a master mind that has created 15 companies and written four books (all different genres)? While the audience listens to the trials and tribulations of how telemedicine was first founded (and where it ended up - like the Surgeon General reaching out to Michael during the pandemic and thanking him for fighting to create telemedicine 20 years earlier) as well as other examples of great ideas that were met with resistance, they come to the critical realization that sometimes a good idea is worth fighting for. Participants leave with an understanding of how to put “Calamistunity” to work and a new sense of enlightenment around innovation while learning that even the best leaders have surpassed critical roadblocks that at first threatened their ultimate success.

TANGIBLE TAKEAWAYS:

• Disruption is the key to innovation and forward movement
• “Calamistunity” - Mistakes are always going to happen, but what can you learn from them?
• What lies on the other side of fear? Figure out how to harness it and turn it into something.
• Your idea may be misunderstood, but it doesn’t mean you can’t stand up in defense of what you believe in.