Today's featured guest is my friend Robert Kienzle. 

"#virtual #hybrid #remote" - Such common terms today were much further down our list of daily vocabulary just a couple years ago. 

As we all continue to bear the brunt of the pandemic, be it wave 4 or wave 5, the reality is that our mode of communication has changed forever. There is now another layer of connectivity that must be adopted in both our personal and professional life. While there are early adopters and digital natives who effortlessly swing in and out of the in real life (#IRL) and digital economy, many of us are still working to get up to speed, fight off screen exhaustion, and communicate effectively, two dimensionally with only our upper torso.  

*********************

Robert has over 15 years of business training and coaching experience on all 7 continents. Robert is the Senior Consultant at Knowmium (Hong Kong) and an Associate Professor at Sungkyunkwan University’s Graduate School of Business (Seoul). He works with Fortune 100 companies throughout Asia and beyond on topics including presentation, negotiation, personal branding, intercultural communication, influence, writing, and virtual communication. Robert authored the book Hybrid Live Guide and was a World Championship of Public Speaking semi-finalist in 2014 and 2015. He holds a number of certifications including Master Trainer (Association for Talent Development), Team Management Profile and Linking Leader Profile (Team Management Systems), and Hogan Assessment Certification.

********************

Resources

Tech Resource: Robert's virtual background app is Mmhmm, which has free and paid versions, and does a lot more like making myself transparent, being a smaller image, laser pointer and marker functions, etc.  Here is a video I made about it:  https://youtu.be/73c7ugME3RM

Another link you might consider including is our Radical Toolkit, which has Joshua's (Knowmium) free book Radically Remote, my video tutorials like the one above, and activity guides for virtual workshops: https://knowmium.com/radical-toolkit

**********************

Connect with Robert 

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/robertkienzle

Knowmium: https://knowmium.com/

Meet Robert IRL on Sunday May 15, 2022 at the Association for Talent Development (ATD) International Conference & EXPO in Orlando, Florida, USA: https://atdconference.td.org/