At one point in Bill’s career he was working on a script and was struggling. At that same time Bill had the good fortune to start to work with Gordon Pinsent, a legend in the Canadian Arts community. Gordon’s very first question was ”Why are you telling this particular story?” Bill’s immediate response was, “I don’t know anymore. I’m lost in the weeds here.” Gordon then explained that that often happens and then we start to work hard, but not productively. He asked Bill to remember what had inspired him to tell the story in the first place? “That’s the key, Bill,” Gordon said. “Remember what inspired you to create that story and share it. Call up what inspired you and breathe that air again. Then the work will flow.” Bill did just that and the work indeed flowed.

Gordon was one of the people who inspired Bill to create this Work Inspired keynote. To Work Inspired is to work with joy and enthusiasm. It feels timeless and your energy and vision limitless. Children at play show all the signs of inspired living. Their focus and sense of timelessness, their unlimited imaginations and the joy of play are all present when they are playing inspired. The same realities need to be operating when we seek to Work Inspired.

In this keynote, Bill shares research into how the brain works to create our experience of the world around and inside us. He shows ways we can use this knowledge to create an environment filled with joy, creativity, enthusiasm, and wild inspiration.  Bill focuses on empathy and “contagious inspiration”. Bill talks about how working inspired is always a choice, no matter the circumstances. That choice involves creating an “Inspiration Loop” by surrounding ourselves with inspired people and inspiring them as they inspire us. Working with inspiration is not about what happens to us, as much as it is about what how we see and then react to what is happening to us and transforming our world from within. 

Reading things that inspire, talking to people that light a fire in you, remembering what it was like when you were enthusiastic and eager to do your work, are just some of the ways to learn how to Work Inspired every day. Bill calls you to develop rituals that remind you what you are doing at its deepest levels, remembering and deeply knowing the real purpose and value you bring to every encounter at work, at home and in your community. To Work Inspired needn’t be an occasional stroke of good luck. We don’t need to wait for the muses to visit us. We can be agents of our own inspiration and inspire those around us.

Bill’s Work Inspired keynote will reignite a passion and desire to find and develop inspiration in your own life and in the lives of all with whom you come in contact.