Geography

Because of Lou’s broad experience over the years, he has an uncanny knack of adapting his message based on the place he is speaking. How did this come about? Two big reasons: wanderlust and curiosity!

Lou was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is really Midwestern US, not the East. (Ask him what “read up” – pronounced ‘red up’ -- your room means!) He received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and loves Southern people, Southern foods, Southern storytelling.

His military days were spent primarily at Fort Harrison, Indiana, and because he taught at what’s called a joint service school, he met people from all the US military services and those from dozens of countries around the world.

The University of Michigan chose him three times to conduct management programs in Hong Kong, where his classrooms were filled with people from more than a half dozen nations in the Pacific Rim.

He has lived in Florida since 1979 and has stood at “the end of the world” at far southern Key West…has tubed down beautiful rivers in North Florida…and has ducked inside faster than you can imagine when old DC-3 aircraft spraying mosquito repellent swooped over the Southwest Florida wetlands and beaches.

Lou has spent countless days in Manhattan, has traversed the entire states of North and South Dakota and Nebraska doing area meetings for their state bank associations. He has spoken in most of the provinces in Canada, in England, in Bermuda, in Mexico, in Nassau and three times in Australia.

His curiosity forces him to do research, ask countless questions and read incessantly about each place where he will speak…meaning that your organization will not have an “outsider” as its speaker, but rather someone who will alter his delivery style, his approach to humor, sometimes even his outfit that day in order to have the maximum possible impact he can…and particularly to make you glad you chose him as your keynoter or breakout speaker.