History – Disney Employee Engagement Speaker

Blogging memories day 7, body

Disney Institute backpack — As a Disney Institute participant (not a facilitator this time), i was asked to walk through Disney’s Hollywood Studios with my table-mates and photograph Magic.

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

Fostering a sense of peace that i was building a Plan B.

Why?

In case another unexpected economic crisis, like the Great Recession of 2008, required Cast Member layoffs.

None of my colleagues knew i was building a Plan B.

None of my colleagues decided to also build their own Plan B.

It was a crazy idea.

Over-reaction?

An unnecessary idea?

No.

Just last year, 2025, Disney Institute (DI) was re-imagined and many DI staff, including some of my former colleagues who were still there, lost their jobs.

With no Plan B.

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Blogging memories day 6, body

Disney Institute Engagement class — Disney Institute Employee Engagement 4-day class.

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

And now after 25 posts (5 days worth) completed, the memory bank is low.

i just triggered an important early memory. Right away i had to ask two important, fundamental questions:

What will you write about?
What will you speak about after you retire?

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Blogging memories day 5, body

Executive audience jeff noel — Touched more lives here than anywhere else during 15 years with Disney Institute. University of Iowa Healthcare, multi-year client. Multiple visits each year. Always two sessions each day, with a lunch break between the AM and PM sessions.

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

My catalyst for personal blogging was simply to gain writing practice to write a book. A book i promised to write to my kids as a life guide.

My memory was painful.

Thirty years had passed and i hadn’t written the first sentence.

And we didn’t have kids, we had one child. He was eight when i began building the Plan B.

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Blogging memories day 4, body

Disney Institute Speakers — Disney Institute Marketing photo. Yours truly on the right.

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

Having a ton of questions…

What is blogging?

Why is it important?

What do you gain by doing it consistently?

What do you lose by not doing it consistently?

And do any of these questions matter?

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Blogging memories day 3, body

Disney Institute classroom photos — Retro Disney Institute social media. Maybe 2006.

What are some of your earliest blogging memories?

My original blogging idea started in 2007 because i thought Disney Institute (DI) Facilitators could each have a blog and share Disney Institute essence, content, offerings, etc, as we traveled the globe.

So initially, i never had any notion blogging would become a potential personal resource.

Man, was i mistaken!

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