Rick and Becky DuFour spent 16 hours getting to Grand Rapids from Roanoke, VA.\u00a0 One cancelled flight, one flight delayed two hours, another delayed 30 minutes, <\/p>\n
and finally getting to the hotel at 12:15am with Becky kicking off the Institute with an 8:00am keynote in front of 1,000 in-house educators.<\/p>\n
Tim Brown had his flight cancelled in Moline so he rented a car and drove six hours so he could arrive in Grand Rapids at 2:00am, and he is not only a presenter but also the emcee kicking off the event and introducing Becky.\u00a0 And then he had tells me \u201cI got to drive through some beautiful countryside on my six hour road trip.\u201d\u00a0 And he meant it, and by my calculations it was dark for nearly 5 of those hours.<\/p>\n
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Jack Balderman has a flight cancelled and drove from Midway Airport in Chicago to Grand Rapids arriving at 4:00am.<\/p>\n
And Anthony Muhammad had a flight diverted from Phoenix to Yuma, only be bussed two hours back to Phoenix, to have another flight cancelled, and then hopping on a red-eye to Detroit and then driving to Grand Rapids to get to the Institute at 9:30am.<\/p>\n
Are we lucky, you bet your bottom we are. We are lucky to work with people like these people, and we work with more than just these five examples.\u00a0 We work with hundreds of pros just like these.\u00a0 And that is why we do what we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Having been in the event business now for 17 years, I have to say we have an unbelievable track record of never having a keynoter miss an event due to illness or travel.\u00a0 On a very rare occasion we will … Continue reading