LinkedIn.com, July 2024 – Rewriting your story can be a transformative process that empowers you to live more authentically and fully aligned. Here are some thoughts on how.
Read the entire article here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/become-more-your-real-true-self-telling-different-story-richards-kqonc
LinkedIn.com, May 2024 – Embracing vulnerability can be a transformative experience, allowing you to form deeper connections, foster personal growth, and build resilience.
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One of the greatest privileges of being on the cutting edge of tech and media, for the last 25+ years, has been the opportunity to speak publicly, to connect powerful players, and to offer meaningful solutions when gaps or issues are brought to me by others. Sometimes that’s what connecting the dots is all about – spotting the spaces and powerfully filling them. Right now I’m working on sourcing the funding for a multi-million dollar project, and exploring those rainmaker subtleties to get the deal done – it has been thrilling. And I’ve been speaking everywhere lately – literally coast to coast – sharing my knowledge and expertise in large and small groups.
Over the course of only 8 weeks, I have found myself at just as many events, conferences and product launches with clients and colleagues. One of the highlights of this time was definitely the KidScreen Summit on February 7-10, in NYC. My client PlayTales, a leader in children’s books as interactive apps, formally launched its US presence at this event. Another highlight was my panel discussion at Pollstar Live! Pollstar is all about industry leaders and newcomers alike have a unique opportunity to share information and improve business practices and fan experiences. I’ve also been privileged to be the Talent Producer and Celebrity Wrangler for that event for over ten years now. In January, I also spoke at the NAMM Social Marketing Mini Conference – on “Taking the Crowd to the Cloud” and at a dinner and networking event in Los Altos, called “What Do You Media” for the prestigious ACG gathering of CEOs and senior execs in the Silicon Valley illuminating myriad facets of what “media” means today and across the coming years.
I was also privileged to be the guest for “In The Hot Seat” with Larry LeBlanc for CelebrityAccess, which profiles entertainment leaders from around the world in a Q&A form. It was very exciting, and I invite all of you to click over and read the interview today!
While being on the cutting edge of the tech and digital revolution is not at all new to me, the next year is poised to present some of the most innovative and exciting opportunities to participate at top industry events. I look forward to seeing some of you at the San Francisco Music Tech Summit today, at Digital Music Forum East in less than two weeks in NYC, plus at the many other exciting gatherings and summits already on the calendar AND yet to be developed (including Digital Music Forum East in NYC, Alley to the Valley Summit, Silicon Valley Capital Club, New Digital Economics, Digital Hollywood, among others!)
If you have an event you’d like me to participate in, or a panel or keynote to deliver, please reach out to me directly at Kelli@AllAccessGroup.com
Kelli Richards
President and CEO
The All Access Group, LLC
Kelli is privileged to be the most recent “Industry Profile” featured guest on “In The Hot Seat” with Larry LeBlanc for CelebrityAccess. “In the Hot Seat” profiles entertainment leaders from around the world in a Q&A form. It was very exciting, and AAG invites you to click over and read the interview today!
Larry LeBlanc is widely recognized as one of the leading music industry journalists in the world. Before joining CelebrityAccess in 2008 as senior editor, he was the Canadian bureau chief of Billboard from 1991-2007 and Canadian editor of Record World from 1970-89. He was also a co-founder of the late Canadian music trade, The Record. He has been quoted on music industry issues in hundreds of publications including Time, Forbes, and the London Times. He is co-author of the book “Music From Far And Wide.”
One of my highlights for 2011 was a thousand-mile-high ride on a Zeppelin. Yes, one of those huge dirigibles that float over concerts and sporting events. Riding in a Zeppelin is a rare opportunity – in fact, there are only two airships in circulation for passengers – one in Germany and one in Silicon Valley. Rumor has it that the reason there was a free seat for me was because Mark Zuckerberg’s sister backed out at the last moment. I literally had only moments to make the decision and clear my calendar (no easy feat).
You can walk around the cabin of an airship, open the windows and actually stick your head outside! A true perspective changer for all of us, believe me. The thousand mile view of the world below can truly open up your vision, and as we passed over Stanford University, I began to think about Steve’s commencement speech and his advice, to stay hungry and stay foolish. A lifetime ago, I was part of the Apple MBA program. Only a handful of Apple employees were privileged to be part of that experience – a fully-accredited MBA program paid for by Apple, run on the Apple campus and offered during work hours. Apple’s commitment to inspiring the best thinking in their leaders was remarkable.
I am never far from Apple, even though my work there – which helped launch Apple’s entry into music – was two decades ago. In addition to my MBA, like all Apple Alums, I’ve experienced some of the best collaborations in my life on that campus. Something powerful entrepreneurs and executives try to bring to the table every day – but often fall short. It’s what makes Apple Alums continue to seek one another out. We’ve lived the results of stellar commitment, amazing collaboration and such out-of-the-box thinking that we literally changed the world. That is enough to shift anyone’s perspective, even long after moving on to new adventures and successes. And like the airship, it created a lifelong, thousand-mile perspective.
On December 8th I hosted a breakfast attended exclusively by a small, core group of Apple Alumni. This was an amazing experience, and leads me to the planning stages of my latest coaching program, focused on Apple Alums and what we want to create next in the world and in our lives.
As we are all painfully aware, there’s no other (active) forum like this out there, which enables Apple Alum to interact in a focused, empowering way, to share connections and ideas, and to support one another in achieving powerful goals in work and life. The Apple Alum Coaching Program will engage alums in an alliance of confidential trust and synergy to solve current business challenges as well as take advantage of opportunities for growth with colleagues who share a common DNA. The connection to the Apple community is still key for many, and this program is the first of its kind to offer a forum of networking and synergistic alliances among Apple Alum who are characteristically “A-players”.
Here are just a few of the many Results and Benefits you can expect when this program is launched:
*Clarify purpose, goals, direction and legacyin your work and life.
*Gain powerful and empowering insights and feedback from kindred, like-minded peers that can propel you forward.
*Create a life of more meaning and authenticity that’s in alignment with who you really are and what you want to do in the world at this stage.
*Address whatever obstacles are holding you back from achieving goals.
*Learn to jettison things in your work or life that may no longer serve you.
*Leverage best practices, tools, and resources to your own advantage.
*Develop (or renew) powerful connections in networking who you can team up with to create even more success during this next phase of your life.
I’m not 100% sure what the platform for delivering this program will be – whether it will be a high-end weekend retreat, a series of networking events, or perhaps a virtual platform, but I do know that it is sorely needed, and as an alum AND a coach, I’m excited about creating the space for it.
Kelli Richards
CEO
The All Access Group, LLC
Like so many, I have my own story about 9/11, one which remains especially poignant for me. I was scheduled to be on Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco, returning from a trip to New York to see two-day concert that Michael Jackson did there to celebrate his 35th anniversary in the business. I had a terrible feeling about going to New York though — and didn’t wind up making the trip at all. I listened to that inner voice, and every day since, I feel that in some not so small way, I’m one of the lucky ones who survived.
Today’s article will be short. It reflects upon one of the most powerful testaments to the age of digital technology. Because of the advances in digital technology, we are able to keep alive the memories of those who lost loved ones on this day, ten years ago – and even more, to broadcast those memories to our nation and to our world. They do not remain locked in a vault somewhere, for eternity, they are instead broadcast to the far corners of the universe through social media.
https://storycorps.org/listen/stories/category/september-11/
For the past five years, StoryCorps and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum have worked to record at least one story to honor each life lost on September 11, 2001, ten years ago today. To date, families and friends have memorialized nearly 600 individual victims of the attacks through the StoryCorps interview process. When the 9/11 Memorial opened this morning, excerpts from 10 of these StoryCorps interviews will be featured at the site.
The gifts of digital technology go one step further. Gratefully, the 9/11 Memorial Guide is available through a new iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone app, which visitors to the Memorial will download before visiting the site. This app will allow visitors to search the names arrangement of the Memorial and present select StoryCorps interviews, which help illustrate the enormity of the loss on 9/11 through the personal remembrances of families who lost loved ones on that day. The app will feature StoryCorps stories from each of the nine groups of victims memorialized at the site: WorldTradeCenter(North), WorldTradeCenter(South), the Pentagon, Flight 93, Flight 77, Flight 175, Flight 11.
May the memories of those lost be preserved and shared.
Kelli Richards,
CEO of The All Access Group, LLC
https://storycorps.org/listen/stories/category/september-11/
I was recently speaking to one of my clients about high points of our careers, and I wanted to share one with you all.
I’ve had the chance to work on some really amazing projects over the years. I got to be part of the team that launched music at Apple, I’ve helped produce the PollStar Awards show year after year, with my good friend Steve Macfadyen (see our recent interview), and I’ve been part of the team on some amazing, very private, celebrity gigs.
These are often private fundraisers for a celebrity’s own foundation or choice pick charity. One of these was the “Open Hearts – Clear Mines” Adopt-a-Minefield benefit concert given by Sir Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson, where they joined together and sang, “God Only Knows.”
The concert and the song definitely live in my mind as one of the most moving and inspiring events that I ever participated in. Although there isn’t any video from the event to really speak of, there is a snippet of it in an Access Hollywood interview, speaking with Sir Paul and host, Jay Leno, about the event. (See below.)
As an event Producer and Celebrity Wrangler, it’s events like these that become knots in the thread of one’s life. I’m proud to have been part of that moment. To donate to Adopt-a-Minefield, go to https://www.landmines.org/Page.aspx?pid=374
Kelli Richards, CEO, The All Access Group, LLC
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