Opening session from Kevin Trokey, founding partner at Q4intelligence, at Q4Live networking conference for benefits advisors. Some shifts happen and some we make happen.

1. FTSH
Get Your
Together

2. Remember the year 2000?Do you
remember
the year
2000?

3. For most of us, it doesn’t seem
THAT long ago . .
Oh, but how things have shifted

4. You no longer
memorize
anyone’s phone
number

5. Selfies
are
considered
normal
(mostly)

6. Smoking has vanished from restaurants -
completely

7. But you can light one up in
33 states

8. Kale and quinoa
changed our
eating habits

9. Yet, men weigh
8 lbs more and
women 7 lbs more

10. Back then, CDs had long since taken
over vinyl

11. Now - Vinyl has made a comeback

12. Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

13. But you can light one up in
33 states

14. But, online services dominate

15. If streaming killed physical sales, who
killed the radio star? Who told us?

16. Don’t talk to strangers
Don’t meet strangers on
the internet
Don’t open the door to
strangers
Don’t get in stranger’s cars
THEN

17. We summon
strangers on the
internet to come to
our house for the
purpose of getting in
the car with them
NOW

18. Some SHIFTs just
happen to you
Some you have to
make happen