funny motivational speaker and corporate comedian based in Denver, Colorado but travels the world speaking to corporate and association audiences.
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The Best Testimonial I’ve Ever Received
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Raving Fans, keynote speaker on 7 August 2010
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Let’s face it:  corporate meeting and convention audiences are filled with multi-taskers.  A short time go, our greatest distraction as meeting planners and speakers was USATODAY.   Now it’s the fact that there is free wireless in every ballroom, smart phones, and USATODAY.
That’s why this short email from Re/Max international made my day.  (I worked [...]

How To Be A Motivational Speaker (Part 8) Be Authentic
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Colorado Speakers, Mobile Brad, Presentation Tips, Tips for Speakers, Video on 25 June 2010
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How To be A Motivational Speaker | Find your Niche Can Make You Rich
A How-To video series about how to be a motivational speaker.   In this very informal video in which Brad Montgomery — a funny motivational speaker — Brad asks fellow motivational speaker and Colorado speaker Elaine Dumler for a killer tip for folks [...]

Child Protective Services Speaker
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Mobile Brad, Motivational Speakers, Recent Audiences, Video on 17 May 2010
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I just got back from Texas where I was the motivational speaker for a group of social workers for the Child Protection Services.  These are the good people who look out for kids who need it most:  kids in physical danger.  They oversee way too many cases of abused and neglected kids, and do their [...]

Boeing Likes Me! (But still no Space Station)
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Raving Fans, Recent Audiences, Video on 11 May 2010
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If I were trying to pick one motivational speaker among many, I’d want to know:
1. Are they really funny? (Or do they just say they are?)
2. Will my group or organization feel like he “gets” us? Or is he just presenting the same old crap to my audience he delivered last month [...]

Flew on Airbus to Speak to Boeing
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Video on 27 April 2010
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Hey Boeing!   It was a total blast to be part of your event in St. Louis.   As a surprise to you, (How Cool is That!?) here’s a brief follow-up video to remind you of some of the fun stuff we covered when we were together on Last Tuesday.
Here’s an ethical bribe:   leave a comment (scroll [...]

How To Be A Motivational Speaker (Part 7) Find a Niche
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Colorado Speakers, Motivational Speakers on 12 April 2010
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How To be A Motivational Speaker | Reach Your Niche Get Rich
A How-To video series about how to be a motivational speaker.   In this very informal video in which Brad Montgomery — a funny motivational speaker — Brad asks his pal and fellow motivational speaker and Colorado speaker Fred Berns for a killer tip for [...]

How Do You Know if Your Speaker Is Any Good?
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Motivational Speakers, Raving Fans on 5 April 2010
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Here’s a really cool testimonial from my peeps at the Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance.   It feels nice to speak for a client and know their happy afterwards.  Thanks for taking the time, Kenneth!
Here’s what he said.
I’m Ken McCardle and I’m the Vice President Information Technology for Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance.  And we’re right [...]

Third Grade April Fools
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Humor in The Workplace Case Studies on 2 April 2010
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My kiddo’s third grade teacher rocks.   Check out the spelling test that she gave her class yesterday.  (Imagine taking this test…slowly… one word at a time.)
1.   There
2.   Is
3.   Really
4.   No
5.   Test
6.   Today
7.   April
8.   Fools
9.   Ha
10. Ha
11.  Ha
12.  Ha
She  had the kids giggling at #5.   What a great teacher!
What I love is that this awesome [...]

The Grace Effect.
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Motivational Speakers, Random Humor Musings on 25 March 2010
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This is the nicest note I’ve got in a long time:
Based on your seminar when I start thinking what’s next,  I now say “How cool is that?”.    Something new is cool.
Knowing in 2 months I will no longer have a job was stressful but now I am trying to think of it as another way [...]

I Killed at Kaiser Palliative Care Department
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Colorado, Healthcare, Raving Fans, Recent Audiences, Video on 12 March 2010
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Ok. That’s not funny. Yes it is. Well… it depends.
Humor is relative. (No, I don’t mean your relative is funny. I mean that what is funny to some people in some circumstances isn’t funny to others, and that’s OK.)
I recently spoke in Colorado for the Kaiser Permanente Palliative Care department. [...]