funny motivational speaker and corporate comedian based in Denver, Colorado but travels the world speaking to corporate and association audiences.
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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. [...]

How To Be a Motivational Speaker (Part 6) Add Humor
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Comedians, Motivational Speakers on 7 March 2010
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What to Do When Your Humor Fails
Here is Part 6 of the continuing series about how to be a motivational speaker. In this video, Brad Montgomery discusses adding humor to your presentation. (And if you want to be a paid professional speaker, you’ll need to be funny — if you want to get [...]

Get Off Your Butt — (And put on your skis?)
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Brad Holds Forth!, Colorado, Mobile Brad on 22 February 2010
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My kids and wife wanted to go skiing. I didn’t.  I’ve been on the road traveling as a motivational speaker to Florida and Pennsylvania, I wanted to sit home, eat Cheetos, watch the Olympics and veg out.   But I’m glad I went skiing…my family was right.  Doing ANYTHING beats doing nothing nearly all of the [...]

How to Be a Motivational Speaker (Part 5) Add Humor
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Humor Tips for Speakers, Motivational Speakers, Presentation Tips, Tips for Speakers, Video on 16 February 2010
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How To be A Motivational Speaker | Humor Tips — Give the Audience a Voice
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 explains the simple technique of Giving the Audience a Voice.   It’s a guaranteed humor [...]

Re/Max
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Recent Audiences, Video on 5 February 2010
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Hey Re/Max! Thanks so much for inviting me to work with you last week.  We had a great time here in Denver. Here’s a quick
reminder video I created just for you.
Today can be a great day at work — for you and the people you’re leading.  But the only way to guarantee that it [...]

How To Be a Motivational Speaker (Part 4) Adding Humor
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Humor Tips for Speakers, Motivational Speakers, Presentation Tips, Tips for Speakers, Video on 3 February 2010
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Be A Motivational Speaker!
How to be funny on the platform:   a specific technique

Here is Part 6 of the continuing series about how to be a motivational speaker. In this video, Brad Montgomery discusses adding humor to your presentation. (And if you want to be a paid professional speaker, you’ll need to be funny — if [...]

Contest — Caption for the Monk!
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Random Humor Musings, laughter on 29 January 2010
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I took this photo while going through Denver International Airport.  Got this shot off before a TSA guy “asked” me to knock that off.  (I wanted to get one from a different angle, but couldn’t get the guy to let me.  (I did make the TSA guy laugh…but I couldn’t get him to “look the [...]

How To Be a Motivational Speaker (Part 3) Speech Template
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Humor Tips for Speakers, Motivational Speakers, Presentation Tips, Tips for Speakers on 26 January 2010
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How To be A Motivational Speaker | Template for a Keynote Speech
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 explains the simple format (or template) for creating a motivational keynote speech.      Interested in exactly how you [...]

It’s Up to Them. (And You Are Them!)
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Brad Holds Forth! on 21 January 2010
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Okay Peeps!   You asked for it, you got it!  Here’s my latest ‘Brad Spouts Off’ episode direct from the Center for Humor in the Workplace Case Studies.  (Ok, you caught me… we filmed it in my office.)
Are you eager for a better workplace vibe, (oooh!   what a fancy business buzzword!) more freedom to have fun, [...]

Brad’s Rant — The Transcription
By Brad Montgomery
Posted in Motivational Speakers on 21 January 2010
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For you non-video folks, here’s the text of the video in my post here.
Hey, this is Brad Montgomery from BradMontgomery.com with the message of the day.  Here it comes.  You are they.
Let me explain.  All right, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone into organizations and I hear from the top line leaders, [...]