As I blogged earlier this week, I was recently invited to do my motivational humorist speaker thing in Washington for Microsoft.  
After they booked me, I called the meeting planner and explained that, “I have some PowerPoint slides, but they are on a Mac.”   “No sweat, our creative people often use Macs…you’ll be fine.” [...]

If you think levity and lightheartedness are important to corporate America, join the crowd.  In particular, join the folks at Microsoft Finance North America. 

I worked with this group recently in Seattle, Washington and, like most of my favorite clients, I learned at least as much from them as they learned from me.
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Ok, not exactly. While doing a motivational seminar on humor in the workplace at a school in the Farmington Unified School District, (New Mexico) I met a ton of principals and other administrators who really liked the idea of “play” at work. We looked at ways humor and levity can make any environment [...]

…and he learned how to be funny.
If you think humor is just for kids, shame on you.
Where most corporate types go wrong is in assuming that humor = jokes.  Or clown noses.  Or punchlines.  Fun can come in many different shapes, forms and places.
I recently returned from a motivational seminar on humor in the [...]

My most recent client was Craneware. Craneware is a:
…leading supplier of business intelligence and revenue cycle software that provides clients with chargemaster management software and products designed to optimize legitimate reimbursements and assist in managing the revenue cycle through better information, workflow, pricing strategy, capture of lost revenue and best practice modeling.
I barely know [...]

The military Uncle Sam that is!
I’m not gonna get into whether or not the current war is a great idea or not. But, one thing is certain: our men and women in the military are worthy of the utmost respect. They sacrifice a lot for their families — and us — and place [...]

Ok, I admit it. I enjoy some of my motivational speaker jobs more than others. Working with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota was one of the dates that I loved.
Why? There were several reasons. I really enjoyed that I got a tour of the Mayo campus from two of the [...]

Wouldn’t that be funny? But of course it isn’t the truth.
The real story was that a while back I worked for a bunch of Microsoft managers in Dallas recently. You can check out the details of this presentation here.
What’s better than being a motivational speaker? Being a speaker who gets good [...]

Yesterday, I did my motivational humorist thing for the good folks at Stewart Title of Colorado Springs. It was a great group, and a fun group and a wonderful day.
One of the main reasons this group invited me to speak to them is that they needed (and I mean needed) to laugh. Over [...]

Laugh. And laugh some more.
I recently spent some time with a very old friend, Lindsey Pahs, in Las Vegas. (Nope, he isn’t a speaker… he is an educator.) What was really cool is that we laughed. And then we laughed some more. I cannot remember laughing MORE on [...]