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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Get off Your CASE and Do Something!
I’m just back from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Region VI) in St. Louis, Missouri.  We had a great time talking about how those people in the Advancement Professionals  — a job title that still cracks me up — can incorporate humor, levity and lightheartedness in [...]

I was flattered to speak at a diabetes forum in Canon City, Colorado recently.  I love my job as a speaker.  And I love being a Colorado Speaker because I live here.  (Yay, no airplanes today!)
But this one was personal:  my daughter has Type 1 Diabetes.  This is a big deal, requires constant vigilance, and [...]

I just got back form Richmond, Indiana (near Indianapolis, Indiana) where I spoke to the entire staff of First Bank Richmond.  They have been going through some tough times lately— and not just the general strife all of the banking industry is enduring.  They just updated some huge systems, and the process has been good [...]

Years ago I did school assembly program called the Magic of Books.  It’s a motivational literacy program —
I use magic and comedy to demonstrate the cool things you can learn through reading.
I did at least 800 shows, and over 200 schools — nearly all of them in my home state of Colorado.  Recently, I donated [...]

I dare you. Turn each guest’s visit to your hotel into a story.
Ok, for the rest of you, allow me to explain. I just spoke to a fine group of hoteliers in Las Vegas. LodgingHost Corporation had me come to Las Vegas to speak to their managers and administrators.
By now, you’d have [...]

I recently had the good luck to speak the the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s national conference in Denver, Colorado.  They convention had a couple of thousand people, but my audience had about 800 caregivers.
I always enjoy my job, but this keynote speech was a treat.  Because it was personal.  As you’ll see in [...]