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 | 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

North American Farmers Direct Marketing Association!  We’ll have a blast in Lancaster.   Check out the video below for a short welcome from me, your keynote speaker.    (I’ll also be doing the full-day session on Feb. 10th.)
What do YOU want to learn? Questions?   Topics you want to make sure we cover?   Leave a comment below [...]

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 recently worked for the top managers at the Marriot’s Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri.  It was a total honor…. and a blast.
We talked about customer service, and how the ultimate goal would to make such an amazing experience for each guest that it would be a story;   a story so compelling they [...]

How To Be A Motivational Speaker Tips   Choosing a Topic
Here’s another one of my tips on how to be a motivational speaker. Today I talk about how to choose your topic. Questions? Leave them in a comment below and I’ll answer them in a video.

Learn more about how to be a motivational [...]

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 [...]