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 [...]

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, [...]

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Mobile Post: Posted on-the-go by Brad Montgomery from his iPhone.

Now we can blog on-the-go from our phones. Look for more speaking tips and tricks.
In the meantime you can check out the awesome speaking skills of my son presenting his science fair project.

- Posted by Brad Montgomery from my iPhone

Dear readers:  no, I’m not on probation.  No I haven’t ever been caught up in the justice system.  But I did recently get hired to be a funny motivational speaker for a bunch of fine probation pros based in the Chicago, Illinois area.  (Though oddly we went to Wisconsin to have the event.)
It was a [...]

I was a fish out of water … and into the cow pie. It was Green Acres meets Tony Robbins. It was City-Slickers-meets-Deepak-Chopra.
Okay, it was none of the above. But it was fun.
I recently returned from Kansas where I was tasked with being a motivational speaker for a [...]

I recently blogged about how one of my clients (The Air Force) was able to make up some missing budget by partnering with their convention hotel. Read that article here.
The Renaissance Hotel in St. Louis was as happy with the arrangement as the Air Force was.   I was thrilled.
Check out this video [...]

What are you doing today to create fun and joy in your life. I speak to groups as a motivational speakerall across the country about how happiness at work is directly related to a better work product. And I talk a lot about fun. But in this short video I [...]

Howdy USDA Farm Service Folks.  I loved being your speaker in South Dakota a short while back. I wanted to check in with you, and made a special video JUST for you.  (Ain’t that special!)
I seem a bit squished in the video… must pushed the wrong button on the video camera.  But hey, it’s easier [...]

Ok.  So it has nothing to do with the rest of my work.  But I couldn’t stop laughing.

Duck out of water? Holy Rapper, Batman. Sometimes we just have to stick with our strengths. But if this group would have followed that advice we wouldn’t have this totally great example [...]