Funny Motivational Speaker - A diamond in the rough

Funny Motivational Speaker - A diamond in the rough

Thanks to everyone in Arlington, Ohio for inviting me as your keynote speaker - I can now say I've been there :-) Your executive team, senior managers, sales team, partners and all leaders were simply exceptional and I was thrilled to be at the annual National Lime and Stone company event. Amongst all the quarries and mines we all find a few diamonds or nuggets that we could take back, apply to what we do and put the polish on our "SHOWTIME" attributes.

We had so many laughs in addition to digging into the passion of what you all represent. I feel great when I receive so many personal emails in response as well. It helps me realize that one by one we are making a difference.

Here's a great email following - that I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to send. I hope to see you all again in the near future.

Jon

"You were at NLS today and I thought you were fantastic. Although I told you before you left I just wanted you to know again how inspiring you were to me. You know to be happy with my job makes the people around me happy, I so believe that. Thanks for a great motivational hour!!! You were great!!!"

Motivational Keynote speaker for American Health Network

Motivational Keynote speaker for American Health Network:


While some events I have planned years in advance, I thank Nancy for contacting me two weeks ahead of time for this one. Now, it wasn't last minute planning on their part, it was the fact that their keynote speaker regretfully had to back out due to travel conflicts.


So with two weeks to plan and after a few phone calls, off I went to get the group charged up for their "Rodeo Roundup" theme. Thankfully, all went wonderfully. It was a great group that responded fabulously and I always appreciate a nice letter from a client. So thank you Nancy for sharing your thoughts following. I hope to work with you again.

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Dear Jon,


You are such a force for good. I’ve mentioned before that our group is a tough crowd on the best of days and you REALLY were able to reach them… we appreciate your entertaining, witty, subtle yet direct style of motivating others to lead. Simply put… you’re FANTASTIC.

Regards,

Nancy A. Madru

Manager of Marketing

American Health Network

Motivational Speaker for all employee celebration

I love being asked to be the motivational speaker for companies having record years. The people are always in great moods and excited to be there. This was certainly no exception.

Yup - believe it or not some are having record years still through the ups and downs of our non-stop economic news and unemployment figures. So many congratulations to CallCopy in Columbus, Ohio who have not only been amongst the fastest growing companies in Ohio the past two years but ALSO ranked as one of the "Best Places To Work" by Business First newspapers.

To be a Best Place to work you really need a team full of passionate people and thank is exactly what we talked about. How to combine the passion and teamwork to continue to excel. While I realize you've hit numbers that past two years....but NOW WHAT? What does it take to continue? How can we continue to think different about the solutions we offer and how they impact our customers business?

It was a great crowd and a great response. Thanks to all who were in attendance and made it such a wonderful event.

Corporate magician equals - a fun time of year to be an entertainer

ABSOLUTELY there are groups still having events for the holidays and what they wanted was a corporate magician! This past weekend working for the Dept of Education, ITT Technical Institute, American Family Insurance and private CEO client of a software company.

All of the events entailed the primary objective of "these people have worked hard. Please just let them laugh for a while." And that we did. ABSOLUTELY hysterical. I even brought along a new member of my team; Gordon, the mind reading goose....yeah really.

Thanks to all the great people I met and all the laughs we had. I appreciate the opportunity to be a part of your special events.

**And for those wondering. The US Dept of Education event was funded by employee dollars - not your tax dollars.**

Off to Reno Nevada today to work with BASF for a couple days then back home to Ohio for the remainder of the year. And what a year it has been!