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Joel Zeff Offers a unique blend of improvisational comedy and essential ideas on work and life Creates an environment for his audience to take risks and explore their creativity Expert at making his audiences laugh and think Keynote Fee : $5,001 - $10,000 (fee includes expenses)  Fee Note Travels From: TX ADD SPEAKER TO LIST  |   PRINT BIO   |  PREVIEW VIDEO

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The Strength of Laughter: Energizing your Spirit with Humor

Most corporations know they need fun, they just don't know how or where to find it. Fun is the most important commodity in the workplace today: Fun increases communication, productivity, teamwork and creativity. Fun gives us the energy to reduce stress and overcome challenges. Fun produces passion for our jobs. The Strength of Laughter, one of Zeff's most popular topics, focuses on reducing stress, increasing creativity and creating a renewed passion for our jobs. He highlights the importance of play in our work lives to create balance. During the session, he takes the audience on a hilarious journey using interactive audience surprises. You will walk away from his session smiling, motivated and rejuvenated.

Creativity in Communication: Yes, They Go Together

This interactive and hilarious session focuses on the marriage between creativity and communication, examining key skills such as trust, listening, teamwork, risk-taking, confidence, positive environment and openness and flexibility to change. Part of the session focuses on the importance of a relaxed mind, increasing the possibilities, and overcoming fears and barriers to the creative process. The second part of the session builds on the symbiotic relationship between creativity and communication. Zeff discusses detailed, positive and flexible communication. Participants learn the value and significance of not only more creative communication, but communication in the creative process.

Learning to Think Without a Script (Creativity and Teamwork)

Do you need a creative jump-start? Do you want to focus on the skills that make teams successful? Are you looking to motivate your team and create passion and fun? This interactive workshop uses improvisational games and exercises to have fun, increase creativity, teamwork and problem solving. This intensive session examines key team skills such as trust, listening, communication, risk-taking, confidence, positive environment and openness and flexibility to change. The workshop weaves the creative process into the team concept, examining the significance of working together to create ideas. The exercises allow the participants to discover for themselves how teamwork and creativity increases productivity, makes us happier and builds personal and corporate success. In longer workshops, participants learn how to break down barriers in their creative process and how to increase their "possibility" box.

Make the Right Choice: Taking Ownership and
Responsibility for your Happiness and Success

In Make the Right Choice, Joel shares his experience and insight on creativity, communication, teamwork, passion, and fun. With wit, a sharp observational eye, and playful irreverence, he discusses the choices we all encounter in our careers. We each have the ability to take initiative and make the right choice to live a more creative, passionate, effective, and productive life.

Marketing/Sales Without a Script

Customers are unpredictable. You never know what they are going to say. You never seem to know exactly what they will want. How do you prepare yourself? How do you deal with the constant change? Zeff uses improvisational exercises in this fun and fast-paced session, pointing his messages directly toward sales and marketing executives. Through the laughter, executives learn the idea behind 50/50 communication; high-focus listening; and the importance of creating a positive environment. Other skills discussed include dealing with change; creating opportunity for team members; reducing stress and taking away the fear of risks. These skills will help sales and marketing executives become more productive, more creative and more passionate about their jobs.

Team Building for People Who Hate Team Building

Tired of team building games that are silly? Tired of college kids leading your employees in games that have no message and no application to your business? Are you tired of building boats with cardboard and dental floss? Joel's sessions are about team skills including communication, positive support, creating opportunity, leadership, listening, trust, initiative, openness, flexibility and creativity. His sessions involve the entire audience by creating a positive and comfortable environment. He leads participants in hilarious improvisational exercises that are fun, easy and perfect for any level of employee. After each exercise, Joel creates a dialogue with the participants to discuss the messages learned and how to apply them. Joel promises there will be no boat building in this session.

Event Entertainment

Zeff uses a unique blend of improvisational and traditional comedy for his event entertainment. His comedy is hilarious, interactive and perfect for any corporate audience. The same dynamic energy and audience interaction, which make his keynotes so engaging, works perfectly as pure entertainment. He can also customize his entertainment performances to include key managers and audience members. His entertainment is perfect for after-dinner, entertaining employees and spicing up conferences. Want to add more power to the entertainment? Zeff can include some of his key messages to performance.

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Speaker Information

Joel Zeff creates energy. His spontaneous humor and vital messages have thrilled audiences for years. As a national speaker and humorist, he captivates audiences with a unique blend of hilarious improvisational comedy and essential ideas on work and life. Corporations and organizations nationwide seek him out to motivate and energize their employees on such topics as creativity, communication, teamwork, passion and fun.

A former newspaper journalist and public relations executive, Zeff started his own consulting business in 1994. His business initially focused on helping technology and telecommunications companies with marketing, advertising and public relations. As he came in contact with so many corporate cultures, he noticed the glaring need for employees to have more fun and reenergize their creative spirit.

Since 1993, Zeff has performed with Ad-Libs, one of the country's premier improvisational comedy troupes. He performs with Ad-Libs at the troupe's theater in Downtown Dallas and across the country for corporate events. As an improvisational actor, he studied for a short time at the famed Second City Conservatory in Chicago, Illinois.

Zeff fuses his knowledge of improvisation and his experience with the corporate world to create presentations that make a difference. His humor and style create a positive and comfortable environment for his audience that allows them to take risks and explore their creativity. His funny and poignant presentations have been met with roaring approval from hundreds of companies and organizations and thousands of audience members. Zeffl makes audiences laugh, but he also makes them think. Participants discover for themselves how to apply his messages to become better people and better employees.

When he is not speaking, Zeff explores his own creativity and communication skills as an actor and writer. In Dallas, he was most recently seen as co-host of The Movie Zone on UPN 21. He has appeared in commercials for Mydiscountbroker.com, Time Warner Cable, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Eagle Country Markets, and Extraco Bank. He has completed corporate videos for Hewlett-Packard, EDS, Andersen, Nortel Networks, Applebee's, Todays Staffing, and the Dallas Conventions and Visitors Bureau.

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Testimonials

"You brought to us exactly what we were looking for on Saturday morning: a super way to start the day with humor, fun insights into ourselves, and an inspiring tone to set the mood for the day. And then the breakout session was equally well received - according to the evaluations and the comments. Bottom line: they all loved you! You made us think, smile, act and laugh!"

- The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

"Joel was a huge success at the Legal Division's Staff Development Conference last week. It was the highlight of the conference. The participants were there to heighten their skill level in various areas, not expecting to partake in such an entertaining, humorous and thought-provoking event. The Legal Division's staff is very conservative, but Joel had everyone laughing hysterically within five minutes. His powerful message was very well received."

- FDIC

"Your messages were right on target and, just as importantly, the forum in which they were delivered kept everyone engaged and entertained. I have to tell you that it was truly the best "motivational speaker" type presentation I've ever seen!"

- American Heart Association

"I don't think (our managers) stopped smiling for a week after the meeting. Your quick wit and positive attitude really got them going. Your program allowed for 115 very diverse individuals to look at their work and work relationships from a new perspective. I think the result is a much more positive and creative management team."

- Boeing Defense & Space