Joel Zeff creates energy. His spontaneous humor and vital messages have thrilled audiences for years. As a national workplace expert, speaker, author and humorist, Joel captivates audiences with a unique blend of hilarious improvisational comedy and essential ideas on work and life. He has shared his experience and insight on creativity, communication, work/life balance, leadership, teamwork, passion, and fun with more than 1,200 companies and organizations.
His new book, Make the Right Choice: Creating a Positive, Innovative and Productive Work Life is consistently listed as one of the top work/life balance books on Amazon. He has appeared on CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, the Fox Network’s Fox and Friends Weekend and been featured in the Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, The Kansas City Star, and many other media outlets.
Joel 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. Joel 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, Joel 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.
TOPICS:
• Make the Right Choice: Taking Ownership and Responsibility for your Happiness and Success
• Make the Right Choice: Leading Teams during Change with Passion and Success
• Make the Right Choice: Energizing your Spirit with Humor
• Make the Right Choice: Communicate with Passion, Creativity and Energy
• Make the Right Choice: Learning to Think without a Script
• Team Building for People Who Hate Team Building
• Event Entertainment and Emcee (Comedy)
CLIENT QUOTES:
”You were a star and did just the right thing. Throughout the conference I heard so many great comments
and saw people laughing as they reenacted some of your presentation. A number of people seemed
interested in hiring you. An added benefit of having someone great is that you make the committee look
great! Thank you so much. “
– International Society of Restaurant Association Executives (ISRAE)
”I can't thank you enough for the excellent session you led for us in Germany. The feedback has been
outstanding. Your messages about leadership, communication and positive reinforcement were right
on the money. “
– BearingPoint
”The ability to create laughter is one of the greatest gifts a person can possess – and it is one you have
in abundance. I want to thank you for not only bringing laughter to our meeting, but also for giving
us a great deal to think about as we left. You said things that my team needed to hear, and I greatly
appreciate it. “
– KPMG
”Employees are still talking about how much of an impact you had and how fun your presentation was.
You definitely exceeded expectations. I loved the fun and humor as I know our employees did also. It's
great how you tie the experiences from the stage back to everyone's day-to-day work and home life. “
– Sabre
”You certainly were the hit of the conference! People are still talking about your presentation. During
the remainder of the conference, several speakers made reference to the messages you shared with us
on Tuesday. I've never seen such an impact on an audience. I was sitting in the front row and when
you would deliver your message after each skit, I would turn to look at the audience and they were all
engaged. You had their attention from the moment you started until the moment you ended. It was
awesome! “
– United States Treasury – Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
PARTIAL CLIENT LIST:
Alliant Credit Union
Allstate Insurance
American Airlines Federal Credit Union
Bank of America
Bank One
Capitol Federal Savings
Chase Bank of Texas
Comerica Bank
Continental Investors
Eli Lilly Federal Credit Union
Federal Reserve Bank of Texas
Gallagher Bassett
General Technologies Credit Union
Great Plains Ag credit
H&R Block
H.D. Vest
Lincoln Financial
Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association
Merrill Lynch
Nations Bank
Nationwide Health Plans
Premier Lease and Loan Services
Providian Financial Group
Randolph Brooks Federal Credit Union
Red River Credit Union League
SCF Arizona
SEI Investments
Southwest Securities
STAR Financial Bank (IN)
Stonebridge Life Insurance
Sunset Mortgage
Texas Credit Union League
TIG Insurance
UNIFI Companies
Washington Mutual
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
WSFS Bank (Delaware)
TOPIC DESCRIPTIONS:
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.
Make the Right Choice: Leading Teams during Change with Passion and Success
It’s hard to have fun and stay passionate at work during stressful times. Your employees build stress after each media report about economic challenges. Business today means surviving and thriving during a merger, layoff or the all encompassing “restructuring.” How do managers continue to motivate and energize employees during difficult times? Managers must help employees stay in the game; work in the moment; and take ownership of their happiness.
Make the Right Choice: 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.
Make the Right Choice: Communicate with Passion, Creativity and Energy
This interactive and hilarious session helps employees and managers communicate more effectively with each other and with their customers. Attendees will examine key skills such as trust, listening, teamwork, risk-taking, confidence, positive environment and openness and flexibility to change.
Make the Right Choice: Learning to Think without a Script
This session on creativity and teamwork can help employees and managers with a creative jump-start. During the presentation, Joel will focus on the skills that make teams more successful. This interactive presentation 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 session weaves the creative process into the team concept, examining the significance of working together to create ideas, solve problems and build success. 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.
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 and Emcee (Comedy)
Joel uses a unique blend of improvisational and traditional comedy for his event entertainment. His comedy is clean, hilarious, interactive and perfect for any corporate audience. Joel uses the same dynamic energy and audience interaction for his entertainment performances as his keynotes. Joel can also customize his presentation to include your theme, key ideas, products, managers and audience members. His entertainment is perfect for after-dinner, to break up a long day of education sessions or as quick energy bursts. Want to add more power to the entertainment? Joel can include some of his key messages to performance.
TRAVELS FROM: Texas
FEE CATEGORY: C ($10.5-15k)
