Biography

Greg Bennick’s “Get Involved!” presentations blend laugh-out-loud comedy, eye-popping juggling, fun audience participation, and a powerful message about personal transformation. Greg’s clients include Fortune 1000 companies, associations, universities, and other groups worldwide. With over 20 years of professional entertainment and speaking experience, Greg Bennick is a guaranteed sure-fire hit with groups of all sizes and backgrounds. When you want to engage your entire group in a fun and unforgettable experience, look no further. Greg is the perfect fit for meeting planners who want to entertain and empower their people. Nobody wants to be talked at. Greg listens to your audience, delighting them with his clean humor, and creating a fantastic feeling of positive transformation for all attendees.

Greg creates a visual display of words and action every time he takes the stage. It’s the synthesis of ideas and action that makes him unique. His approach to audiences and clients is unique and visionary. He connects with individuals with sincerity, focus, and a sense of humor. Its a great combination.

Greg Bennick is:

• A master at customizing his humor & message around your goals.
• One of the most dynamic emcees in North America.
• Among the top comedy/variety performers in the world.
• A powerful motivator with a transformational message: “Get Involved!”

  Greg’s message will be customized around your people and your event goals.

Program Themes: Ideas. Impact. Innovation.

Ideas.

Greg Bennick makes people laugh while inviting them to think. He speaks about getting involved in ideas, leadership, and creativity. He follows up his words with actions: he recently returned from a humanitarian aid trip from Haiti where he was part of the crew for the Schooner Liberty. They were one of the first private vessels to arrive in the south of Haiti after the earthquake, and were able to deliver ten thousand pounds of food and medical supplies for distribution amongst people who had yet to see help.

But even more important than “about Greg” is “about your audience”. What the audience takes away from any presentation is what matters most. Did you audience have fun? Are they inspired?

Greg thinks that experiencing a keynote presentation should be ENTERTAINING. He uses entertainment as a vehicle for ideas. He researches his audiences and your group in advance to make every show perfect. Imagine: a presenter who will entertain, educate, and who makes promises and then delivers on them? Yes, there is one and you found him.

Impact.

Greg will customize his presentation to your event’s theme in order to maximize the overall impact. As a motivational keynote speaker, Greg does more than just make people laugh: he empowers and inspires. Greg speaks from experience. He has been called upon to be a guest speaker before an enormous range of clients from all walks of life, including TEDxPugetSound (an idea conference devoted to sharing innovation), Fortune 500 companies, major universities, and public audiences worldwide.

Innovation.

Greg creates a visual display of words and action every time he takes the stage. It’s the synthesis of ideas and action that makes him unique. His approach to audiences and clients is unique and visionary. He connects with individuals with sincerity, focus, and a sense of humor. Its a great combination.

Program Titles

• Get Involved! : Turn Creativity Into Action
• Intensity and Compassion: Lessons Learned From a Life in Punk Rock
• Get Involved! : One Hundred For Haiti

When not on tour around the world, Greg Bennick offers entertaining presentations as a keynote speaker for meetings and special events worldwide. If you’re a meeting planner, you know that you need new ideas – but not just in the form of words. You need ideas and entertainment all at once so that you can capture the attention of your audience. From the stage or amidst your audience, your presenter needs to be interactive.

Greg offers new ideas about serving people more effectively, managing the unexpected, dealing with change, and how to handle a life in constant motion. And the best part, he grabs the attention of his audiences by using juggling as a metaphor in his keynote speaking. Of course, he can customize this core concepts to include messages specific to your event. In his keynotes, Greg explores the idea that it is people not profits that drive success. Its time for all of us to redefine what “success” means and how we achieve it, moving towards serving others rather than being served BY them.

Greg can also include topics important to YOUR organization. Ask about customizing his message, and about having Greg be your speaking coach and creative consultant. He also offers presentations and themes in the following key areas:

CUSTOMER SERVICE: A Juggling Act – Gone are the days when we could just SELL to people and think we could get away with it, marketing anything at anytime to consumers. This is a new era. We need to listen to people, and be willing to adapt to their whims. Consumers have learned to choose the colors of their products, and now people are trained to want that way in all areas of the customer experience. Greg offers insight into how creating relationships with the people you serve, developing a sense of community on a larger scale, and adapting to sudden change can lead to new levels of success…and a different kind of success than simply profit.

TEAMWORK: An Individual Experience – The success of any organization is dependent on how its people work together. In this keynote, Greg uses his proven techniques of audience participation to demonstrate how effective we can be when we work together. but from the perspective of knowing ourselves. How can we transform being let down by others in the past to being inspired to try again in order to work together effectively? Teamwork demands vigilance, patience, commitment, and determination. Most importantly, its teamwork WITH the people we serve not in opposition to them that yields truly sustainable alliances. Learning points: self esteem and its role in our interactions; from where do interpersonal conflicts emerge; and how to resolve those conflicts when they flare up.

COMMUNICATION: The Foundation of Any Team – For any team to succeed, clear communication is at the core of their success. Greg brings two decades of research into communication styles along with comedy and entertainment to share insights about communicating with your group. Everyone will learn something by the end of the keynote, and everyone takes part. People who have felt disempowered will gain a greater sense of their value as individuals. And those who have disempowered them will have shifts in perspective that will bring new clarity.

LEADERSHIP: To Listen is to Lead – We often think of leaders as having powerful voices, but the best and brightest leaders are actually the greatest listeners. We explore, through audience participation and laughter, the core concepts of being an effective listener as part of a team and how that leads to outstanding leadership. Greg’s real life experience with leadership includes the World Leaders Project, an initiative Greg started that had him meeting face to face with world leaders to discuss dynamics of power, control, and effective balance. You need a speaker who talks the talk and walks the walk. And one who can be funny in the midst of important ideas. Greg is all of those in one.

CHANGE: Managing the Unexpected – Change is an inevitability, and as long as we are in the right mindset, we will be ready for anything and prepared to take action. As a juggler for almost thirty years, Greg is an expert at change: every ball flies in a different direction. How do we manage change? What perspectives to we need? Using laughter and entertainment as a vehicle, Greg delivers answers to these important questions in his incredible keynote. Learning points include new perspectives on ‘dropping the ball’™ and failure; how to continue even in the midst of setbacks; and perspectives on the creative process itself and the peaks and valleys it brings
Greg Bennick is a keynote entertainer with unique and specialized messages of empowerment. His presentations offer a return on investment that can be gauged through post-keynote followup surveys that inquire about inspiration and connection to one’s own sense of value.Greg entertains as well as educates. His goalas an entertainer and keynote speaker is to keep every audience engaged and laughing while offering new insights and ideas.

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A note from Greg about his role as a keynote speaker:

“In my keynotes we explore our relationship with the unexpected: how do we respond to it? How do we face challenges when they arise? We’ll customize this theme to your event so attendees learn AND laugh at the same time and feel like the presentation was created just for them.”

“After listening to your presentation, I can truly say that what I remember is life changing.”                 — Cassie Recchio, Green River Community College, 2009

“Greg, you were very easy to work with, you invested a great deal of time in research, preparation and rehearsal, and you greatly exceeded our expectations. You were the perfect choice to be our Atlanta keynote presenter and you are by far the most engaging speaker we’ve ever hired.”                                  — Diane Vanderbilt, Winzer Corporation

“Greg delivered a perfectly executed message related to a very complex product resulting in record sales. He was worth every dollar we spent on his fee.”                                                                                 — David Marco, MARCO Incorporated

“Your performance was extremely effective. We were impressed with your ability to weave our key messages into your presentation in a way that was both humorous and informative.”
— Ron Ostrowski, Boeing Corporation

“Your ability to customize the show to fit the interests of the legal community was outstanding!”
— Elaina Spring, Miller Nash LLC

“Greg created a level of enthusiasm and participation that we have not seen at any of our previous events. It was the best banquet we have had in terms of the audience really getting engaged and we owe that to Greg.
—Jonathan S., EDC Banquet coordinator, 2012