Greg Bennick
Global Keynote Speaker, Interactive Comedian, Event Emcee & Host
Greg Bennick
Global Keynote Speaker, Interactive Comedian, Event Emcee & Host
Biography
Greg Bennick can be the after-dinner comedic act that makes the conference memorable for years, or he can be the keynote speaker who drives your points home with his own unique style. Greg Bennick works with you to deliver impact! As a keynote speaker, he uses clean comedy and explores new ideas around community and creativity. Two of his most popular topics are “You Matter” about enhancing self-esteem through the recognition of the value of our work, and “Fail Better” in which he discusses success as the result of a series of failures expertly managed.
He integrates award-winning comedy, audience interaction, incredible juggling, powerful magic effects, and unbelievable mind reading into his presentations to create a visual display which helps the ideas really sink in.
Greg is the Founder and Executive Director of international humanitarian aid organization One Hundred For Haiti and can offer perspectives on development, both personally and socially in a rapidly changing world.
A two-time humorous speaking champion, Greg engages and inspires your audience while making them laugh. He has spent over thirty years on stage and has connected with audiences live in over twenty-five countries in the last decade, and of course virtual presentations are available via Zoom, Skype, Facebook live, telepathy, and any other mode you can imagine.
His topics range from new angles on team building and the psychology of how to manage crisis and conflict, leadership, and communication…and how self-doubt limits wide-ranging expansion. Based in Seattle, he’s been flown everywhere from Syracuse to Singapore to share his unique brand of engaging ideas.
Have an event or a need to inspire a group, especially during such uncertain times? Explore one of Greg’s acclaimed themes, or let’s hear your event theme idea and we’ll create a custom presentation for you around your idea and need. Recent examples include “The Power of One / The Power of the Team” and “Pivot to Win It: How to Manage Change.”
Speech Topics
Build a Better Now®
If you want to build a better future,, let’s build a better now. Teams are constantly distracted. We are in conversations with only half of our attention. We let the distractions of the world lead us off track. We can stay on-target, inspired, actionable and intentional, and focused on our goals and on the clear mission of the organization.
How do we find FOCUS, and why do we let it slip away? We can do better. Honed from decades of working with clients who have faced challenges like yours, Greg draws from concepts in psychology, business theory, and sociology to help your team build efficiency, increase performance, and drive organizational success. He draws from the seven strategies in his best-selling book and customizes his keynote around the problem area that is challenging your team most: pessimism, distraction, feeling defeated, being overwhelmed by possibility, weakened team dynamics, disconnected leadership, or problems in communication. The journey towards the future we want is going to be filled with high highs and low lows, but staying on that path through it all is essential. The work we do matters.
Greg takes time with each client to adapt his theme for maximum impact as we work to eliminate distractions.
From this keynote, audiences will:
- Learn the value of shared goals, support, and teamwork
- Develop a sense of why connection with those around us matters
- Be inspired to stay focused and maintain that FOCUS
Fail Better: Don’t Be Afraid to Drop the Ball
Greg is a juggler who is fascinated by gravity as a metaphor: by dropping objects he learns constantly to manage failure. When he first jumped out of an airplane he learned how falling can lead to greatness.
What do we learn about success from seemingly constant failures? The Seattle Times called Greg “A juggler of objects and concepts” and went on to say, “A juggler and inspirational speaker: it’d be hard for anybody to balance such extremes, but Bennick seems to do it with grace.”
What do you learn about success from a path where the journey is filled with mistakes? For a juggler, there is no escaping gravity. Along the way Greg has learned about focus and creative courage, facing picking objects up and continuing on even when the path doesn’t seem clear. “Fail better,” a phrase often taken from Samuel Beckett’s writings about failing again and again and again, is a great image to use when connected with juggling.
From this keynote, audiences will:
- Understand that fear of making mistakes often prevents us from immense success
- Enjoy an interactive and funny presentation customized to their group
- Be inspired through learning that they are not alone in their struggles and can face them as a team!
Emcee
You’ve worked so hard to plan your event, and now you can place your trust in Greg to make sure it all goes perfectly. As an emcee, Greg brings fun and audience engagement to your event while focusing on Ideas. Interaction and Inspiration. He works with meeting planners like you to create brilliance. Greg has decades of experience onstage as a professional event emcee in every possible performing scenario. As you know, anything that can go wrong…might! But with Greg onstage as your event emcee and host, every situation will be handled and the audience will be none the wiser. If someone is late, or a cue is early, or an onstage session runs long, Greg will have you covered.
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