Juliet Funt
Hilarious, High-Energy & Instantly Applicable

The Problem: Your conference attendees are BUSY BUSY BUSY! They are stressed out and can barely clear enough mental space to look through their conference binders.

The Solution: Juliet Funt, a high-energy and hilarious motivational keynote speaker who will help them smile, relax, and crack the code of productive and peaceful balance.

Most of your conference attendees have the same complaint; "Too much to do and Too little time." The demands placed on them are more weighty than ever. They attend your conferences hoping to learn skills to help them regain control, but they are so overwhelmed with information, they sometimes leave more stressed than when they arrived. But now YOU can be the hero for your conference attendees. You can bring them the antidote to this Culture of Insatiability. Juliet Funt specializes in helping people deal with the pressures of everyday life. She makes them laugh. She helps them find a sense of accomplishment. She'll send them home with a powerful kit-bag of useful tools and a warm, positive feeling about their work, their life, and your conference.

Based in Los Angeles, California, Juliet is one of America's most sought after professional motivational speakers, inspiring and entertaining business people with topical observations, funny stories, and thought-provoking tips. She is a leading expert on how to find joy, productivity, and peace in a world that gets faster and more demanding every day. But don't confuse Juliet with an ordinary motivational speaker. She's a unique professional, blending 25 years of performing experience with over a decade of personal development expertise. She knows what makes people tick, what blocks their potential, and how to deliver practical takeaway information that your attendees can put to work the very next day.

Yes, she's the daughter of Allen Funt, creator of the Candid Camera television show. And yes, she inherited her father's sense of humor and keen insight into human behavior.

Her programs include:

Overcommitted, Overwhelmed and Over It!
Success Skills for the Blisteringly Busy

Is your to-do list a novel? Is your email inbox jam-packed every morning? Do you find yourself wishing for a fire drill just so you can step away from your desk for 10 minutes?

Don't worry. You are not alone. Life is getting busier and more demanding for everyone these days. In fact, the #1 business lifestyle complaint in the world today is having "too much to do with too little time." And those time-management books aren't much help because they just give you ways to juggle all the work causing the stress. They don't say much about how to actually reduce the stress itself.

What would you give to feel relaxed and light-hearted as you face the challenge of this taxing atmosphere where the pressure never stops increasing? Get ready to smile, because Juliet Funt is about to take you on a fast-paced, story packed, hilarious ride to right where the answers lie. Enjoy stories of how real people have rediscovered the excitement of tackling the challenges of work and savoring those precious moments with family and friends. Laugh at the absurdities of the business world and how it drives some people bonkers. Learn the simple but powerful strategies that enable you to manage your in-box, juggle a dozen projects, and shift your point of view from panic to acceptance and from acceptance to fulfillment.

If your CFO isn't convinced, remind him that American companies spend $150 billion every year just on stress-related disability. That's not counting the wasted time from tension, the lost productivity from low morale, and the costs of higher employee turnover.

Juliet will help you change the way you think about your goals so you can prioritize the smart way, be more productive, and clarify what's really important. You'll discover...

• How to define real success in the relentless "Age of Never Enough."
• Commonsense ways to cope with the pace and quantity of your daily tasks.
• The secret for keeping White Space on your calendar -- it's not a myth!
• Plus, lots and lots of laughter to lift your mood TODAY!

This funny, inspiriting, and energetic program is a great way to kick off or close your conference with a perfectly balanced combination of feel-good fun and instantly applicable tools.

Overcommitted, Overwhelmed and Over It!: Part Two

As a follow-up to addressing the stress and overwhelm in your environment, why not focus in on improving communication? A poor communication environment piles on more stress than almost any other single factor. Consider this:

Are you being starved? Maybe: because clarity, directness and useful feedback are hard to find these days. Are you being poisoned? Maybe: because gossip, over-promising, and gender based misunderstandings are just a few of the verbal habits that slip by even the finest communicators and drain the pocketbooks of all companies. Luckily, The Magic is in Your Mouth. This morale boosting session of humor and stories will keep them entertained but is also laced with practical and innovative ideas to make the most of every word you choose.

• The Avalanche and how it Drives Men Crazy!
• Insatiability - Is there No End to what we Ask of Ourselves?
• Taking things Personally and Other Common Mirages
• Every Day an Opportunity for "The Good Word"

Discover the exhilaration of being a finely tuned verbal artist and have lots of fun along the way! You will watch the joy and camaraderie mount as one by one taxing bad habits are revealed and revised.

Bring Your Mission Statement to Life (Women's Groups) Finding Inner Values in an External World

"What do you stand for?" The answer to this question will determine your personal and professional level of success. But most people and many companies have an unclear response or none at all, and their goals suffer as a result. In "Bring Your Mission Statement to Life" you will discover your real bottom line; the values and ideas you are fully committed to. Once you and your team find a central core, every project can bloom to it's full potential.

• The Values/Bottom-Line connection
• Corporate Image: Superficial to Super-Substantial
• One-A-Day Mission and Vision Action Steps
• Expressing Yourself through Giving Back

What is the real heart of your company beneath the vision, mission, logo and color brand? Come find out! Also great for employee recognition, spouse programs or appreciation days!

Child or Trophy? (Educators' Special)
An Exploration of College, Grades and Excellence

At what price do we strive for our children to achieve the status of the exceptional? From third graders with tutors, to fifth graders with ulcers, the pressure is ON.

When our kids finish college and look back on what led up to it, will they feel they made a good investment of their time, energy and hard won battles for consummate excellence?  Will their capacity for joy, stillness and camaraderie be as strong as their SAT scores? We hope so, but hope is not enough.  Preparing our children for a whole life, including what follows college, requires that we weigh the motives, prices and payoffs of all the moves we make.

• Specialness: How much is Enough?
• Ranking and Hierarchy: Inescapable Issues
• Backlash: What happens after the Pressure is Off
• Modeling: How we Teach in every Moment
• Bestowing the Gift of Realistic Expectations

At Home on the Platform (Workshop Only)
Presentation Skills

How many times have you wept inside while a speaker droned on and on with facts and monotone figures? You are trapped, playing hangman on your free mini-legal pad while counting the minutes until the break. Well, if you don't ever want to be that speaker yourself, you must support your industry expertise with two things; personal connection and platform skills. Sacrifice either, and no amount of insightful content will ever reach the ears of your listeners. Modules may include, but are not limited to...

• Warming up
• Physicality
• Gestures
• Microphone skills
• Organization of content
• Authenticity
• The use of the body
• When things go wrong
• Nervousness
• Openings and closings
• Lessons from the theatre
• Bridging the trust gap
• High status: Low status
• Speech structure
• Impact of the voice
• Jokes vs. humor
• How to rehearse
• PowerPoint
• Use of questions
• Scripting
• Empathy
• Mind games
• Storytelling

No manager, department head or salesperson is exempt from the need for honed presentation skills. Every time you open your mouth, you can grow your business or reduce it. Be prepared!

Juliet as Mistress of Ceremonies

When Juliet MC's your event, her full breadth of theatrical and comedic background can really be put to use. She was classically trained in theatre at Northwestern University and in improvisational comedy at both Second City in Chicago and the Groundlings in LA. She performed on the professional stage for 10 years, and it is in the fun and flexible role of MC that so much of this experience can shine. Juliet as MC brings to your meeting all of the things you hire an MC for:

• Strong, room-grabbing stage presence
• Fast-on-her-feet wit to comment on the day's events
• A directorial background, which helps her control pace and flow
• A warm and personable style that is never boring

Travels from: Los Angeles

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