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Ron Culberson  

Humorist & Author

As a speaker, humorist, columnist, and author of Is Your Glass Laugh Full? and My Kneecap Seems Too Loose, Ron Culbersons mission is to help staff and managers achieve a new level of success by understanding the power of "Do it Well, Make it Fun." Success, even in tough times, comes from showing up and doing a great job. Ron helps staff become extraordinary by helping them focus on excellence while making their work experience more enjoyable. He also helps managers understand the qualities of an organizational culture that will attract great employees, develop excellent leaders, and deliver extraordinary products and services.

For ten years, Ron worked as a Home Care Social Worker, Counseling Manager, and Director of Quality Services for a large hospice organization in the Washington, DC suburbs. These experiences taught him about the challenges of working on the front line, in middle management, and ultimately in senior management. He has a proven track record as a successful member of a multidisciplinary team and as an effective senior leader.

In 2001 Ron received the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association. The CSP is the speaking professions international measure of professional platform excellence.

In 2009, Ron cofounded Funner Speeches, LLC, a humor writing service for speakers, executives, and politicians. Ron and his partner help their clients make a greater impact with their presentations by making them funnier.

Ron is the author of three books: Do it Well. Make it Fun. They Key to Success in Life, Death, and Almost Everything in Between, Is Your Glass Laugh Full? Some Thoughts on Seeing the Humor in Life, My Kneecap Seems Too Loose: 365 Random Thoughts to Inspire Deeply Shallow Thinking. He is a contributing author for Humor Me and Chicken Soup for the Nurses Soul II. He also writes a blog for the Huffington Posts "GPS for the Soul."

Ron has been speaking professionally since 1996 and has spoken to more than 120,000 people in over 1000 organizations. He is also the president of the National Speakers Association. He delivers programs for all types of organizations but has significant experience with healthcare, education, government, and other mission driven organizations.

Speech Topics

Genuinely Speaking: How YOU Make Your Message More Memorable

Whether you’re speaking to a group of 1000 employees, 100 donors, or a small group of senior management, the goal is the same: to effectively convey important information and influence the actions of the audience. This fun, hilarious, and content rich presentation shows participants how to combine the best part of themselves and their experiences with humor and stories to bring their information in their presentations alive.

This program may focus on any of the following six key areas for making great presentations: Identifying your unique gifts and skills Understanding the needs of the audience Designing an effective presentation structure Learning powerful delivery techniques Using humor to keep the audience engaged Incorporating the metaphorical power of stories

Managing to Be a Great (and Fun) Leader

Leadership success comes from creating confidence in those you lead while creating an environment that attracts and keeps good people. In order to accomplish this success, you must manage yourself, manage the culture, and manage the people.

You create confidence by what you do and how you do it. The “what” refers to the skills you need to do your job well. The “how” refers to the values or manner in which you lead. Great leaders are not only skilled but embrace values that are respected by those around them.

Next, you must create a culture that attracts the right staff and supports them so they stay. You can do this by making sure there is quality in all the processes that occur and that there is an element of fun as well. A work environment that is enjoyable is one that will be more productive.

Finally, a great leader must manage the workforce by recruiting the right people and then motivating and inspiring them. This leads staff to want to work rather than to feel that they have to work.

Do it Well. Make it Fun.

Ron Culberson shows organizations how to boost productivity via humor and engagement—how to do it well, and make it fun.

Based on his newest book by the same name, Ron shows managers how to create a less-stressful work environment in which staff want to work. And he helps staff and managers understand that excellence combined with fun and humor leads to an even greater level of success. The message has resonated with hundreds of organizations in Canada and the US.

This hilarious program includes three areas of focus and may include the topics listed: Success through self improvement (Attitude, focusing on the present, integrity, skill development, health, aging) Improving relationships with others (Communication, teamwork, conflict, presentation skills, friendships, marriage, parenting)

Making the processes in life and work more effective (Work environment, process management, meetings, to-do lists, email, hobbies, volunteering)

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