Michael Kerr

Michael Kerr

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Canmore, Alberta

Workplace Energizer - Leadership, Change, Corporate Culture & Innovation Expert

Michael Kerr is a Canadian Hall of Fame speaker who is a thought leader who speakers about the world's most inspiring corporate cultures. Mike Kerr brings his high energy and memorable brand of humor in the workplace to inspire thousands of business audiences around the world through his captivating presentations. Mike brings individuals to shift their mindset and their approach to their work while helping businesses manage their employees and workplace culture to meet the demand in the 21st Century.
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MICHAEL KERR BIOGRAPHY

Certified Speaking Professional and Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame inductee Michael Kerr is an international business speaker, very funny motivational speaker, workshop trainer, and the author of 8 books including, The Jerk-Free Workplace: How You Can Take The Lead to Create a Happier, More Inspiring Workplace; The Humor Advantage: Why Some Businesses Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank; and Hire, Inspire, and Fuel Their Fire: How to Recruit, Onboard, and Train New Employees to Live Your Culture Out Loud.

Whether virtual or in-person, Michael Kerr’s presentations offer relevant, practical ideas delivered with his memorable brand of high-energy, clean humour. “Inspiring,” “hilarious,” “energizing,” “brilliant ideas,” and “relevant and timely content,” are phrases clients repeatedly use to describe his powerful presentations.

Michael Kerr’’s ideas on building inspiring workplaces have been featured in hundreds of publications worldwide, including Forbes, Fast Company and Business Insider, while his Inspiring Workplaces blog has been listed as one of the top-30 workplace blogs in the world. Michael Kerr travels the world researching, writing, and speaking about inspiring workplace cultures, inspiring leaders, and businesses that leverage their humor resources to drive outrageous results for their employees and their customers.

Michael Kerr is known as one of North America’s leading speakers on creating high-performing, service-first cultures and is well known as one of Canada’s most influential speakers. Mike has years of experience in speaking and consulting with some of the world’s leading organizations and companies. Mike is well known for his ability to entertain and engage audiences through with innovative ideas, and his high energy, hilarious, inspiring, and thought-provoking programs are often rated as having the greatest impact and relevance of any presentation at a conference.

This is why Michael Kerr has been listed as one of Canada’s most requested business speakers. Michael Kerr has delivered his captivating keynote presentations and training workshops to more than 3,000 audiences, from Texas to Toronto, from Austria to Australia.

Michael Kerr presentations offer relevant, practical ideas delivered with his memorable brand of clean humor. “Inspiring,” “hilarious,” “energizing,” “fabulous ideas,” and “incredibly relevant and timely content,” are phrases clients repeatedly use to describe the impact of his presentations.

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Michael Kerr Topic Presentations

putting humour to work for less stress and more success!

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  • Highly successful organizations understand that humour in the workplace both reflects a strong culture and creates a less stressful, more innovative work environment with higher levels of employee engagement, retention, and morale.

    As Michael Kerr will tell your audience, there is nothing trivial about this topic: humour helps people succeed at an individual, team, and organizational level. Humour is one of the most powerful stress-busters available, and it’s a resource that can boost morale, improve workplace communication, spark creative thinking, enhance customer service, and increase productivity.

    Many of Michael’s clients choose this topic because its universal messages and clean humour make it a great kickoff or closing experience. And because it’s different than what many people have seen before, it’s a great way to shake things up at your meeting, energize people, and create a truly memorable event! Michael aims to deliver as much relevant, practical content and inspiring ideas as possible, but in a fun (sometimes even hilariously outrageous) way so the ideas stick!

    The presentation includes door prizes (usually copies of one of Michael’s books), as well as digital resources and e-books for you to use as you see fit.

inspiring workplaces - the way work ought to be!

inspiring leadership - creating a purpose-driven, values-based, innovative and yes, fun culture for a 21st-century workforce

inspiring change at work - how to drive innovation, spark creativity, and turn ideas into action

the humour advantage - why some businesses are laughing all the way to the bank

hire, inspire and fuel their fire - how to recruit, onboard and train new employees to live your culture out loud!

inspiring ideas for inspiring presentations

Testimonials

Just wanted to say “WOW!” – that was awesome! Our NAPA Autopro group has had many motivational speakers at our conferences over the years, but none the likes of Mike Kerr. We had asked you to not just give us a motivational speech that was “pure entertainment” but help us with implementation in the workplace, and that is just what you did! By the end of the meeting, you could see that the ideas had clicked with the members and they were very willing to bring it back. It has only been a month, but already comments are coming in on the successes the members have had with their sometimes very stressful shops. I will be recommending you to anyone that asks!

Richard Dansereau

President
NAPA Autopro BDG

Michael Kerr held the full attention of our Senior Management Team for a full FOUR hour presentation – no small accomplishment! His style is highly energetic, and the information he imparts with flair and humour is applicable to everyday life and work situations. Mike’s management philosophy is a fantastic approach that I have encouraged my team to carry forward. I’ve heard nothing but positive reviews from the team, and absolutely recommend Mike’s fabulous persona without hesitation.

Martine Rothblatt

Chairman & CEO
United Therapeutics

Your name and topic brought a record crowd to our meeting. You provided us with an opportunity to laugh and a chance to look at how we can make our workplaces truly exciting places to be!

Heather Ayres

Human Resources
Management Association of Manitoba

Michael Kerr, your presentation was beyond excellent! I cannot thank you enough for all of your hard work prior to and at our conference last week. You have the unique ability as a speaker to both entertain and educate people. Our audience all felt you had a good understanding of our business challenges, and were darn funny at the same time. Your presentation was the perfect mix of a serious business based message, along with a very funny and engaging delivery. He is a very talented, entertaining and compelling speaker. I would strongly recommend Michael Kerr to any company as I would use his services again without question

Dave Thompson

CFO & President
Sandvik Canada, Inc

87% of the staff gave you the highest rating available – many said it was the best workshop they have EVER attended. Based on the evaluations you were hilarious, inspirational and motivational and many want you back! I still see examples in the workplace more than two months after the workshop!

Charlene Dalen

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Michael Kerr’s presentation was highly energetic and humorous, focusing on creating a more positive work environment. Comments from members included: ‘Fabulous, wow!, awesome and timely.’ Over 90% of the audience rated the session as having exceeded their expectations!

Bill Baumgartner

Secretary Treasurer
Co-operative Managers Assoc.

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The Humor Advantage
The Humor Advantage
The Humor Advantage

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