Bill Carr

Bill Carr

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Actor & Artist | Corporate Standup Comedian | Storyteller & Humorist | Author & Radio Host

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  • Humour At Workplace
  • Future of Work
  • Purposeful Work
  • Workplace Culture
  • Leadership
  • Leadership and Change
  • Peak Performance
  • Funny & Comedy
  • Celebrity

BILL CARR BIOGRAPHY

Bill Carr is known as an artist, an actor, humorist, writer, and speaker. For over 30 years, Bill Carr has been helping groups from 12 to 1200 laugh at what’s trivial while helping them think deeply about what counts. Bill Carr helps people see their world in new and exciting ways.

His unique blend of humour and insight inspires laughter and consideration, offering his audience a fresh perspective on what they face everyday. At the root of all of his work is the use of humour to help people reflect on their own innate human nature and understand who they are in a greater social context.

Throughout his career, Bill Carr has performed on theatrical stages across Canada and internationally. Bill Carr has also worked extensively in the Film and Television industry in character roles and also as a social commentator on CBC’s The Journal. By playing roles as challenging as Lophakin in The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov, as comedically satisfying as Eddie the Cook on The Red Green Show, or as endearing as Jack, the father of a middle-aged woman wrestling with her singlehood in Spinster, he has learned a lot.

Bill Carr has written a book “Acting Up: Lessons from the Theatre of Life” where he shares his diverse and multifaceted experiences as a performer and conveys both lessons learned, and mistakes made and issues a challenge to those wishing to live more authentically and with purpose.

Bill Carr believes that empathy and compassion must take centre stage in all our human interactions and seeks to deepen his audience’s understanding of the interrelated nature of our reality. Bill Carr is fascinating to listen to as well as incredibly funny. Picture the late and great comedian Robin Williams and esteemed professor of Literature Joseph Campbell and you will begin to get the idea.

Bill Carr travels extensively throughout North America delivering keynotes and workshops on creativity, communication, and intentional and inspired living for a number of organizations and corporations, from not for profit to Fortune 500 companies. Bill Carr also regularly serves as host & emcee for many local events in support of charitable causes and the arts such as Unicef, YMCA, Neptune Theatre, Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, Symphony Nova Scotia, Hospice Halifax, and Habitat for Humanity among so many others.

Bill Carr and his wife Shruti Gola Carr are co-founders of a company, and they have as a founding principle the use of restorative practices in all their work in business and community. Their stated mission is to “create space for authentic human exchange. Bill Carr is also an active volunteer in his community. Bill Carr is an honorary Trustee of the IWK Health Centre and has been a host of the annual IWK Telethon, a much-loved community institution in the Maritime provinces, for more than 30 years.

Bill Carr believes that only through sincere and deep dialogue can we come to an understanding which will make for a peaceful, safe workplace, community, and ultimately world. Bill Carr expresses concern that “we are too often out of touch with ourselves, with each other, and ultimately with our sacred planet at any level that really matters. This is fixable, but only if we consciously nurture humility and caring at all levels of our society.”

Through his speaking and workshops, Bill Carr is passionate to provide a direct impact on the health of our society and is dedicated to helping people reconnect and thrive. Bill Carr has been making people laugh at what’s trivial, while helping them think deeply about what counts, what drives success in careers, and what workplaces can do to support their employees. Combining the latest developments in interpersonal neuroscience with his gleanings from a lifelong study of ancient philosophical writings and spiritual practice, Bill Carr shares insights old and new into how our minds work individually and collectively.

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Acting Up
Acting Up
This is a book about life and this is a book about acting. Exploring Shakespeare’s dictum, “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players,” Bill Carr proves it isn’t just dramatic hyperbole but true. During his life, Bill has tried to live authentically while being very...

Bill Carr Topic Presentations

Talking in Circles

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  • What would happen to your organization if you could build stronger, deeper relationships with each other and your customer? When we hear the expression ‘talking in circles’ we often think about people talking round and round and going nowhere. Bill Carr’s keynote Talking in Circles is not that! Rather, it is all about people talking round and round with care and empathy and getting to the heart of things.

    When you hear someone’s story the brain immediately searches for an ‘emotional parallel’ in your own life. That is a story of your own that is similar enough that you can relate their emotional world to your emotional world. Thus, understanding and compassion grows. Ancient cultures from around the world have gathered people in circle to share stories and dialogue on issues of mutual importance. By Talking in Circles they have been able to create, celebrate, restore and solidify community. Gathering together and Talking in Circles is a practice for evolving healthy and productive group and tribal connection.

    In his keynote Talking in Circles, Bill Carr discusses how the need for circle dialogue has never been greater. Broken relationships, broken communities, broken societies surround us every day. As Ester Perel, a relationship expert points out, the need for deep meaningful relationship is a vital aspect of mental health. We spend so much time with our work colleagues and our customers that it is vital to our wellbeing that our relationships at work – work.

    Bill also shares the significant neuroscience of interpersonal neurobiology behind how Talking in Circles works. He discusses the active entrainment that occurs when effective listening happens and how mirror neurons serve to create real empathy and compassionate action that can then easily follow. This compassion and empathy can then be shared with everyone with whom we come in contact in our daily living.

    Talking in Circles offers a place to share our personal struggles, challenges, victories and questions. It is also a place to dialogue collectively about the reality we all share. The axiom, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” is never more true than when we are Talking in Circles. Talking in Circles celebrates diversity, belonging and inclusion and helps nurture compassion and connection. The implications of this practice at work and in our society are vast and transformative.

     

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Bill Carr Speaking Testimonials

The sessions we did with Gola and Bill really got people excited. They enabled staff to see things from a different perspective, understand their power to make positive changes and focus on specific things that they could do to make change happen. We have seen great improvements in staff morale and approach since we did this work and people don’t buy into other people’s negativity anymore.  The results from these sessions were everything we hoped for and more.

Patricia Bland

Chief Executive Officer
Riverview Home Corporation

Bill was the star of the Council’s events.  His talk received an overwhelming positive response from our Stewards. He had has us roaring with laughter and in tears as he delivered information that was on point for the important work that our Union Stewards do.  He received 4/4 on our evaluations by Council participants with comments such as Awesome Speaker!, Hilarious! and made me remember why I became a Steward! Thanks for all your efforts.

Catherine Pinks

Professional Institute of the Public Service

Best seminar ever!” and “I needed to hear that!” were just a few of the repeated comments echoed in response to Bill Carr’s seminar. Bill speaks with a poignant, direct and personal style and delivers with an authority gleaned from varied personal life experiences, and shares these intimate nuggets of life with the wit and charm of a true Canadian Maritimer. As a facilitator, Bill draws the best from his audience, his compassionate prodding empowering even the most reticent participants to share personal insight and opinions. I would unreservedly and wholeheartedly recommend Bill to any organization or group function.

David Froelich

Secretary Treasurer
Teamsters Local Union 987 of Alberta

With the perfect blend of stand-up comedy and personal touching stories, Bill Carr delivers tremendous and applicable messages for business and life in general. His presentation set the perfect tone for our tradeshow weekend — so much so that we have invited him to speak again.

Helen Sherrard

President
Canadian Health Food Association

Participants at the NBAEAP Annual Conference commented that closing speaker Bill Carr was the highlight of the conference. Before delivering an important message, Bill starts out with a related true story and finishes with a powerful message giving the audience a roller coaster ride of emotions.

Robert M. Ouellette

New Brunswick Association of Employee Assistance Programs

I just wanted to send a quick message regarding Bill’s appearance last night at the Exit Realty Habitat for Humanity Dinner in Bridgewater. He was simply amazing-nothing that hasn’t been said before I am sure. Humor is therapy but it was his humanity and understanding of empathy that touched me most.

Lisa Barry

Organizer
Habitat for Humanity

Bill Carr Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Bill Carr Keynote Speaker delivers customized and tailored keynote presentations, workshops, and training sessions on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique and are designed for a variety of audiences, industries, conferences, and event formats.

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