Jody Urquhart

Sometimes life just gets in the way. Do you ever think, “Why can’t things just go the way I want for a change?” or “Why can’t people just leave me alone?” In this hilarious and provocative presentation, Jody Urquhart will show you how to buoyantly face stress and navigate the future. Embrace challenging situations and people with new ideas, innovation, and conviction.

Increase your comfort and confidence in the face of stress and change. Through stand-up comedy, audience interaction, and analogy, Jody Urquhart will unfold inspiration to compel the audience to appreciate that the way you lead yourself is the way you lead others, and all change starts with you.

• Derive strength from change.
• Embrace work with a sense of urgency, conviction, and vitality.
• Get your team on board with the change.
• Move forward and feel good despite the uncertainty.

This hilariously interactive, practical and inspiring presentation shows you how to develop healthy communication patterns with anyone. Learn to appreciate even the most difficult people! If you learn the hows of handling the most difficult situations and the most challenging people,  you can become a master of your emotions and put yourself in the best situation to resolve any conflict.

Knowing how to deal with difficult people at work will allow you to approach your job with more enjoyment and your coworkers with greater confidence. Without compromising your dignity or respect. You can build a more productive, enjoyable and efficient workplace for everyone.

• Learn the 4 basic personality styles, what they need and what they mean.
• Understand how to adjust your message to different people and personalities to appeal to their convictions.
• Communicate effectively in high-pressure situations and better manage your emotions.
• Build a more productive, enjoyable and efficient workplace for everyone.

In an increasingly complex and demanding professional environment, we are excited to bring you a unique perspective from Jody Urquhart, an acclaimed professional speaker. In her dynamic session, “The Nerve to Serve: Say Hello to Humor & Goodbye to Burnout!”, Jody Urquhart will guide you on a journey to discover the powerful role of humor and laughter in stress management and workplace efficiency.

Jody Urquhart will demonstrate how humor is not just an antidote to stress, but a critical factor for maintaining balance and perspective amidst challenges. Learn to laugh at life’s obstacles and daily disappointments, thereby reducing emotional exhaustion and promoting a more positive outlook. Humor, as Jody Urquhart will illustrate, equips professionals with the nerve to serve in the face of today’s multifaceted challenges. This enlightening session will not only change your perspective on the role of humor in the professional setting but also equip you with practical skills to handle stress effectively. We invite you to join us for a unique learning experience filled with laughter and insightful strategies.

In this session, participants will learn to:

• Laugh at the tough stuff: Jody will show you how to transform stress from a heavyweight into a source of light-heartedness. Explore the ability to take yourself lightly when stress insists, preventing it from being as draining or emotionally debilitating.
• Say hello to humor and goodbye to burnout: Uncover the incredible power of humour as a tool for avoiding professional burnout, enhancing morale, and fostering a friendlier, less stressful, and more productive work environment.
• Play along the way: Learn to incorporate a spirit of playfulness into your work routine, leading to improved productivity, focus, and job satisfaction.
• Use humor, laughter, and play to rejuvenate your work life: Jody will guide you on how to breathe new passion and resilience into your work life using these essential elements.
• Cultivate playful resilience to combat stress: Discover the concept of playful resilience, a coping mechanism that uses humor and laughter to shield against the adverse effects of stress

In this transformative session, Jody Urquhart will guide you on how to shift your focus from ceaseless hustling to embracing your passion and true purpose. She will explain how an excessive focus on problems can leave you stuck in a ‘Hustle Hangover’, where your joy and inspiration are suffocated by hard work. Instead, Jody Urquhart will advocate for the need to fuel progress with feelings of happiness and success.

Based on her groundbreaking new book, “Bliss Out”, Jody Urquhart guides you to reclaim your passion, reprioritize your efforts, and leave the struggle behind. Be ready to explore a new path filled with less stress and more success, satisfaction, and laughter. In this extraordinary session, Jody Urquhart, a renowned speaker and author, will help you navigate your challenges by tapping into your values and what motivates you for yourself and others. This talk helps you discover strategies to transform your work approach from problem-driven to passion, purpose, and inspiration. Her tools and actionable strategies help you move forward with vitality, inject positivity into your day, and leverage renewed energy to drive your career, team, and organization forward by unleashing the power of positivity. Unleash wild positive emotions.

Participants will learn how to:

• Rediscover Passion and Joy as a Catalyst for Results & Innovation
• Find Opportunity and Potential in Uncertainty
• Build Positive Momentum
• Use Joy to Disrupt Stress
• Focus Forward on Solutions instead of making Problems a Priority
• Do More with Less and Love it
• Align hard work with joy

In the face of constant hustle and unending ambitions, are you finding yourself often trapped in frustration or feeling stuck? Does the gnawing stress continually urge you to work harder, leaving you feeling unsatisfied, no matter the scale of your accomplishments?  Drawing insights from her groundbreaking new book, “Bliss Out”, her talk will be as hilarious as it is enlightening.

In this session, Jody Urquhart will guide you on how to move your focus from ceaseless hustling to acknowledging and enjoying your present bliss. She will show you the potential of shifting your problem-focused mindset to an imagination-led one that builds on hope, happiness, and success.

During the keynote, participants will learn how to:

• Rediscover Passion and Joy as a Catalyst for Results & Innovation: Gain new insights into how you can make passion and joy your primary drivers for innovative outcomes.
• Find Opportunity and Potential in Uncertainty: Learn how to embrace uncertainty and harness it to uncover opportunities and realize potential.
• Build Positive Momentum: Discover effective strategies for creating and maintaining a positive momentum in your professional life.
• Use Joy to Disrupt Stress: Unravel techniques to leverage joy as a powerful tool to combat stress and foster a healthier work environment.
• Focus Forward on Solutions instead of Making Problems a Priority: Gain a fresh perspective on shifting your focus from problems to solutions, fostering a more productive and positive work attitude.
• Do More with Less and Love it: Learn the art of efficiency and joy in doing more with fewer resources and thoroughly enjoying the process.
• Join us for this transformative session as Jody Urquhart helps you to bliss out, feel good, and boldly reimagine your future. Be ready to step into a path filled with passion, purpose, and a lot less stress.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. With today’s rapidly evolving workplace, strong leaders must influence and engage others. Through humour, insight and inspiration Follow Me I’m Right Behind You provides a lively, interactive look at how to inspire a spirited and resilient workforce that stays inspired focused and productive.

In this gut splitting hilarious motivational speech learn:

• How great leaders inspire and influence others
• To create a culture of respect and appreciation with 4 keys to a great recognition culture
• To increase Purpose and Vision
• To create a sense of involvement and belonging

In our diverse modern world, where new team members are constantly joining the workforce and existing ones are transitioning into new roles, recognizing and valuing our differences is more important than ever. It’s all too easy to perceive these differences – whether they are age, gender, cultural, or personality differences – as obstacles that detract from an organization’s real treasure: its people. Renowned professional speaker and author Jody Urquhart confronts this perspective head-on in her transformative keynote, providing strategies that celebrate diversity and unity as powerful drivers for creating a thriving culture.

Jody Urquhart is a firm believer in the unique value every individual brings to an organization, viewing each person’s uniqueness as a strategic asset and a reservoir of untapped potential. This philosophy underpins her keynote as Jody Urquhart guides participants to appreciate their distinctive qualities not as disparities but as valuable skill sets that enrich the organizational mosaic. Jody Urquhart explores the concept of ‘people-first cultures’, illustrating how this approach nurtures an environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to contribute their best in the roles they occupy. This leads to heightened productivity and increased satisfaction among team members.

Regardless of whether you are an aspiring leader or an established one seeking to diversify your team’s talent, Jody Urquhart offers actionable strategies to harness the unique abilities of each team member. Jody Urquhart illustrates how unity, fostered in an environment that appreciates and celebrates the diverse human tapestry, can lead to thriving individuals and organizations. By emphasizing unity and togetherness, and by creating an equitable and accessible environment, we can all contribute to a vibrant, productive culture where people are acknowledged for who they are and the invaluable skills they bring to their teams.

OK, you’re really busy. While you are dutifully doing your job, do you ever get a sense that you are disconnected from the purpose of your work? Do you sometimes find that your work lacks fun and enjoyment? Do you feel under-motivated and under-focused? Do you feel unappreciated? Is job stress and burnout getting you down?

By adopting a humorous and fun approach to the challenges of keeping the daily grind engaging, motivational speech, the Joy of the Job inspires professionals to be focused and productive by nourishing the meaning, fun, and joy of their work. No more humdrum work days that put you to sleep; no more anxious waiting for the week to unwind!

The Joy of the Job will turn around your attitude to the workplace and show you how it can be dynamic, fun, and attractive as well as being lucrative and productive. The Joy of the Job promises to be humorous, relevant and inspiring. It will bring synergy to any workplace and provide a lighthearted, yet effective balance for any program.

Health care professionals consistently ignite the fires of hope in others. Daily, they muster the nerve to serve in a complex and challenging environment. Leaders in health care need tools to both energize staff members and to keep their own fires of hope burning. Through humour, insight and inspiration, Daring to be Caring shows healthcare leaders how to inspire a spirited and resilient workforce that stays focused on providing the most compassionate care possible. Working in health care can be complex, challenging, and chaotic – especially in this age of increased regulations. Join us for this motivational speech where we discover how laughing at our stress and the absurdity and intensity of our work can be the only serious way to survive it.

Our leadership is at a crossroads.
Our teams are floundering towards fulfillment as we try to balance algorithms with basic human emotions. If your workplace has become a little bit robotic, Authentic leadership can resurrect your teams back to life.

Relatability is powerful.

If your brain feels like a browser with 47 tabs open, this session will give you relief. It’s time to own who you are so you can be real to others and lead through empathy. Bring your teams together and Discover how Turning off your PowerPoint could save your soul.
Join us for a session that’s deep enough to ponder your life choices but funny enough to not take it personally.

Learn.

How to make employees feel like they’re human again. The comedic side of humanizing leadership. How to prioritize the well-being of your team. How to Ditch a stiff persona for something more relateable.

Look, we’ve all been there. Drowning in to-do lists, feeling like we’re the only ones struggling to keep our heads above water. But You’re not alone. Not even close.

This isn’t another productivity talk. This is a lifeline for anyone who’s ever felt:

– Isolated in their overwhelm

– Like they’re failing at managing their life

– Disconnected from what matters

Many of us get trapped in patterns of self-made chaos, believing we’re the only ones struggling. But here’s the truth: Your experience is shared by many. Your overwhelm doesn’t define you—it connects you.

Together, we’ll:

– Expose the busyness patterns that are crushing your spirit

– Create a genuine connection in a world that feels increasingly fragmented

– Understand why we use busyness as a shield—and how to put that shield down

Learn How to Truly Belong to Yourself:

– 3 Signs You’re Working Harder, Not Smarter

– Uncover Personal Patterns That Steal Your Joy

– 4 Time and Energy Drainers 

– Why Your Struggle Is actually Your Superpower