Tim Gard

Change the Game

Tim is a motivational speaker who teaches how to reduce stress and proves that overly complicated tasks can become surprisingly uncomplicated—FAST! The best business keynote speaker and trainer on how to reduce stress!

When your organization needs training on how to reduce stress and dysfunction, it’s time to Change the Game!

Life is a game; business is a game; travel is a game. Well, literally everything is a game that usually involves winners, losers, and spectators. This ‘Change the Game’ keynote helps you discover how to change any game to your advantage when encountering situational stressors, toxic people, and various challenges inherent to life.

The pressure to accomplish more with less, meet tight deliverable expectations, and respond with professional promptness can create stress, cause team dysfunction, and even decrease morale. The attitude that “everything seems so serious, heavy, and intense” is more than unproductive; it’s a truly unhealthy way to work and live!

Participants learn how one person can “change the game” for all players by applying easy-to-understand and hard-to-forget concepts—ones that champions have been using for centuries in sports, business, and life in general. Providing a shift in perspective and approach can influence the playing experience for everyone in a multitude of tangible and valuable ways. Learn how to reduce stress in this hilarious keynote! Using the game of marbles as a metaphor, Tim proves that overly complicated tasks can become surprisingly uncomplicated—FAST!

Tim personally consults with event coordinators both before and after each event. He wants to ensure that every participant receives a bag of marbles to aid in implementing ‘Change the Game’ tools, tactics, and strategies. This keepsake ingrains the newly developed philosophy for overcoming what seemed to be impossible or unrealistic challenges.

Developing a Comic Vision

Employee motivation at its funnest, Tim Gard’s Comic Vision keynote is as funny as it is inspiring and content rich. A motivational speaker, Tim will teach audience members to develop and apply their own Comic Vision® to be more resourceful and resilient—both at work and in their personal lives. Tim’s rejuvenating message helps increase employee morale while enhancing productivity and everyday enthusiasm in three easy-to-adopt steps.

Tim’s unique, yet practical ideas also help people diffuse routine or extreme stress by insulating themselves against negativity. They’re able to “refresh and renew” themselves by using and sharing his Comic Vision® techniques. More than that, his funny, morale-building stories and extraordinary visual props make this keynote speech a hilarious way to start or close your meeting. When customizing this program for your event, Tim doesn’t make light of your organization’s serious situations. Rather, he shines a light on them to reveal previously unseen possibilities—and solutions. Employee motivation and corporate entertainment at its most productive! Developing a Comic Vision® can be adapted to between 45 minutes and 3 hours, depending on your program needs.

Master of Ceremonies – Tim Gard, Emcee

With Tim as your Master of Ceremonies, you are assured an amazing event that is dynamic, creatively consistent, dependable, engaging and funny!  You can rely on Tim to professionally facilitate activities on-stage so that you can can focus on off-stage matters such as addressing any unexpected issues and coordinating with your staff so your conference or meeting occurs flawlessly!

Tim’s high-energy, infectious smile, ability to quickly connect with any group, and contagious positive attitude is legendary in the professional speaking and emcee industry. It’s one of the reasons that 2010Meetings Planner Magazine named him “one of the best event speakers ever seen or heard on stage”!

More than a funny speaker, Tim is a founding co-owner of FunnierU, a training system that teaches students to write and perform comedy. Tim writes 5 jokes a day and has accomplished this creative feat since July 2012. This daily dedication to his craft not just produces an amazing amount of topical humor, but it challenges him to consistently refine his programs and inspire creativity, naturally. Tim’s ability to improvise is top level, as he’s demonstrated for more than 10 years.

Tim is an experienced Emcee and Master of Ceremonies in large and small, national and international, events. His participation at your next event can be as simple or in-depth as you require and desire. Tim’ extensive experience on-stage can be summarized as:

1. Introducing other speakers and events or activities throughout a convention.

2. Segue with short, informative or funny commentary to allow for stage changes, unexpected delays, or audio/visual complications.

3. Interviewing individuals, or members of a team, on stage for live or broadcasted events.

4. Working with the event planners to write introductions, consult on scripting, planning optimal synergy for conferences and events with multiple activities, and coordinate how other entertainers, educators or presenters interact with, and complement, each other.

5. Available on call throughout the day, to fill in and help out, as needed.

6. Coaching less experienced speakers (or non-professional speakers) to improve their program content, humor, and on-stage delivery.

Testimonials

“The talents you shared not only were entertaining, but delivered a humorous message to enjoy life no matter the circumstances.”
– Texas A&M

“You hit the mark with our group in a big way. I had a chance to listen to comments from across the globe. From the Americans to the Irish, Europeans, Australians, Asians, sales, and technical people, you were a big hit.”
– State of Florida Department of Children & Families

“Many of our associates have commented that having you at our event really set a positive and fun tone. Your unique perspective on life and work really helped to make Kick-Off a memorable success.”
– Lincoln Financial Advisors

“Your are truly one of the best speakers we have had to date. We appreciate you providing such an influential and unique message on understanding humor as a stress reduction tool – my Team and I are still talking about how much we laughed!”
– US Army White Sands Missile Range

“Our attendees laughed so hard and really enjoyed your entire speech.”
– Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation