In my previous posts, I introduced The Speaker Family, a humorous and motivational fable. If you have missed it, See Motivational and Humorous Speaker Family Part I
Before we get to Part V of The Humorous Motivational Speaker Family, you might enjoy this short humorous clip on Change featuring McDonald’s, Toyota, Wendy’s and Justin Bieber that will have you learning and laughing. If you are seeking a Speaker on Change or Change Management Speaker, contact IrishmanSpeaks at 630 718 1643
Let’s now go to Part V of The Speaker Family – a humorous and motivational fable.
Featuring: Jacob Speaker, Martha Keynote-Speaker and 7 children. The kids – Leadership, Healthcare and Inspirational Speaker and siblings – Motivational Speaker, Marketing Speaker, Humorous Speaker and of course – Change Speaker.
Leadership Speaker climbed onto Pops’ lap. “Pops, what does leadership mean? I know I’m Leadership Speaker, but I’m not sure what leadership means.”
“A good question my child. A good question. Let me give you a few quotes to illustrate what it is about:
That fine Leadership thinker and speaker on Leadership Warren Bennis says ‘Timeless leadership is always about character and it is always about authenticity.’ You my young child are called Leadership Speaker because you have character and you are authentic.”
“Aw shucks,” murmured Leadership Speaker (not really knowing what “authentic” meant, but knowing it must be important for leadership.
Pops continued: “And don’t forget the words of that great leadership speaker and basketball coach John Wooden who said that his philosophy of leadership as a speaker and coach and as a man was based on what his dad told him. ‘Don’t worry about whether you are better than somebody else, but never cease trying to become the best you can be. You have control over that.’ Remember that, my young Keynote Speaker children. Never cease trying to become the best you can be.”
All of the Keynote Speaker kids: Humorous, Healthcare, Motivational Speaker as well as Change Speaker and siblings Leadership, Marketing and Inspirational Speaker nodded in agreement.
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The next episode of this enthralling fable about the Motivational Humorous Keynote Speaker family featuring all your favorite characters Mamma Keynote Speaker, Humorous, Healthcare, Motivational Speaker as well as Change Speaker and siblings Leadership, Marketing and Inspirational will be brought to you soon. Don’t forget to tune in again. Same time. Same place.
In my previous posts, I introduced The Speaker Family, a humorous and motivational fable. If you have missed it, See Speaker Family Part I and Part II and Part III
Before we get to Part IV of The Humorous Motivational Speaker Family, you might enjoy this short humorous clip on The Secret to a Happy Marriage. Now my poor demented wife might differ on this but the ultimate objective is to have you Laughing and Learning.
before we get to the next thrilling installment of the this humorous and motivational Speaker family. (Crikey, this is more drawn out than Ryan Seacrest announcing the final three from the final four who made it from the final five, one of whom thought they would never make it out of the final six the previous week on American Idol!)
Let’s now go to Part IV of The Speaker Family – a humorous and motivational fable.
Featuring: Jacob Speaker, Martha Keynote-Speaker and 7 children. The kids – Leadership, Healthcare and Inspirational Speaker and siblings – Motivational, Marketing and Humorous Speaker and of course – Change Speaker.
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“But Pops, Pops” piped up Marketing Keynote Speaker, speaking with a clear vision and strategy that would have brought smiles to that most inspirational of all keynote speakers, Steve Jobs, “A customer service speaker is all about good marketing and a marketing speaker should be all about good customer service.”
“That’s right Pops. That’s right,” concurred Motivational and Healthcare Speaker.
Pops agreed. “It’s like that wonderful leadership speaker..”
“Who? Me Pops?” cried the young Leadership Speaker
“No, not you my one, but Peter Drucker, the great late leadership speaker who said ‘The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.’ Everyone should remember that.”
“Pops, what was he late for?” asked the youngest Keynote Speaker.”
“Ho, Ho, Ho,” Pops laughed like an enthusiastic Santa Claus who knew he was making a difference in people’s life. “That, my little one is for another day.”
The next episode of this enthralling fable about the Motivational Humorous Keynote Speaker family featuring all your favorite characters Mamma Keynote Speaker, Humorous, Healthcare, Motivational Speaker as well as Change Speaker and siblings Leadership, Marketing and Inspirational will be brought to you soon. Don’t forget to tune in again. Same time. Same place.
In my previous posts, I introduced The Speaker Family, a humorous and motivational fable. If you have missed it, See Speaker Family Part I and Part II
Before we get to Part III of The Humorous Motivational Speaker Family, you might enjoy this short humorous clip on how your Behavior creates your Brand. Like much of my material, the objective is to have you Laughing and Learning.
Let’s now go to Part III of The Speaker Family – a humorous and motivational fable.
Featuring: Jacob Speaker, Martha Keynote-Speaker and 7 children. The kids – Leadership, Healthcare and Inspirational Speaker and siblings – Motivational, Marketing and Humorous Speaker and of course – Change Speaker.
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“Aye, my young friend and let me tell you that when that IrishmanSpeaks on Africa and the relief of poverty and aids, he is like my two speaker children – Inspirational Speaker and Motivational Keynote Speaker. My children – any children – can learn from that man Bono, and wake up each morning to say ‘It’s a beautiful day.’ And the other kids. Well Positive Speaker is, I guess you could say a handy name.”
“You mean like Charles Handy, the Irish keynote business speaker and author who wrote The Age of Unreason and Famous Blue Raincoat.”
“Wha?” said Cherished Speaker. “Famous Blue Raincoat is a song by Leonard Cohen! We’re talkin’ inspiration not desperation.”
“Oops. It should be The Empty Raincoat, but when that IrishmanSpeaks he is a very innovative thought provoking keynote speaker, just like my wonderful child Positive Keynote Speaker.”
“Those Irish are everywhere, Pops,” cried Humorous Keynote Speaker while Motivational Speaker nodded in agreement. (Editor’s note: Daddy Speaker had final editorial control over this fable. He would like to make it quite clear that Humorous Keynote Speaker was NOT actually crying when he made these comments. This is basically a stylistic device by the author who likes to ramble on about motivational inspirational marketing business speakers etc.)
Daddy Speaker continued. “Humorous and Marketing Keynote Speaker are the young ‘uns. Sometimes I think I mis-named Marketing and Humorous Keynote Speaker because quite often Humorous Speaker is all marketing and branding, while Marketing Keynote Speaker likes to do nothing more than be humorous and entertaining, but she loves the concept of customer service. Sometimes I think we should have called her Customer Service Keynote Speaker. ” TO BE CONTINUED……….
The next episode of this enthralling fable about the Motivational Humorous Keynote Speaker family featuring all your favorite characters Mamma Keynote Speaker, Humorous, Healthcare, Motivational Speaker as well as Change Speaker and siblings Leadership, Marketing and Inspirational will be brought to you soon. Don’t forget to tune in again. Same time. Same place.
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As a keynote speaker, humorous, motivational or inspirational, Conor Cunneen’s Brand Promise is E4: Energize, Educate, Entertain and Easy to work with. This Irishman keeps that promise.
Phone Conor Cunneen at 630 718 1643
Testimonials for this Chicago based Motivational, Humorous Speaker include:
“In 30 years of assocation work, I have never seen a speaker as well received as you.” – Incentive Marketing Association
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As an event planner, are you seeking a speaker, both motivational and humorous?
As an event planner, are you seeking a speaker who will result in your audience saying motivational things to you like: “Hey, you truly are a wonderful planner for hiring that very humorous, very motivational speaker? You do an excellent job?”
Well, if the answer to those question is yes, don’t hesitate to contact Chicago-based Irish motivational and humorous keynote speaker Conor Cunneen.
In my previous post, I introduced Part I of The Speaker Family, a fable about the humorous and motivational speaker family. Before we get to Part II, here is a piece which I hope you enjoy from this Irish Chicago Illinois based Humorous and Motivational speaker titled The Potted Plant. Enjoy.
And now:
Part II of The Humorous Motivational Speaker Family Fable (Read Part I here)
The Speaker Family: A Humorous and Motivational Fable – PART I
Featuring: Jacob Speaker, Martha Keynote-Speaker and 7 children. The kids – Leadership, Healthcare and Inspirational Speaker and siblings – Motivational, Marketing and Humorous Speaker and of course – Change Speaker.
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“Those Irish are everywhere, Pops,” cried Humorous Keynote Speaker. The kids Motivational and Marketing Speaker nodded in agreement.
“Aye, my young friend, they make an impact. But let’s get back to the kids’ names. I love to hear Inspirational Keynote Speaker and Motivational Keynote Speaker introduce themselves. Sure, people look at them a little funny and say ‘I didn’t ask you what you do, but it would be funny if your name was Inspirational or Motivational – Speaker.’
Then when the kids say, ‘But our name IS Inspirational Keynote Speaker and Motivational Keynote Speaker,’ the person doesn’t laugh. I’ve never understood that. But the names Inspirational and Motivational do reinforce their sense of well being and I’m glad of that. Those kids bring a message everywhere they go simply by saying their name. It’s a bit like that Inspirational and Motivational speaker; the Irish guy – the singer ….”
“Who? Van Morrison?”
“No! He is a great artist, but hardly motivational and inspirational. I mean the inspirational rock star, funny glasses, spy plane name…”
“Ah, you mean Bono from U2.”
“Those Irish are everywhere, Pops,” cried Humorous Keynote Speaker. This time Marketing and Healthcare Speaker concurred. The kids Leadership and Change Speaker smiled.
As a keynote speaker, humorous, motivational or inspirational, Conor Cunneen’s Brand Promise is E4: Energize, Educate, Entertain and Easy to work with. This Irishman keeps that promise.
Phone Conor Cunneen at 630 718 1643
Testimonials for this Chicago based Motivational, Humorous Speaker include:
“In 30 years of assocation work, I have never seen a speaker as well received as you.” – Incentive Marketing Association
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As an event planner, are you seeking a speaker, both motivational and humorous? As an event planner, are you seeking a speaker who will result in your audience saying motivational things to you like: “Hey, you truly are a wonderful planner for hiring that very humorous, very motivational speaker? You do an excellent job?”
Well, if the answer to those question is yes, don’t hesitate to contact Chicago-based Irish motivational and humorous keynote speaker Conor Cunneen.
This is just a little piece of blarney which I hope you will enjoy about my “neighbors,” the Speaker family. While the cynic might suggest this is but a blatant attempt by your Chicago Irish motivational speaker to be found when you search for something like “Motivational Speaker Chicago,” I would say “Surely not. How could you possibly think that of a humorous Irish keynote speaker who lives in Illinois?” In any event, it is a little piece that might put a smile on your face, a spring in your step and a beat in your heart.
Before that, a short video clip that will put a smile on your face re Medical Records from a presentation I did for Edward Hospital Recognition Day. Enjoy!
And now:
The Speaker Family: A Humorous and Motivational Fable – PART I
Featuring:
Jacob Speaker, Martha Keynote-Speaker and 7 children. The kids – Leadership, Healthcare and Inspirational Speaker and siblings – Motivational, Marketing and Humorous Speaker and of course – Change.
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Once upon a time, Jacob Speaker and Martha Speaker (nee Keynote) met and fell in love. On their wedding day, they agreed to take each other’s name and thus became known as Mr. and Mrs. Keynote Speaker. They were blessed with many wonderful children. Those who met the parents for the first time asked the question. “Why did you give your children such unique names?”
Daddy looks at each of his seven kids who bear names that could have come from a truly hyperbolic Speakers Bureau – Leadership, Healthcare, Inspirational, Motivational, Marketing, Humorous and Change. “Strange first names maybe but ideal for a Keynote Speaker,” he chuckles.
Mommy Speaker gazes with admiration at the man whom she sometimes thinks is a cross between Zig Ziglar and Norman Vincent Peale – though neither as old or as dead she likes to joke – as Daddy Keynote Speaker continues with his explanation.
“In one sense, those names are a bit of marketing strategy and branding. Each of the names – Healthcare, Inspirational Keynote Speaker and the next two Motivational, Marketing Keynote Speaker and the young ‘uns, Humorous, Leadership and Change Keynote Speaker says something about those kids and about their personal brand.”
Motivational and Healthcare Keynote Speaker
Papa Speaker continued, “I get a kick when I hear the eldest kids introduce themselves as Motivational Keynote Speaker or Healthcare Keynote Speaker. It brings a smile to the face of the person they are addressing and what better gift can you provide someone than a smile. To me those kids are Motivational and Healthcare Keynote Speaker and the name says it all. I associate the words motivational and leadership and healthcare with Mother Teresa who gave everything to help so many of the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. An interesting point about this great lady was she initially joined the Sisters of Loreto and trained in Dublin, Ireland before she went to India. Now there’s a lady who was an inspirational speaker.”
As a keynote speaker, humorous, motivational or inspirational, Conor Cunneen’s Brand Promise is E4: Energize, Educate, Entertain and Easy to work with. This Irishman keeps that promise.
Phone Conor Cunneen at 630 718 1643
Testimonials for this Chicago based Motivational, Humorous Speaker include:
“In 30 years of assocation work, I have never seen a speaker as well received as you.” – Incentive Marketing Association
__________________________________________________
As an event planner, are you seeking a speaker, both motivational and humorous? As an event planner, are you seeking a speaker who will result in your audience saying motivational things to you like: “Hey, you truly are a wonderful planner for hiring that very humorous, very motivational speaker? You do an excellent job?”
Well, if the answer to those question is yes, don’t hesitate to contact Chicago-based Irish motivational and humorous keynote speaker Conor Cunneen.
Seeking Professional Speakers Speakers Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan
Maybe, you found this page by searching for Professional Speakers Illinois. If you did, I can promise you that among all the excellent speakers in Illinois, a more professional and impactful one than Conor Cunneen (Note: NOT Connor) will be hard to find.
Maybe, you found this page by searching for Motivational Speakers Illinois. If you did, I can promise you that among all the excellent speakers in Illinois, a more professional and impactful one than Conor Cunneen (Note: NOT Connor) will be hard to find.
As a Chicago -based, Irish humorous and motivational speaker, I work really hard to perfect my craft and ensure that you, as an event planner look good and get the recognition you deserve. For me, that means I study a lot of humorous and motivational material, whether from a speaker or not.
I am absolutely convinced that Mark Twain is THE finest humorous speaker of all time. Oftentimes motivational and nearly always inspirational.
Over coming blogs, I’ll provide some of his humorous and motivational speeches. While Twain famously wrote that reports of his death were an “exaggeration,” he has indeed left this world. So while Mark Twain will not be available if you are seeking an inspirational, motivational, humorous speaker for your next event or conference, the Irishman is – Conor Cunneen. Before reading one of Twain’s wonderful speeches below. Have a look at this short video I did on my Irish brogue that might just get you smiling.
How a Humorous and Motivational Speaker gets a Brogue!
AND NOW: Mark Twain – THE Best Humorous Motivational Speaker
ADDRESS AT THE FIRST ANNUAL DINNER, N. E. SOCIETY,
PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 22, 1881
Continued from yesterday’s Blog.
The Quaker woman Elizabeth Hooton was an ancestress of mine. Your people were pretty severe with her you will confess that. But, poor thing! I believe they changed her opinions before she died, and took her into their fold; and so we have every reason to presume that when she died she went to the same place which your ancestors went to. It is a great pity, for she was a good woman. Roger Williams was an ancestor of mine. I don’t really remember what your people did with him. But they banished him to Rhode Island, anyway. And then, I believe, recognizing that this was really carrying harshness to an unjustifiable extreme, they took pity on him and burned him. They were a hard lot! All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine! Your people made it tropical for them. Yes, they did; by pressure and the gallows they made such a clean deal with them that there hasn’t been a witch and hardly a halter in our family from that day to this, and that is one hundred and eighty-nine years. The first slave brought into New England out of Africa by your progenitors was an ancestor of mine—for I am of a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel. I’m not one of your sham meerschaums that you can color in a week. No, my complexion is the patient art of eight generations. Well, in my own time, I had acquired a lot of my kin—by purchase, and swapping around, and one way and another—and was getting along very well. Then, with the inborn perversity of your lineage, you got up a war, and took them all away from me. And so, again am I bereft, again am I forlorn; no drop of my blood flows in the veins of any living being who is marketable.
O my friends, hear me and reform! I seek your good, not mine. You have heard the speeches. Disband these New England societies—nurseries of a system of steadily augmenting laudation and hosannaing, which; if persisted in uncurbed, may some day in the remote future beguile you into prevaricating and bragging. Oh, stop, stop, while you are still temperate in your appreciation of your ancestors! Hear me, I beseech you; get up an auction and sell Plymouth Rock! The Pilgrims were a simple and ignorant race. They never had seen any good rocks before, or at least any that were not watched, and so they were excusable for hopping ashore in frantic delight and clapping an iron fence around this one. But you, gentlemen, are educated; you are enlightened; you know that in the rich land of your nativity, opulent New England, overflowing with rocks, this one isn’t worth, at the outside, more than thirty-five cents. Therefore, sell it, before it is injured by exposure, or at least throw it open to the patent-medicine advertisements, and let it earn its taxes:
Yes, hear your true friend-your only true friend—listen to his voice. Disband these societies, hotbeds of vice, of moral decay—perpetuators of ancestral superstition. Here on this board I see water, I see milk, I see the wild and deadly lemonade. These are but steps upon the downward path. Next we shall see tea, then chocolate, then coffee—hotel coffee. A few more years—all too few, I fear—mark my words, we shall have cider! Gentlemen, pause ere it be too late. You are on the broad road which leads to dissipation, physical ruin, moral decay, gory crime and the gallows! I beseech you, I implore you, in the name of your anxious friends, in the name of your suffering families, in the name of your impending widows and orphans, stop ere it be too late. Disband these New England societies, renounce these soul-blistering saturnalia, cease from varnishing the rusty reputations of your long-vanished ancestors—the super-high-moral old iron-clads of Cape Cod, the pious buccaneers of Plymouth Rock—go home, and try to learn to behave!
However, chaff and nonsense aside, I think I honor and appreciate your Pilgrim stock as much as you do yourselves, perhaps; and I endorse and adopt a sentiment uttered by a grandfather of mine once—a man of sturdy opinions, of sincere make of mind, and not given to flattery. He said: “People may talk as they like about that Pilgrim stock, but, after all’s said and done, it would be pretty hard to improve on those people; and, as for me, I don’t mind coming out flatfooted and saying there ain’t any way to improve on them—except having them born in, Missouri!”
Seeking Professional Speakers Speakers Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan
Maybe, you found this page by searching for Professional Speakers Illinois. If you did, I can promise you that among all the excellent speakers in Illinois, a more professional and impactful one than Conor Cunneen (Note: NOT Connor) will be hard to find.
Maybe, you found this page by searching for Motivational Speakers Illinois. If you did, I can promise you that among all the excellent speakers in Illinois, a more professional and impactful one than Conor Cunneen (Note: NOT Connor) will be hard to find.
As a Chicago -based, Irish humorous and motivational speaker, I work really hard to perfect my craft and ensure that you, as an event planner look good and get the recognition you deserve. For me, that means I study a lot of humorous and motivational material, whether from a speaker or not.
I am absolutely convinced that Mark Twain is THE finest humorous speaker of all time. Oftentimes motivational and nearly always inspirational.
Over coming blogs, I’ll provide some of his humorous and motivational speeches. While Twain famously wrote that reports of his death were an “exaggeration,” he has indeed left this world. So while Mark Twain will not be available if you are seeking an inspirational, motivational, humorous speaker for your next event or conference, the Irishman is – Conor Cunneen. Before reading one of Twain’s wonderful speeches below. Have a look at this short video I did on my Irish brogue that might just get you smiling.
How a Humorous and Motivational Speaker gets a Brogue!
AND NOW: Mark Twain – THE Best Humorous Motivational Speaker
ADDRESS AT THE FIRST ANNUAL DINNER, N. E. SOCIETY,
PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 22, 1881
Continued from yesterday’s Blog.
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian—an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. Not one drop of my blood flows in that Indian’s veins today. I stand here, lone and forlorn, without an ancestor. They skinned him! I do not object to that, if they needed his fur; but alive, gentlemen-alive! They skinned him alive—and before company! That is what rankles. Think how he must have felt; for he was a sensitive person and easily embarrassed. If he had been a bird, it would have been all right, and no violence done to his feelings, because he would have been considered “dressed.” But he was not a bird, gentlemen, he was a man, and probably one of the most undressed men that ever was. I ask you to put yourselves in his place. I ask it as a favor; I ask it as a tardy act of justice; I ask it in the interest of fidelity to the traditions of your ancestors; I ask it that the world may contemplate, with vision unobstructed by disguising swallow-tails and white cravats, the spectacle which the true New England Society ought to present. Cease to come to these annual orgies in this hollow modern mockery—the surplusage of raiment. Come in character; come in the summer grace, come in the unadorned simplicity, come in the free and joyous costume which your sainted ancestors provided for mine.
Later ancestors of mine were the Quakers William Robinson, Marmaduke Stevenson, et al. Your tribe chased them put of the country for their religion’s sake; promised them death if they came back; for your ancestors had forsaken the homes they loved, and braved the perils of the sea, the implacable climate, and the savage wilderness, to acquire that highest and most precious of boons, freedom for every man on this broad continent to worship according to the dictates of his own conscience—and they were not going to allow a lot of pestiferous Quakers to interfere with it. Your ancestors broke forever the chains of political slavery, and gave the vote to every man in this wide land, excluding none!—none except those who did not belong to the orthodox church. Your ancestors—yes, they were a hard lot; but, nevertheless, they gave us religious liberty to worship as they required us to worship, and political liberty to vote as the church required; and so I the bereft one, I the forlorn one, am here to do my best to help you celebrate them right.
INCENTIVE MARKETING ASSOCIATION wrote: "Conor, In 30 years of Association work, I have NEVER seen a speaker as well received as you." while an INSURANCE COMPANY PLANNER wrote: “As the person who coordinates all of our speakers year after year, I want to tell you that you offered a very welcome breath of fresh air in booking and executing our keynote speech." HARLEY-DAVIDSON wrote: "They loved you, Conor."
