<p>Ross Shafer has the most intriguingly unconventional comedy and business career of any speaker on leading through change, reinvention, and resilience. </p><p>Ross’s funny and energetic style was honed as a headlining comedian and host of TV’s <em>Match Game</em> (ABC), <em>The Late Show </em>(FOX), <em>Almost Live!</em> (NBC and Comedy Central) and <em>Love Me, Love Me Not</em> (USA). </p><p>Embracing his humorous world view explains why Ross risked buying and selling 23 companies (each rescued from bankruptcy) and earning the savvy to author ten insightful business books. </p><p>Ross’s fresh takeaways are fun and sticky … and he delivers the creativity to ignite, inspire and entertain frontliners as well as senior executives. </p>
Six-Time Emmy Award-Winning Comedian, Network TV Host and Best-Selling Business Author of 10 Books on Reinvention and Resilience
<ul><li><strong>How to Sustain a Relevant Culture</strong></li><li>In this wildly entertaining keynote, your attendees will benefit from these takeaways:</li><li>(1) RELEVANCE IS…THE MOVING TARGET</li><li>A culture must be constantly curated. Your team members want to be part of a dynamic organization that is nimble enough to adapt on demand. Ross will inspire your teams to replace complacency with out-of-silo thinking. Ross shares tactics for cultivating an endless supply of fresh ideas and solutions.</li><li>(2) CUSTOMER/CLIENT EXPECTATIONS HAVE EVOLVED</li><li>In his book, “No More Customer Friction” Ross shares case studies for how his WOW vs POW discipline caused satisfaction scores to skyrocket by preventing customer gut-punches, reckless customer disappointments, and inexcusable blunders that make customers choose your competition. </li><li><strong>How to Groom Confident Leaders</strong></li><li>Every organization needs bench strength in their leadership. Ross Shafer’s personal stories of leadership success weren’t on anybody’s radar.</li><li>He was a young boy who grew up on the Puyallup and Chemeketa Native American reservations. (Ross’s heritage is Blackfoot). He was a shy and insecure kid yet, after high school, he bought 23 companies without any money or experience managing people, inventories, or projects. In a very short time, Ross was tapped to lead TV production teams and hosting (5) Talk and Game Shows for FOX, NBC, ABC, MGM, and USA networks. He won six Emmy Awards. Ross’s tactics for going from nothing-to-everything has resulted in (10) popular business books and delivering keynote speeches to Fortune 500 companies all over the globe. Here’s what your audience will learn in this keynote.</li><li><strong>A Clean, Corporate Comedy Show (After dinner entertainment)</strong></li><li>What’s funny these days? Ross Shafer’s material is non-political, non-controversial, and completely HR safe! If you want your attendees to leave your meeting in high spirits and energized, your attendees will experience Ross’s misadventures and his successes…all delivered in his friendly, quick-witted style. </li><li><strong>Ross is Your Ultimate Emcee</strong></li><li>As a network TV talk & game show host, Ross Shafer is frequently asked to be the interactive “traffic cop” for multi-day conventions. He frequently interviews world leaders and celebrities and is extremely comfortable hosting an executive roundtable or panel of experts. Ross engages the audience to set the tone of your event, reviews what they’ve learned, and gets everyone excited for what’s coming next. He often likes to present “from the floor” so that he can thread the dialogue throughout your conference.</li></ul><p><br></p>