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Jeff Rogers – Using Humor, Improvisation, and Storytelling in your Presentations
April 12 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am

Using Humor, Improvisation, and Storytelling in your Presentations
Jeff Rogers is the NSA Storytelling Champion!
Jeff Rogers is an award-winning Television Host, Professional Emcee, Wall Street Journal & USA Today Best-Selling Author, a TEDx speaker, and sought after Keynote Speaker with 30+ years of experience engaging audiences. He holds certifications in Innovation from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. He is the inaugural National Speaker Association Last Story Standing Competition National Champion and a Virtual Speaker Hall of Fame inductee.
Jeff can be seen on dozens of national television commercials for Crestor, BP, McDonald’s, Miller Lite, Hanes, & Ford, amongst many others as well as roles on Empire, Chicago PD, Chicago Fire, and Proven Innocent. He is the host of the cable TV’s Jeff’s Homemade Game Show for which he also was the Writer and Co-Exec Producer. He is also the Host and creator of three different award-winning web series.
Growing up, he had a built-in audience as one of eleven kids from an Irish-catholic family in Chicago and went on to become one of youngest performers to be hired at the renowned Second City Theater (John Belushi was the youngest). Jeff performed with Steve Carell from The Office, Stephen Colbert from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock star Tina Fey and Parks and Rec star Amy Poehler, and too many more to mention.
Jeff is the owner of The Players Workshop, the oldest improvisation school in the country, home to alumni like Bill Murray, Bonnie Hunt, Harold Ramis, and Matt Walsh. Jeff continues the tradition of teaching improvisation to anyone interested in learning the art for stage or for life.
Jeff’s clients include Fortune 500 companies across all vertical industries such as:
Major League Baseball, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Red Hat, ConvergeOne, Forsythe, Motorola Solutions, RedHat, SUN, Abbott, Pfizer, Merck, AbbVie, Takeda, Astellas, Insmed, Ferring, Horizon Pharmaceuticals, CareFusion, Cardinal Healthcare, Baxter, McDonald’s, Burger King, Church’s, Pepsi, 7UP, GM, Ford, Chrysler, International, Waste Management, Bank of America, CNA, Chase, Discover Card, Century 21, American Family Insurance, AADE, NXTComm, PCMA, AORN, MillerCoors, Anheuser Busch and many, many more.
Jeff’s latest book is the international & Amazon bestseller The Playmaker Mindset: A Radically Fun Way To Build A Culture Of Teamwork And Instant Innovation. Jeff is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal & USA Today The Expert’s Cure and the Amazon bestseller Office Sportz! The Official Office Games Handbook. Written with a clinical psychologist and featuring a foreword by Olympian and New York Times Best Selling Author Vince Poscente. Jeff co-authored the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller The Entrepreneur’s Cure
Awards:
- 3 W3 Website Content Award
- 24 Telly Awards
- 8 Communicator Awards
- 7 Film Festival Awards
- 5 VEMA Awards
- 2005 MPI Paragon Award
- 1 Hermes Creative Award
- 1 Videographer Award
Jeff is also active with a number the charitable organizations such as Autism Speaks, JDRF, Charity:Water and the Special Olympics.
NEW LOCATION:
The Foundation Room at OnPath FCU
3131 North I-10 Service Road
Metairie, LA, 70002
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