Profile Barry Roberts

Profile

Barry Roberts began his career as a professional singer and humorist at age twelve. By the time he was nineteen he had appeared in major night clubs and dinner theaters and twice performed at The White House for President Johnson. In order to be closer to his family, as his children were growing, Barry limited his entertaining to the New York area. During that time he was also a high school music teacher, a salesman, sales manager, and owner of his own sales organization. His sons are grown, his wife is an elementary school principal and Barry is captivating audiences all across the country once again!

When Barry talks and sings about stress, self-esteem, innovative thinking, leadership and humor in the business world, or in life, he talks from empirical knowledge and practical experience. Today Barry is an acclaimed professional speaker and dedicated researcher investigating the functions of humor on human effectiveness. Barry’s articles have appeared in nationally distributed magazines and his books Practice Safe Stress and The Sales Coach ll have been very well received. He is a member of the National Speakers Association (and is on their special Humor Committee) as well as the National Association for Therapeutic Humor.

Barry Roberts, a humorist, helps businesses achieve maximum profitability and productivity by reducing stress and developing innovative thinking skills. His keynotes and educational seminars are sought out throughout the USA and Canada.

Combining his skills as an educator, entertainer, businessman and serious researcher Barry offers six of the most effective and entertaining programs you will experience. “Practice Safe Stress” (Minimize stress to maximize performance & productivity), “How to Use Your Innovative Thinking Skills” (Develop the skills to generate more business and spark more sales), “Meeting The Challenge of Leadership” (Is it in you?), The L.I.F.E. Approach to Positive Humor”, “Is That Your Final Answer?” (Turning problems into possibilities for success) and “Esteem-Rolling Your Way To Success”(Building a more confident, efficient person), are regularly receiving kudos from organizations across the United States and Canada. His audiences keep coming back for more; Barry has been brought back by numerous clients to present “other” programs, because his information is that practical and audiences enjoy him so much. Barry is ready to bring that kind of success to your organization, too!

Keynote topics

• “Practice Safe Stress” Minimize Stress To Maximize Performance and Profitability: Anxiety, fear, change and turmoil exist for us all, causing lots of stress that strains our emotional systems.  By successfully dealing with those stresses we become more profitable, productive and creative in all areas of our lives. This is an exciting presentation of laughter, learning, music and song that will stay with your audience long that after the meeting is over.  Barry’s unique approach to using our ‘inner sense of humor’ as a tool for minimizing day- to-day stress will capture the audience right from the start.  This is not about telling jokes, but rather a means of using our inner sense of humor and ‘humor memory’ to help us through any stressful situation and improve our lives.  Barry’s best selling book, Practice Safe Stress, has been getting wonderful reviews and attests to this philosophy.

• How To Use Your Innovative Thinking Skills - Developing The Skills To Generate More Business and Spark Your Sales: The business world and our environment are changing rapidly. With that comes new problems and questions that require new thinking. Business needs creative, Innovative Thinking both on the strategic level and on the front line to move ahead as competition intensifies. Participants will learn to use Innovative Thinking Skills to develop a new approach to sales and marketing that fits their individual style and personality, yet makes a splash that is effective and extraordinary. Innovative Thinking Skills takes you beyond brainstorming to create “variation and elaboration" of ideas.

  It is highly interactive and certain to make a positive difference in the way participants market, sell and think. Participants will learn to:  

  Close more sales

  Enhance decision-making skills

  Blow away the competition

  Be completely unique

  Develop better business strategies

  Any audience that wants to bring their skills to a higher level and successfully meet the challenge of change, needs this seminar.

• Meeting The Challenge of Leadership: Based on Barry’s experiences and reputation, this is a presentation that several of Barry’s clients have asked him to create. The research and insight that went into this session will inform attendees of the best practices of effective leadership and enable them to identify leadership potential in five key areas. These include:

  Finding emerging leaders

  Passion

  Being a role model

  Putting others first

  Competency

  This session is designed to help you identify leadership strengths, develop a list of strategies to improve them and set leadership goals.

  In the end, it’s all about finding emerging leaders (and the leadership in you) and inspiring a shared vision.

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Contact information for Barry Roberts

Barry is represented by Charli Jane Speaker Services please contact Wendi for booking or media inquiries at wendi@CharliJane.com or 402 350 7262 / 402 218 4426