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Kate Davis
Connectivity & Stress Management Expert | Humour in the Workplace | Work–Life Balance
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Kate Davis is an award-winning comic, author and sought-after international keynote speaker who teaches audiences to “lighten up,” bringing them the balance and connectivity they lack in their busy lives. Her keynotes are grounded in two decades of research and development that have transformed the lives of her audiences.
Kate’s compelling insight and outspoken character provide a powerful combination to help organizations empower their staff with effective tools for managing stress and sustaining motivation. Through the proven health-building power of laughter, Kate inspires others to create moments of inclusivity, joy, and productivity in all areas of their lives. This work leaves people feeling energized, optimistic and equipped with practical tools to make real change and stay motivated.
Kate regularly appears on popular media channels, including TVO, Breakfast Television and CBC’s Radio One, and has been published in Today’s Parent Magazine, Reader’s Digest and more. She has also penned two books. Her first, “Breast-feeding Diaries,” won the iParenting Media Award. Her most recent book, “Second Best Mom – Stories, Tips and Okay Advice,” is now available on all platforms. In Kate’s podcast, “Humour in the C-Suite”, she interviews leaders, executives and business owners on how leaders use humour to create an extraordinary work culture.
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Connecting Through Humour: Why Laughter Means Business in the Digital Age
Humour Plays a Critical Role in the Corporate Environment.
It's never been easier to communicate and never been harder to connect. Between emails, virtual meetings, slack, social media, it's no wonder that burnout, stress and loneliness are at all-time highs, and trust is at an all-time low.
Instead of hiring the latest strategic communications firm, or spending countless hours learning how to train AI bots to communicate for you, what if you could learn some simple and easy tools to implement immediately that would drive connection and results?
Research shows that laughter and levity are some of the most powerful ways to build meaningful connections, increase trust, reduce stress, and enhance employee engagement and performance.
In this engaging and enlightening keynote, veteran comedian Kate Davis demystifies what makes us laugh and provides practical techniques for using humor to truly make an impression whether it’s with clients, customers, co-workers, family, or friends.
Audiences will leave with takeaways including:
• Specific examples and techniques to bring more levity into the workplace and how to de-risk humor.
• Ideas they can implement immediately on how to use humor to build trust with clients and colleagues.
• Research and examples showing the power that humor has on human connection which inspires and motivates people to truly live to their fullest potential.
• How to harness the power of humor to create an extraordinary work culture and collaborate as a team
*This keynote is good for any group that wants to empower their teams to improve their culture, grow sales, grow customers, or anyone who wants to improve their connections and most importantly anyone who wants to LAUGH!
It's never been easier to communicate and never been harder to connect. Between emails, virtual meetings, slack, social media, it's no wonder that burnout, stress and loneliness are at all-time highs, and trust is at an all-time low.
Instead of hiring the latest strategic communications firm, or spending countless hours learning how to train AI bots to communicate for you, what if you could learn some simple and easy tools to implement immediately that would drive connection and results?
Research shows that laughter and levity are some of the most powerful ways to build meaningful connections, increase trust, reduce stress, and enhance employee engagement and performance.
In this engaging and enlightening keynote, veteran comedian Kate Davis demystifies what makes us laugh and provides practical techniques for using humor to truly make an impression whether it’s with clients, customers, co-workers, family, or friends.
Audiences will leave with takeaways including:
• Specific examples and techniques to bring more levity into the workplace and how to de-risk humor.
• Ideas they can implement immediately on how to use humor to build trust with clients and colleagues.
• Research and examples showing the power that humor has on human connection which inspires and motivates people to truly live to their fullest potential.
• How to harness the power of humor to create an extraordinary work culture and collaborate as a team
*This keynote is good for any group that wants to empower their teams to improve their culture, grow sales, grow customers, or anyone who wants to improve their connections and most importantly anyone who wants to LAUGH!
Balancing Life With Humour
We’re Jugglers, and the 1st ball to drop is usually our own.
The world is becoming more volatile, finding balance between our jobs, home, relationships with family, friends and co-workers can be challenging and overwhelming both in the workplace and home leading to stress, fatigue and low productivity.
So, we stretch in every direction trying to satisfy and take care of everyone but ourselves. What if there was a simple way to bring more balance into our lives that didn’t require over extending ourselves, our resources, and helped us be more present in our lives.
Humour can do just that.
Grounded in 2 decades of research and development this award-winning comic, teaches people how to lighten up and the power that humour and levity have on their day-to-day lives to create more Balance, stability and self-care.
Audiences will leave with takeaways including:
• Learning how to apply and use humour into their day-to-day life to keep them healthy, happy, and whole.
• They’ll learn practical techniques on how humour changes the chemistry of our brains and how to implement the benefits it has on stress management, human connection, and trust both at home and the workplace.
• They’ll learn what humour style they fit into and how to use that to ease tension, create an innovative environment, and enhance communication.
• They’ll discover how humour and levity allow us to be more playful which leads to innovation and team collaboration.
• They’ll experience a great ab workout from laughing so hard.
It’s not about the next best joke it’s about lightening up and not taking ourselves so seriously and bring that to every area of our lives.
People, who attend Kate’s “Balancing Life with Humour” Keynote, leave with an understanding of practical techniques for refuelling, rediscovering, and reengaging their true selves. Learning to use humour as an instrument of communication creates an atmosphere of compassion, caring, and increased productivity.
The world is becoming more volatile, finding balance between our jobs, home, relationships with family, friends and co-workers can be challenging and overwhelming both in the workplace and home leading to stress, fatigue and low productivity.
So, we stretch in every direction trying to satisfy and take care of everyone but ourselves. What if there was a simple way to bring more balance into our lives that didn’t require over extending ourselves, our resources, and helped us be more present in our lives.
Humour can do just that.
Grounded in 2 decades of research and development this award-winning comic, teaches people how to lighten up and the power that humour and levity have on their day-to-day lives to create more Balance, stability and self-care.
Audiences will leave with takeaways including:
• Learning how to apply and use humour into their day-to-day life to keep them healthy, happy, and whole.
• They’ll learn practical techniques on how humour changes the chemistry of our brains and how to implement the benefits it has on stress management, human connection, and trust both at home and the workplace.
• They’ll learn what humour style they fit into and how to use that to ease tension, create an innovative environment, and enhance communication.
• They’ll discover how humour and levity allow us to be more playful which leads to innovation and team collaboration.
• They’ll experience a great ab workout from laughing so hard.
It’s not about the next best joke it’s about lightening up and not taking ourselves so seriously and bring that to every area of our lives.
People, who attend Kate’s “Balancing Life with Humour” Keynote, leave with an understanding of practical techniques for refuelling, rediscovering, and reengaging their true selves. Learning to use humour as an instrument of communication creates an atmosphere of compassion, caring, and increased productivity.
Out Of My Mind… Back In 5 Minutes
A Journey about resilience and perseverance.
Kate’s Keynote, “Out of My Mind…Back In Five,” explores techniques for managing our mental health and gives practical ways of staying healthy and positive even through the toughest times. Kate’s inspiring, humorous and sometimes touching stories take us on a journey about resilience and perseverance, how she found comedy, how it helped her discover self-worth and confidence, and how to fight the negativity in her mind that was keeping her from living the life she deserved.
“Back In Five” explores how we feel about ourselves and others, as well as our ability to manage our feelings and deal with everyday difficulties at work and home.
From practical methods like how mindfulness can help us achieve self-awareness that has to power to affect all areas of our lives positively. Learning one-minute stress strategies that you can do at the office or home or breaking up the monotony with Rejuvenation 101 (That’s a long list). To the methods available to us for taking charge of our own mental health including: How we think about ourselves, being grateful, being in the present, sleep, diet, exercise to name a few. All these methods can ultimately boost our mood, build resilience and add to our overall enjoyment of life.
Audiences leave this keynote with the feeling that knowledge is power and that we all play a role in our mental health.
Kate’s Keynote, “Out of My Mind…Back In Five,” explores techniques for managing our mental health and gives practical ways of staying healthy and positive even through the toughest times. Kate’s inspiring, humorous and sometimes touching stories take us on a journey about resilience and perseverance, how she found comedy, how it helped her discover self-worth and confidence, and how to fight the negativity in her mind that was keeping her from living the life she deserved.
“Back In Five” explores how we feel about ourselves and others, as well as our ability to manage our feelings and deal with everyday difficulties at work and home.
From practical methods like how mindfulness can help us achieve self-awareness that has to power to affect all areas of our lives positively. Learning one-minute stress strategies that you can do at the office or home or breaking up the monotony with Rejuvenation 101 (That’s a long list). To the methods available to us for taking charge of our own mental health including: How we think about ourselves, being grateful, being in the present, sleep, diet, exercise to name a few. All these methods can ultimately boost our mood, build resilience and add to our overall enjoyment of life.
Audiences leave this keynote with the feeling that knowledge is power and that we all play a role in our mental health.
Funny Mommy™ Parenting With Humor Lecture And Workshop
Your Leisure Time Should not be Folding Laundry.
This lecture/workshop gives parents, caregivers, educators, and social service providers the tools to help defuse the chaos and stress of their lives through humour. Kate helps them to remember themselves, accept where they are and not feeling guilty about where they are not. It combines stand-up comedy with practical techniques to raise children.
“Fun cancels out stress and brings everyone into the moment.” This is the recipe for a healthy relationship when raising our children. Everything changes when we become parents. I think the show “Survivor” shouldn’t take place on an island but in a new parents’ home. It’s challenging not to lose yourself in the process, but with a few techniques, likes being more playful and using your intuition, life can be more joyful and relaxing.
Discover the different ways that men and women deal with stress, techniques of dealing with sibling fighting and how to truly take care of yourself so you can be more present in the life you are living now.
This lecture blends techniques of improvisation, visualization and affirmations. Parenting is a great lesson in letting go. You give birth, and you let go. You nurse, you stop, and you let go. They start school, and you let go. They move out, and you let go. That “Letting Go” lesson is way easier with you intact.
This lecture/workshop gives parents, caregivers, educators, and social service providers the tools to help defuse the chaos and stress of their lives through humour. Kate helps them to remember themselves, accept where they are and not feeling guilty about where they are not. It combines stand-up comedy with practical techniques to raise children.
“Fun cancels out stress and brings everyone into the moment.” This is the recipe for a healthy relationship when raising our children. Everything changes when we become parents. I think the show “Survivor” shouldn’t take place on an island but in a new parents’ home. It’s challenging not to lose yourself in the process, but with a few techniques, likes being more playful and using your intuition, life can be more joyful and relaxing.
Discover the different ways that men and women deal with stress, techniques of dealing with sibling fighting and how to truly take care of yourself so you can be more present in the life you are living now.
This lecture blends techniques of improvisation, visualization and affirmations. Parenting is a great lesson in letting go. You give birth, and you let go. You nurse, you stop, and you let go. They start school, and you let go. They move out, and you let go. That “Letting Go” lesson is way easier with you intact.
Workshops & Half-Day Programs
To learn more about Kate’s workshops and half-day programs, please contact a member of our team at hello@talentbureau.com.
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