Juliet Funt
Daughter of Allen Funt delivers high energy and hilarious keynotes with instantly applicable content.
As the daughter of Allen Funt, creator of the Candid Camera television show, Juliet has spent her life observing the hidden truths beneath our social selves. She won't hide a camera in your office but will bring her family tradition of hilarity and warmth to each and every one of your attendees.
Juliet lights up the platform with a true wordsmith’s love for the poetry of a well-turned phrase. She then backs up her engaging words and rich stories with thought-provoking content that has made her a nationally recognized expert in coping with the pace and pressure of our busy lives. Her uproarious stories and easily applicable points will energize and enlighten you and your audience. Her show biz genes are amplified by years performing improvisational comedy on the professional stage and many, many hours on the platform challenging her audiences to think deeper, laugh harder, and change their lives more profoundly. She helps businesses, groups and associations from top management to front line employees, find and nurture the human capital that is the fuel behind every organizational success. Her diverse work history has taken her through a myriad of roles: from Project Manger for a live events company to Human Relations trainer for the Los Angeles Police Department through the Museum of Tolerance, and even to Israel as a liaison in a Palestinian/Israeli peace project.
Juliet began her television career at two years old at the hands of her proud poppa, and since has appeared on national news, television, and radio. She has been featured in the L.A. Times, The Chicago Tribune, Shape, L.A. Parent and Professional Speaker magazine. She has been a weekly columnist for the Womenof.com Internet community, and a co-author of The Communication Path and The Wellness Path, in the Path Training Series. Her programs are great for Associations, Women’s Groups, Educators, Financial Professionals, Healthcare, Real Estate, and many other audiences.
She is a member of the National Speakers Association and fills her spare time running a fine art photography business with her fabulous and talented husband Lorne, winner of the 2005 Travel Photographer of the Year. (www.lorneresnick.com) Together they have co-founded the Young Stars Project, a non-profit organization building holistic learning schools for children in Uganda. (www.youngstarsproject.org)
PROGRAMS
Overcommitted, Overwhelmed and Over It!
Success Skills for the Blisteringly Busy
Has your To Do list become a novel? Does an avalanche of email bury you every morning? You are not alone. The #1 business lifestyle complaint in the world today is “Too much to do with too little time.” What would you give to feel relaxed and light-hearted as you face the challenge of this taxing atmosphere where the pressure never stops increasing? Get ready to smile, because Juliet Funt is about to take you on a fast-paced, story packed, hilarious ride to right where the answers lie. You can even get the CFO on board by reminding him that American companies spend 150 billion dollars a year on pressure related disability, and even more with tension related drains that waste time, lower morale and raise employee turnover. So call in the cavalry now with constructive solutions and more than a few laughs.
Defining Success in the
Age of Never Enough Coping with the Pace and Quantity of our Daily Tasks White Space on your Calendar: Myth or Reality?
Lots and lots of laughter to lift your mood now!
Overcommitted, Overwhelmed and Over it! Is a wonderful and energetic way to kick off or close your conference and provides a marvelously balanced combo of “feel good” fun and immediately applicable content.
The Magic is in Your Mouth
(Overcommitted, Overwhelmed and Over It!: Part Two)
As a follow-up to addressing the stress and overwhelm in your environment, why not focus in on improving communication? A poor communication environment piles on more stress than almost any other single factor. Consider this:
Are you being starved? Maybe: because clarity, directness and useful feedback are hard to find these days. Are you being poisoned? Maybe: because gossip, over-promising, and gender based misunderstandings are just a few of the verbal habits that slip by even the finest communicators and drain the pocketbooks of all companies. Luckily, The Magic is in Your Mouth. This morale boosting session of humor and stories will keep them entertained but is also laced with practical and innovative ideas to make the most of every word you choose.
• The Avalanche and how it
Drives Men Crazy! • Insatiability - Is there No End to what we Ask of Ourselves? • Taking things Personally and
Other Common Mirages • Every Day an Opportunity for “The Good Word”
Discover the exhilaration of being a finely tuned verbal artist and have lots of fun along the way! You will watch the joy and camaraderie mount as one by one taxing bad habits are revealed and revised.
Bring Your Mission Statement to Life (Women's Groups)
Finding Inner Values in an External World
"What do you stand for?” The answer to this question will determine your personal and professional level of success. But most people and many companies have an unclear response or none at all, and their goals suffer as a result. In "Bring Your Mission Statement to Life" you will discover your real bottom line; the values and ideas you are fully committed to. Once you and your team find a central core, every project can bloom to it's full potential.
• The Values/Bottom-Line connection • Corporate Image:
Superficial to Super-Substantial • One-A-Day
Mission and Vision Action Steps • Expressing Yourself through Giving Back
What is the real heart of your company beneath the vision, mission, logo and color brand? Come find out! Also great for employee recognition, spouse programs or appreciation days!
Child or Trophy? (Educators' Special)
An Exploration of College, Grades and Excellence
At what price do we strive for our children to achieve the status of the exceptional? From third graders with tutors, to fifth graders with ulcers, the pressure is ON.
When our kids finish college and look back on what led up to it, will they feel they made a good investment of their time, energy and hard won battles for consummate excellence? Will their capacity for joy, stillness and camaraderie be as strong as their SAT scores? We hope so, but hope is not enough. Preparing our children for a whole life, including what follows college, requires that we weigh the motives, prices and payoffs of all the moves we make.
• Specialness:
How much is Enough? • Ranking and Hierarchy: Inescapable Issues • Backlash: What happens after the Pressure is Off • Modeling: How we Teach in every Moment • Bestowing the Gift of
Realistic Expectations
At Home on the Platform (Workshop Only)
Presentation Skills
How many times have you wept inside while a speaker droned on and on with facts and monotone figures? You are trapped, playing hangman on your free mini-legal pad while counting the minutes until the break. Well, if you don't ever want to be that speaker yourself, you must support your industry expertise with two things; personal connection and platform skills. Sacrifice either, and no amount of insightful content will ever reach the ears of your listeners. Modules may include, but are not limited to...
Warming up
Physicality
Gestures
Microphone skills
Organization of content
Authenticity
The use of the body
When things go wrong
Nervousness
Openings and closings
Lessons from the theatre
Bridging the trust gap
High status: Low status
Speech structure
Impact of the voice
Jokes vs. humor
How to rehearse
PowerPoint
Use of questions
Scripting, etc.
Empathy
Mind games
Storytelling
No manager, department head or salesperson is exempt from the need for honed presentation skills. Every time you open your mouth, you can grow your business or reduce it. Be prepared!
Juliet as Mistress of Ceremonies
When Juliet MC’s your event, her full breadth of theatrical and comedic background can really be put to use. She was classically trained in theatre at Northwestern University and in improvisational comedy at both Second City in Chicago and the Groundlings in LA. She performed on the professional stage for 10 years, and it is in the fun and flexible role of MC that so much of this experience can shine. Juliet as MC brings to your meeting all of the things you hire an MC for:
• Strong, room-grabbing stage presence
• Fast-on-her-feet wit to comment on the day’s events
• A directorial background, which helps her control pace and flow
• A warm and personable style that is never boring
Find out more at www.candidkeynotes.com
