Educator + Entertainer = Edutainer

I love to teach. It is perhaps my favorite thing to do. “Edutaining” means to educate while entertaining. I love to make audiences laugh and cry, think and do. 

Emotional engagement, intellectual stimulation and actively interacting with new skills are the most fun, effective and memorable ways to learn.

I strive to inspire and empower professionals, aspirants and students alike to proactively make their own dreams come true.

Highlights of some of my past presentations and topics are below.

I teach cutting-edge, relevant, practical and motivating classes and customize retreats, embedded events, and workshops on everything from PowerNetworking and goal achievement to film and television screenwriting, directing, producing, writing and acting improv games to ShowBiz and careers in the entertainment industry, to investing in independent films, blueprinting dream careers, mind mapping businesses and events in any field as well as entrepreneurial skills including leadership, ethics, event planning, publicity, time and contact management and, inevitably, for everything: sales and marketing.

I’ve been blessed that my popular motivational speaking has allowed me to travel all over the world. I have spoken in Kowloon, Hong Kong; Kobe, Japan; Barcelona, Spain; London, England; Dublin, Ireland; Sydney, Australia, Vancouver, Canada – and all across the US. I’ve been an entertainment industry Judge in Los Angeles; Genoa, Italy; Marseille, France and Arizona. I’ve spoken to colleges and universities, corporations, Chambers o Commerce and non-profits on all aspects of the entertainment industry. Artrepreneurship and a variety of other local, micro to macroeconomic issues.

Most Recent Speaking Engagements

Partial List of Past Speaking Engagements

Corporations & Non-Profits

  • ABC Drama Department (Custom Executive Pitch Workshop)
  • AEON Corporation, Kobe, Japan
  • Allstate Market Research Department
  • American Savings Bank
  • Comedy Store, The (Stand-Up in the Main Room and Belly Room on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood)
  • GE Capital
  • Great Western Savings & Loan
  • Mazda
  • PMI Mortgage Insurance Company
  • Reebok
  • Sony
  • Washington Mutual Bank

Non-Profit Organizations

  • California Main Street Program, The
  • Century City Chamber of Commerce, The
  • Kids Making Movies (Homeschool Program)
  • La Mesa Chamber of Commerce, The
  • Legal Aid Services of Orange County
  • Meeting Professionals International (MPI)
  • MENSA International
  • MENSA’s Regional Gathering: GLAAM StarGazing (Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa) 2012 – 2013
  • Modesto Chamber of Commerce, The
  • National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE)
  • NATPE Educational Foundation
  • Orange County Professional Speakers Bureau, The
  • San Juan Capistrano Chamber of Commerce, The
  • Santee Chamber of Commerce, The
  • State of California Small Claims Federal Court System
  • Tuolumne County Visitors Bureau. The
  • Various Economic and Redevelopment Agencies and DownTown Merchant Associations

Film, TV , Festivals and Writers Workshops

Universities, Colleges and Trade Schools

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