From keynote speaking to teaching the art, business and science of humor to corporatings and businesses around the world, Don Barnhart does it all.

FINDING YOUR FUNNY!

Award Winnning Comedian Don Barnhart Offers Corporate Humor Training Seminars

Award Winning Comedian, Second City Improv Graduate, Author, Filmmaker and Certified Hypnotist Don Barnhart is now offering seminars and classes in the art, business and science of humor, stand up comedy, improv, acting and success.

Don Barnhart is a professional, working comic with numerous TV/Film credits. He's a national headline act and regular at the top comedy clubs in Vegas and around the world. Learn from someone who actually does it for a living!

For years, Barnhart has been the premier comedy coach in Las Vegas and comedy consultant around the world. His classes range from: Stand Up Comedy, Writing, Improv, The Business of Comedy, Comedy Seminars, Humor in Business, Humor in the Workplace, Characters, Mentoring, Hypnosis Techniques for overcoming stage fright, achieving success and much more.

What sets Don apart from any other instructors is that Don is one of the top headline comedians working today and continues to perform for the top comedy clubs, cruise ships and corporations around the world.

Barnhart also serves as one of the top comedy club consultants in the country and is currently involved with the opening and booking of several new comedy clubs throughout the United States as well as booking and producing shows for the military, special events and comedy concerts. Over the last 25 years, Barnhart has consulted on the opening, operations and marketing of numerous comedy clubs, cruise ships, concerts and comedy shows for the military.

SEMINARS, CORPORATE TRAINING AND HUMOR IN THE WORKPLACE

Corporate Training: Using humor to liven up your presentations.

Learn to add humor in your personal & professional presentations with Don Barnhart's Humor in The Workplace TM Seminars. No more boring speeches. No more crickets, loud yawns and the sound of your heartbeat pounding in your chest. Learn to use humor and grab the audience's attention keeping them riveted on your presentation.

Humor and laughter can be a great aid to reduce stress and promote physical well-being and when applied to your speech or presentation, it puts the audience at ease creating a happy link to you and your product or presentation. Humor has been proven to reduce tension and stress, increase efficiency, attendance, and retention and create an overall sense of well-being.

Don Barnhart teaches you the fundamentals and techniques of using comedy and humor to liven up your presentations and keep your audiences entertained while delivering your message. Whether it's just to break the ice during sales or marketing presentation or successfully shifting the perspective in a strategic planning meeting, humor is a powerful tool for punctuating the most important business interchanges.

You don't have to be naturally funny or even a stand up comedian to apply humor and Don Barnhart shows you how to use your own personality to create natural and funny humor that's organ tic and not contrived.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER, COMEDY & HUMOR SEMINARS

Humor can help people deal with the every day trials and tribulations as well as triumphing over tragedy. It is a great aid to reduce stress and promote physical well-being and it's been said, "Laughter is the best medicine". Barnhart's speeches and seminars are inspiring, interactive, educational, motivating but most of all entertaining, fun and funny! Humor can ignite laughter and Barnhart's positive humor and improv workshops increase creativity and relieve stress while building and bonding teamwork.

A large executive search firm conducted a recent survey of top executives who earned more than $250k per year. What the survey found out was that these executives believed their communication skills were the most important factor that helped them excel to their position. Mastering the use of humor techniques puts a fine polish on your public speaking skills, which can help propel you to the top of the speaking profession and business world.

According to Bob Orben, Former Director of the White House Speech writing Department and Special Assistant to President Gerald Ford, 'Business executives and political leaders have embraced humor because humor works. Humor has gone from being an admirable part of a leader's character to a mandatory one.'

The Advanced Public Speaking Institute says, "There are many benefits you can derive from using humor when speaking. Keep in mind that these benefits only help you reach your ultimate purpose for making the presentation. They are not purposes themselves unless, of course, you are only interested in entertaining."

The practical use of humor in your public speaking can help with the following:

Don Barnhart's humor seminars are perfect for: keynotes, convention openings, conference closings, corporate meetings, events, in-service programs, seminars, meetings, retreats, workshops and more.

Click here for a pdf brochure on coporate training/seminars:  Don%20Barnhart%20Comedy%20Seminar

Click here for a pdf onesheet on corporate entertainment/keynote speaking: Don%20Barnhart%20One%20Sheet

HAVE YOUR BEST YEAR EVER - ACHIEVE HIGH PERFORMANCE

In this humorous but professional presentation, Don Barnhart will inspire and teach you how to achieve more in your professional and personal life and to truly have your best year ever. Designed to entertain while inspiring you to stay motivated, challenged and empowered, Barnhart combines this powerful keynote with an entertaining hypnotic show turning the volunteers into the stars. Learn to adopt a "failure free" attitude and create a "success demeanor" that is self motivated to achieve your highest priorities.

IMPROVE YOUR PERFORMANCE WITH IMPROV:

Barnhart is a Second City Conservatory Graduate specializing in improv training and seminars to help break the fear of stage fright, create teambuilding and trust by working together.

Increase your confidence and stage presence. Great for comedians, actors, business people, sales teams and anyone wanting to increase their stage performance and speaking ability. Break through your roadblocks and stage fright. You'll have a blast in this workshop, as you'll be doing improv right away.

Barnhart's improv classes and seminars specialize in short form improv and games for the stage. This fun, interactive class will have you on your feet, onstage and creating laughter right away.

Some of the benefits of improv: Increasing your stage presence and public speaking skills. Improve your presence in your comedy shows, create characters. You'll also see the power of being positive, heighten your listening skills, learn to "hear" and be "in the moment", learn body language, gain confidence and comfort onstage, in auditions and speaking engagements, break through nervousness and stage fright, learn to handle live speaking situations with comfort, confidence and ease.

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Don Barnhart Key Accomplishments Include . . .

As one of the world's premiere interactive entertainers, Don Barnhart has engaged, entertained, amazed, and delighted thousands of audiences with his stand up comedy & hypnosis shows across North America and around the world.

Praised as a "one of of the best", Don Barnhart has become a favorite guest entertainer, emcee, and after-dinner performer for hundreds of top companies and organizations around the world, including Royal Caribbean, Carnival, MGM and more.

Don Barnhart is a favorite headliner at the top comedy clubs and cruise ships around the world and received the “Bob Hope Award” for his dedication to providing entertainment to the troops stationed overseas. He stars in the new film Finding The Funny with Brad Garrett, Louie Anderson and Marty Allen and has been featured on numerous TV and radio shows including: NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC, MTV, and is a regular on XM/Sirius Satellite Radio and a favorite guest on The Bob & Tom Show. Don Barnhart has also been in national magazines and newspapers, including USA Today, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and CNN.

More About Don Barnhart. . .
In 2012, Don Barnhart’s show was named “Best Bet” by the Las Vegas Review/Journal and he was called America’s Funniest Hypnotist by Hypnosis Monthly Magazine. That year, he won the grand prize in the Improv Comedy Club’s search for the next great comedian and Entertainment Business Weekly labeled him of of the top 100 comedians to see 3 years in a row.

Don Barnhart is the author of Creating The Life You Desire: Using Hypnosis To Create The Life Of Your Dreams and is a contributing author on I Killed: True Stories From America’s Top Comedians and has written numerous articles on humor.

Don Barnhart is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory and is considered one of the top humor and comedy instructors around the world. Besides performing, Don teaches stand up, improv and humor in the workplace seminars.

What People Are Saying...

"Don Barnhart did a great job. His interaction with the crowd was perfect. We had numerous folks come up afterwards talking about how much they enjoyed the show. Please pass this on to Don and let him know we would highly recommend him to other groups. Thanks again.” Lance Shillingburg - Texas Motor Transportation Association

"The accolades we continue to receive from the installations you visited are testimony to your commitment and dedication to ensure our troops' morale remain high by providing quality entertainment to our uniformed service members overseas. Without a doubt, your performance has made a lasting impression on the troops and installation." Edward F. Shock, Col, USAF Chief, Armed Forces Entertainment

"One of the best we've ever had." Drew Blease - Blease Finanacial Corporation

"Thank you so much. I cannot count how many times people have told me how much they laughed! By the way the owner of the golf course and lots of other things has asked me for your contact info, he would like to book you for a couple things he has coming up....so that is awesome!" Montisa Phelan Lopez, Executive Director, Foundation & Public Affairs - Arroyo Grande Community Hospital

"Don was a great asset to our AFE and Navy Entertainment program. We look forward to return trips with his groups. Please see my attached comments as agreed upon with my staff who enjoyed working with Don. He is a very good performer, a compassionate and flexible individual, and a patriot for the troops. They even did a show on the deck of the sub last week." Thomas L. Linscott, MWR Director - Bahrain

Check out the new documentary about Don Barnhart's Comedy Classes directed by John Bizarre.
www.FindingTheFunnyMovie.com

Learn the art of improv in this practical workshop by Second City Conservatory Graduate and Award Winning Comedian Don Barnhart. This workshop is recommended for everyone wanting to learn and practice improv.

Increase your confidence and stage presence. Great for comedians, actors, business people, sales teams and anyone wanting to increase their stage performance and speaking ability. Break through your roadblocks and stage fright. You'll have a blast in this workshop, as you'll be doing improv right away.

Barnhart's improv classes and seminars specialize in short form improv and games for the stage. This fun, interactive class will have you on your feet, onstage and creating laughter right away.

Some of the benefits of improv: Increasing your stage presence and public speaking skills. Improve your presence in your comedy shows, create characters. You'll also see the power of being positive, heighten your listening skills, learn to "hear" and be "in the moment", learn body language, gain confidence and comfort onstage, in auditions and speaking engagements, break through nervousness and stage fright, learn to handle live speaking situations with comfort, confidence and ease.

OTHER CLASES, SEMINARS AND TOPICS
Your Best Year Ever - Achieving High Performance
Overcoming Stage Fright
Using Hypnosis For Teambuilding
Performance Anxiety
Motivation
Stress Reduction
Weight Loss
Smoking Cessation
Goal/Dream Creation
Pain Management
Custom Sessions Available On Request