Scott Adams, the man who gave us Dilbert, the comic-strip conscious of the corporate world, is a speaker who keeps audiences laughing with a presentation guaranteed to show the lighter side of work. Corporate irreverence including downsizing, endless, time-wasting meetings, back-stabbing coworkers: no matter what the bad news in the business world, Scott can find the humor. Creator of the comic strip and cultural phenomenon Dilbert, Scott entertained himself during boring meetings by drawing caricatures of his coworkers and bosses, when a bespectacled character named Dilbert emerged from the doodles. In 1988 Adams mailed some sample comic strips featuring Dilbert to the major cartoon syndicates. United Feature Syndicate plucked Dilbert out of thousands of submissions received that year and offered Adams a contract. Dilbert launched in about 35 newspapers in 1989. Audiences everywhere have identified with the hapless character, trapped forever in his cubicle, and, like his popular comic strip, Adams’ humorous presentations never fail to entertain. Adams is no stranger to the corporate world. He holds a B.A. in economics from Hartwick College, Oneonta New York, and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. A certified hypnotist. Adams held, in his words, “a variety of humiliating and low paying jobs” during his eight years at Crocker National Bank and eight years at Pacific Bell. He's been a bank teller (robbed twice at gunpoint), computer programmer, financial analyst, product manager, commercial lender, budget manager, strategist, project manager and pseudo-engineer. Scott knows firsthand what life in the business/corporate world is like – that’s how he knows what’s so funny about it, and why he finds it so easy to share that with audiences across the country. Adams continued his day job at Pacific Bell until 1995, drawing Dilbert at 5 a.m. everyday before work. Now Adams devotes his entire day (and much of the evening) to Dilbert, including speaking, writing, doing interviews, designing licensed products and answering hundreds of e-mail messages per day. He is the co-owner of two restaurants: Stacey’s Café and Stacey’s at Waterford, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Dilbert comic strip has been called, “the best window into the reality of corporate life that I’ve ever seen,” by Mike Hammer, co-author of "Reengineering the Corporation." With the scathing humor for which he’s best known, Scott Adams takes audiences along on his long, strange journey from his being a cubicle dweller to becoming the creator of Dilbert, the character with which hundreds of thousands of desk jockeys everywhere have groaningly identified. Adams jokes about the cartoons that didn't make it past the editors (rated PG) and his secret formula for humor. Well-versed in the business issues of the day, he also takes questions from the audience. Dilbert is published in over 2,000 newspapers, in 65 countries. Adams has 35 books in print – over 10 million sold – including two number-one New York Times best sellers. Titles Humor at Work An Inside Look at the World of "Dilbert" Topics Celebrity, Humor Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range Please call us. Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State CA Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.