A podium can’t contain the infinite energy of Judy Carter. One of America’s top motivational humorists, Carter connects with audiences through customized comedy, delivering big laughs with a big message. Wielding the “power of the punch line,” Judy Carter gets results both nationally and internationally with a hilarious and empowering keynote, speaking to government groups, professional associations and Fortune 500 companies. She uplifts and entertains while sharing practical information that attendees can apply to their jobs as well as their daily lives. Judy Carter has shared stages with President Clinton, Deepak Chopra and Lily Tomlin. She’s in demand by corporations from Boeing to Blue Cross, Fed-ex to Farmer's Insurance. As an international speaker, Carter has taken her fun and profound address from Australia to Berlin, Canada to Hong Kong, demonstrating proven methods of transforming oneself through humor and teaching audiences how to take a different view of stressful and difficult events in life. “You’re not in a difficult marriage -- it’s comedy material,” she quips. “You don’t have the boss from hell -- it’s a heckler. Your son wasn’t arrested on the TV show ‘Cops’ -- you have a relative in show business.” A graduate of USC’s theater program, Carter was the first woman to play the Close-Up Gallery at Hollywood’s Magic Castle. Author of “The Comedy Bible” and “Standup Comedy,” she’s been featured on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” taught comedy workshops for standup comics, coaches CEOs on their speeches, and has developed a popular series of instructional DVDs. Honing her comedy skills on stages from Caesar’s Palace to the Los Angeles Improv, Carter was nominated for Atlantic City’s Entertainer of the Year. She brought her talent to the motivational speaking circuit, believing that her techniques could benefit even those who would never even think of stepping on a stage. “I wanted to do more than make people laugh, I wanted to transform and inspire with a message they could take home.” Judy Carter is a living example of the power of laughter. Like many funny people, she grew up in a dysfunctional family. When her mother said it would take a miracle for her disabled sister to walk, young Judy obsessed over learning magic. “The biggest disappointment was I couldn’t get her out of her wheelchair. But I could pull a coin out of her ear and make her laugh.” Bitten by the performing bug and realizing that she had a choice, to view life as a tragedy or as a comedy, Carter chose humor. "To me, comedy is not about putting other people down, it's really about turning our problems into punch lines," Judy Carter says. "It's just more fun to laugh--and I think it burns more calories. Anyone who comes to my show will lighten up and probably at the end of my talk -- lose five pounds!" Titles Humor in the Workplace - Laughing Your Way Through Stress Change - Not Just for Diapers: Holding it Together When Things Fall Apart Sales Training: Share a Laugh - Close a Deal When Things Get Dire --Inspire! How to Live Happily Ever After When you feel Fat, Broke and Surrounded by Frogs Joy is more than a dishwashing liquid: Finding Your Whoo Hoo! Reclaiming Real Power: Don't get Mad - Get Funny! Life is Short - Laugh, Love and Eat Pie Laughter Really IS the Best Medicine Getting What You Want Before You Forget What that is! Topics Humor, Stress, Women, Change Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $10,000 - $14,999 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.

"Judy Carter can show you how to make your sense of humor pay off!" - Oprah Winfrey "Even our CEO was doubled up with laughter... you turned technology into funny!" - Oracle "All of our employees really enjoyed you. You were funny, funny funny as well as a great inspiration to many." - Pacific Bell "The way that you incorporated our specific work styles into your presentation really showed everyone how to “laugh their way out of stress," as well as deal with our differences with a sense of humor. Thanks to you, we are able to re-evaluate obstacles in our day-to-day lives with smiles on our faces." -Healthcare Technology "Your keynote address was perfect - inspiring and hilarious." - Fedex "We appreciate the fact that you made the performance more to our “level”, since we are a very technical group. I think I even saw our CEO dancing in his seat during your rap solo. You really helped us to kick off this conference and definitely set the mood for the entire week. We couldn’t stop the cheering (Wahoo!)." - SNUG Users Conference