Sally Baskey

Biography

Sally has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and taught at the Actors Workshop in Dallas before starting a 25-year career with a major oil company where she made an impact on marketing, customer service, human resources, telecommunications, public relations, and employee communications.

With a strength in managing technical areas as a non-technical person, Sally keeps it simple! Her presentations entertain, educate, and influence audiences by showing how humor can help diffuse difficult situations within an organization as well as in life.

Sally is a humorist and motivational speaker whose message is how to use humor to get through life. Her book, "Laughter, My Drug of Choice", shares her philosophy of using a sense of humor to deal with change. Her trademark character, Ida Mae Fudpucker, uses humor to spoof management and the numerous corporate reorganizations that are inevitable, but troubling to employees. She provides the comic relief often needed at your company meetings, training sessions, and conferences.

Both enteraining and thought-provoking, Sally Baskey will make your audience smile, but more importantly, Sally will make your audience think. You can be sure that Sally will make your meeting memorable.

Publications

Laughter, My Drug of Choice

According to Webster, medicine is "the art or science of restoring health; any substance used in treating an illness; a remedy." Millions of dollars are spent each year on medicines to both prevent and cure illnesses. It is a scientific fact that when we laugh, the brain releases endorphins into the bloodstream the same way they are released when one takes a drug, like morphine. Therefore, laughter is a natural pain reliever! We can control the dose and it`s free.

Life is full of experiences that make us both happy and sad. We learn as we get older that we have little control over our circumstances, but we have total control over the way we react to them. We are each given gifts and it is our responsibility to use these gifts during our lifetime. Some people are given athletic ability, some are given voices like angels, artistic talents, leadership qualities... and then there are the comedians. These individuals usually stand out in a crowd because they see things in a different light. The truth is they are not that different -- they just look for the humor in situations understanding they can`t change things, but they can control the way they get through them.

This book will hopefully help you see that finding humor in difficult situations is not a new idea, it`s not rocket science, but it is a prescription for dealing with change and staying sane by "thinking funny" and self medicating.

Titles

Ida Mae Fudpucker
Ida Mae Fudpucker is Sally`s original hilariously outspoken character who is not afraid to speak her mind. Her humorous approach in communicating changes and upcoming events to employees and key audiences will be a unique addition to your next program.

Sally uses creative scripting in a presentation that is specifically customized to your audience`s needs, including memorizing up to 200 names. A short, pre-event briefing is all that Sally needs in order to gear Ida Mae`s message to you corporate objectives. Sally can also attend your conference as an observer and then bring Ida Mae "in" to summarize the main points of the event in a humorous, yet memorable, fashion. Sally takes the initiative and delivers an entertaining program that will still communicate how to deal with difficult situations.

Corporations have repeatedly utilized Ida Mae to defuse awkward issues as well as to introduce change within their organizations. You can count on Ida Mae to make your event memorable... and informative as well.

Laughter, My Drug of Choice
Life is full of experiences that make us sad, frustrated, mad or those that sometimes put us "over the edge." This highly entertaining and motivational program is based up on Sally`s book of the same name. Sally delivers her message of how to deal with change by finding the humor in life`s difficult situations. Her entertaining, yet thought-provoking and motivational presentation will leave your audience with a truly pain-relieving prescription for dealing with the challenges of everyday life.

Self-Medicate with Humor
Although audiences will smile and laugh during Sally`s entertaining programs, they will also be inspired to find humor in the everyday challenges of life once they leave your event! Attendees will want to implement the many interpersonal skills that Sally presents, an management will discover how, while most productive employees take their jobs seriously, they take themselves lightly. Sally motivates audiences to examine their own communication styles while remaining focused and energized in order to achieve their personal and professional goals.