Matt Weinstein

Biography

Matt Weinstein will help you to energize your workforce, reduce stress on the job, and build an enthusiastic team. Matt's long-term partnerships with companies like AT&T, IBM, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers have helped them reward, retain, and revitalize their key employees. Matt will motivate and inspire your employees to be more productive, and will teach them how to create a corporate culture of support and celebration at work. And most importantly, Matt will show your people that work can be fun! Matt Weinstein is the nation's foremost authority on the use of fun and humor in team building. Drawing on his own experience as a company president and twenty years of research by the Playfair organization, his presentations are rich in content and alive with humor. Matt believes that team building is not just a concept � team building is an experience. So all of Matt's keynote presentations include dynamic audience interactions as an integral part of the lecture program. If you're looking for something more than a lecture � if you're looking for a high-energy, audience-involvement keynote presentation that will leave the participants leaping to their feet in wild applause � then you're looking for Matt Weinstein!

Publications

Dogs Don't Bite When A Growl Will Do: What Your Dog Can Teach You About Living A Happy Life In this insightful, engaging, and witty guide to the collective wisdom of our constant companions, Matt Weinstein and co-author Luke Barber illustrate how we could all benefit from becoming a little more canine in our human interactions.

Titles

What Bernie Madoff Couldn't Steal From Me: How I Turned A Win-Lose Disaster into a Win-Win Life! This dynamic, highly entertaining bonus session tells my personal story of the Bernie Medoff debacle. Yes, I lost my life savings to the Bernie Madoff scam, but there are life-saving survival secrets that Madoff could never steal from me. These are difficult economic times for everyone, but the great news is that it is possible to find joy, celebration and a sense of meaning even here, even now. As Epictetus the Stoic philosopher pointed out nearly 2,000 years ago, it isn't what happens to you that changes your life--- it's how you react to it that counts! Putting Fun To Work: The Power of Humor in Business Laughter is not only good medicine, it's good business. People who have fun on the job are more creative, more productive and get along better with co-workers. Putting Fun To Work is interactive, informative and entertaining. Managing to Have Fun: Reward, Recognition and Retention The intentional use of positive feedback is a powerful way to build a strong team and to foster corporate loyalty. Loaded with practical examples and ready-to-use ideas, Managing to Have Fun is based on Matt Weinstein's business bestseller, "Managing to Have Fun." Work Like Your Dog: New Dimensions in Team Building One way to work smarter, not harder, is to learn the skills of working like your dog. Dogs approach their work with dedication, loyalty, sensitivity and love, and also with joy, enthusiasm and a willingness to see their work as play. Based on Matt Weinstein's business bestseller, "Work Like Your Dog." Laughter, Stress and Self-Esteem The best way to survive in a stress-filled work environment is to take your work seriously and yourself lightly. Laughter, Stress and Self-Esteem offers suggestions for handling work-related pressures in an effective, productive and upbeat manner. The Ultimate Icebreaker In any new group situation, most people are concerned with making friends, feeling accepted and feeling listened to. The Ultimate Icebreaker will help your participants to quickly overcome these normal barriers to creating community. This program is a fantastic way to kick off any meeting or convention by generating an unforgettable atmosphere of celebration. The Improvising Organization Improvisation skills help a company establish bonds among employees and provides an out-of-the-box exploration of the creative process. You'll gain a new understanding of the team building power of improv theater and practical tools for coping with stress, burnout, and isolation. Putting the Fun Back in Sales When you and your customer have fun together, you create a bond that carries your relationship forward through time. What could be better for your long-term relationship with a client than to have them telling stories to total strangers about what fun it is to do business with you! Learn tools and techniques to build these lasting bonds.