Joel Zeff is a featured moderator and meeting facilitator, professionally guiding topics of conversation in ways that retain energy, excite audiences and drive home critical meeting messages.
Joel has overseen thousands of group discussions, meetings, seminars and workshops throughout his career. As a former public relations and communications consultant, he knows what happens when meetings are unproductive and meandering. It leads to frustration, corporate dissonance and, ultimately, decreased employee satisfaction.
Joel Zeff’s sessions as featured moderator empower employees and managers to make better personal decisions that lead to better productivity and a happier work situation. He leads meetings and truly facilitates communication, meaning an increase in interest, participation and overall buy-in.
Joel draws from a rich array of corporate experiences when he acts as a featured moderator for a meeting or workshop. A former newspaper journalist and public relations executive, Joel started his own consulting business in 1994. His business initially focused on helping technology and telecommunications companies with marketing, advertising and public relations. As he came in contact with so many businesses, he realized that in order to become more efficient, productive and communicative, companies could use the services of a meeting facilitator who could deftly steer group activities. Joel has honed his skills as a featured moderator to provide these companies with multiple meeting options, such as delivering a keynote address, guiding group discussion, or even involving audience members in improvisational scenarios that illustrate the topics at hand and help employees to see the benefits of proper communication.
Joel’s spontaneous humor and vital messages have thrilled audiences for years. As a professional meeting facilitator, Joel captivates audiences with a unique blend of hilarious improvisational comedy and essential ideas about work and life. His interactive workshops focus on things like creativity, encouragement, communication, risk-taking and teamwork in order to create an experience for audience members that allow them to break out of their shells and adopt the proper skills for better presentations and even better communication in the office and outside of it.
A veteran meeting facilitator, Joel fuses his knowledge of improvisation and his experience with the business world to create interactive presentations that makes a difference. His style creates a positive and comfortable environment for his audience that allows them to take risks and explore their creativity. Joel makes audiences laugh, but he also makes them think. Participants discover for themselves how to apply corporate messages in their daily lives.
As a featured moderator with over 15 years of professional experience, Joel’s lively activities provoke participants to be more spontaneous, responsive and confident. One of Joel's key messages to audiences is to give each other the opportunity to be creative and the positive support to take risks. Part of that "opportunity" is to learn to become more open and flexible to change.
Each experience is custom-tailored to meet your objective and group size. Some clients want to focus on creativity, while others want to work on communication. Many clients just want to use the games as entertainment. Joel’s services are ideal for conference kick-offs, closing sessions, breakouts, workshops, seminars, retreats, keynotes, training and incentive events, and any situation in which you need an experienced public speaker and meeting moderator.
For more information on booking Joel as a meeting facilitator or featured moderator, call 214-827-1337.
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