Skip to content
Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker
Leadership | Generational Issues | Entertaining
Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote SpeakerJeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker
  • Keynotes
    • Innovation
    • Leadership
    • Generational Differences
    • Change Management
  • Meeting Planners
  • About Jeff
    • About Jeff / Bio
    • Blog
    • Industries
      • Agricultural
      • Associations and Conferences
      • Automotive and Manufacturing
      • Business Growth
      • Consumer Goods and Retail Services
      • Education
      • Financial
      • Government and Social Services
      • Healthcare
      • Human Resources
      • Insurance and Legal
      • Media and Entertainment
      • Real Estate
      • Technology
      • Travel and Hospitality
      • Utilities
    • Topics
      • Customer Service
      • Generational Differences
      • Innovation
      • Leadership
      • Motivation
    • Video Training
    • Newsletter Signup!
  • Check Jeff’s Availability

For Speaking Inquiries, Contact Donna Buttice

630.330.7533
Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote SpeakerJeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker
  • Keynotes
    • Innovation
    • Leadership
    • Generational Differences
    • Change Management
  • Meeting Planners
  • About Jeff
    • About Jeff / Bio
    • Blog
    • Industries
      • Agricultural
      • Associations and Conferences
      • Automotive and Manufacturing
      • Business Growth
      • Consumer Goods and Retail Services
      • Education
      • Financial
      • Government and Social Services
      • Healthcare
      • Human Resources
      • Insurance and Legal
      • Media and Entertainment
      • Real Estate
      • Technology
      • Travel and Hospitality
      • Utilities
    • Topics
      • Customer Service
      • Generational Differences
      • Innovation
      • Leadership
      • Motivation
    • Video Training
    • Newsletter Signup!
  • Check Jeff’s Availability

For Speaking Inquiries, Contact Donna Buttice

630.330.7533

For Speaking Inquiries, Contact Donna Buttice

630.330.7533

Blog

Expertise and insights on the most pressing challenges of modern business in hilarious fashion.

Choose Both And

How Using Both/And Can Change Your Life

Use Failure as a Secret Weapon

Understanding What Failure Is (And Isn’t)

Ask Dumb Questions

Why You Should Ask Dumb Questions

how to use luck to your advantage

How to Think Productively About Luck

2025 Vision

One Simple Key to a Happy 2025

Stress Management Techniques

Effective Stress Management Techniques for the Holiday Season and Beyond

Preparing for the Future of Work

What Does the Future of Work Look Like?

How Not To Go Deaf SAFETY

SAFETY :: How to Not Go Deaf

Innovation Article by Jeff Havens

How Our Best Ideas Come To Us

How to build rapport

How to Build Rapport With Others

Types of Marketing

The Two Essential Types of Marketing

Fear of Change

How Our Attitude Toward Change Evolves

Effective Communication

What Is the Most Effective Type of Communication?

how to use constructive feedback

What Does “Good” Constructive Feedback Look Like?

overcoming impostor syndrome

Overcoming Impostor Syndrome

Improve Your Work Life Balance

The Most Important Word For Finding Work-Life Balance

young workers are loyal too

Are Younger Workers Actually Less Loyal?

How to win an argument

How to Win Your Next Argument

What is Emotional Intelligence

What Exactly Is Emotional Intelligence?

interviewing skills

Composing the Perfect Interview Question

How To Take Initiative

The Most Important Step In Conflict De-Escalation

Ethics Begins With Respect

Your Ethical Framework Begins With Respect

The Single Best Technique to Prepare for a Presentation

Will AI Eventually Destroy Humanity?

Will AI Eventually Destroy Humanity?

Will AI take your job

Will AI Eventually Destroy Your Job?

Negotiate Like a Child

Negotiate Like a Child

lazy young people

Destroying the Myth of the Disloyal Young Worker

the most important sentence in leadership

The Most Important Sentence in Leadership

What You Can Learn From a Pig Farmer

What You Can Learn from Pig Farmers and Pharmacies

fear of public speaking

How to Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking

striving for consensus

Is Striving For Consensus Keeping You From Moving Forward?

Labor Shortage Article Jeff Havens

Having Trouble Hiring? 

Setting and Changing Goals

Why We Sometimes Give Up On Our Goals (And Why That’s OK)

Three Things All Employees Want

Three Things All Employees Want

The Difference Between a Manager and a Leader

The Difference Between a Manager and a Leader

sorry

Do Apologies Really Matter?

goals and change management 2022

Why Do We Achieve Some Goals and Not Others?

positive thinking jeff havens

Reimagining the Power of Positive Thinking

The Great Resignation

How ‘The Great Resignation’ Can Work to Your Advantage

Jeff Havens Keynote Speaker 2022

How In-Person Events Look Now

when is enough actually enough

When is Enough Actually Enough?

work shortage

A New Explanation For The Current Labor Shortage

How much control do you have

How Much Do We Actually Control?

remote work

Are Your People Really Happy With Remote Work?

return to normal

How to Transition Back to “Normal”

perfection

How to Combat the Need for Perfection

The Jeff Havens Company Releases New Video Courses to Help Those Working in Virtual Environments

Why Boredom Is Good For You

Moving Forward in 2021

Moving Forward When Everything Has Changed

Positive Thinkinging 2020

Looking On The Bright Side of The Worst Year Ever

zoom fatigue article

Conquering Zoom Fatigue Once and For All

decision making article

Overcome the Paralysis of Making Small Decisions

Business Improvement Tips During Coronavirus Times

What To Do When Your Business Is Idle

Personal Improvement

How to Improve Yourself When You Have Excess Downtime

The Upside of Catastrophe

The Upside of Catastrophe

Funny Fishing

It’s Not All Catastrophe

One thing stronger than a pandemic

The One Thing Stronger Than a Pandemic

Howl At the Moon!  (Or Your Neighbors)

Uncrapify your pandemic

Uncrapify Your Pandemic!

how to eliminate risk

Can Risk Be Eliminated?

rent a donkey

Rent My Toilet Paper Donkey Pants!

The Power of Proper Messaging

Upside Down Chicken Renting Teleconferencing Fails!

how to respond to a crisis

How Should You Respond To A Crisis? 

so you want to be famous

So You Want To Be Famous…

Perfection Article

Striving for Perfection? I’ve Got Something Even Better

Headlines

Headlines: Georgia Shows America How Road Signs Should Be Done

Business Etiquette Blooper Reel

Business Etiquette BLOOPERS!

Article on Innovation in 2020

Turning Irritation Into Opportunity

12 Days After Winter Break

The 12 Days After Winter Break

How to Break a Habit

The Truth About Making Or Breaking A Habit

Jeff's Year End Resolutions

Jeff’s New Year’s Resolutions

Vibrant Culture

The Only 4 Ways to Create a Vibrant Culture

How to create an awful company culture

How to Create An Awful Company Culture

Choose Your Path In Life

The Benefit of Doing Something Drastic

Professional Ghosting

Time to Turn the Tables on Professional Ghosting

Jeff Havens Vision Article

The Simple Difference Between Effective and Ineffective Visions

Jeff Havens Networking Ideas

Interested in Meeting New People? Give These Ideas a Try!

What to work on when business is slow

What To Work On When Business Is Slow

Personality Assessment Article from Jeff Havens

Maybe I Trusted My Personality Assessment Too Much

The Paradox of Freedom Article

The Paradox of Freedom

Perks

Look At All The Perks I Have!

The Value of Not Working

The Value of Not Working

What Following My Passion Got Me

Where “Following My Passion” Got Me

Thanks to the Doctors That Saved My Daughters Life

A Thank You to the Doctors Who Saved My Daughter’s Life

how to tell a co worker they smell bad

5 Secrets to Telling Someone They Smell Bad

Results Vs. Process which is more important

Results Vs. Process – What Matters More?

What my dad taught me about failure

How My Father Taught Me To Conquer the Fear of Failure

End Boring Conferences

End Boring Conferences with Jeff Havens

The One Thing Customers Want

The One Thing Customers Want Most

Customer Experience Keynote Article - Jeff Havens

This is What Honest Customer Service Would Look Like

Generation Z Doesn't Exist

Generation Z Doesn’t Exist

How to Write a great title

How to Write a Great Title

Jeff Havens Innovation Keynote Article

Want To Be More Innovative? Then You Need To…

Face to Face Communication

You Can’t Ignore Me When I’m In Your Face

How to personally connect with your customers

How to Personally Connect With Your Customers

The psychology of handling massive changes

The Psychology Of Successfully Handling Massive Changes

Jeff Havens Keynote Speaker

2018 Year in Review

How To Handle Gen Z In The Workplace

How To Handle Gen Z In The Workplace

Everyday Leadership in Turbulent Times

Everyday Leadership in Turbulent Times

Funny and Unique Client Testimonials

Three Flashy Careers That Aren’t as Great As They Seem

Three Flashy Careers That Aren’t as Great As They Seem

Why Your Kids Should Pick Your Pumpkins

Why Your Kids Should Pick Your Pumpkins

How to Negotiate a Better Career

How to Negotiate a Better Career

Gift Ideas For the Girl Who Has Everything

Gift Ideas For the Girl Who Has Everything

How to Move on When You Simply Can’t Agree

How to Move on When You Simply Can’t Agree

How to Make Better Faster Decisions

How to Make Better, Faster Decisions

Are women better negotiators than men?

Are women better negotiators?

Ignorance Isn't Just Bliss - It's Also a Strategy

Ignorance Isn’t Just Bliss – It’s Also a Strategy

Jeff Havens Conflict Resolution Techniques

How to Productively Argue With Somebody

Jeff Havens Conflict Resolution

How to Deal With Yellers, Screamers, and Other Unproductive Arguers

How the Internet Made Marketing More Important Than Ever

How the Internet Made Marketing More Important Than Ever

How to Change Business Strategy

How to Choose A New Business Strategy

Why You Should Fight for Fewer Choices

Why You Should Fight For Fewer Choices

How to Rid Yourself of Unnecessary Decisions

How to Rid Yourself of Unnecessary Decisions

How to Compete Against the Internet

How to Compete Against the Internet

How to Handle Negative Google Reviews

How to Combat Negative Social Media and Google Reviews

Interviewing Training Videos

Interviewing Video Series :: Blooper Reel

When Should You Raise Your Prices 2018

When to Raise Your Prices

How to Raise Your Prices in 2018

How to Raise Your Prices

Jeff Havens Smart Marketing Matters

Smart Marketing Matters

Jeff Havens - What My Infant Son Taught Me About Other People

What My Infant Son Taught Me About Other People And Why They Drive Me Crazy

Jeff Havens - Electric Shock

Would You Prefer Time to Think, Or An Electric Shock?

Jeff Havens - Buy Happiness

How To Buy The Life You Want

Sizzle Reel

Jeff Havens - The Upside of Complacency

The Upside of Complacency

Know your Weaknesses article by Jeff Havens

Why You Should Know Your Weaknesses

Jeff Havens video blooper reel

Employee Engagement Essentials Video Series :: Blooper Reel!

Jeff Havens - How to Overcome Fear

How To Overcome the Fears That Are Holding You Back

Jeff Havens :: Holding Onto Fear

How To Recognize Which Fears Are Worth Holding Onto

Maja Kazazic Overcoming Fear Article

5 Ways to Crush Fear

Jeff Havens Innovation Keynote Speaker Article 2

How To Convince Other People To Listen To Your Ideas

Jeff Havens Innovation Keynote Speaker Article

How To Find the Time To Come Up With Great Ideas

Fun Employee Engagement

Unorthodox Ways To Improve Your Employee Engagement

Jeff Havens Motivational Speaker

How to Motivate Others When They Don’t Want To Work

Jeff Havens Motivational Speaker Article

How To Motivate Yourself When You Deeply, Deeply Don’t Want To Work

What does it take to be an emotionally intelligent financial service leader?

Jeff Havens How to be a better salesperson

Delightful Ways to Destroy the Morale of Your Salespeople

How to Work Less by Jeff Havens

How To Become More Productive By Doing Less Work

How to Do Nothing by Jeff Havens

Why “Doing Nothing” Should Be A Part Of Your Workday

Jeff Havens - Unorthodox Leadership

The 3 Most Unorthodox (and Most Effective) Ways to Motivate Your Employees

Jeff Havens Sales tips

3 Surefire Ways to Lose Your Next Negotiation

Jeff Havens Generational Keynote Speaker

How to Talk To Someone Significantly Older or More Experienced Than You Are

Why Your Marketing Department Is More Important Than Ever

Why Your Marketing Department Is More Important Than Ever

What To Do If You Don’t Have a Marketing Department

What To Do If You Don’t Have A Marketing Department

Jeff Havens Financial Services Business Skills Video

VIDEO :: Financial Services Business Skills Blooper Reel

Jeff Havens personal development speaker article

The 3 Sentences That Will Turn ‘Satisfied’ Employees Into ‘Engaged’ Employees

Keynote Speaker Jason Lauritsen

4 Ways to Avoid Being a Bad Manager

Jeff Havens - How to Become a Keynote Speaker

How To Become a Professional Keynote Speaker

I love administrative professionals

Three Reasons You Should Fire All of Your Administrative Professionals!

Jeff Havens How to Annoy Your Coworkers Article

Tips to Annoy Anyone You Work With

Jeff Havens How To Reason With Unreasonable People

How To Reason With Unreasonable People

Jeff Havens Business Transformations

4 Amazing Company Transformations Since Being Founded

violent boss

How Bad Managers Might Be Literally Killing Your Employees

3 Creative Ways to Grow Your Busines by Jeff Havens

3 Creative Ways To Grow Your Business

Work from Home Jeff Havens

How To Survive Working From Home When Other People Are Around

Networking Basics Matt Havens

2 Networking Basics for Work and Your Personal Life

Innovation Keynote Speaker Jeff Havens Article

Where Do Great Ideas Come From?

Personal Development Little Things

The Enormity of Little Things

Collaborative Space Etiquette Video Series :: BLOOPERS!

How to introduce a keynote speaker

How to Make Your Keynote Speaker Introduction Memorable

Managing Change in 2017

How To Convince Lazy People To Work Harder

Jeff Havens Ode to Meeting Planners

Ode to Meeting Planners

Jeff Havens Generational Keynote Speaker

Real-World Generational Questions

Breakup with 2016

How to Break Up With 2016!

Giving Can Be Fun!

Jeff Havens Change Management Article

How to Survive a Company Merger

Jeff Havens Productivity Article

How to Accomplish More By Doing Less

How to create an effective powerpoint presentation

How to Create an Effective Powerpoint Presentation

Uncrapify Your Future Innovation Keynote

Uncrapify Your Future! Innovation Keynote

Jeff Havens Ultrasound

We’re Expecting!

Matt Havens Office Fun Keynote

Boring Isn’t A Business Requirement!

How to Change Careers Article

Thinking About Leaving Your Employer? Here Are a Few Things to Consider

how to become a successful ceo

How to Become a Successful CEO

Jeff Havens Little Free Libraries

Little Free Library Update

How to Become an Economist

How to Become An Economist

Jeff Havens Work From Home

How to Act Like a Professional When You Work From Home

Little Free Library

The Unexpected Upside of Charity

Matt Havens twins

2 Things I Learned from My Kids about Generational Differences

Do Interns Have Rights?

Do Interns Have Any Rights At All?

Jeff Havens Teamwork Article

The Upside of Compromise

Matt Havens Customer Service Speaker

3 Ways to Fix a Terrible Customer Service Experience

Jeff Havens Office Olympics

How to Have Your Own Office Olympics

how to be a terrible leader

Terrible Leaders Do These 4 Things Really, Really Well

Jeff Havens Customer Service Article

The Customer Is Always Annoying

Jeff Havens Internship Survival

How To Survive Your Summer Internship (or Your Summer Interns!)

Jeff Havens Pinterest Article

Life Lessons from Pinterest

What Customer Service Workers Wish You Knew

Jeff Havens Leadership Article

7 Reasons Your Employees Don’t Respect You!

Jeff Havens Blooper Reel

BLOOPER REEL! Difficult Conversations

How to make millennials loyal to your organization

How to Make Millennials Loyal to Your Organization

Jeff Havens Innovation Article

The Secret Ingredient to Innovation

Jeff Havens Marriott Article

Here’s How a Great Hotel Treats Its Meeting Planners

Jeff Havens Customer Service Article

3 Surefire Tactics That Will Drive Your Customers Crazy!

Matt Havens Generation Y Speaker

Thoughts From an Aging Millennial

Immigration Lessons Article

Bureaucracy Lessons from Our Immigration System!!!!

Odor Issues Conversation Video

Difficult Conversations – Odor Issues

Jeff Havens Speaker Traveler

When I Say Let’s Go Someplace Like Bolivia…

Not One of These is Photoshopped

Jeff Havens Article on Work Life Balance

How to Achieve Work-Life Imbalance!

15 Truths That Apply To ALL Generations

Survive Change with Positive Focus

5 Words to Ruin a Job Interview

Jeff Havens self employment article

How to Motivate Yourself When You Don’t Have a Boss

Jeff Havens Teambuilding Article

3 Reasons You Can’t Do Everything (And Shouldn’t Try)

change management article on moving

3 Simple Ways to Keep From Slowly Going Insane With a Big Move

3 Signs That Your Company Is Growing, Thriving, and Awesome

Jeff Havens Travel Nightmare

A Traveling Nightmare – When My Job Shows Its Ugly Teeth

Matt Havens keynote speaker corporate culture

Creating a Great Culture Even With Temporary or Entry-Level Workers

How to Fail a Job Interview Part 2

How to Fail a Job Interview Part 2

Jeff Havens Airline Article

What Airlines Taught me About the Power of Repetition

Jeff Havens Article on Steve Jobs

Putting Steve Jobs in Perspective

Traveling Outside Your Comfort Zone

Matt Havens Generational Speaker

It’s Performance Review Time!

Jeff Havens Innovation Article

The Two Types of Innovation

Jeff Havens Leadership

Three Reasons Your Current Leadership Training Completely and Totally Sucks

Jeff Havens Innovation

Why People Prefer Innovation to Invention

Jeff Havens Corporate Culture

How Your Weirdness Can Build a Vibrant Corporate Culture

Jeff Havens Presentation Techniques

Common Strategies for Ruining an Otherwise Excellent Presentation

Jeff Havens Leadership Speaker

3 Simple Ways To Turn An Embarrassing Situation To Your Advantage

Jeff Havens TED Talk

5 Things I Learned From Doing a TED Talk

Jeff Havens TED Talk

Why Aren’t More of Us Engaged At Work – My TEDx Talk

Jeff Havens Perspective Article

Choose Your Year-End Perspective

Jeff Havens Keynote Speaker Predictions

12 Wildly Unlikely Predictions for 2016

Jeff Havens Personal Development Article

3 Simple Ways To Not Feel Like An Impostor

Texting in Meetings

What Should Happen When You Text In Meetings

Jeff Havens Motivation

17 Motivational Thoughts You Need Today! A Motivational Explosion

Jeff Havens Emotional Intelligence

The Most Important Number You’ve Never Heard Of

Jeff Havens Leadership TED Talk

My TED Talk Summary – How to Build an Engaged Workforce

how to fail a job interview

How to Fail a Job Interview

Jeff Havens Personal Development Article

Why Too Much Comfort Isn’t Such a Good Thing

New Member Site

Jeff Havens Leadership Training

How to Move Into a Leadership Position in 6 Easy Steps

Jeff Havens Retirement Article

What The Statistics Say About Your Company’s Future

Keynote Speaker Jeff Havens Texas

How to Successfully Irritate Strangers

Jeff Havens Change Management

3 Reasons Your Workforce Doesn’t Want To Change

The Difference Between Geniuses and Morons

How to Tell a Joke - Jeff Havens

How to Tell a Good Joke

How to overcome the fear of public speaking video

Overcome the Fear of Public Speaking

Jeff Havens Superman

Why Superman Is a Terrible Role Model

Jeff Havens Keynote Speaker

5 Topics You Should Never Bring Up At the Office

4 Amazing Places Virtually Nobody Has Heard Of

How I’m Surviving Change

how to become more successful

The Most Relaxing Way to Become More Successful

Why Everyone Hates Performance Reviews

Why Everyone Hates Your Performance Review

Jeff Havens - Awesome Job Perk Ideas

6 Awesome Perks Your Employer Should Be Offering

Jeff Havens Simplify Your Professional Life

3 Ways to Simplify Your Professional Life

How to Become an Overnight Success

Proofreading is for idots – VIDEO

Leadership Decision Making

3 Habits of Terrible Decision-Makers

Jeff Havens Keynote Speaker

100 Years From Now, This Is What The World Will Look Like

The Best Book for Young Professionals

The Best Book for Younger Professionals

How to market to millenials

How To Market To Millennials (And Incidentally Everyone Else)

Best Millenials Book

The Best Book for Older Professionals

Generational Differences

The Reason Older People Like Doing Things The Way They’ve Always Done Them

Travel Tips - Go Somewhere Awesome

Go Someplace Amazing!

Retirement Mistakes

The 1 Thing Most People Do in Retirement That You Absolutely Shouldn’t

US vs THEM by Jeff Havens

It’s “US vs. THEM!”

Jeff Havens Motivational Speaker

4 Ways to Become a Better Public Speaker

Good Leadership Resist Change

Why Good Leaders Should Resist Change

US vs THEM Generational Book

“US Vs. THEM” is Available for Pre-Order!

Why Aren’t More “Great” Leaders Good Leaders?

The 2014 Word of the Year Has One Huge Mistake

Jeff Havens Travel Destinations

5 Places To Go To Help You Survive the Summer

jeff Havens how to power through boring work

How to Power Through Boring Work

How Our Motivations Change as We Age

Surprise and Delight your customers with Jeff Havens

Surprise and Delight Your Customers

Relax Your Way To a More Productive Life

Relax Your Way To a More Productive Life

How to Improve Your Leadership

Improve Leadership with Ridiculous Questions

Can Technology Replace The Need to Learn?

Can Technology Replace The Need to Learn?

Monday Motivation - Kids Homework

What Your Kids Need to Hear About Homework

How to a End a Conversation with a Chatty Drunk

How to Leave a Conversation with a Chatty Drunk

Why you should call in sick

Why You Should Call In Sick

Keynote speaker Jeff Havens dog Pancake

5 Unexpected Life Lessons I’ve Learned From My Dog

Best Used Car Ad Ever

The Best Used Car Advertisement EVER!

How to Determine Your Power Animal

How to Determine Your Power Animal VIDEO

Generational Differences - Young Woman

How to Talk To Someone Significantly Younger or Less Experienced Than You

Walking Causes Failure

Walking Causes Failure! VIDEO

Don’t Sweat the Small Details

Modern Woman Work Life Balance

How Empowerment is Slowly Killing The Modern Woman

How Children Learn: VIDEO

Give an Atlanta Falcons Fan a Hug

Belief Is Not Enough: Video

The Compliment Sandwich: VIDEO

iWatch Giveaway

6 Marketing Campaigns I Really Want To See

Believe In Yourself

3 Ways To Encourage People To Donate More

Visualize Your Success

Punctuality Is Overrated!

The Only 3 Things You Can Do Without An Administrative Assistant

LAZY is a 4-Letter Word

The 18-Second Attention Span

How Our Motivations Change As We Age

Life is Overwhelming!

Continuing Education is Stupid

Do You Need An HR Intervention?

Be Happy You’re Average!

3M Is Terrible At Micromanaging

4 Selfish Reasons To Be Generous

Interviewing: Uncrapify Your Life TV

People Are Not Legos

18 Things HR Professionals Would Love To Say In Bad Interviews

4 Non-Leadership Skills Every Great Leader Needs

Best Gift Idea: Uncrapify Your Life TV!

Your Path to Great Leadership

Trademarks and Taylor Swift: The World As Jeff Sees It

Old People are Hippies: Uncrapify Your Life TV

Leadership Trust

Corporate Misadventures: Sexism

Being a Visionary is Easier Than You Think

Pet Names: Uncrapify Your Life TV

Handling Problems: Unleash Your Inner Tyrant TV!

Corporate Misadventures: Meetings

The Worst Applicant Ever: Uncrapify Your Life TV!

Corporate Misadventures: Electrocution

Unleash Your Inner Tyrant TV!: The Dangers of Apologizing

Breakroom Motivation

Uncrapify Your Life TV: Beating The Winter Blues

Which Are More Important – Hard Skills, or Soft Skills?

US vs. THEM! Generational Keynote

3 Ways to Cope with Crushing Failure

Leadership Motivation: Vision.

Motivational Minute: Your Least Favorite…

How to Memorize Anything

Uncrapify Your Life This Year!

Can a Keynote be Funny AND Useful?

Jeff Interviewed by Premiere Speakers Bureau

4 Things to Cure the Fear of Public Speaking

Corporate Misadventures: Stay Positive

“Nutgate”: Heather Cho Fired From Korean Airlines

Risk.

Discovery Channel Decides You Want to Watch Snakes to Eat People

How NOT to Go On Vacation!

Safety Motivation.

Turn $40 into $10,000,000

The 1-Second Solution to a Better, Happier 2015

3 Effective Ways to Recover from an Argument

Change is Coming… Except for Nintendo

Do You Think ‘No’ Means ‘Try Harder’? Then Read This

Personal Space.

Costco Wants You To Spend Time With Your Family!!!?

A Brief Case-Study in Laziness

Be Appropriate.

Laying the Smack Down! Speaking in Absolutes

No Sweat Pants Allowed

Choose Your Words Wisely

4 Ways to Guarantee Your New Business Dies a Sad and Lonely Death

Meeting Etiquette Motivation

How Not To Dress For Work

Corporate Misadventures: Retirement

HP Hasty Investment Costs Billions

6 Ways to Make The Prospect of Retirement Significantly Less Terrifying

Friday Photo: Helpful Canadian Travel Tip

Marriott Fined $600K for Blocking WiFi

And You Thought Business Casual Couldn’t Get Any Worse: The One Piece Business Suit

What Voicemail Messages Really Mean

The Compliment Sandwich

The Five Q’s of Killer Customer Service

5 Signs You Were Meant to Be a Meeting Planner

Corporate Misadventures- Reinvest vs Tank

6 Hard Jobs That Are Easier Than Being an Administrative Professional

The 6 Levels of Fun at Work

3 Tips for Meeting Professionals To Make Your Next Corporate Event Memorable

5 Things To Do Before An Interview That Will Get You Hired

10 Great Ways to Pay It Forward

If You’re Going to Lie On Your Resume, At Least Be More Creative Than These People

The 5 Dumbest Reasons Your Kids Call You At Work

August Caption Contest Winner!

Back to School- Things You Did In School That Would Be Weird If You Did At Work

4 Clear Signs You Should Be a Corporate Trainer

Technology is Awesome But It’s Not Everything

Women Can’t Have Everything- How Empowerment Is Slowly Killing the Modern Woman

3 Clever Responses from Brands That Saved the Day

Corporate Entertainment At Its One-Wheeled Finest! Meet Jeff Civillico

How To Make Your Employees WANT To Come to Work!

August Caption Contest…with Sprinkles!

3 Tech Videos That Make Me Sad for Humanity

6 Surprising Reasons to Enhance Your Business Ethics

Tinder Unveils New Job Search App

Motivational Minute: If At First You Don’t Succeed…

Administrative Assistants

8 Reasons Being an Administrative Professional Is A Difficult (And Impressive) Job

Corporate Misadventures- The Definition of “Like”

Christmas in July with Keynote Speaker Jeff Havens

4 Ways to Use Self Promotion Without Looking Like a Turd

Help Me Write My Next Book!

Just For A Laugh

How To Tell Your Boss You Don’t Want to Share A Hotel Room with a Coworker

Awkward Childhood Photo Contest Winners!

How NOT To Get Ready for Work

Back At Work After a Long Weekend? Here’s What You Need.

Happy Birthday America!

Sales Tips from a 6th Grader

Top 9 Reasons Marketing Professionals Have a Super Tough Job

An Open Letter To Everyone Younger Than I Am

#GenWars! Old People vs Young People in the Workplace

An Open Letter to Everyone Older Than I Am

Corporate Misadventures- Keep ‘Em Guessing!

Leveraging the Power of Generations Part 2 – Choose a Side!

Going to the 2014 SHRM Conference in Orlando? Here’s 8 Tips to Make the Most Out Of It

Can You Top Jeff’s Awkward Childhood Photo?

Leveraging The Power of Generations Part 1

The 8 People You Should Blame on Blame Someone Else Day, and Everyday!

Save the New Hires! 15 Tips For New Employees From Real Working People!

3 Leadership Lessons From My Father

7 Things Old People Do That You Should Too

Next Time You Complain About Slow WiFi, Watch This Video About 80s Internet!

7 Things Millennials Do That You Should Too

Corporate Misadventures – Numbers Are Up! Now What?

6 Degrees of Millennial Hatred from Kevin Bacon

9 Reasons Your Job Is Better Than You Think

What Does Business Jargon REALLY Mean? A Helpful Visual!

Professional Development Training- The Stuff You Didn’t Learn In School But Should Have

6 Things You Need to Know About Your Dream Job

May Caption Contest!

How Professional Development Training Can Save Your New Hires

3 Effective Ways to Recover From an Argument

Spring Caption Contest Winner!

How To Avoid Annoying Phone Calls

Tweeting During Presentations- Rebuttal to the Rebuttal (Will the Rebuttals Ever End?!?)

4 Ways Your Sales Script Is Slowly Destroying You

Corporate Misadventures – The Company Vision

The Disturbing Truth About Vacation Time

Administrative Assistants

7 Reasons Your Administrative Assistant Is The Most Important Asset You Have

How Many LInked In Connections Do You Have

500+? Find Out How Many LinkedIn Connections You REALLY Have

How NOT To Do Team Building Exercises- Trust Fall Fail

8 Things To Expect On Your First Day of Work

Happy Spring! Caption Contest Time!

How To Tell If You’re Overworked

The Power of GroupThink: Easy, Fun, and More Damaging Than Ever!

7 Blog Posts To Make You Chuckle for Laugh at Work Week

4 Ways to Resolve a Conflict That Won’t Go Viral and Get You Fired!

9 Things You Should Never Say in an Interview (But Some People Still Do)

The Winner of the Poolside Caption Contest Is…

How To Make the Most of Your Work Spouse

How One Tiny Crime Destroyed Baseball Forever

What People Who Don’t Care About Sports Need to Know About March Madness and Office Productivity

Ethics Awareness Month Is Almost Over, But Be Ethical Anyway!

Harvard Dress Code

Harvard Dress Code Study Reveals That Harvard Students Aren’t Necessarily Very Smart

6 Reasons Doing the Right Thing is Better Than Going to Court

Corporate Misadventures – Most Tech Problems Are Between the Keyboard and the Chair

The Ethics Video Series That You’ll Actually Enjoy

3 Easy Ways to Distinguish Between a Gift and a Bribe

Caption Contest – Poolside Edition!

13 Awesome Compliments to Use at Work (and 5 To Avoid)

6 Hilarious Ethical Quandaries for Ethics Awareness Month

Polar Vortex Caption Contest- And the Winner Is…

Pinocchio Is the Worst Motivational Speaker Ever

4 Old School Business Practices That Still (And Will Always) Work

14 Things You Do at a Conference, But Maybe Shouldn’t

Stop Texting During Meetings!

The Most Important Management Statistic You’ll Ever Read

Corporate Misadventures- Don’t Mess with Me, I’m in Sales

Manager Leader Tip from the Manager Leader’s Handbook

The 3 Things That Matter Most to Your Employees (and 2 Ways You Can Refuse to Give It to Them)

Caption Contest- Polar Vortex Edition!

Doritos Commercial Highlights the Plight of HR Professionals

The 3 Most Unorthodox (and Most Effective) Ways to Motivate Your Employees

New Years Resolutions- Exercise More!

5 Must-Haves for a Great Motivational Speaker

Productivity Hacks – Why I Take More Breaks Than Anyone Else

New Years Resolutions- Go On A Trip!

8 Little Things To Do Today to Make Your Work Life Better In 2014

New Years Resolutions- Lose Weight the Easy Way!

Celebrate Martin Luther King Day!

The 1-Second Solution to a Better, Happier Year

Corporate Misadventures- Birth of a Saleswoman

New Years Resolution- Get a New Job as Official State Person!

10 Things That Should Go Away in 2014

Holiday Caption Contest! And the Winner is…

Corporate Misadventures- Coffee Break

New Years Resolution- Be More Adventurous!

Merry Christmas From Jeff Havens and Friends! (For Real This Time!)

A Merry Christmas Video from Jeff Havens and Friends!

Corporate Misadventures- The Broken Clock

Throwback Thursday- New Years Resolution!

Holiday Caption Contest!

Ask Jeff Havens- What is a Keynote Speaker?

6 Ways to Make Your Coworkers as Miserable as You Are!

Corporate Misadventures- Big Decisions

How To Get Fired! Video and Holiday Book Sale!

Thanksgiving Caption Contest- And the Winner Is….

5 Reasons Small Businesses Are Better Than Large Businesses! #ShopSmall

Should I Apply? A Tip About Job Descriptions from Corporate Speaker Jeff Havens

Why New Year’s Resolutions Are Dumb and What To Do Instead!

Corporate Misadventures- The Meeting Game

Generational Warfare Episode 4 – #GenWars

Thanksgiving Caption Contest- Win How To Get Fired! By Jeff Havens

Why We No Longer Need People Who No Longer Need HR Departments

Proud to Be a Quitter!

Generational Warfare Episode 3 – #GenWars

Tips for Air Travel – Please Check Your Feet at the Ticket Counter

How You Can Make Sure Your Business Follows Blockbuster Into the Darkness

Generational Warfare Episode 2 – #GenWars

How To Make Sure Your New Employees Fail From Day One!

Corporate Misadventures- Office Attire

10 Tips for Getting Started on LinkedIn!

Generational Warfare Episode 1

3 Piece-O-Cake Ways to Create Stupid Office Rules

Keynote Speaker Jeff Havens Shares His Best Business Travel Tip

Corporate Misadventures – Choosing a Company Mascot

The Jeff Havens Guide To Leadership- Bend Others To Your Will!

Caption Contest- And the Winner is…..

Keynote Speaker Jeff Havens Shares The Story of His Weirdest Speaking Job EVER

4 Internet Marketing Tactics To Make Your Traffic Go Away!

Bring Your Parents to Work – If You Don’t Want To Be Taken Seriously

Corporate Misadventures – Employee Motivation

Corporate Speaker Jeff Havens Explains How to Introduce a Guest Speaker

How to Create (or Steal) Awesome Newsletter Content!

The Jeff Havens Guide To Job Searching- Stay In Your Parents’ Basement Forever, Guaranteed!

Caption Contest- Win a Copy of How To Get Fired by Jeff Havens!

The Whiniest Generation: Old People Complain that Fun Runs are Akin to Communism

Excited About Driving Customers Away? Well Here’s the Case Study!

Corporate Speaker Jeff Havens Shares Secrets of Energetic Presentations

Networking Tips from The WORST NETWORKER ALIVE!

3 Marketing Principles That Are Just Common Sense

US vs THEM – The Most Entertaining Generational Keynote Presentation EVER!

3 Ways To Ignore Employee Privacy!

Corporate Misadventures – The Next Big Thing

Want to Be Funnier at the Office? Here’s How!

Us vs. Them – Generations in the Workplace Infographic

New Gallup Study Reveals Exactly the Same Leadership Issues as Previous Gallup Study!

Corporate Misadventures- Twittering At Work

How To Dress Like You’re Working…But Not THAT Kind of Working!

4 Mistakes to Avoid When Making a Training Video

How To Avoid Important Business Calls!

How NOT To Go On Vacation!

Corporate Misadventures: Solitaire-y Confinement

Turn Off Your Electronic Devices During Meetings…Or Else JEFF SMASH!

Should You Post Your Thoughts About Your Job Online? Answers Below!

Us vs. Them! How to Deal with Generational Issues in the Workplace

How NOT To Handle Emotions At Work

How to Write a Resume (That Will End Up In the Reject Pile!)

3 Fun Ways To Bring Your Business To The Brink of Ruin!

How To Get Job Experience!

Workplace Gossip and Why It’s a Problem

What Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Can Teach You About Conflict Resolution

How to Become Part of a Minority Nobody Should Want to Be In!

How to Use Social Media to Make Your Life Miserable!

Fun Ways to Get Free Business Skills Training When You Don’t Have a Training Budget!

How NOT To Use Instant Messenger At Work

I Just Want A Bag!

Fun Ways to Live in the Past!

How to Continue Being Unhappy

Keyboarding Skills Are Totally Useless!

How To Make Embarrassing Mistakes!

How To Lose a Fortune with Bitcoins and Other Crazy Ideas

Quick and Easy Ways to Ensure That Nobody Cares About Your Opinion

Three Quick Ways to Add Stress and Unpleasantness to Your Life!

Happy-Sounding Words to Make You Happy

How NOT To Find A Job After College!

The Best (Worst?) Customer Service Tips and Tricks from Jeff Havens

How To Stifle Your Own Creativty and Be Useless In General!

Terrible Tips for Professional Meeting Planners!

Workplace Ethics Advice From the Most Ethical Person Alive

My Hilariously Bad Trip Through Customs!

How NOT to Make a Decision!

How To Make Someone’s Day In Five Minutes or Less!

Interview Tip- How Not To Answer A Common Interview Question!

How To Stay Awake!

Interview Techniques!

Managerial Techniques That Will Help You Receive A Wildly Enthusiastic Round of Applause On Your Retirement Day

Remember, They’re Rejecting You!

Go Ahead and Steal My Car, Just Don’t Touch My Laptop or My iPhone!

Video Twofer! Take Your Vacation Days and Be Rude to Customer Service People!

Things Need To Get Done! …Or Do They?

How to Make Learning As Difficult and Unrewarding as Possible!

Happy New Year From The Future!

Holiday Shopping Survival Tips

Business Meetings Disguised as Global Takeovers, Plus Silly Hats!

Positive Change and Why It’s Overrated

Happy Thanksgiving Week!

Networking Tips

Things Political Candidates Do That You Should Do Too!

Open Communication Is Overrated: How To Close The Door For Good!

Simple Tactics to Help You Drive Your Customers into the Arms of Your Competitors

The Color Run: Making Boring Stuff Better With Rainbows!

Barriers To Learning: Never Learn Anything Ever Again, Guaranteed!

Workplace Safety: How to Use A Ladder for Maximum Catastrophe!

Customers Are Not Illegal (Yet!) So Annoy Them Until They Go Away!

Ye Olde Keynote Speaker

A Lesson From The Sweetest Town in the USA: Stick With Your Core Message

Exciting things coming soon!

How to Dress Like a Complete and Utter Failure!

Delightful Ways to Destroy the Morale of Your Salespeople

Adorable Ways to Fail at an Office Romance!

Making the Least Out of Your Meetings!

Playful Ways to Annoy Your Customers!

Jargon Time!

Thoughts on Diversity

How to Keep New Potential Members out of Your Association!

My Last New Year’s Post Ever!!!

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

What Would I Do For 1 Million Dollars?

The Tyrant’s New Year’s Resolutions!

Are Your Employees Unhappy Enough? Because They Could Always Be Unhappier.

A Christmas Present for all the Managers Out There

Profile in Tyranny: The Guy Who Wouldn’t Hold the Door

Fun Ways to Make Your Vendors HATE You!

Why Change? Everything is Exactly the Same!

How to Become an Insufferable Salesman!

Welcome to the New JeffHavens.com

Canadians Beware!

Katy Perry and Elmo

The Frog and the Scorpion

Willis Report – How to Solve the Economic Crisis!

Shoplift with a Cop!

The NSFW App

Willis Report – Wyclef Jean

Jeff becomes regular contributor for HeadDrama.com

We need more photos of Queens, NY

Willis Report Clip of the Week

Darth Vader Robs a Bank!! – Willis Report

Willis Report – Strongest Beer In History!

Willis Report – Defense Dept Budgeting

Willis Report – Banking Regulations

Willis Report – Shot by a dog

Willis Report – Jeff’s advice to Mel Gibson

Willis – Which state is the fattest?

Willis Report Clip – iPhone

Willis Report – Ironing

Willis Report COTW – Columbia and Cocaine

Willis Report Clip of the Week – Dollar Tree

Willis Report Clip of the Week!

Willis Report Clip of the Week

AOL Book Review and Fox Business Guest Spots

Horrible Customer Service 101: The Automated Menu

Sexual Harassment- The Only Thing You Need to Know

The Golden Wings of Gossip

Lightening Your Workload: Self-Appraisals

Customer Service: Charge People for Things They Are Used to Getting for Free!!!

Customer Service: That’s Some Fine Print Work, Lou.

Spying – It’s Not Wrong If They Never Find Out

Good News, Everyone!

Just When You Think That the World Maybe Makes Sense…

Warm and Fuzzy Moment: Rupert Murdoch

How to Get Fired! comes to Colorado!

Going to be on CNBC.com!

Becoming a Tyrant: The Organizational Chart

And now, for a moment of shameless self-promotion…

March 9 – St. Louis!

The tyranny of beets

Dutchmen, here I come…

The Gentle Art of Conducting a Bad Meeting

The 5:1 rule

WMBD 31 Peoria!

Jeff on ‘Dresser After Dark’ Tonight

A very special Christmas gift to myself

The wonderful world of doing it yourself

Finally entering the 21st century

Load more
Newsletter

Search
Article Categories
Speaking Inquiries

Platinum Speakers Agency
Donna Buttice
630.330.7533
donna@platinumspeakersagency.com

All Other Business:
info@jeffhavens.com


Home
About
Keynotes
Meeting Planners
Contact


Blog
Video Training
Newsletter Signup

Linkedin page opens in new windowInstagram page opens in new window

©2025 The Jeff Havens Company. All Rights Reserved. Sitemap. Privacy Policy.

Go to Top
Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker
  • Keynotes
    • Innovation
    • Leadership
    • Generational Differences
    • Change Management
  • Meeting Planners
  • About Jeff
    • About Jeff / Bio
    • Blog
    • Industries
      • Agricultural
      • Associations and Conferences
      • Automotive and Manufacturing
      • Business Growth
      • Consumer Goods and Retail Services
      • Education
      • Financial
      • Government and Social Services
      • Healthcare
      • Human Resources
      • Insurance and Legal
      • Media and Entertainment
      • Real Estate
      • Technology
      • Travel and Hospitality
      • Utilities
    • Topics
      • Customer Service
      • Generational Differences
      • Innovation
      • Leadership
      • Motivation
    • Video Training
    • Newsletter Signup!
  • Check Jeff’s Availability

For Speaking Inquiries, Contact Donna Buttice

630.330.7533