Engagement Expert, Professional Speaker and Founder of Bore No More!™
Bore No More!™ That's the Motto AND Guarantee
Jon Petz is an engagement expert. He ensures your meeting or event attendees are engaged into the meeting objectives, team, environment, work effort and passion of what they do and how they perform. Jon delivers this impactful message as a high energy and funny motivational keynote speaker, Master of Ceremonies or corporate magician.
Clients including the US Air Force, IBM, T-Mobile, AT&T, Cardinal Health, Nationwide, Walmart, ABC, Deloitte, Aflac and JP Morgan Chase absolutely RAVE about the energy and engagement from their attendees and the success of their programs when working with Jon and the Bore No More!™ team.
Clients hire Jon as an engagement expert because he delivers unmatchable energy along with his unique ability to creatively combine a business or inspirational message with an entertaining twist, keeping your audience directly in touch with the content while they're enjoying the process.
Jon is an expert at communicating, entertaining, running effective meetings and engaging an audience, keeping them actively involved in the event. Quite simply, he has mastered the ability to inspire, inform and entertain while skillfully relating to every audience.
Jon believes in creating moments of “SHOWTIME.” This is the moment we need to create IMPACT in our work, our life and the lives of others instead of merely meeting expectations. We need to rekindle the passion in who we are and what we do and look for ways to add value to our relationships without necessarily spending more money.
Jon is the author of:
- Boring Meetings Suck: Get More Out of Your Meetings, or Get Out of More Meetings
- The Best of the Best
- Unlocking The Secrets (DVD) Learn Powerful Magic
In 2008, Jon was named one of the top 40 business professionals under the age of 40 by Business Journals newspaper. He also was awarded the "CV Perry Advocate for Children Award" in 2008 for his ongoing efforts and fundraising for children with life threatening illnesses through his "Miracles & Magic" program.
When Jon is the keynote speaker, he speaks from the heart. He's not a comedy magician who decided to turn "speaker." He's a father, a husband and a guy who's worked in the warehouse, flipped burgers, driven a forklift, sat in the cubicle for years, made cold calls, dealt with corporate America, made more cold calls, grew a highly successful sales career, managed a national sales team across 52 offices, flew in private jets with billionaires and even had the stereotypical corner office with the company Mercedes and country club membership. He “gets it” and “it” relates well to both the event planners and audience members.
As a Master of Ceremony and live event and engagement expert, Jon is often asked to host, script and produce events and shows. This has opened doors for multiple television appearances (National: ESPN, The Food Network, Outdoor Channel, Lifetime. Regional: NBC, ABC, FOX, CBS), as well as being the spokesperson for several corporations. As a comedy magician he has been the opening act or appeared with artists such as The American Idol Tour 2007 & 2008, Rascal Flatts and many others while performing in Sydney, New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, London, Las Vegas and many more.
Jon shares the stage with Rascal Flatts at the the Make-A-Wish Foundation's 25 year celebration.
Giving Back
In 2002, Jon and wife, Stacey, began the Miracles & Magic program for children with life-threatening illnesses. The goal is simple: to provide the child and their family members a day away from the thoughts of hospital beds, treatments and shots, allowing the child to feel like a “normal” kid again and to experience the comedy and wonderment of magic and laughter.
Miracles & Magic brings a Las Vegas-style grand-illusion, comedy and magic show to Columbus, Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio each year, featuring the world’s best magical and variety entertainers. The program has enabled more than 3,500 children with a life-threatening illness AND their family members to share in this experience at no charge. In addition, the event has raised over a million dollars in sponsorship, donations and public ticket sales that has been provided to the A Kid Again organization that delivers ongoing group activities for these children.
Jon and his cancer-fighting friend, Gabriel, make the whole theater snow.
Professional Background
After graduating from Ohio University, Jon began his career as an inside sales representative in the software industry in Washington D.C. and Tulsa, Oklahoma. A move to Columbus, Ohio in 1995 brought Jon to MCI Telecommunications. As a national account executive, he became an MCI Master, which is only awarded to the top 2% of sales personnel worldwide.
Jon continued to perform in his spare time and, after several years at MCI, he decided to pursue his true passion. For the next two years, he traveled as a comedy magician and corporate entertainer while honing his skills as an entertainer and master communicator.
With the internet era booming, Jon jumped into the entrepreneurial role, starting his own online presence and shortly after joined a 15-person organization as a senior business development executive. This small organization grew to more than 1,500 people as Jon secured business and brought in more than 60% of the company's overall revenue.
As the dot com market slowed down in 2001, Jon was presented with the opportunity to become the vice president of sales for a 250-member organization in the insurance industry. It was at this point that he began combining training messages with the entertainment component that was still occupying his spare time. After three years and having the sales team grow revenue by 60%, Jon once again decided to go back to his passion of inspiring others to take action by showing them that life is a magical endeavor that has no set path. That’s when Bore No More!™ was born.
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