Kathy Klotz-Guest
Challenge
Today’s workplace is full of fear, rigidity, and nonstop uncertainty.
That’s a perfect recipe for burnout, and uninspired, uncreative teams. And employee turnover.
What we need is agility — the new reality
What we have is rigidity—old systems and thinking
Solution
I help leaders and teams close this gap with purposeful humor and play.
Not just to make work more fun – to fuel and transform agility, creative problem-solving, brave leadership, and human connection.
So people stay AND create magic.
My Story
I spent 20 years leading global teams in Silicon Valley— with rapid change and constant pressure to innovate.
I saw what lit people up and what shut them down.
At the same time, I was doing improv and stand-up (and sketch writing at Second City) at night and weekends. It rewired my brain, boosted my creativity and my team’s by multiples. Grew my confidence. And taught me to roll with anything. High octane agility.
I realized: humor is the tool we’ve been missing in leadership. For the last 15 years, as an author, speaker, consultant, and comedian. I’ve taught leaders how to use it to unlock courage, connection (trust), bold comms and creativity inside their teams and cultures.
What I Do
I Don’t Just Make People Laugh. I transform people, culture, ideas with
- Keynotes to transform thinking from rigid –> remarkable
- Workshops to unlock bold creativity + comms
- Frameworks for bold human culture
Laughter also increases attractiveness, not that YOU need it.
Be cool, HR.
Looking for a keynote, culture reset or leadership skills for today? Let’s talk.
Keynote Speaking
Let’s help your organization think bigger (and funnier) about how to create what’s next.
Workshops
Risk-taking that leads to innovation everywhere. Brave leaders & teams, Bold comms & ideas, Big actions. This is just what the doctor ordered.
Emcee + Events
No more boring events. I can make your next retreat, talk, team offsite one they can’t stop raving about!
Humor requires (and nurtures) trust, connection and courage, and all of these are required for innovative, creative culture.
Kathy did an excellent job leading our Daring Leadership program. She brought the lasting power of ‘Yes and!’ and laughter to our team and we’ve used it ever since to ignite growth. We still talk about it! She is funny, caring and demonstrates everything she teaches. Hire her!
– Sandy C., Amazon Web Services
Want just the comedy laughs, ma’am?
Follow @kathyguestcomedy on Instagram for updates on my comedy club shows, festival performances and more.
Want just the comedy laughs, ma’am?
Follow @kathyguestcomedy on Instagram for updates on my comedy club shows, festival performances and more.
“Kathy did a phenomenal job keynoting our inaugural Visual Storytelling conference. The simplicity of her message coupled with fun interactive drills – totally engaged our audience. Simply inspiring!”
“Kathy has fun and it’s infectious. She is credibly authentic – she doesn’t talk about it, she shows it. The energy was fantastic.”
“Kathy’s style is engaging, relevant and inspiring. Thank you, Kathy!”
“If you want a speaker that will bore the crap out of your audience, don’t hire Kathy. If you want to laugh, engage, interact, and walk away with ideas that you created during one of her talks, then Kathy is YOUR speaker.”
“Kathy’s expertise shines. She provided great insights our team will use to every advantage. And her enthusiasm, humor and energy made an outstanding Brand Team All-Hands!”
“Wow! Kathy is a great speaker. How she manages to consistently weave humor and storytelling with practical advice can only be appreciated by being in her audience. She sprinkles practical gems with stories. Kathy is passionate, entertaining and authoritative!”
“Kathy’s approach to creative ideation and concepting is fun, inspired and unique. Incorporating elements of improv to stretch the boundaries of how we approach content for our organization was such a great way to bring fresh thinking and perspective to the work we do. Content doesn’t have to be purely functional, and Kathy’s workshop helped us to see the evolving role of content and its capabilities for brand building and creative brand expression. Highly recommend!”
