Kate Davis

The highest-performing teams in the country understand that real success comes from harnessing the collective strengths of every team member. What many leaders overlook, however, is that the secret ingredient to unlocking this potential is often levity in the form of laughter. Levity isn’t about making things lighter — it’s a powerful tool for connection, collaboration, and trust, all of which lead to improved performance.

Kate Davis has partnered with hundreds of category-leading companies, delivering transformative experiences that are not only hilarious but packed with actionable insights that actually move the leadership needle. Through her unique blend of comedy and research-based strategy, Kate doesn’t just talk about the power of humour — she shows it in action, engaging audiences with real-time demonstrations that are as entertaining as they are enlightening.

Many leaders walk into Kate’s sessions believing they need to be the strongest or most authoritative voice in the room. What they learn is that the most effective leaders are the ones who are relatable, emotionally intelligent, and present. In an era of rapid digital transformation and increasing workplace disconnection, those who can create authentic human moments — through humor and humility — are the ones who lead high-performing, connected teams.

Attendees will learn:

• How to de-risk humour and understand when and how to use it appropriately
• How to leverage humour to your advantage
• The key to building trust while honoring professional boundaries
• Ways to use humour to connect, even without telling a single joke

Audiences will leave this keynote energized, equipped, and inspired — with practical tools to build stronger teams, foster deeper connections, and create a culture where productivity and belonging thrive, all through the simple yet profound act of bringing more levity and laughter into the workplace.

The world is becoming more volatile, finding balance between our jobs, home, relationships with family, friends and co-workers can be challenging and overwhelming both in the workplace and home leading to stress, fatigue and low productivity. I mean nowadays we get stressed when our cell rings or excited when people cancel plans.

So, we stretch in every direction trying to satisfy and take care of everyone but ourselves. What if there was a simple way to bring more balance into our lives that didn’t require over extending ourselves, our resources, and helped us be more present in our lives. Something you didn’t even have to change into yoga pants for?

Humor can do just that. 

Grounded in 2 decades of research and development, this award-winning author, speaker and comic teaches people how to lighten up and the power that humor and levity have on their day-to-day lives to create more Balance, stability and self-care.

Audiences will leave with takeaways including:

• Learning how to apply and use humor into their day-to-day life to keep them healthy, happy,
  and whole.
• They’ll learn practical techniques on how humor changes the chemistry of our brains and how
  to implement the benefits it has on stress management, human connection, and trust both at
  home and the workplace.
• They’ll learn what humor style they fit into and how use that to ease tension, create an
  innovative environment, and enhance communication.
• They’ll discover how humor and levity allow us to be more playful which leads to innovation
  and team collaboration.
• They’ll experience a great ab workout from laughing so hard.

It’s not about the next best joke it’s about lightening up and not taking ourselves so seriously and bring that to every area of our lives.

People, who attend Kate’s “Balancing Life with Humor” Keynote, leave with an understanding of practical techniques for refueling, rediscovering, and reengaging their true selves. Learning to use humor as an instrument of communication creates an atmosphere of compassion, caring, and increased productivity.

It’s never been easier to communicate and never been harder to connect. Between emails, virtual meetings, slack, social media, it’s no wonder that burnout, stress and loneliness are at all-time highs, and trust is at an all-time low.

Instead of hiring the latest strategic communications firm, or spending countless hours learning how to train AI bots to communicate for you, what if you could learn some simple and easy tools to implement immediately that would drive connection and results?

Research shows that laughter and levity are some of the most powerful ways to build meaningful connections, increase trust, reduce stress, and enhance employee engagement and performance.

In this engaging and enlightening keynote, veteran comedian Kate Davis demystifies what makes us laugh and provides practical techniques for using humor to truly make an impression whether it’s with clients, customers, co-workers, family, or friends. And if she makes you laugh in the process, it was almost certainly on purpose.

Audiences will leave with takeaways including:

• Specific examples and techniques to bring more levity into the workplace and how to de-risk humor. (We’ll save impressions and prop work for the advanced class.)
• Ideas they can implement immediately on how to use humor to build trust with clients and colleagues.
• Research and examples showing the power that humor has on human connection which inspires and motivates people to truly live to their fullest potential.
• How to harness the power of humor to create an extraordinary work culture and collaborate as a team.

This keynote is good for any group that wants to empower their teams to improve their culture, grow sales, grow customers, or anyone who wants to improve their connections and most importantly anyone who wants to LAUGH!

A Journey about resilience and perseverance…
Kate’s Keynote “Out of My Mind…Back In Five” explores techniques of managing our mental health and gives practical ways of staying healthy and positive even through the toughest times. Kate’s inspiring, humorous and sometimes touching stories take us on a journey about resilience and perseverance – how she found comedy, how it helped her discover self-worth, confidence and to fight the negativity in her own mind that was keeping her from living the life she deserved.

“Back In Five” explores the way we feel about ourselves and others, as well as our ability to manage our feelings and deal with everyday difficulties both at work and home.

From practical methods including:

• Understanding how mindfulness can help us achieve self-awareness that has the power to affect all areas of our lives in a positive manner
• Learning one-minute stress strategies that you can do at the office or home
• Breaking up the monotony with Rejuvenation 101 (That’s a long list).
• The methods available to us for taking charge of our own mental health include: How we think about ourselves, being grateful, being in the present, sleep, diet, exercise to name a few.

All these methods can ultimately boost our mood, build resilience and add to our overall enjoyment of life. Audiences leave this keynote with the feeling that knowledge is power and that we all play a role in our mental health.