Kate Davis

Connecting Though Humour

Why Laughter Means Business in the Digital Age

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 a few 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.

Audiences will leave with takeaways including:

• Specific examples and techniques to bring more levity into the workplace and how to de-risk humor
• 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 team collaboration

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!

Balancing Life with Humour

We’re Jugglers and the 1st Ball to Drop is Usually Our Own

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.mSo, 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. 

Humour can do just that.

Grounded in 2 decades of research and development this award-winning comic, teaches people how to lighten up and the power that humour 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 humour into their day-to-day life to keep them healthy, happy, and whole.
• They’ll learn practical techniques on how humour 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 humour 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 humour as an instrument of communication creates an atmosphere of compassion, caring, and increased productivity.

Out of My Mind... Back in 5 Minutes: 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 takes us on a journey about resilience and perseverance. How she found comedy and 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 like how mindfulness can help us achieve self-awareness that has to 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 or breaking up the monotony with Rejuvenation 101 (That’s a long list). To the methods available to us for taking charge of our own mental health including: 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. 

Funny Mommy Parenting with Humour

Your Leisure Time Should not be Folding Laundry

This lecture/workshop gives parents, caregivers, educators, social service providers the tools to help defuse the chaos and stress of their lives through humour. Kate helps them to remember themselves, accept where they are and not feeling guilty about where they are not. It combines stand-up comedy with practical techniques to raise children.

“Fun cancels out stress and brings everyone into the moment.” This is the recipe for a healthy relationship when it comes to raising our children. Everything changes when we become parents, I think the show “Survivor” shouldn’t take place on an island but a new parents’ home. It’s challenging not losing yourself in the process but with a few techniques likes being more playful and using your intuition life can be more joyful and relaxing.

Discover the different ways that men and women deal with stress, techniques of dealing with sibling fighting and how to truly take care of yourself so you are able to be more present to the life you are living now.

This lecture blends techniques of improvisation, visualization and affirmations. Parenting is a great lesson in letting go. You give birth, you let go. You nurse, you stop, you let go. They start school you, let go. They move out, you let go. That lesson of “Letting Go” is way easier with you in tacked.