BORE NO MORE!
Bore No More! That's the motto AND guarantee. Jon Petz is a high energy and funny motivational keynote speaker, Master of Ceremonies and corporate magician. Clients ranging from the US Air Force, IBM, T-Mobile, AT&T, Cardinal Health, Nationwide, Walmart to ABC, Deloitte, Aflac and JP Morgan Chase, 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 a professional speaker because he delivers unmatchable energy along with his unique ability to creatively combine a business or inspirational message with an entertaining twist, therefore, keeping your audience directly in touch with the content while they're enjoying the process. He's an expert at communicating, entertaining, running effective meetings and engaging an audience and 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 be creating 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," "Best of the Best" & "Unlocking the Secrets" (DVD). In 2008, he 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, then was able to manage a national sales team across 52 offices, fly in private jets with billionaires and even had the stereotypical corner office with company Mercedes and country club membership. He “Get’s 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 classic artists such as The Pointer Sisters, Tracy Lawrence, Charlie Daniels Band, KC & the Sunshine Band, Wynona Judd, Kenny Loggins, Peter Cetera, Diamond Rio and many others while performing from Sydney Australia, New York, Toronto, LA, London to Las Vegas and anywhere in between.

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 and simply have them feel a 'normal' kid again and 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, OH each year featuring the world’s best magical and variety entertainers. The program has enabled more than 1,500 children with a life-threatening illness AND their family members to share in this experience at no charge. In addition, the event has grossed more than $750,000 in sponsorship, donations and public ticket sales which is provided to the A Kid Again organization who deliver ongoing group activities for these children.

THE PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
After graduating from Ohio University, Jon began his career as an inside sales rep in the software industry in Washington, DC and Tulsa, OK. 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.

“Being able to relate to people, especially when you don’t speak their language, is a critical skill no matter what any of us do. This period of my career was an amazing experience and experiment in learning how to relate, communicate and deal with people from all over the world. I wish everyone could have such an opportunity. The world would be a better place due to our understanding of how others live.”

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 over 60% of the company's overall revenue.

As the dot com market slackened 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 the revenue 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 and Bore No More! was born.

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