Meg Soper

Meg Soper travels North America sharing powerful insights and strategies on how to be more effective in our personal and professional lives. Combining her experience as a registered nurse with her skill in stand-up comedy, she offers a unique blend of humour and inspirational ideas to connect with her audience, break barriers, and help people shift their perspective to better deal with day-to-day challenges.

A highly sought-after speaker and humourist, Soper has shared the stage with many celebrities, including Ray Romano and Ellen Degeneres. For each of her events, she invests the time to understand her audience and the challenges they face. She has touched the lives of thousands by combining her remarkable sense of humour with a curiosity about people.

Soper’s diverse content has been shaped by her career as a staff nurse and as an operating room nurse in regional and major urban teaching hospitals. As a health care professional for 30 years, Soper recognizes the vital role that humour can play in creating a healthier workplace environment, in helping us deal better with stress, and in communicating more effectively.

Soper is the co-author of, From the Stage to the Page… Life Lessons from Four Funny Ladies. She has appeared on the CBC, CTV, the Women’s Television Network, and on Prime TV.

INDUSTRIES:

Corporate Motivational Speaking +

Meg is a sought after motivational speaker for corporate clients throughout North America. Her insights on brain boosting habits and fending off stress with humor make for inspiring keynote presentations that offer both comedy relief and practical approaches to dealing with workplace challenges. Audiences will leave feeling energized and equipped to better manage whatever corporate life – or personal life – throws at them!

Meg also offers interactive and engaging workshops. She will work directly with you to customize the content to align with your company’s vision and values while customizing the presentation to address specific challenges while offering recognition to employees for the work that they do.

Her most popular presentations and workshops cover topics including work-life balance, dealing with conflict, understanding personality styles, creating a positive workplace culture and more! --

Associations & Foundations Motivational Speaking +

As co-founder of the Comic Vision Comedy Tour that has raised more than $2 million for vision research, Meg brings a unique perspective to the work she does with associations and foundations throughout North America. Her engaging keynote presentations are customized to the mission and purpose of her client organizations, reinforcing the message and providing an added level of inspiration while still bringing home her core messaging on health, wellness, resilience and relationships.

Meg also offers energizing and interactive workshops. She will work with you to customize the workshop to align with your key objectives and specific aspects of your association or foundation.

Her most popular presentations and workshops cover topics relevant to associations and foundations, including working with different personalities, conflict management, work-life balance, and more! --

Education Motivational Speaking +

Meg is a lifelong learner whose presentations offer a shout out to all who dedicate themselves to making a difference in the lives of their students. She has worked with organizations across North America – from early childhood education to special needs to colleges and universities – offering Keynote Presentations that bring a message of recognition and inspiration while encouraging people to put themselves on their own priority list with practical approaches to self-care and life balance.

Meg also offers engaging and interactive workshops that she will customize to align with your organizations key goals and objectives.

Her most popular presentations and workshops cover topics relevant to individuals in the education sector, including creating a positive workplace culture, managing conflict, and using humor and mindfulness techniques to manage even the most stress filled situations!d more! --

Public Sector Motivational Speaking +

Meg recognizes the unique workplace challenges of the public sector. From the front lines of service, to administration to those in a leadership role, there is pressure to do more with less while the demand for services continues to grow. She has worked with public sector organizations across North America offering Keynote Presentations that bring a message of recognition and inspiration while encouraging people to put themselves on their own priority list with practical approaches to self-care and life balance.

Meg also offers energizing and interactive workshops. She will work with you to customize the workshop to align with the key objectives of your organization.

Her most popular presentations and workshops cover topics relevant to the public sector work environment, including working with different personalities, conflict management, work-life balance, and more! --

Motivational Healthcare, Dental, Wellness, and Long-Term Care Speaker +

Meg is an experienced motivational healthcare speaker for healthcare and dental institutions and organizations throughout Canada and the United States. Having been a Registered Nurse for the past thirty years, Meg truly understands the challenges faced by those in the healthcare industry and the importance of establishing a strong work-life balance.

Drawn from her experiences as a staff nurse and operating room nurse, her funny and inspiring keynote presentations fill the audience with laughter while teaching them practical solutions to their challenges. Audiences will leave feeling motivated and ready to take on whatever life throws at them!

Meg also offers interactive and energizing workshops. We will work with you to customize your workshop to align with your key objectives and specific health organization.

Her most popular presentations and workshops cover topics relevant to individuals in the healthcare, dental, wellness, and long-term care sectors, including healthy work-life balance, managing conflict, working with different generations and personalities in the workplace, mindfulness and dealing with stress, and more! --

Unions Motivational Speaking +

Meg has spoken to Union organizations in construction, healthcare, food and the public sector across North America. As a member of a Nurses Union during her career in healthcare, she understands the vital role that Unions play in creating a safe, fair and inclusive work environment for their members. Her keynote presentations provide humor and inspiration while offering insights on dealing with stress and managing effectively when encountering obstacles at work and in life.

Meg also offers engaging and interactive workshops. She will work with you to customize your workshop to ensure it aligns with your organizations key objectives and specific needs.

Her most popular presentations and workshops cover topics relevant to unions, including managing and resolving conflict, working with different generations and different personalities in the workplace, strategies to ensure a healthy work-life balance, and more!

Meg will customize the material to the specific theme and objectives of your event. --

Live or Virtual:

The Secret Sauce: Thriving in Times of Change +

This high energy and interactive keynote presentation confronts the challenges posed by the accelerating pace of change in our personal and professional lives. Meg offers an inspirational message while  sharing her ideas on how we can use humor, passion and resilience to enhance communication, find more balance and sustain personal growth even when we are pushed to our limits.

Meg explores ideas about navigating change and dealing with life’s ever present stresses, emphasizing the important role that humor and communication style play in helping us perform at our best. She delves into the topic of emotional intelligence by offering insights on how our brain’s default response wiring can hijack our thoughts and perceptions and make us less effective than we might otherwise be in our interactions with others.

Using experiences from her career as an O.R. nurse, and now as a thought leader on mindfulness and resilience, Meg will explore the key elements of a successful conversation and demonstrate that by choosing to shift our perspective – and distinguishing between left brain and right brain thought patterns – we can ‘rewire’ our thought patterns thus leading us to stronger relationships with the people in our lives.

This presentation will entertain, inspire and leave audience members with ideas to help realize improvements in health, self-awareness and relationships at work and at home.

Session Objectives:

• Learn about the HPR Sauce – Humor, Passion and Resilience to manage change and thrive personally and professionally.
• Gain greater control over how we react in moments of difficulty; reinforce the idea that we have the ability to ‘Shift our Perspective’ to fend off negative emotions and thought loops.
• Learn Meg’s Mini-Mindfulness Break technique for giving our ‘Brain a Boost’ and to be more present in our interactions with others.
• Offer strategies to help improve personal resilience so that we are better able to manage change and maintain a positive mindset; and,
• Share laughter and positive energy together! --

Better Together: Personality Styles in the Workplace +

Is your team working at its full potential? Let’s face it – high functioning teams are more important than ever as we deal with all the challenges of Covid 19. So, if you are not be able to gather in person, try out the next best thing: Meg’s hilarious and high energy interactive workshop on personality styles and teamwork.

The “Better Together” workshop demonstrates that going it alone is not an option in today’s workplace environment, even when you can’t get to the office and have to work alone! In this session, Meg serves up inspirational ideas on teamwork and collaboration that will increase the awareness, effectiveness and the morale of your organization’s teams.

Warning! This workshop is not for the faint of heart! Participants will be expected to participate, identify their own personality style and then spend time exploring the virtues and vices of their style!

Participants will gain a better understanding of each other’s challenges and unique qualities, helping to enhance relationships both at work and at home.

Objectives:

1. Gain insight on the DiSC model of human behavior and learn to identify the different personality styles in the workplace;
2. Learn how to shift perspective according to personality type to enhance personal and team performance;
3. Learn how to flex your style to better communicate, motivate and gain cooperation with others;
4. Learn how to create a positive environment at work and within ourselves through effective communication; and,
5. Use humor and interactive energy to recognize that we are better together and that each of us has the power and influence to bring out the strengths of the people we work with. --

Laughter Makes Us Stronger +

A great deal has changed in recent months with the arrival of an unwelcome visitor named COVID 19. In addition to the health threat, virtually every aspect of daily life and routine has been turned on its head. As if our pre-pandemic challenges were not enough! And since we do not know when things are going to get back to ‘normal’, one thing is certain: Now more than ever, we need a reason to laugh!

Meg’s experience in stand-up comedy – and in the hospital operating room – shines through in this humorous exploration of life and times in the pandemic. She offers a humor filled look at the serious issue of stress in our lives, encouraging us to reframe, refocus and stay on course even when our well laid plans get tossed into upheaval.

Meg’s message will speak to everyone in the room- whether they are just launching their career, or they are leading the organization through times of major change. Her insights on using humor and self-awareness as tools for bolstering resilience demonstrate how small changes in routine can make a big difference in our lives. --

Work-Life Balance? You’ve Got to Be Kidding! +

Meg has developed this presentation recognizing the challenges facing organizations who must evolve and adapt in an environment of constant change. In her dynamic and engaging style, Meg will share her ideas on how we can use humor, passion and resilience to enhance communication, find more balance and to sustain personal growth even as the lines between our personal and professional lives become ever blurrier.

Meg will share ideas and best practices that she has adopted using her ‘Key Elements of Life’ model to demonstrate how the choices we make about nutrition, exercise and sleep all play a vital role in helping us build our resilience and maintain a positive mindset. She will bring home the message of how important it is to take time for ourselves each day so that we find the energy and inspiration to perform to the best of our abilities, no matter what demands are being placed upon us.

Meg will also delve into the subject of emotional intelligence and explore how our emotions, and our response patterns in the face of stress can serve to make us less effective than we might otherwise be in our daily interactions with others. Using experiences from her career as an O.R. nurse, and now as a thought leader on mindfulness and resilience, Meg demonstrates how we can break free of our usual behavior patterns leading us to healthier and stronger relationships with the people we work with and those who we serve.

This presentation will entertain, inspire and leave audience members with ideas to help realize improvements in health, self-awareness and relationships at work and at home.

Session Objectives:

1. Learn about the HPR Sauce – Humor, Passion and Resilience to manage change and thrive personally and professionally.
2. Explore Meg’s ‘Key Elements of Life’ model to map strategies for how we allocate our energy and attention to relationships, career, mind, body and soul;
3. Learn about mindfulness techniques to give our ‘Brain a Boost’ and to be more present in our interactions with others.
4. Offer strategies to help improve personal resilience so that we are better able to manage change and maintain a positive mindset. --

Wait What? A Positive Workplace Culture? Let’s Do This! +

Meg has developed this presentation recognizing the challenges facing organizations and their employees as they are called upon to manage the complex interpersonal dynamics of a multi-generational workplace. In her dynamic and engaging style Meg offers her unique perspective on how to deal with the ever-present stresses we all face, emphasizing the important role that humor and communication style play in helping us be more effective in our roles.

Meg will offer an exploration of generational differences – from Traditionalists to Boomers to Gen ‘X’ and Millennials – to demonstrate the impact of shifting workplace demographics, enhance awareness and help us communicate more effectively. She will also explore how stereotyping can limit us and make us less effective in our interactions with others. Meg demonstrates that by choosing to shift our perspective – and understanding the distinction between left brain and right brain thought patterns – we can break free of our usual behaviors thus leading to healthier and stronger relationships that will benefit relationships at work and at home.

Objectives:

1. Attendees will gain insights into the tendencies and behaviors of the different generations.
2. Understand the sources of differences that can arise between the generations in the workplace and learn strategies for resolution.
3. Learn how to more effectively communicate, motivate and gain co-operation with others in the workplace, leading to a more positive environment.
4. Learn the 4 key elements of a positive work culture.
5. Recognize that we are better together and through reverse mentorship we can bring out the strengths of the people we work with. --

Workshop: Better Together: Personality Styles in the Workplace +

The challenges of today’s workplace calls for us to be effective and intuitive communicators. Meg has developed this interactive presentation to offer strategies for enhanced communication skills by exploring the different personality styles using the DiSC model of human behavior.

This high energy, interactive session will seek to create awareness about different personality styles based on the DiSC model and related strategies for enhancing communication. The session is humorous and packed with insights about the four different personality styles and how these styles influence people’s behavior, and their response to conflict and stressful situations. This session is intended to create both self-awareness and social awareness among participants to help them understand the sources of conflict, and strategies for collaboration both with colleagues, service providers and the patients that they serve.

The presentation will reflect Meg’s belief that teams can be made stronger because they are diverse. Participants will leave armed with understanding and awareness that will lend to a more positive and productive workplace environment.

Session Objectives:

1. Gain insight on the DiSC model of human behavior and learn to identify the different personality styles in the workplace;
2. Learn how to shift perspective according to personality type to enhance personal and team performance;
3. Learn how to flex your style to better communicate, motivate and gain cooperation with others;
4. Learn how to create a positive environment at work and within ourselves through effective communication; and,
5. Use humor and interactive energy to recognize that we are better together and that each of us has the power and influence to bring out the strengths of the people we work with. --

ALL programs are available in a variety of formats. These include keynote presentations, half-day or full day seminars or workshops.

Master of Ceremonies
Set the tone of any event with positive energy and an interactive spirit!  +

Meg is an experienced M.C. for any and all types of events – she’ll keep the room engaged and the energy high with her relatable stories and humor only a stand-up comedian could deliver. Her unique ability to connect with people allows her to bring an added dimension to the role of M.C.

With Meg around, your audience will leave the event feeling enlightened and energized.

Meg will:

• Consult in the preplanning stages with regards to the agenda and theme of the event;
• Network ahead of the event to gain a thorough understanding of your audience; 
• Facilitate any networking activities or panel discussions;
• Keep your event running on time;
• Connect with different speakers and presenters to ensure timing and content are aligned;
• Introduce the different speakers and presenters;
• Weave in stories and quotes from the attendees as they unfold during the event; 
• Keep energy high throughout the event and between segments  --

Opening Kick Off and Bring It Home Closing
Meg’s unique ability to connect with people makes her the ideal speaker to open AND close a conference.  +

While weaving in the theme of the event, Meg will set the tone of the day with positive and interactive energy. Then, she will incorporate stories and anecdotes as they unfold during the event and bring this highly customized content back to the platform to deliver an unforgettable closing to the conference.

Attendees leave on a high note feeling enlightened and energized!

Meg will:

• Consult in the preplanning stages with regards to the agenda and theme of the event;
• Network ahead of the event to gain a thorough understanding of your audience;
• Welcome attendees with a kick off and set the tone of the event with a high energy, interactive keynote;
• Provide clear objectives for the attendees at the event;
• Facilitate any networking activities or panel discussions;
• Weave in stories and quotes from the attendees as they unfold during the event;
• Network during the breaks and meals of the conference to incorporate attendees’ takeaways of the event;
• Close with a lighthearted, inspirational keynote that reinforces key objectives and incorporates memorable moments from the conference;
• Leave the attendees feeling enlightened and entertained as they leave the event  --

Customized Presentations  +

Meg's humorous and inspirational presentations are customized to achieve a special connection with every audience. We can schedule a conference call and consultation with Meg, and she will develop a presentation that will meet all your expectations. Titles, description and content can be customized to fit the theme of your event and conference. Whether it is an international conference or an intimate work retreat, you can rely on Meg to deliver "humour with a heart".  --

Side Effects You Will Experience When You Book Meg Soper:

• Inspired insights leading to prolonged laughter;
• Audience participation and interaction;
• Shift in perspective and possible shortness of breath;
• Increased demand for your organization’s next event.

Meg Soper is represented by K&M Productions. To inquire about Meg Soper's speaking schedule & booking Meg Soper, contact us.