Recognized by Successful Meetings Magazine as One of the "21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century"

  Matt Weinstein, CPAE, is the founding president of Playfair, Inc., an international consulting company that presents innovative team building programs for more than 400 clients each year. His PBS television special "Fun Works!" brought Matt national acclaim as a pioneer in the field of experiential team building. Matt's dynamic keynote presentations come with an astounding money-back guarantee: if Matt does not get a standing ovation at the end of his program, you do not have to pay his fee! 

Matt's two latest books are:

Work Like Your Dog
(Villard Books, Random House, 1999)

Managing to Have Fun
(Simon & Schuster, 1997)

  Matt Weinstein will help you to energize your workforce, reduce stress on the job, and build an enthusiastic team. Matt's long-term partnerships with companies like AT&T, IBM, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers have helped them reward, retain, and revitalize their key employees. Matt will motivate and inspire your employees to be more productive, and will teach them how to create a corporate culture of support and celebration at work. And most importantly, Matt will show your people that work can be fun!

  Matt Weinstein is the nation's foremost authority on the use of fun and humor in team building. Drawing on his own experience as a company president and twenty years of research by the Playfair organization, his presentations are rich in content and alive with humor. Matt believes that team building is not just a concept – team building is an experience. So all of Matt's keynote presentations include dynamic audience interactions as an integral part of the lecture program.

  If you're looking for something more than a lecture – if you're looking for a high-energy, audience-involvement keynote presentation that will leave the participants leaping to their feet in wild applause – then you're looking for Matt Weinstein!

Team-Building

 Experience the synergy of teamwork firsthand. The following teambuilding programs can be presented as a keynote address or in a workshop format.

Putting Fun to Work: The Power of Humor in Business

Managing To Have Fun: Reward, Recognition and Retention

Internal Customer Service: Keeping Your Best People Forever

Work Like Your Dog: New Dimensions in Team Building

The Improvising Organization

The New Global Community:

Living and Laughing in a Diverse World

The Ultimate Icebreaker

Experiential Team-Building Modules
These team building programs are available only in a workshop format.

· Sharing Your Vision: The Sculpture Design

· The Egg Drop Challenge

· The Maze and Ball Toss

Work Like Your Dog: New Dimensions in Team Building
One way to work smarter, not harder, is to learn the skills of working like your dog. Dogs approach their work with dedication, loyalty, sensitivity and love, and also with joy, enthusiasm and a willingness to see their work as play. Based on Matt Weinstein's business bestseller, "Work Like Your Dog."

We are a perfect fit

  ...for corporations, associations, government groups, educators – any organizations – who are looking for really fun, interactive, informational and inspirational sessions that focus on some or all of: 

· Teamwork 

· Reward and recognition

· Humor in the workplace 

· Creativity 

· Customer service 

· Employee retention 

· Living a healthier work life and personal life 

  Participants have an opportunity in a very safe and non-threatening way to bond together as a team. They learn tools to build a community at work based on trust, support and cooperation.

  We are not just entertaining and funny (although we are entertaining and funny). We're proponents of "play with a purpose," offering take-home value with specific business applications. 

  Playfair has an outrageous money back guarantee for our keynote presentations: If we don't get a Standing Ovation at the end of the program, you don't have to pay our fee!!

Why Have Fun At Work?

  Employers can better keep their most talented people by creating an exciting atmosphere where employees want to come to work. You can't expect your employees to give service with a smile unless they have something to smile about. And the intentional use of fun and play on the job is the best way to create an enthusiastic and committed workforce.

  Happy and healthy employees are more creative, more productive, get along better with co-workers and have greater corporate loyalty and a healthier work/life balance. 

  An atmosphere of fun at work in any organization facilitates flexibility, change and better communication. 

  Particpants in our programs have reported feeling like they've been given a gift by management because they have so much fun while they're learning.

When to Consider Us

  When you are looking for "something different" – a dynamic, fun-filled interactive keynote; an icebreaker; a creativity seminar; a work/life balance session; a stress management program.

  Use us in any meeting where you need to energize people. We always set a positive tone and no one is picked on or made to look foolish.

  We are perfect for a kickoff keynote or icebreaker, as an after lunch or mid-conference energizer, a banquet keynote, or as a high energy, send-them-home-with-a-bang closing session.

Playfair Facts

  Since 1975 Playfair has an outstanding track-record and a long list of satisfied clients. One third of our business is repeat business.

We offer keynotes and break-out sessions as well as half-day and full-day seminars.

We will work with any size group – and we have. From 5 to 5,000

  Though our senior staff and facilitators usually present alone, we have on many occasions co-presented in pairs and trios. One huge advantage to having so many talented presenters who can offer the same sessions is our ability to lead a series of simultaneous breakout sessions at one meeting under the same roof, or at different meetings occurring simultaneously across the country.

We work with senior and junior management and front line personnel; administrators and staff.

TOPICS: Teamwork

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