Monday Luncheon Keynote Speaker
Jeff Rogers is award-winning Television Host, Professional Emcee, Wall Street Journal & USA
Today Best-Selling Author, and sought after public speaker with 30+ years of experience
engaging audiences. He has studied Design Thinking at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford and is a
certified Design Thinking Facilitator through ExperiencePoint and IDEO U. He has studied
Storytelling for Influence with IDEO and is a National Speaker Association State Champion in
storytelling.
Jeff can be seen on dozens of national television commercials for Crestor, BP, McDonald’s,
Miller Lite, Hanes, & Ford, amongst many others as well as roles on Empire, Chicago PD,
Chicago Fire, and Proven Innocent. He is the host of the cable TV’s Jeff’s Homemade Game
Show for which he also was the Writer and Co-Exec Producer. He is also the Host and creator of
three different award-winning web series.
Growing up, he had a built-in audience as one of eleven kids from an Irish-catholic family in
Chicago and went on to become one of youngest performers to be hired at the renowned Second
City Theater (John Belushi was the youngest). Jeff performed with Steve Carell from The
Office, Stephen Colbert from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Saturday Night Live
and 30 Rock star Tina Fey and Parks and Rec star Amy Poehler, and too many more to
mention.
Jeff is the owner of The Players Workshop, the oldest improvisation school in the country, home
to alumni like Bill Murray, Bonnie Hunt, Harold Ramis, and Matt Walsh. Jeff continues the
tradition of teaching improvisation to anyone interested in learning the art for stage or for life.
Jeff’s corporate MC clients include Fortune 500 companies across all vertical industries such as:
Major League Baseball, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Red Hat, ConvergeOne, Forsythe, Motorola
Solutions, RedHat, SUN, Abbott, Pfizer, Merck, AbbVie, Takeda, Astellas, Insmed, Ferring,
Horizon Pharmaceuticals, CareFusion, Cardinal Healthcare, Baxter, McDonald’s, Burger
King, Church’s, Pepsi, 7UP, GM, Ford, Chrysler, International, Waste Management, Bank of
America, CNA, Chase, Discover Card, Century 21, American Family Insurance, AADE,
NXTComm, PCMA, AORN, MillerCoors, Anheuser Busch and many, many more.
Jeff’s latest book is the international & Amazon bestseller The Playmaker Mindset: A Radically
Fun Way To Build A Culture Of Teamwork And Instant Innovation. Jeff is the co-author of the
Wall Street Journal & USA Today The Expert’s Cure and the Amazon bestseller Office Sportz!
The Official Office Games Handbook. Written with a clinical psychologist and featuring a
foreword by Olympian and New York Times Best Selling Author Vince Poscente. Jeff co
authored the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller The Entrepreneur’s Cure.