Today’s speaker—Craig Parsons—is an orchestra conductor and pianist who combines humor, wit and music in performing with many of the nation’s premiere symphony orchestras. With a background as diverse as composition work at DePaul University to comedy training at Second City in Chicago, he has appeared on stage for the last eighteen years.

With his background in both classical music and comedy, Mr. Parsons’ brings unique insights into communications and teambuilding. As a result, he is a popular keynote speaker and has participated in meetings and led seminars with many of the Fortune 500 companies.

These are not dull speeches, but highly interactive and insightful sessions. In other words, we’re all going to be very involved in this presentation!

This is one of those rare opportunities to have a lot of fun while we gain some truly unique and valuable insights into communication and teamwork.

I’ll bring Mr. Parsons on stage in a few minutes to get started, but first, we’d like to show you a short video of him performing…

1½ Minute VIDEO ROLLS HERE—
Last image is Craig finishing a piano piece and shouting: “Wow, wow, wow!”
At that point, the person making the introduction says:

So, with that, let’s welcome, Maestro Craig Parsons. (Lead applause as Craig comes on.)