PRESENTERS

Jon Petz is the world’s only Amazement Artist® He’s a two-time, best-sellers list author, Hall of Fame Keynote speaker and multi-award winning live event host and emcee. He brings this passion and energy for performance, purpose and impact to events of all types.

Jon is a former sales & marketing executive in big corporate as well as a tech entrepreneur. As a remarkable addition – Jon is a professional magician and mentalist that has performed around the globe for audiences of all types.

This one-of-a-kind combination brings relevancy, experience and understanding to the real-world challenges and opportunities we face in our professional pursuits. It also produces a masterful storytelling, engagement and entertainment factor that is uniquely and unequivocally the Jon Petz Experience. Far more than “JUST” a keynote, it is the perfected trifecta of strategy & mindset, personal inspiration and incredible entertainment.

USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, ABC News, Success Magazine and many other media outlets have covered the success of Jon Petz and his quest to help people engage deeper, perform better and fuel growth personally and professionally. His second book, Boring Meetings Suck, ™ was named by Inc. Magazine as a top ten and must-read business book.

Jon’s third book, Signifi cance In Simple Moments, has gone through six printings and focuses on human connections to help you achieve signifi cance. Profits from this book are donated in support of the Miracles & Magic™ Foundation, a show which was founded by Jon and his family. Miracles & Magic is a Las Vegas style, grand illusion and comedy magic show that provides children with life-threatening illnesses a chance to forget about the treatments, shots and hospital, and instead shares the wonder and joy of comedy, magic and illusion.

HuffPost calls Greg Schwem “Your boss’s favorite comedian” and after watching a hilarious performance from Greg, you will see why. In the midst of a career as an award-winning television news reporter, Greg decided he enjoyed making people laugh more than depressing them on a nightly basis. Leaving journalism for comedy, Greg quickly became a favorite on the corporate speaking circuit, performing humorous and inspirational keynote speeches for business heavyweights such as Microsoft, IBM, Southwest Airlines, McDonald’s and even The CIA.

Greg has appeared on Comedy Central, VH-1 and, in the middle of the pandemic, performed his own Drybar Comedy special, You Can’t Quarantine Laughter. He has shared the concert stage with the likes of Celine Dion, Keith Urban, Styx and Julio Iglesias. In 2024, he underwent successful stage 2 colon cancer surgery and chronicled his journey in a third Amazon bestseller, Turning Gut Punches into Punchlines: A Comedian’s Journey Through Cancer, Divorce and Other Hilarious Stuff. Greg also writes the nationally syndicated Humor Hotel column for the Chicago Tribune syndicate.