EXPERT ON:
◉Entrepreneurship & Innovation
◉Effective Communication
◉Motivation & Mindset
◉Team Building & Collaboration
EXPERIENCE:
◉ Award-Winning Keynote Speaker & Best-Selling Author: A TEDx speaker with 30+ years of experience, Jeff Rogers is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today best-selling author, Harvard–MIT–Stanford certified innovation expert, National Speaker Association Last Story Standing National Champion, and Virtual Speaker Hall of Fame inductee.
◉ Entertainment Meets Enterprise: An accomplished television host, actor, and producer, Jeff has appeared in major national campaigns (McDonald’s, Ford, BP, Miller Lite) and hit shows including Chicago Fire and Empire. His background in elite improvisation—performing alongside legends like Steve Carell, Tina Fey, and Stephen Colbert—brings unmatched engagement, humor, and authenticity to every stage.
◉ Creator of Cultures That Innovate & Perform: As owner of The Players Workshop—the oldest improv school in the country—and author of The Playmaker Mindset, Jeff helps Fortune 500 organizations build cultures of teamwork, agility, and instant innovation through practical, play-driven frameworks that stick long after the keynote ends.
Jeff Rogers is an award-winning Television Host, Wall Street Journal & USA Today Best-Selling Author, a TEDx speaker, and sought-after Keynote Speaker with 30+ years of experience engaging audiences. He holds certifications in Innovation from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. He is the inaugural National Speaker Association Last Story Standing Competition National Champion and a Virtual Speaker Hall of Fame inductee.
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 was also the Writer and co-executive 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 the 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 the stage or for life.
Jeff’s 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.
Awards:
3 W3 Website Content Award
24 Telly Awards
8 Communicator Awards
7 Film Festival Awards
5 VEMA Awards
MPI Paragon Award
2 Hermes Creative Award
1 Viddy Award
1 AMA Award
1 Videographer Award
Jeff is also active with a number of charitable organizations, such as Autism Speaks, JDRF, Charity: Water, and the Special Olympics.
