Professional Emcees can help event planners as brand ambassadors and audience engagement experts.

Using humor, polished speaking skills and interactive tools, a polished emcee professionalizes any session and event. A professional emcee is more likely to invest the necessary time becoming conversant in your tech platform, event strategy, agenda and presenters.

Adding a funny virtual emcee can provide interstitial moments of comic relief to refresh an audience, particularly after statistical-laden presentations or complex subject matter. Humor lightens burdens, inspires hope, connects people to others, and keeps them grounded, focused and alert. And most importantly, it creates impressions and makes meetings memorable.

They also reduce risk. On short notice, they may be able to fill-in as moderators, celebrity interviewers, speakers, facilitators, podcast hosts, team-builders, event entertainment and more. They’ll be better positioned to recommend script and Run of Show improvements in advance and when unforeseen challenges emerge day of. If you need to shift between in-person and virtual settings, a professional is best suited to shepherd the transition.

Relying solely on in-house staff or unpaid individuals to host a program has rising risks.

When tech disruptions arise, a professional emcee is better able to maintain audience engagement and keep them from leaving while issues are fixed.

Many professional emcees not only have high-grade technology in their home studios. They will likely maintain relationships with local professional production studios as needs arise, including short notice. If your organization has contracted with professional studios, a practiced emcee will have a much faster, more complete learning curve adapting to their tech and processes.

Annual virtual events or a weekly/monthly series can benefit even more from a unifying consistent presence.

Audiences have come to expect higher levels of professionalism and a more seamless technology experience from virtual event organizers.

Promenade’s global network of emcees have ample experience with in-person and virtual settings on multiple tech platforms. Contact us for more details.

Our favorite Emcees: 

 Jay Baer – Hall of Fame Business Growth Speaker, NY Times Best-Selling Author, Internet Pioneer, Serial Entrepreneur, Tequila Influencer.

Laura Schwartz – Clinton Administration White House Director of Events. Author of Eat, Drink & Succeed!, TV Personality and Emcee.

 Riaz Meghji – The 5 Habits of Human Connection That Build Extraordinary Relationships

 Simone Heng – A human connection specialist, author and former international broadcaster for Virgin Radio Dubai, HBO Asia, and CNBC. Seasoned Emcee who has hosted 2,000+ events.

Vanessa Van Edwards – Author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People, Over 2 Million TEDx Views

   Jen Slaw – Amaze, engage & inspire your team with an interactive juggling experience that equips them with creative & collaborative skills to adapt, be nimble, innovate & grow in the face of change. 

 Jez Rose – Behaviour Insight Advisor to most of the Fortune 500 and executive leadership performance coach, Author of Flip the Switch.

Carolyn Strauss – Thousands of HSN Appearances, Decades of Online Sales & Emcee

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Greg Schwem – a hilarious (clean) look at today’s corporate environment and the latest tools used to conduct business 

Julie Holmes – Tech To Connect, Inventor, Enterprise Software Exec

 Jacques Martiquet – The Party Scientist on Maximizing Joy and Connection at Work

 Mel Robbins – Best-selling author of The 5 Second Rule- translated into 36 languages | TEDxTalk with over 25M views | Host of syndicated talkshow, The Mel Robbins Show

Tripp Crosby – Widely known as the director and taller half of Tripp and Tyler, a YouTube sketch comedy duo whose shorts have 60+ million views.

Mike Rayburn – Inspirational Hall of Fame Speaker, two-time TED presenter, three-time Carnegie Hall headliner, who teaches using guitar and comedy.

   Amy McWhirter – Drawing from years of experience as a corporate presenter and broadcast host in technology, healthcare, manufacturing, defense, finance and other industries, Amy makes complex or technical material relatable and conversational.

Joel Zeff – Actor, Writer, Comedian. Interactive speaker who inspires, engages, and energizes your audience with humor.

  Robyn Hatcher – Magnetic Leadership Communications

Scott Bloom – Veteran comedian and television personality who has built a reputation as the “go-to” choice for business humor, having hosted hundreds of events for companies such as FedEx, Ford, IBM, MetLife, Pfizer and Verizon. 

Fawn Germer – Personally interviewed more than 300 of the most accomplished women leaders of our times, bestselling author of 8 books.

Gregory Offner – Imagine if Billy Joel & Simon Sinek teamed?! Greg brings piano bar fun & tactical takeaways for an experience your group can enjoy virtually or live on-stage.

Shawna Suckow – Only Sales & Marketing Speaker telling it like it is from a customer perspective. Former B2B Hospitality Buyer.

Thom Singer – Author of 12 books and the host of the popular “Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do” podcast (over 550 episodes). Interviewed hundreds of business leaders about success.

Geoff Colvin – Senior Editor-At-Large, Fortune and Bestselling Business Author, Premier Moderator and Host

Jan McInnis – Clean Comic on Change & Communications with 15 Year Marketing Exec Career.

Jon Petz – Expert Virtual Event Emcee. Entertainer and tech expert for online hosting.

Robert Safian – Long-time editor-in-chief of Fast Company Magazine with a unique focus on innovation, technology and leadership.

Brad Montgomery – Organizations partner with Brad to help their people become more creative, innovative and productive through greater happiness.

Wes Berry – Shot in the head at 17, this native Detroiter will motivate your audience. He built an international $750 MILLION business. WSJ Bestselling Author.

Kristin Arnold – Elevating Workplace Team Performance by facilitating high-stakes meetings, speaking/Emceeing at events, & moderating panels (F2F, virtual & hybrid).

Mark C. Thompson – CEO and cofounder of Virgin Unite Mentors, Sir Richard Branson’s network for executive coaching and entrepreneurial innovation. A leadership coach, bestselling author, venture capitalist and Tony-nominated Broadway producer. 

Sam McCool, Comedian has hosted events for up to 10,000 people, ranging from film festivals, fashion shows, gala dinners, awards nights, corporate trivia evenings to strategic board meetings.

Christopher Littlefield – Employee Appreciation & Remote Team Leadership

Rich Redmond is a highly acclaimed ROCK STAR drummer and entrepreneur. As a International Speaker Rich shares his expertise in Leadership, Sales and Overcoming Adversity.

Mark Kamp, AKA Marvelless Mark, shows your teams how to perform like rock stars. Mark starts with solid business wisdom from years of radio, small business, the insurance industry, and entrepreneurial success. He delivers it in rock star style as only a Las Vegas headliner can.

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