Bodine Balasco has established himself as one of the country's most knowledgeable and entertaining motivational speakers. At their annual conference, members of the Institute of Management Consultants gave Bodine a 10+ on their 5-point scale.

He is academically trained in public speaking and human behavior with degrees from UCLA in Speech Communications and Social Psychology. While attending UCLA as a scholarship athlete, Bodine also earned honors as team captain.

Shortly after graduating from UCLA, Bodine became fascinated with the art of sleight-of-hand magic. He immediately immersed himself in his newfound passion. Six months later he was making his entire living as a professional, sleight-of-hand magician.

Over the past 20 years, he has accumulated an adventurous entertainment background, and in the process, he has become one of the premier sleight-of-hand entertainers in America. His peers at the world famous Academy of Magical Arts have nominated him "Best Sleight-of-Hand Magician of the Year." His magical skills are equaled only by his ability to make his audiences laugh. For three years in a row, members of the Academy of Magical Arts have also nominated Bodine as the "Best Comedy Magician of the Year."

But it wasn't until he was invited to create and deliver his first keynote speech that Bodine found his true calling in life. He received a standing ovation after that first speech, and he's been at it ever since -- writing, researching and creating tailored presentations for his client groups nationwide.

His academic training, multifacted background and years of research have given him extraordinary knowledge of human behavior and human achievement. Bodine has achieved national-class success as an athlete, as a professional magician, as a speaker and a seminar leader. His client list reads like a page from the Fortune 500 -- AT&T, Mitsubishi, ARCO, 3M, Warner Bros. Television, DuPont and Boeing, to name a few. And his clients all agree Bodine possesses an insightful understanding of the principles for business success in the changing business environment.

He delivers his information and insights with an entertaining showmanship that makes his messages unforgettable, and truly makes learning fun. He'll capture your group's imagination and create a room full of laughter. He'll energize your group and focus them on "the magic of learning."

• Vision Creates Reality: Expanding Your Ability to Create the Results You Truly Want - The demands of today's marketplace require us to learn new techniques and new skills to help us turn our goals and our vision into reality. In this informative and inspiring presentation, Bodine will share principles and techniques to help you boost your natural creative capacity, and increase your ability to create the results you want, in your work and in your life.
  
  
• Meeting the Leadership Challenge: Building Commitment & Involvement - To unlock the full potential of our employees we must create a new type of working environment. Each year we are required by the demands of the marketplace to ask for more and more from our employees. Bodine will challenge you, as a leader, to examine what you can give in exchange, when you ask for more from your staff. You will learn how to increase employee commitment and involvement by examining the latest Top-10 List of "What Employees Want from Work," from a study by the Public Agenda Foundation. He will also share, from the latest studies, the core elements of what it takes to create a working environment that will attract, retain and motivate the best employees available.
  
  
• Creating Inspired Results: Capturing the Heart of Your Customer - To succeed in the 21st Century customer retention is critically important, and customer retention is a measurement of customer loyalty. Beliefs drive behavior, and behavior creates results. In this presentation Bodine will remove the guess work for you by four core beliefs and five core behaviors for creating customer loyalty. In today's competitive marketplace this information is critical to your company's success. Bodine communicates this important information with a humorous and entertaining showmanship that makes it unforgettable, and makes learning, exciting and fun. Managers report positive behavioral change in their staff members after they experience this presentation with Bodine.