Bio
- Tim Gard
Tim Gard,
CSP is a nationally recognized humorist and authority on stress
reduction through humor. Tim Gard will empower your team with
the skill of humor as a professional public speaker.
Tim Gard
is a highly sought after speaker both inside and out of the
human services field. His down to earth style and easy manner
results in a quick rapport with his audiences. Tim concentrates
on imparting very relevant information in a highly humorous
format. Whether he is helping a group develop a Comic Vision
or build strong team unity through humor and juggling, the
audience should prepare for a fun, informative and fast-paced
session.
Tim Gard,
CSP is a nationally recognized humorist and authority on stress
reduction through humor. During the last decade, Tim has delivered
his entertaining and informative lectures before federal,
state, county, civic and professional groups attending conferences
both nationally and internationally. He has written several
articles on stress reduction through humor, his seminars have
been televised in several states and he has been a guest on
TV talk shows.
While
working with the Montana Department of Social and Rehabilitation
Services, he began to develop training to help fellow eligibility
workers deal with stress, burnout and compassion fatigue inherent
to their jobs.
He discovered
in those early training sessions that sharing his own good
humor and enabling the group to develop a Comic Vision of
their own proved to be a very natural, effective and fun way
for people to deal with, and even avoid, the sometimes intense
personal and professional stress encountered every day. Tim's
audiences quickly discovered that using his methods at work
and at home enabled them to use humor as a skill.
Tim subsequently
moved from Montana to join the staff of USDA's office of the
Food and Nutrition Service in Denver, Colorado. While with
FNS, he continued to lecture and consult at local and national
conferences. In February 1994, Tim resigned from the federal
government to devote all of his time to seminars and training.
Tim is
a navy veteran who served tours in San Francisco and aboard
the U.S. aircraft carrier Midway based in Japan. He majored
in communications at Flathead Valley Community College and
Montana State University in Bozeman.
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