2026 June Lunch and learn
Joim us for our lunch and learn June 3rd 12pm HST
Online with Conor Cunneen for his session
Adding Humor to your Presentation
Program Title: Adding Humor to your Presentation
As a speaker and presenter, the core benefit of Adding Humor to your Presentation is not making your audience laugh.
Wha??? Nope, the core benefit of Adding Humor to your Presentation is building connection with your audience by making them laugh.
"I get that logic, but I'm not funny" is often the retort, but in this fascinating program IrishmanSpeaks - Conor Cunneen will demonstrate you don't have to be funny to be funny!
Conor will help you capture everyday humor which you can bring to your presentations to build connection, memorabilty and repeat engagements.
What you will learn in this serious program on humor!
How to Use Humor Strategically (Not as Stand-Up Comedy) to reinforce your message and build connection, trust and memorability
The neuroscience behind laughter — how it triggers feel-good chemicals, encourages mirror neuron activity, and makes audiences more open, receptive, and memorable.
How to Find and Apply Humor from Everyday Life utilizing Conor's L.A.U.G.H. framework) to capture anecdotes, stories, and moments from your daily lives,
Bio
IrishmanSpeaks - Conor Cunneen is happily exiled in Chicago where he says Cubs fans are nuts, Sox fans are in a permanent state of depression and he has been force-fed more corned beef and green beer than he ever had in Ireland!
He is an award winning keynote speaker and business humorist whose mission with clients from Harley-Davidson to Helsinki is to Improve People, Performance & Productivity - with a Smile.
This long-term NSA-IL member presents serious business material which he reinforces with appropriate and relevant humor to build connection and memorability and likes nothing better than teaching others how to add that relevant humor to build connection, trust and likeability.
The man from county Cork, Ireland first wondered if he might have a penchant for humor when his high school teacher Brother Flaherty said to him "Cunneen, you are a total clown!!"
Conor is a former VP Marketing with C-suite experience in Ireland, UK & USA. A Fellow of the Marketing Institute of Ireland, he is a Chicago Humorous Speaker of the Year and as an Irish immigrant is proud to have received from President Obama the Presidents Gold Medal for Volunteer Service for the work he does with the unemployed.
He likes to play Metallica loud. His wife does not like him to play Metallica loud!
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Guests are welcome (first time NSA Hawaii Chapter guests are free!)
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(AI SUMMARY): IrishmanSpeaks conducted a presentation on adding humor to presentations to help build connection, trust, and likability with audiences. He introduced the LAAF framework (Listen, Anecdote, Uncomfortable, Google, and from "hee hee hee" to "ho ho ho") and explained how speakers can capture humorous moments they encounter in daily life to use in future presentations. The group participated in exercises including searching for funny newspaper headlines and discussing how to incorporate humor into various types of presentations without needing to be comedians. IrishmanSpeaks emphasized that the goal should be getting smiles rather than forcing laughter, and shared examples of how he customizes existing jokes and anecdotes to make them relevant to his audiences.
Link to recording; https://youtu.be/jiURXlsA924