Billy Riggs

Every conference needs a speech on employee retention, so why not make it fun, engaging and inspiring, as well? A tight labor market, the post-Covid work-from-home hangover and smaller profit margins have created a perfect storm that makes attracting and retaining good workers a challenge for even the best of leaders. In a fun and amazing presentation, motivational comedy-illusionist Billy Riggs reveals the five magic ingredients that cast a spell over prospects and employees that keeps them loyal to you and your company. Perfect for an opening or closing keynote or after-dinner presentation it has to be fun, entertaining, and inspiring – but still leaves your people with an invaluable takeaway: how to keep your indispensable employees from disappearing!

(If you prefer, the magic can be omitted and this program will be delivered as a straight keynote.)

Bosses are a dime a dozen; leaders are priceless. Employees obey bosses only because they fear they will be rendered more miserable if they disobey than if they obey. Morale suffers, key people depart and productivity sags. But a genuine leader inspires team members to want to do their work. Employees follow true leaders out of respect and admiration. They work out of a sense of shared ownership of goals and passion for the fulfillment of a noble mission. Learn the keys to climbing the “Leadership Pyramid” through six distinct stages – from a man who’s been to the top of the pyramid twice – and begin the rewarding journey from mere boss to leader. Better still, you’ll learn while laughing through an entertaining and fun program. More than any other topic, Billy Riggs is a leadership motivational speaker. He is a natural and highly effective leader and will help you become one, too. (FOR A LIGHTER, EVEN MORE FUN KEYNOTE ON LEADERSHIP, TRY BILLY’S PROGRAM, “How to Achieve the Impossible!“)

The single most important factor in success is attitude. A positive attitude directly impacts the bottom line because it improves performance, reduces turnover, and decreases absenteeism. Best of all, a fabulous attitude is contagious. Help your staff embrace change with a smile, adjust to hardship with optimism, and strive to be their best each and every day by experiencing the “Magic of Attitude!” This unique and energetic combination of entertainment, comedy, and enlightenment allows world-class illusionist Billy Riggs to demonstrate how attitude and performance are inextricably linked, and motivates your staff to turn their new attitude into profitable action. Funny attitude speaker Billy Riggs is just what the doctor ordered!

Based on Billy Riggs’ book, The Magic Touch, this keynote challenges the old ways of customer retention and shows that all business is genuinely show business. The Magic Touch is customer experience re-imagined, taken to a whole new level. Customer service today is not just doing the old things better (though this is vital), it is doing entirely new things. It is delivering service with the style and flair of a Broadway musical. In this hilarious, entertaining and keynote, Billy reveals how to add a magic touch to every customer encounter.

Extraordinary success is the result of extraordinary leadership. In this powerful presentation, magician and funny leadership speaker Billy Riggs impresses leaders and managers with the core beliefs held by all remarkably successful leaders, and shatters the illusions that limit growth. This presentation is perfect for leadership or board training and is entertaining, motivational and highly practical. Learn how your organization can achieve the impossible from a master of the impossible! (FOR LESS MAGIC AND MORE ADVANCED CONTENT, TRY BILLY’S PROGRAM “HOW TO BECOME A BORN LEADER.”)

The lone constant in life is change. Turnover, improving technologies, increasingly-savvy customers and an evolving marketplace force companies and their employees into an uncomfortable choice: constant reinvention or guaranteed obsolescence. When your company faces upheaval and tumult caused by change, nothing fits the bill like Billy Riggs’ blend of hilarity, amazement, inspiration, and practical content that will ease the pressure and provide clear guidance on dealing with chaos. Your people will learn to reframe change as growth and refuse to to become it’s victim. Attendees will be infused with new confidence and determination to instead become its master. Book this program and watch morale transform, productivity rise and enthusiasm return. Discover the “Grand Illusions” (hidden misconceptions) that make change so difficult and learn to embrace it as a welcome friend, all rolled up into an unforgettable synthesis of enchantment, empowerment and entertainment.

Learn the secrets of generating (and converting!) more leads than you can possibly handle! Business coach, author, and speaker Billy Riggs show you how to:

• Double lead flow
• Double sales volume
• Implement no-cost strategies that instantly add cash flow
• Effectively market on the internet
• Get many times more traffic to your website
• Harness your existing database to maximize repeat business
• Set up joint partnerships that promote your business for you

… while laughing yourself silly and being entertained as though in a Las Vegas showroom!

Rather than marketing to thousands in hopes of reaching a few dozen real prospects, you’ll discover the techniques you’ll need to transform your marketing into a giant electromagnet that identifies and pulls needles out of the haystack for you!

Preventing and Recovering from Burnout Can Be a Real Trick!

The inherent danger of passion-induced work is its appetite for consuming all of life. Whether motivated by obsession or necessity, the driven worker is in jeopardy of losing family, integrity, health, and happiness. By internalizing the five core values of


- character (maintaining absolute integrity),
- intimacy (nurturing meaningful relationships with the right people),-
- achievement (making steady progress toward goals that are important to you),
- positivity (demanding a positive outlook on life),
- purpose (devoting energies to a worthwhile or noble cause),

you will harness the power of an integrated life and move beyond survival to success and balance. You will discover how to pursue work passionately while maintaining the joy of your work and personal life. Funny motivational speaker Billy Riggs will take your people on an emotional roller coaster ride, laughing hysterically one minute and moved to tears the next. Best of all, the message will resonate within them for the rest of their lives.

For conferences themed along the Superhero motif, Billy has developed this inspiring and hilarious program encouraging attendees to develop to confidence of Kim Possible (“Anything is Possible!”), the attitude of Superman’s portrayer, Christopher Reeve, who positively radiated joy from his wheelchair, the team spirit of The Avengers, etc. All of this is delivered by one who is, himself, a master of the impossible. World-class comedy magician Billy Riggs demonstrates his own superpowers onstage, while unleashing the “Super Me” in each of your people! (Or, if you prefer, the magic can be omitted and this program will be delivered as a straight keynote.)

Serving others, though often thankless, is magical. Those who devote their lives to the service of others invisibly transfer hope, safety, encouragement & healing from giver to recipient. They bear no fancy title, yet they wield a power more far-reaching. Designed for audiences of healthcare workers or those who toil in people-helping jobs, law enforcement or public service, this program reinvigorates the soul and reignites a passion to make a difference. Tears of laughter overlap tears of recognition throughout this touching blend of hilarity, magic and message. Book funny motivational speaker Billy Riggs for your next conference. Your people will laugh until they cry, then leave with their hearts on fire!

Demolishing the psychological barriers that limit salespeople, and unleashing the attitudes that makes them soar!

Effective selling is the result of accurate beliefs – beliefs about the marketplace, your prospects, lead generation, clients, and yourself. Consequently, your greatest obstacles to stratospheric sales success are your illusions, faulty beliefs that lurk in the subconscious mind to lower self-confidence, undermine motivation, and reduce closing ratios. In this fascinating combination of classic magic, humor, and education, professional illusionist Billy Riggs helps eliminate these psychological glass ceilings, propelling your sales force to more leads, higher sales and greater profits. Billy Riggs is a hilarious motivational speaker and magician, and your people will talk about him the whole year!

To compete in today’s rapidly-changing marketplace, businesses must innovate or die a slow and certain death. Leaders are right to demand innovation… but many are simultaneously killing it. No one so naturally sees the world from a unique vantage point as a magician or a comedian, and Billy Riggs is both!Learn to spot the mental misconceptions, the “Grand Illusions,” that lurk in the subconscious mind to pollute the well of creativity and stifle growth. This dazzling combination of magic, comedy and message will enable you to think creatively and inspire others to do the same. You will discover “The Magic of Innovation”. Billy Riggs is a hilarious motivational speaker and magician, and your people will talk about him the whole year!

The Magic of Education! (For Classified Staff OR FOR ALL School Employees)


The staff and faculty of exemplary schools hold a set of core beliefs in common – beliefs about students, learning, work and themselves. Internalizing these beliefs, then, is essential to effective education. By formulating, nurturing and communicating the proper belief system, you can quickly drive your classroom, school or district to exemplary status. In this hilarious, but provocative combination of magic, message and motivation, Billy Riggs demolishes the debilitating myths that render schools ineffective, and identifies the cardinal realities of education. Custodians, teachers, office staff and administrators will be moved to tears by inspiring stories and leave with sore cheeks from laughing so much! Highly fun, deeply inspiring and completely helpful!

Remarkably effective educators hold a set of beliefs in common – beliefs about themselves, students and education. Nurturing these beliefs, then, is essential to propelling your district or school to exemplary status. In a hilarious blend of comedy and entertainment, world-class illusionist Billy Riggs (M.R.E., M.Div.) reveals the secrets of transforming the lives of students. Practical tools useful in engaging students, arousing their thirst for knowledge and holding their attention are among many practical takeaways. An inspiring and fun program, hilarious motivational speaker Billy Riggs will leave your people with sides splitting and hearts afire!