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Joel Cohen

Keynote Speaker - Emmy-Winning Writer & Producer Behind The Simpsons

Speaking Fee: $22,500 i Fees vary by event type, travel, and appearance details.

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Co-Executive Producer of The Simpsons Joel Cohen is a 4-Emmy winner, bestselling book author, and keynote speaker who blends comedy with purposeful business takeaways.

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Meet Joel Cohen

Joel Cohen is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer best known for his work on The Simpsons. Before pursuing a career in comedy writing, Joel earned an M.B.A. degree from the Schulich School of Business and worked in corporate America for an extended period. He is also well-known for his keynote and motivational speaking. His engaging style, combined with his deep well of corporate and creative experience, makes him the perfect fit for keynote speeches, panel discussions, and workshops. Joel Cohen is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Joel Cohen’s fees.

Want to book Joel Cohen for an event?

Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at (215) 995-0905 to book Joel Cohen for corporate or private events, keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, motivational speaking, or virtual appearances. Our agency will work directly with your organization and our keynote speakers to create an unforgettable event.

The Mollie Plotkin Group is the leading keynote speakers agency and entertainment bureau bringing excitement to audiences, clients, and employees. We represent subject-matter experts in every possible field, so whether we’re your partner in creating a memorable meeting, or your meeting planner’s secret weapon in securing the perfect keynote speaker, we’re in this with you.

Biography

Corporate to Creative

Joel Cohen has established himself as one of the most talented and celebrated writers in television and film. A graduate of the University of Alberta (B.Sc.) and York University (M.B.A.), Joel Cohen found success in the corporate world, running a department in charge of over $40 million of business, before making the completely illogical career move into comedy writing. Since then, Joel has spent the last 25 years as a celebrated writer and producer on The Simpsons.

The Simpsons

As the Emmy award-winning writer and producer for The Simpsons, the longest-running American scripted primetime television series in history, Joel has been a key part of the show’s continued success. Currently, he serves as Co-Executive Producer of the show. Since its debut, The Simpsons has broadcast more than 600 episodes, and was named by Time as “The greatest TV show of the 20th century, and has won dozens of awards, including 31 Primetime Emmy Awards, 30 Annie Awards, and a Peabody Award. In fact, Joel’s work on The Simpsons has personally earned him 4 Emmy Awards, 3 Writers Guild Awards, and countless laughs.

Books

In addition to writing for several movies, TV series, and online projects, Joel is also the author of How to Lose a Marathon, a nonfiction retelling of his training for and running the New York City Marathon, and The Occasionally Accurate Annals of Football, a look at the NFL’s history co-written with Dan Patrick.

Hire Joel Cohen

For the last 15 years, Joel has also been engaging, enlightening, and entertaining audiences around the world as a keynote speaker. Joel’s experience as both a “creative” and “suit” may have left him with a puzzling resume. But it has also given him a unique perspective on innovation and its place in business.

“The same factors that allow creativity to arise, to live or to die for writers are also present and relevant in corporations and even individuals.”

Joel Cohen’s presentations resonate with a wide range of audiences, from creative professionals, artists, and writers to salespeople, corporate teams, and business leaders. His humorous and insightful perspectives on the creative process, group dynamics, and fostering a culture of innovation are as illuminating as they are entertaining. After being invited to keynote more than a hundred events worldwide, Joel’s past clients include:

Merrill Lynch
Google
Envirotec
AOL
Compass Group
Accenture
IBM
DDB Group Asia Pacific
Brightworks
Eli Lilly
Chick-fil-A
and many more.

How to Hire Joel Cohen

To hire Joel Cohen for an event, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with the proposed event date, location, audience size, event format, and program goals. Joel Cohen is available for corporate events, conferences, leadership meetings, private events, workshops, fireside chats, and virtual programs.

After receiving your request, a Mollie Plotkin Group booking agent will review Joel Cohen’s availability, discuss the event details, and get back to you within 48 hours with next steps for securing Joel Cohen for your program.

Joel Cohen Booking Fee

The cost to book Joel Cohen depends on the event date, location, format, audience size, and scope of the appearance. Joel Cohen’s speaking fee starts at $22,500. Speaking fees may vary for keynote speeches, workshops, fireside chats, private events, corporate meetings, and virtual programs.

For the most accurate Joel Cohen booking fee, contact the Mollie Plotkin Group with your event details. Our team will help confirm availability, pricing, and the best format for your event.

Speaking Topics & Programs

There’s No “I” in Innovation – oh wait, there’s 2 of them

This keynote is perfect for any group that needs to enhance their innovation culture but wants to laugh a little while learning how. Joel Cohen, an Emmy award-winning writer and producer, draws innovation and creativity lessons from his career on “The Greatest TV Show Ever.” Armed with inspired anecdotes and clips, he takes you into the fabled writer’s room at The Simpsons to draw the links (and there are many) between maintaining a hit show and running a successful company. How do you manage group dynamics to get the best from your talent? How do you find, evaluate, implement, and even discard new ideas? Most importantly, how do you chart a renewable path to innovation?

This fun and insightful presentation will leave you with the tools to innovate out of any creative or business challenge.

How I Chose to Waste My Education: Behind the Scenes of The Simpsons

In this crowd-pleasing talk, Joel offers an insider’s look at how he came to work at The Simpsons. He also unveils how some of the most memorable moments in the show’s history (and popular culture) came into being. This offering can be performed as a featured keynote, but we recommend transitioning it to a fireside chat or extended Q&A session to allow your audience more input in the direction of Joel’s anecdotes. Regardless of the topic, this offering will give audiences an extended look (with some extended laughs) at one of America’s longest-running television shows, Joel’s creative process, and much more.

Featured Client Reviews for Joel Cohen

Thank you for a great presentation at IBM’S IMPACT Conference in Orlando.

All of the feedback’s been extremely positive. It was great to work with you and I hope to do it again soon. Thanks again for a job well done. – IBM

Joel was great and better still he is a lovely guy.

His presentation was to an audience of about 800 people and he was well received. So much so that I believe he was considered the best speaker of the two day event…which meant DDB was also shown in a good light. – DDB Group Asia Pacific

He was absolutely fantastic, funny, and engaging!

In the 27 years I have been arranging speakers for this organization, I have not enjoyed a presentation as much as I personally enjoyed Joel’s. We’ve gotten great feedback from attendees. – The Economic Club of Grand Rapids

Your keynote was fun and relevant to our members.

In addition, with times like this, it was fabulous to inject some humor into the room and leave people laughing. All of our guests thoroughly enjoyed it! – ARIDO

Books

The Occasionally Accurate Annals of Football: The NFL's Greatest Players, Plays, Scandals, and Screw-Ups (Plus Stuff We Totally Made Up)

Celebrated sports commentator Dan Patrick and comedy writer Joel H. Cohen team up with some of America’s greatest* comedy writers to tell you everything and nothing about America’s sport!**

*“greatest” is actually just a bad type-o for “mediocre”
**No, not darts, we mean pro football. (book on professional darts coming never)

Did you know . . .

Tom Brady is a very good quarterback. (True, but only according to statistics and accomplishments.)

The formation of the NFL took place in an auto dealership. The founders started an institution and also were convinced to buy rust-proofing for it. (Half true.)

The Carolina Panthers originated as a book club but turned to football when they couldn’t agree on which John Grisham novel to read. (Maybe true. Research isn’t our thing.)

The Occasionally Accurate Annals of Football is a love letter to America’s favorite game, full of highlights, history, great plays and players, scandals, Super Bowls, and a series of lies, idiotic theories, baseless conspiracies, a diet that may kill you and, of course, a poorly-written haiku. The book takes the credibility Dan Patrick has built up over a stellar broadcast career (ESPN, NBC Sports, something called “Peacock”) and risks it all with these falsehoods, half-truths, and even some quarter-truths.

Illustrated in two colors (black and white are colors, right?) The Occasionally Accurate Annals of Football informs (a little), entertains (a lot), and is the perfect gift to taunt the Jets fans in your life.

This parade of inanity is co-written by Joel H. Cohen (3 Emmys, several cavities due to poor flossing) and includes contributions from certifiably hilarious people, such as:

Andy Richter (Late Night with Conan O’Brien)
Brian Kelley (The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live)
Chuck Tatham (Modern Family, Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother)
Mike Price (The Simpsons, F is for Family)
Donick Cary (Silicon Valley, New Girl)
Christine Nangle (Inside Amy Schumer, Saturday Night Live)
Broti Gupta (The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Simpsons)
Rob Cohen (Saturday Night Live, Big Bang Theory)

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How to Lose a Marathon: A Starter's Guide to Finishing in 26.2 Chapters

A marathon runner and writer for The Simpsons offers sage advice for those who want to push their limits . . . even if they lag behind everyone else.

In How to Lose a Marathon, Joel Cohen takes readers on a step-by-step journey from being a couch potato to becoming a couch potato who can finish a marathon. Through a hilarious combination of running tips, narrative, illustrations, and infographics, Cohen breaks down the misery that is forcing yourself to run.

From the agony of chafing to the best times to run, explaining the phenomenon known as the “Oprah Line,” and exposing the torture that is a premarathon expo, Cohen acts as your satirical guide to every aspect of the runner’s experience. Offering both real advice and genuine commiseration with runners of all skill levels, How to Lose a Marathon lets you know that even if you believe that the “runner’s high” is a complete myth, you can still survive all 26.2 miles of a marathon.

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