Feb 02 - 04 2025
“The Mindset Adjuster” Steve Rizzo is a former headlining comedian turned Hall of Fame keynote speaker who shows audiences how to enjoy themselves during the process of achieving their goals and how happiness creates a positive and productive work environment.
Whether you need to motivate your sales and service team, improve employee morale, instill strong leadership skills, deal with stress, or embrace change, Steve Rizzo’s Common Sense Success Strategies will take your audience to the next level. As one client put it, “Never has my group learned so much and laughed so hard in one sitting!” Well-known for his keynote and motivational speaking, Steve Rizzo is available to be booked for corporate and private events. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Steve Rizzo’s fees.
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Once told by a guidance counselor that he didn’t have the intelligence for college and voted “Least Likely to Succeed” in high school, Steve Rizzo not only graduated with honors at both the university and post-graduate levels, he also went on to teach english at his alma mater and become one of the world’s most sought-after motivational speakers—proving once and for all that guidance counselors are not fortune-tellers.
Steve’s career took an unexpected turn when he found success as a national headline comedian, sharing the stage with legends like Ellen DeGeneres, Rodney Dangerfield, Eddie Murphy, and Jerry Seinfeld. His Showtime comedy special even earned him recognition as a Showtime Comedy All-Star.
However at the pinnacle of his stand-up career, Steve made a bold decision. He walked away from stand-up to pursue a deeper calling—teaching people how to shift their mindset to embrace joy, enthusiasm, productivity, and success in both life and business. Today, he blends his signature humor with powerful life lessons, delivering keynotes that are as entertaining as they are transformational.
In addition to comedy and keynoting, Steve is the bestselling author of Conversations With Bob, Motivate THIS!, and Get Your SHIFT Together. His immensely popular PBS special brought him into millions of homes and revealed why he’s an expert on attitude, humor, and the power of positive thinking. Today, Steve’s insights have been featured in many major media outlets and publications, including Total Prestige Magazine, where he was featured on the January 2024 cover.
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Recognized as the go-to expert on personal development, Steve has inspired Fortune 500 companies, associations, and global audiences with his Common Sense Success Strategies. As a proud member of the prestigious National Speakers Association Speakers Hall of Fame—an honor bestowed upon fewer than 250 speakers worldwide—Steve doesn’t just talk about his Success Strategies—he lives them. His presentations go beyond the usual advice, emphasizing the importance of enjoying the journey while building a strong foundation for resilience.
Steve’s offerings are available as keynotes or half-day programs and can be customized to your audience, event theme, and target outcome. Contact us to set up a Zoom call with Steve and begin customizing his keynote for your event. Additionally, Steve is always happy to attend a client reception the evening before the event, host a VIP breakfast before his speech, autograph books, or meet informally with attendees.
One of the biggest challenges we face today is staying motivated and enthusiastic for more than just a few days. We go through the course of our lives and allow circumstances, events, situations, and people to suck the energy right out of us. But with the right strategies, we can bounce back, take control and forge ahead. Based on Steve’s bestselling book, Motivate THIS! is filled with mind-altering strategies and insightful stories that will elevate your overall degree of motivation, regardless of your circumstances. It’s an indispensable tool for maximizing your success and happiness.
Many people have a difficult time with change. But within (inevitable) change are the seeds of great growth. You simply have to stop resisting long enough to plant them.
Steve will show your group how to embrace change in both the workplace and in our personal lives and teach the essential steps to surmounting change and achieving the success that lies on the other side.
True leaders inspire, motivate, and lead the way to success boldly.
In this engaging presentation, Steve shares inspiring stories of extraordinary people and the intangible secrets that define them as true leaders. This program is based on Steve’s personal experiences and exclusive interviews with C-level executives, industry leaders, celebrities, and everyday achievers. Enjoy the ride along with Steve while you learn how to create the mindset that’s needed to lead.
The biggest challenge people in sales face today is staying optimistic and motivated to be at their best for more than just a few days.
“Nothing keeps salespeople from being productive and achieving their sales goals more than harboring negative feelings or having a bad attitude during the process.” – Steve Rizzo
This version of Motivate THIS! is a guide to shifting your sales team’s mindset for success. It provides them with a foundation to stand on when the nuts and bolts fail, and the ratio of “No’s” outweighs the “Yes’s.”
This entertaining and content-rich program reveals how to SHIFT your focus and thinking to create permanent change and a lasting positive attitude. Only the optimistic persevere, and Steve delivers the strategies necessary for tapping into the reserves that enable us not only to achieve our goals but to enjoy the journey. In this keynote, you’ll learn why Steve is affectionately known as the “Mindset Adjuster.”
After being told by a guidance counselor that he didn’t have the intelligence to make it through college and then being saddled with the dubious high school honor of “Least Likely to Succeed,” Steve didn’t give himself much of a chance to emerge as anything special, much less an honors college graduate, a teacher, a counselor for students with behavioral problems, a national headline comedian, an author, and a Hall of Fame Speaker.
In this keynote, Steve teaches educators how to acquire the attitude they need to achieve their goals in and out of the classroom — while actually enjoying the process!
“Enjoyment is the spark that ignites passion and enthusiasm. Teaching without passion and enthusiasm is merely going through the motions. They give you the strength to go the extra mile that could make a difference in a young person’s life.” – Steve Rizzo
Let Steve show your group how to perform and deliver far beyond their expectations, individually and as a team.
We spend most of our waking hours at our place of employment and much of our leisure time thinking about it. We can let the stress, fast pace, and challenges control our emotions, or we can lighten up, have fun, and enjoy the process. It’s always a matter of choice!
In Why Not Enjoy the Process, Steve Rizzo will reveal how to manage the everyday pressures that can stifle productivity and creativity in the workplace.
You were an effortless hit and you must have known it from the reaction of the audience. We have heard nothing but raves about how good you were. It’s also obvious by the survey results that we received back from our qualifiers and their families, they were definitely entertained!!! It’s such a good feeling as a meeting planner, to hear throughout the conference the wonderful things people were saying about you. Many were trying to imitate your humor, but they just didn’t quite match up to you!Thank you so much for entertaining our group. I think we can all agree that you truly are one of the funniest people we’ve ever known. Our best wishes for the future!” – Christy Corey, Linda Davis, Cindy Wheaton, Meeting Planners – Nationwide Insurance
to be the best keynote speaker we’ve ever had! I can honestly say that in the 18 years I have been attending National Sales meetings and organizing them for the past 5 years with Enterprise, nobody has delivered quite like Steve did. The feedback we got from our sales team immediately following his speech indicated that I am not the only person that feels this way. I know our folks left ready to tackle their sales goals with a renewed energy and definitely a better attitude!” – Tom Chelew, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Enterprise Fleet Management
and provided a message with laughter and kept each one of us fully engaged. I have NEVER received more recognition and positive comments from our clients, guests, and Senior Management team than I did from Steve Rizzo’s presentation. Thank you Steve, for an outstanding presentation and for making our event not only a success, but the BEST we ever had!” – Wayne Carpenter, Director of Client Relations, Hartford Insurance Companies
He knocked it out of the park! His combination of business strategies and humor resonated with the young, old and in-between. He talked about getting your SHIFT together and showed us how to go through the day with an unstoppable attitude to succeed. A standing ovation by all 600 attendees was truly a sight to see! In addition, it was wonderful to see countless attendees approach him to say thank you.” – Nichol Druckemiller, Manager – Business Development, American Express Travel & Lifestyle Services
One of the biggest challenges we face today in business and in life is staying motivated to be at our best for more than just a few days at a time. Every time a setback occurs, it is tempting to let it affect our outlook on life and diminish our excitement about our dreams as well as our willingness to take action on our goals. Motivate THIS! gives you the tools you need to discover increased productivity, greater enthusiasm, and new levels of success. Rather than allowing circumstances, events, and people to drain your energy and dampen your mood, you will learn techniques for taking control of your life in such situations and forging ahead in a State of Feeling Good. The Common-Sense Success Strategies offered in this book will enable you to:
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