Tim Conniff is a professional Catholic speaker, clean comedian, and former corporate sales and leadership executive, Tim has spent more than 30 years helping people and organizations move beyond their comfort zones. His signature keynote, Your Comfort Zone Is No Joke!, combines motivational insight, practical experience, and clean stand-up comedy to challenge audiences to step out of their comfort zones, view failure as feedback, and silence the negative voices that hold them back.
Whether he is speaking to a corporate audience, educators, senior adults, or a faith-based organization, Tim delivers a message that is both genuinely funny and deeply meaningful: the life we want often begins just beyond the place where we feel most comfortable.
A graduate of The University of Scranton, a Jesuit institution grounded in the tradition of educating the whole person, Tim brings a unique blend of professional experience and personal perspective to the stage. During a career spanning more than three decades in corporate America, he held roles in sales, sales leadership, sales training, and executive leadership, most recently Johnson & Johnson.
Today, Tim combines that business experience with his career as a professional speaker and clean stand-up comedian. He performs at more than 100 events annually across the U.S. and has entertained audiences at corporate events, schools, fundraisers, senior living communities, conferences, and community celebrations. He is a member of the Clean Comedy Collective, has performed at MusikFest and the NEPA Comedy Festival. Tim is also an avid fundraiser for Catholic schools, sports teams and parishes.
His ability to use humor as a bridge to meaningful conversations has also made him a sought-after speaker for organizations looking for an experience that is engaging, memorable, and appropriate for a wide range of audiences. And his talk and comedy are safe for work having performed for an Amish company, an Orthodox Jewish group and for over 50 retired nuns at Marywood University. (Side note - when he was introduced as a graduate of the University of Scranton the nuns immediately began to heckle him declaring it the second best college in Scranton!)
With his combination of corporate credibility, inspirational storytelling, clean comedy, and a genuine desire to help people grow, Tim Conniff gives audiences something rare: a keynote that makes them laugh, think, and leave with a renewed willingness to take the next step.
“Your Comfort Zone is No Joke!”
In today’s risk-averse world, where playing it safe is often rewarded and failure is quietly feared,
too many professionals find themselves stuck, personally and professionally, inside
self-imposed limits. They want growth, but resist discomfort. They want success, but avoid the
very risks that make it possible. That’s the problem. And Tim, a seasoned keynote speaker with
over 30 years in corporate leadership and a background in clean stand-up comedy, knows how
to solve it.
Your Comfort Zone is No Joke! isn’t just a speech. It’s an engaging, laugh-filled experience that
challenges audiences to rethink their relationship with fear, failure, and growth while giving them
practical tools to take action immediately.
This isn’t motivation for the moment. This is real-world, experience-driven insight, delivered
through humor that disarms, connects, and sticks long after the event ends.
Your audience will journey with Tim through relatable stories from corporate America and the
comedy stage, learning how to:
• Step outside their comfort zones with confidence
• Reframe failure as a necessary step toward success
• Silence negative self-talk and build a resilient mindset
This is more than a keynote. It’s a mindset shift, an energizing reminder that the life and career
you want are waiting just outside your comfort zone. And getting there might just be a lot more
fun than you think!
