Online meetings and events produced by Brendan McGeever are engaging, inclusive and memorable. Using skills he developed over years producing and hosting a bi-weekly 200-person meeting at Google, Brendan builds each event around your company's content, culture and people. Meetings he hosts or produces serve as a shining example to employees of why they love working for you and why your clients love working with you (let's hope!).
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Some recent client examples:
Google: Brendan was the onscreen host for the Google EMEA Travel Summit livestream, attended by 300 Google Ads clients. Supported by a production team of six, Brendan kicked off the event and delivered engaging content during breaks between speakers to maintain high energy levels throughout the two hours.
The Trade Desk: Brendan created a survey for US-based employees to describe their pastimes and hobbies. He then created an online book of the responses, which was shared with all. For the team celebration, he hosted a game show that tested people's newfound knowledge of their peers' activities outside of work.
Deloitte: Brendan was hired to build a meeting that would showcase the work of their top technology alliance with a goal to draw interest in job opportunities on that team. The meeting, which will be repeated quarterly, followed the "Saturday Night Live" model: monologues, sketches, "news" updates, etc. -- all with a mix of humour and key company information.
The European Banking Authority (EBA): For the EBA's year-end celebration, Brendan led a team of employee volunteers to write and perform an original play via Microsoft Teams. The play imagined Santa Claus coming to the EBA for an internship, with employees playing themselves and explaining to Santa the nuances of European banking regulations. It was actually funny!
Microsoft: After a recent merger of two teams within the company, Brendan led a lighthearted virtual brainstorm and interviewed the newly-integrated team's executives about their hopes for the future. A professional make-up artist made Brendan into "The Grinch" so that he could be the pessimistic foil to the optimistic executives.
Meet Brendan McGeever
For several years, Brendan wrote and hosted a bi-weekly all-hands meeting attended by 200 employees at Google in Paris. Employees described it as the embodiment of Google culture. He left Google in 2020 in order to transform this "20% Project" into his full-time career.
Brendan got his start hosting corporate events in 1999 when he impersonated Regis Philbin for a version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" at Kraft Foods headquarters. But, that was not his final answer! Brendan went on to host internal and external events during his 20-year corporate career at Kraft, Google, Adobe and several start-ups -- and he gave the graduation address at Harvard Business School in 2003, a raucous send-up of the school's 100-year history and notorious alumni.
Brendan has a Bachelors in Economics from Wharton, an MBA from Harvard and a certificate in Comedy Writing from Caroline's on Broadway.
Email: brendan@corporatejoy.fun LinkedIn