Greg Bennick
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Greg Bennick is an American professional speaker, humanitarian activist, and award-winning producer and writer. He has appeared at thousands of events since 1984 as a keynote speaker and entertainer. He speaks on themes related to communication, connection, and managing the unexpected/change to organizations worldwide. His artistic work focuses on projects which explore the depth and range of the human experience, including Flight from Death, a seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film narrated by Gabriel Byrne which uncovers anxiety about mortality as a possible root cause of many of our violent and aggressive behaviors. The film is regularly screened worldwide, most recently on The Discovery Channel in Canada, and was called "One of the most ambitious documentaries ever made" by PBS Australia.
Greg is a speaking trainer for those working to get over fear of speaking, and for those who want to deliver ideas with greater impact. He maintains a waiting list for those seeking his services.
Greg has spoken to and performed for various groups at conferences, seminars, and universities in over a dozen countries on four continents as a keynote entertainer. He focuses on two main topics: finding new perspectives on change, and also on serving others with the idea of people over profits and how that relates to being present for customers, leadership, and teamwork. He was recognized with an award for being "Best Presenter" in a marketplace for the most effective presentation out of 25 other competitors at a national conference before 3000 people.
In the summer of 2012, Greg began touring as a spoken word artist, unrelated to his commercial speaking work. He focused on small venues, in informal settings, doing 60–90 minutes each night to youth involved in the music community, offering spoken poetry, ideas about having limited time in life and how to maximize that time most effectively, and how to bring our passion in life to those we love and to those who need support most. He logged over 7000 miles around the western United States and spoke to over a thousand people during that time, creating a new avenue for words and ideas to be shared with a population who might otherwise not have heard them.
He spoke in over twenty countries in 2013 and 2014, including the first ever comprehensive / full spoken word tour of Russia by an American spoken word performer.
In 2014 he toured the Western USA and the Eastern USA, speaking about the militarization of the police and how concurrent laziness in all of us due to the rise of social media and the easy accessibility of information is dangerous in terms of authority and power and how it can affect our lives.
Greg released the critically acclaimed Flight from Death, a documentary about death anxiety, inspired by the works and writings of cultural anthropologist and social theorist Ernest Becker (1924–1974) with his film partner Patrick Shen. The film began touring film festivals around the world in 2003 and was released on DVD in 2006. The film won seven "Best Documentary" and "Best Feature" awards at film festivals around the world. It has been screened throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, and Australia and has been used in over a hundred colleges and universities as a means of initiating discussions on aggression and how to curb violence worldwide.
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