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Kathy Buckley

Kathy Buckley is a motivational speaker and best-selling author who uses comedy to help audiences understand their gifts, their peers, and their choices.

A five-time American Comedy Awards Nominee for Best Stand-Up Female Comedienne, Kathy’s keynote speeches about her challenges interweave humor and storytelling to help people bring more compassion to others—and to themselves.

With decades of experience motivating millions of people around the world, Kathy has been a featured speaker at Tony Robbins’ Life Mastery classes, where the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army formally recognized her outstanding efforts toward disability employment awareness. Recently, one of Kathy’s speeches recently went viral—64 million views and counting!—for its refreshing message about human connection and forgiveness.

In addition to her work with Tony Robbins, Kathy is a recognized presence on the nation’s top television networks, with regular appearances on The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Inside Edition, CNN, HBO,  Caroline’s Comedy Hour, An Evening At The Improv, and Howard Stern. E! Entertainment even named her one of the “World’s Most Intriguing Women” in their original special. She also starred in her own original award-winning PBS special called No Labels, No Limits.

A living example of turning lemons into lemonade, Kathy inspires people to determine their life’s course by sharing her own stories of hardship and self-discovery. She is an active volunteer for causes close to her heart, and volunteers at many children’s charities including No Limits, a non-profit organization for children who are deaf and hard of hearing.

If you’re looking to motivate your organization or conference attendees, Kathy Buckley’s keynotes are for you. She’s inspired people around the nation, speaking at corporate events, conferences, universities, and more. Whether performing in a comedy club, appearing on television, speaking publicly, theaters, Carnegie Hall in New York, The Kennedy Center, teaching at camps for children, or appearing in any number of other settings, Kathy Buckley knows that extraordinary becomes reality when the heart and the mind work together.

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