John is an award-winning author, innovative storyteller, and technology navigator who inspires creativity through many voices.

Early influences blossomed from stories of belief, imagination, and excellence by Richard Bach, Walt Disney, Mark Twain, and James Baldwin. John has lived on a more quiet Beale Street, swam in the bumpy Rock River instead of the mighty Mississippi, worked at the place where magic resides, and met the modern existentialist himself. He has found great growth in a world of delayed one-liners, corporate America mayhem, story immersion, and voice innovations for the eyes and the ears.

Here are some adventures and experiences on which John has embarked:

• Event speaker
• Professional conferences and events
• Large companies - Executive to frontline
• Medium companies - Executive to frontline
• Small companies - Internal teams and clients
• Deliver regional and international training courses for The Walt Disney Company, Cigna-HealthSpring, BlueCross/Blue Shield, Nissan, Infiniti, and others
• In-person Training delivery for a variety of audiences
• Doctors, nurses, and other clinical teams
• Automotive Consultants, Dealers, and leaders
• Entertainment talent, technicians, and costuming
• Call center personnel
• eLearning
• Voice overs matched to content explanations
• Soft skill course content lead and technical advisor
• In-house technical guides - talk through and voice overs
• Job-specific training for different industries and different audiences
• Training through improv and performance
• Portrayal of characters in a live environment and react to audience prompts
• Voice acting and sound effects of animated characters in an experiential learning environment
• Newscaster
• Scientist
• Small child
• Grumpy old man
• Leprechaun
• Other characters
• Portrayal of various characters for simulated learning experiences
• Completed over 200 hours of voice acting courses hosted by professional voice actor
• Hosted two original podcasts - RamblingVerser and Dads of the Kingdom
• Owned and operated global publishing company, Story Institute, LLC - fiction, poetry, and short stories
• Author - Alone with Someone, Driving ROI
• Editor - Story Institute Presents - Ramblings & Verses: Volume I: Let Me Not Begin Anew; Thelma's Song
• Cover designer
• Children's book Illustrator - Penelope the Pelican Series
• Website designer
• Played multiple characters in local production of 1776 - Stephen Hopkins, Courier with music solo, and backstage voices of other roles
• Voice acting and narration for local, student film projects
• Read books to my own children for many years using different voices for various characters and a variety of books…oh, wait, that's just being a fun dad

You can find John online at:
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