ONE MILLION ATTENDEES

As a guest speaker and award-winning lecturer for national organizations, associations, and academic institutions, Clay Stafford’s critically-acclaimed seminars on creativity, achievement, business, communication, literature, and film—as well as his presentations as keynote speaker and master of ceremony—have been delivered live onstage to a total of more than one million people.

US GOVERNMENT TO CHINESE ACROBATS

Clay Stafford’s speaking clients have included such diverse media and non-media groups as the U.S. Department of Defense, the Miami-International Press Club, the Financial Executives Institute, the Atlanta Workshop Players, and the Chongqing Acrobatic Troupe of China.

WRITER’S DIGEST TO ROMANCE WRITERS

Workshops for which Clay Stafford has spoken have been sponsored by organizations such as Barnes & Noble, Writer’s Digest Books, Associated Writing Programs, and Romance Writers of America, to name a few.

UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND
UNIVERSITY CONSULTANT

Clay Stafford has a B.A. and M.F.A. and has been a professor, guest lecturer, or consultant to several universities including the University of Miami and the University of Tennessee.  During one of his engagements as an academic consultant, he co-designed Florida’s official two-year university film program at Miami-Dade, which is currently being used to train technical and creative personnel for Florida’s independent production companies and major film studios.

ENTERTAINMENT COACH

Individual entertainment clients have used Clay Stafford’s consulting advice to secure opportunities on the New York stage, in print and commercials, and in film.  His students have made appearances or worked crew on numerous commercials, industrials, music videos, the TV soaps As the World Turns and Days of Our Lives; the primetime series Coach, Ellen, Home Improvement, JAG, Law & Order, Mad About You, Murder She Wrote, Silk Stalkings, Sliders, and Wings; the television movies Confessions of a Sorority Girl and A Family Divided; the feature films Jerry Maguire, Something Wild, Joy Ride, American Perfekt, Gods and Monsters, Major League 3, Chill Factor, Perfect Game, See Jane Run, and Mighty Joe Young.

RESPECTED MEDIA AUTHOR

Clay Stafford’s books and tapes on the entertainment business have been offered at notable media bookstores including Samuel French, Larry Edmunds, Oxfords, and Borders, and have been used as teaching tools at several major universities.

ACTIVE AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

Even with the most academic of subjects, Clay Stafford believes that the best way to learn is by doing and he gets participants involved at the very start of his presentations either through innovative exercises or group participation.  And by consistently making each presentation personal, he keeps them involved throughout the entire program.

ORIGINAL PRESENTATIONS

Clay Stafford does not prepare the same speech or workshop for every group, but caters directly to the attendee’s specific objectives.  Because he knows his subjects so well, he can elastically highlight issues specific to his listener’s needs making each presentation as diverse and individual as the audience he is addressing.

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