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Nick Peterson
About Shaky Speaker Presentations
Nick Peterson, MA Keynote Speaker, Workshop Leader, Presentation and Storytelling Coach, Author and Editor

Specializing in Disability Awareness and Using Humor to Deal with Adversity

Shaky Speaker Presentations
12011 E. Hoye Drive
Aurora, CO 80012-3293
303-341-7712, Toll free: 888-757-7712, Fax: 303-341-5171
Nick Peterson has earned a national reputation as a speaker who shows audiences the power of using compassion and humor to deal with adversity. Nick has lived with Parkinson's Disease since 1975, when he was 25 years old. He now helps businesses, organizations, and individuals become aware of the enormous benefit in understanding the needs of people with disabilities. His programs offer real life information that you can't read in books-information that can help right now in making and maintaining productive relationships with employees, colleagues, clients, friends, and family.

Nick changes attitudes. His non-confrontational, accessible approach defuses the mostly unspoken fear that often clouds our dealings with people who are "different." Using his storytelling skills and quiet humor, Nick brings his audiences inside the experience of disability for a short time. They emerge with a greater understanding not only of the lives of others, but also their own. Nick's message to "Take a Second Look" urges people to look beneath what appears on the surface to see the real person, not the stereotype.

Flavored with his unique humorous perspective, Nick's keynotes are often poignant and always inspirational and life-affirming. His comfort with himself and his condition make his presentations a memorable experience. Audiences marvel at his ability to speak clearly through the movements sometimes generated by his Parkinson's. (As Nick likes to tell meeting planners, "I'm my own visual aid."). He gets people's attention. They listen and they remember.

Program titles include:
  • Take a Second Look: Disability and Customer Service
  • The Language of Respect: Communicating with People Who are "Different"
  • Help! Humor to the Rescue
  • I'm Not Perfect and Neither are You
  • An Insider's Perspective on Disability

Clients Include:
  • American Holistic Nurses Association
  • American Parkinson Disease Association
  • American Payroll Association
  • ANA Hotels
  • Apartment Association of Metro Denver
  • Colorado Association of Persons for Supported Employment
  • Colorado Health Care Association
  • Colorado Hospice Association
  • CO/WY Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association
  • Defense Finance & Accounting Service
  • Department of The Interior
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Florida Department of Health & Rehabilitation Services
  • Great West Life
  • Greater Rochester Diversity Council
  • HUD
  • Huntington's Disease Association of America
  • Lucent Technologies
  • Montana Association for Rehabilitation
  • National Association of Housing & Redevelopment Officers
  • Parkinson Foundation of Canada
  • Pebble Beach Company
  • Public Service Company of Colorado
  • Regional Transportation District
  • Saddleback Memorial Foundation
  • Southern Company Services, Inc.
  • United Parkinson Foundation
  • U.S. Forest Service
  • US WEST, Inc.
  • Western Area Power
About Nick

Nick Received BA and MA in English Literature at Arizona State University. He taught Freshman Composition at the same institution. He still freelances as an editor and manuscript consultant. Nick's articles have appeared in the Denver Post, Contemporary magazine, Toastmaster magazine, and Independent Living magazine. He has been featured in stories in the Indianapolis Star, the Monterey Herald, the Denver Business Journal, the Boulder Planet, and, on national TV, Inside Edition.

In addition to his teaching, his job history includes 15 years of retail and wholesale commission sales and retail management. Nick served for seven years on the Board of Directors of Parkinson Association of the Rockies, four of those years as President. He sat for two terms on the Board of the Colorado Speakers Association and edited the CSA newsletter, Speak Up!, for two years. He served two years as a member of the National Speakers Association's Diversity Task Force.

As a professional speaker, Nick has addressed audiences in 27 states and Canada.

Here's what clients have said about Nick and his programs:

    "Without the information you supplied us, it is doubtful that we would have ever identified the true magnitude of how to better serve persons with disabilities. My managers are responding with a newly gained level of comfort and enthusiasm to the challenge."
      Gary S. Davis, Manager
      The Lodge at Pebble Beach


    "The overall results for the seminar and facilitator are phenomenal! I look forward to working with you in the future."
      Myla Smith, Mgr.-Corporate Resources
      U.S. WEST, Inc.


    "Our seminar was a tremendous success because of your presentation. You shared your message with us in a manner that was not only educational, but entertaining and inspirational as well."
      Stephen A. Amella Defense Finance & Accounting Service


    "We not only gained knowledge, but enjoyed doing so. Feedback from staff at all levels was just tremendous; overwhelmingly positive!"
      Joyce O. Scott, MA, PD, CBA Florida Dept. of Health & Rehab. Services


    "People tell me how much they enjoyed your talk and how it affected their perspective on life. It was a memorable presentation."
      Charles McNeill Southern Company services, Inc.


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