Frank King | Nationally Known Suicide Prevention and Postvention Speaker and Trainer

Frank King

Nationally Known Suicide Prevention and Postvention Speaker and Trainer

Fee Range
Please contact us for pricing
Travels From
Springfield, Oregon, United States

Frank King
Biography

Frank King, Suicide Prevention and Postvention Public Speaker and Trainer, was a writer for The Tonight Show for 20 years, is a Corporate Comedian, syndicated humor columnist, and podcast personality, who was featured on CNN's Business Unusual.

Depression and suicide run his family. He's thought about killing himself more times than he can count. He's fought a lifetime battle with depression, and thoughts of ending his life, turning that long dark journey of the soul into a TED Talk, "A Matter of Laugh or Death," www.FrankTEDTalk.com and sharing his lifesaving insights on Mental and Emotional Health Awareness, with corporation, association, youth (middle school and high school), and college audiences www.TheSuicidePreventionSpeaker.com

As an Inspirational and Motivational Public Speaker and Trainer he uses the life lessons from the above, as well as lessons learned as a rather active consumer of healthcare, both mental and physical, to start the conversation giving people who battle Mental and Emotional Illness permission to give voice to their feelings and experiences surrounding depression and suicide, and to create a common pool of knowledge in which those who suffer, and those who care about them, can swim.

And doing it by coming out, as it were, and standing in his truth, and doing it with humor.

He believes that where there is humor there is hope, where there is laughter there is life, nobody dies laughing.

He is currently working on a book on men's mental fitness, Guts, Grit, and the Grind, with two coauthors.

He lives in Eugene, OR and speaks around the US, and all over the world.

Frank King
Featured Videos

Current: Speaking Reel

Time 04:48

More Videos From Frank King

Speaking Reel
Time 04:48
Suicide, The Secret of My Success; Dead Man Talking
Time 17:10
TEDx: Born To Be Funny
Time 20:01
TEDx: Matter of Laugh and Death
Time 19:12

Frank King
Featured Keynote Programs

Suicide Prevention in the Workplace as a Health and Safety Issue

Frank King helps workplaces appreciate the critical need for suicide prevention, creating a forum for dialogue and critical thinking about workplace mental health challenges. It builds a business case for suicide prevention while promoting help-seeking and help-giving. Interactive exercises and case studies help employers and their staff apply and customize the content to their specific work culture.

Program content is divided into four chapters:
Suicide Prevention in the Workplace
What to Do When Someone is Suicidal
Conversations About Suicide
Suicide Postvention

Value to Members:
Developed by the Carson J Spencer Foundation, the Working Minds: Suicide Prevention in the Workplace program toolkit features a facilitator’s guide, trainee workbooks, and supplemental materials designed to help workplace administrators and employees better understand and prevent suicide. The program helps workplaces appreciate the critical need for suicide prevention while creating a forum for dialogue and critical thinking about workplace mental health challenges. The program builds a business case for suicide prevention while promoting help-seeking and help-giving. Several interactive exercises and case studies help employers and their staff apply and customize the content to their specific work culture.

Working Minds was developed to address a gap in suicide prevention programming for those of working age. The toolkit was built on best practices and the insights of mental health service providers, human resource professionals, and top suicide prevention experts from across the country.

ROI: Increase profit while transforming culture and improving wellbeing
Mental illness and substance abuse costs employers an estimated $225.8 billion each year, according to a recent study, that featured a random sample of over 28,000 workers in the US. The largest indirect cost of mental illness comes in the form of decreased performance due to absenteeism, or regularly missing work, and presenteeism, or working while sick.

While most employers notice absenteeism, they often overlook presenteeism. A study measuring health-related productivity estimated that individuals working with untreated illnesses cost employers $1,601 per person each year.

CEOs underestimate the hidden costs of employee wellbeing. Overestimating the importance of physical health and underestimating the cost and prevalence of mental illness leads to wasteful spending and decreased life satisfaction of employees.

Make a Living, Not a Difference

The perfect after dinner (or breakfast or lunch) keynote when all you're after is comedy entertainment. The first ten or fifteen minutes can be customized to your group, industry and/or association.

Get Up Off Your Aspirations

You will not "get a check up from the neck up" (and if I hear that phrase one more time, I may throw up). You will not learn any of "the 7 habits of highly effective people" (one of which has to be over-using the word paradigm). Nor will you learn how to think out of the box, break the secret code of accomplishment, fly with eagles (even though you work with turkeys) or be empowered (whatever that means) in any way. What will happen is, you'll laugh. And you'll get loads of practical real life lessons Frank King has learned the hard way. Lessons like, if you're driving and you get sleepy, by all means take a nap; but remember to pull over and stop first. Or lessons like, you should never get married thinking "I'm not sure I should be doing this, but I guess I'll just give it a try." Or a lesson like: the best way to deal with change is a three part plan: Get Over It.

Lube, Oil and Valve Job

You'll get practical, everyday advice on maintaining good health from a guy who had an aortic valve transplant and lived to joke about it. Advice like: never eat anything that had bad parents. Or: yes, McDonald's cooks their French fries in vegetable oil, but what about the rest of the food in that place? You just look at the McMenu, your cholestoral is gonna jump a half a dozen points. Or: if Mother Nature didn't make it and/or you can't pronounce it, then you shouldn't eat it.

Frank King
Featured Reviews

How Do You Choose the BEST Speaker for Your Event?

We’ve had 30 years and 40,000 events to perfect the process—and we’ll do it for free.

Booking the very best Keynote Speakers, Business Speakers, Inspirational Speakers and Motivational Speakers has never been easier.

Get more details and availability

Frank King

Share some basic details about you and your upcoming event, and one of our experts will be in touch with you quickly regarding pricing and availability.
Event Details
Your Details
Cancel
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.