Matt changes the world by affecting his audience. He educates as he entertains. His wicked smarts conspire with his impressive creative abilities. His performances leave me with an unshakable inspiration to go and do.

Irene Alvarez
VP, Brand Marketing and Communications at the Columbus Partnership

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The best.
Keeping good Company.

Larry Smith
SMITH Magazine | Six-Word Memoir Project

Matt performed an opening monologue at the first TEDxColumbus, a program of short curated talks that illuminate ideas worth spreading. He was outstanding in all ways – approach, content, creativity, delivery and collaboration. He set the stage for the whole event and if you hire him, he’s going to give you more than you expected.

Ruth Milligan
Founder, Articulation and TEDxColumbus

My morning routine consists of four things: black coffee toast Horace Silver (at the same time.) Then watching Matt’s TEDxColumbus performance on YouTube right before I walk out the door.

Ryan Morgan
Communications Leader at Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams

Matt is inspiring, provocative and wickedly talented. He can bring a crowd to its feet, to tears, or to infectious laughter. He is changing the world. One performance, one interaction at a time. What more can I say?

Leigh Householder
EVP/Managing Director of Insights and Innovation at Syneos Health

We were wrestling with a new and entertaining way to introduce our YPO regional conference to my YPO peers. The same old DVDs and Powerpoints just didn’t seem good enough. Then we thought of Matt Slaybaugh – he totally filled the bill. He has an amazingly creative way of taking very general information and making it important, funny, and thoroughly entertaining. He grabbed the audience from the start and had them asking for more by the end. I highly recommend Matt as the perfect opener, closer, or surprise element for any event.

Cameron Mitchell
CEO, Cameron Mitchell Restaurants

Matt is a gifted communicator, teacher, and performer. As a public speaker, Matt is riveting. His delivery is not casual: he’s excruciatingly well prepared with the right text, fully contemplated and precisely delivered. I consider Matt to be among my mentors and wholeheartedly encourage you to enlist him for any challenge he accepts.

Artie Isaac
Vistage CEO Coach | Creativity Speaker

Matt is AWESOME! I first experienced Matt’s work when I co-hosted the TEDxColumbus event, and was so wildly impressed, hired him to OPEN and CLOSE our CLIENT conference, the iCitizen Symposium. People were BLOWN AWAY by his creativity! I love Matt, and HIGHLY recommend him for this type of work. He’s FANTASTIC.

Nancy Kramer
Chief Evangelist of IBM iX

Matt Slaybaugh is one of those rare individuals that naturally combines the passion of creativity with the reality of time, space, and resources. His facilitation skills are among the best I’ve seen and his ability to channel multiple egos into a positive direction borders on the supernatural.

Jeff Syroney
VP of Innovation and Story at Wonderlust Collective, Inc.