CLIENTS & TESTIMONIALS
Richard Laible has been partnering with local, national, and international Fortune 500 companies and associations for over 20 years.
Featured Clients
Recent events
- Lincoln Financial Advisors/TRG 2004 – 2023 National Meetings (20 straight years)
- IBM Mainframe Users Group (SHARE) 2016 – 2023
- Boyd Group Leadership Planning Conference 2020 – 2023
- PTC LiveWorx 2016 – 2020, 2023
- Lincoln Financial Network National Symposium 2022 – 2023
- National Lumber Building & Material Dealers Association Summit 2022 – 2023
- Gallagher Bassett Top Producers Awards Celebration 2022
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fire & Ice Client Event 2022
- Applied Client Network Leadership Summit 2016 – 2020, 2022
- COExperience – Dassault Systemes Solutions Meeting 2022
- Coldwell Banker Commercial Top Sellers Event 2022
- Microsoft Discovery 2022
- HPE Fire & Ice Event 2022
- North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors & NBMDA Annual Convention 2021 – 2022
- Association of Nursing Professional Development Annual Meeting 2022
- Building Service Contractors Association International Exec Management Conf 2019 – 2021
- Ace Hardware Retail Support Symposium 2020
- AGCO Dealer Business Meeting 2018, 2019 – 2020
- SmithBucklin Leaders Forum 2016, 2017 – 2018
- AGCO Parts & Dealers Meeting 2017 – 2018
- USFloors National Sales Meeting 2016 – 2018
- Essendant National Sales Meeting 2016
- Independent Oracle Users Group 2016
- ORS-Nasco Supplier Summit 2014 – 2016
- Discover Card Presidents Plate Awards Show 2016
- Toyota Forklifts Sales and Marketing Meeting 2015
- CooperVision Annual Sales Conference 2014 – 2015
- Folds Honor Benefit for Fallen Soldiers Families 2012 – 2015
- VeeamOn – Veeam Software International Availability Software Event 2014 – 2015
- InvisAlign National Sales & Marketing
Meetings 2007 – 2014 - LagasseSweet National Management Conference & Supplier Summit 2013 – 2014
- Dow Plastics National Sales Meeting 2012 & 2014
- Discover Card Town Hall Meetings 2011 – 2012 & 2015
REVIEWs
“Richard, congratulations on the best National Sales Marketing/Kick-off I have ever participated in- EVER. That is not hyperbole. Over the last 25-30 years I have seen it all … well done!”
Tom Prescott
President & CEO, InvisAlign
“The best meeting I’ve ever seen! We look forward to continuing to work with Richard.”
Roger Hochschild
President and COO, Discover Financial Services
“Richard Laible performed with boundless, senseless, and shameless energy.”
“Thanks for a great job hosting our event. Your lighthearted comedic touch made the long meeting day bearable for all!”
William C. Babb
President, Lincoln Financial TRG
“You did an outstanding job! I can’t tell you how many people over the past week said it was the best event they ever attended.”
Jim Kenny
Owner, Kenny Construction Company
“Thanks once again for being a part of our kickoff event. It’s difficult to express the uplifting effect you have on all of us. You are really good at your craft. I look forward to next year’s event.”
Dave Laurello
President and CEO, Stratus Technologies
“You did an excellent super great job on both events. If you ever need any recommendations please know that I would be more than happy to tell anyone how you part the oceans and walk on water. Thanks!”
Patty Laca
Marketing Manager, Hewlett Packard
“I want to express my appreciation for your generous contribution in helping make this year’s Elite Performer’s convention a huge success. (Hand written note: Couldn’t have done it without you. You were great! Thanks for everything)”
Paul Toback
President, CEO & Chairman of the Board, Bally’s Total Fitness
“Thank you again for doing such an AWESOME job at our National Sales Meeting last week. It was a blast and I enjoyed the opportunity to work with you. I have no doubt that you could make an insurance seminar provocative and entertaining.”
Mark C. Rogers
District Manager, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.
“You really “get it” in terms of business meetings: you have taken the time to understand what we do (in broad terms), you are funny as hell, and you really understand the mechanics of “show business” at conferences of this type. You have rescued us from sure disaster many times thanks to your great instincts. You’ve offered great advice as to program flow and places to improve. You’ve worked expertly with the production team and crew to maximize the impact of the staging and resources we have. And best of all, you have made our audiences laugh in the midst of long, dry meetings.”
Kevin Butler
MarCom Manager, Stratus Technologies
“Thank you very much for helping to make our celebration such a tremendous success. You helped make our party extraordinarily fun and definitely memorable. Everyone is still talking about your show.”
Diane Fitzgerald
Director of Corporate Communications, Fruit of the Loom, Inc.
“Your presentation at our sales meeting was the highlight. In fact, at our debriefing meeting the EVP said he would like more of you and your kind of entertainment at next year’s meeting.”
Laurie Alire
VP Marketing Communications, Varian
“Thank you so much for your excellent performance today. It was a HUGE hit with the Allstate people, and it really made our presentation. You were great.”
Jeanie Caggiano
SVP/Executive Creative Director, Leo Burnett, USA
“If you need a comedy host for a live event go with Richard Laible … funny enough to cause seizures.”
“Your performance helped to make our event a big success. Thanks for sticking it out through less than ideal conditions. You’re a true pro.”
Katrina Gamella
Northwestern University Alumni Association
“Thanks, Richard – you did a spectacular job; this was indeed our best conference ever.”
Tom Hamilton
Sr. Director WW Channel Marketing, ShoreTel, Inc.
“A professional who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty to provide better service and excellent work.”
“Thanks so much for a job well done at today’s meeting – you were a hit! Plus, it was a pleasure working with you – so many laughs!”
Cindy Mufarreh
EVP, Harris Bank N.A.
“We’ve gotten great responses to the show. We will be calling you again, count on it!”
Nancy K. Monahan
Senior Group Product Manager, Dermik Laboratories
“It was a pleasure working with you at UNIX Expo. Thank you for an A+ job! I almost believed that you were an IBM’er except that you have a great sense of humor. We certainly met our objectives for the show, and you brought in the crowds for us. I’m glad you were part of my team.”
Larry Stein
Manager Marketing Events, IBM
“Thanks Richard — the feedback is in, and everyone was most impressed with the job you did and how much this livened up the sessions delivered at SAPPHIRE! Your approach was spot-on, and will be the model going forward on how to do sessions and events like this — the crowd was so much more engaged, and therefore retained the content and key messages”
Fred M. Isbell
Senior Director, SAP
“We went from having 200-300 guests in our booth to 1500 guests in 3 days largely due to Richard’s outstanding talents. Not only does he entice the audience to enter our booth, but he sustains their attention with his wittiness until we get a chance to talk with each client. He also impressed us with his knowledge of our products and threw out fun facts about our properties which was an added plus that we were not expecting. We would love to have Richard in our booth every year.”
Shelly Samuels
National Sales Manager, Mandalay Bay Resort
“Richard Laible did an incredible job at keeping customers entertained during the presentation. The Cisco booth had constant traffic flow that rarely died down … a great show for Cisco.”
Charlotte Montemayor
Trade Show Manager, Cisco Systems
“Marketing budgets are always tight but creating demand, establishing a user community, and brand recognition are expensive. If you are going to spend the resource on an activity you’d better consider a draw to get the conversation started and moving in the right direction. Richard is more than a draw he is aggressively proactive. We gave him a target list and every target was captured, we gave him a solutions briefing and it was weaved into the introductory conversation with the target, more importantly he weeded out the tire kickers so that our subject matter experts weren’t wasting their time. He is much more than a contracted resource, he is a member of the team participating and collaborating from the onset with a very experienced voice.”
Bill Carney
Director of Marketing – TIBCO Spotfire