Jody Fuller is a nationally touring keynote speaker, clean comedian and former U.S. Army Major. He grew up in Opelika, Alabama with a lifelong stutter and not much money, enlisted after high school, served as an Army medic, commissioned after September 11 and led one of the Army’s largest platoons in Iraq — the first of three deployments. He completed 24 years of service.

Jody is a TEDx speaker, a Dry Bar Comedy comedian, a John Maxwell Certified Leadership Speaker, Coach and Trainer, a U.S. Army Master Resilience Trainer and a 12-time contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul. He has performed in 45 states, entertained U.S. troops in 15 countries with Armed Forces Entertainment and the USO, opened for Jeff Foxworthy, and been named one of Alabama Magazine’s Top 40 Over 40 and one of GI Jobs Magazine’s 15 Veterans Taking the Comedy World by Storm.

His keynotes — Leadership That Lasts, The Resilience Roadmap, One Team, One Mission and Listen, Learn, Lead among them — combine clean humor with practical leadership, resilience, teamwork, burnout and morale content for corporate, utility, education, government, healthcare, faith-based, military and association audiences. He also builds fully customized presentations around a client’s theme and audience, performs a stand-alone clean comedy show and serves as an event emcee.