Keynote Speaker
NANCY NORTON
Award Winning Standup Comedian and Keynote Speaker
Registered Nurse who now
Heals with Humor
The Power of Humor keynote will be packed with information about the benefits of humor delivered by a champion storyteller and award winning comedian who has been studying the benefits of humor for decades!
Nancy Norton, RN is a fifth generation nurse who tours nationally headlining comedy clubs, festivals, conferences and events doing Standup Comedy and Keynote Speaking. She has also toured internationally on several USO tours entertaining the troops in Europe, Asia, Iceland and the Pacific. Nancy graduated Nursing School in 1983 and worked many years in healthcare before being called to do comedy and now is called to help heal with humor as she combines both worlds by sharing the healing properties and other benefits of humor learned intuitively and with peer reviewed studies learned at the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor.
Nancy presents “The Power of Humor” which combines peer reviewed studies of empirical evidence with hilarious anecdotal evidence gathered from working as a Registered Nurse, along with growing up in a big Ozark family, the 4th of 3 children… who felt wanted, spending months in Nepal adopting her son and how humor helped her achieve a successful adoption and remain upbeat and resilient as a single “Stay AWAY from home mom.”
Stand-up Comedy Show
During the main conference evening reception
AND… for the first time ever at NEC we are thrilled to offer a stand-up comedy show during the main conference evening reception!
Nancy’s standup shows are fast paced, in the moment, interactive and hilarious. Having worked as a nurse for many years, her humor is a blast for those in healthcare!