Pete Cann
Conferences lose the room after lunch. Wellbeing programmes lose the room within a quarter. Leaders need a way to reset energy, signal that mental health matters at this organisation, and do it without another slide deck on resilience.
Pete Cann is a corporate laughter yoga facilitator and keynote energiser who helps organisations reset audience energy and embed laughter as a practical wellbeing tool.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Pete Cann
- He shifts the energy of a conference room in minutes, which is what event owners are actually buying when they book a wellbeing slot after lunch or before a heavy strategy session.
- He gives a wellbeing message a physical experience, not a slide. Audiences leave having done the thing, not having been told about it.
- He is comfortable across formats most keynote speakers will not touch: opener, closer, after-dinner, awards host, virtual energiser, team-building lead.
- The brand is unusually defensible. There is no other UK speaker selling laughter yoga at this scale into corporate audiences, which removes the comparison shop for buyers commissioning a wellbeing or culture moment.
Biography highlights
- Founder of Canned Laughter (2019), the corporate laughter yoga practice trading as Pete Cann “The Laughter Man”.
- Managing Director and co-founder of The Chef Tree, a UK chef recruitment business he built with his wife Chloe before launching the speaking practice.
- International corporate client base spanning the UK, the USA and India, delivered in-person and virtually.
- Host of the podcast “Laughter & Positivity with Pete” on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
- Featured on Britain’s Got Talent as a laughter yoga teacher.
- Active YouTube channel and Laughter Club community under the “The Laughter Man” brand.
Biography
Most corporate wellbeing content is delivered as instruction. People sit, take notes about resilience, and return to their desks unchanged. Pete Cann sells the opposite product. The audience laughs for fifteen minutes and leaves the room with a different nervous system than the one they walked in with.
He came to this from business, not from wellness. Pete and his wife Chloe built The Chef Tree, a chef recruitment company, from a spare room into a multi-office operation, where he remains Managing Director. The laughter yoga practice started after a session at a summer wellness festival, and in 2019 he launched Canned Laughter as a separate corporate-facing brand.
Since then the work has scaled internationally. Clients book him in the UK, the USA and India, in person and on video, for conference openers, after-lunch resets, awards hosting, team-building days and wellbeing programmes. His podcast “Laughter & Positivity with Pete” runs alongside the keynote work, and a Britain’s Got Talent appearance gave the brand a national audience.
What he is selling is unusual in the bureau market. It is not a keynote on resilience theory. It is a physical wellbeing intervention that doubles as event energy, delivered by an operator who understands what it costs to run a business with a payroll attached.
Key speaking topics
- Laughter yoga in the workplace
- Corporate wellbeing and stress reduction
- Team energy and engagement
- Mental health at work
- Event hosting and audience activation
- Hybrid and virtual team connection
Ideal for
- Conference organisers booking a wellbeing slot, an opener, a post-lunch reset or an after-dinner act
- HR, internal communications and culture leads running wellbeing weeks or mental health awareness moments
- Sales kickoffs, awards nights and town halls that need an energiser rather than a strategy keynote
- Distributed teams running virtual culture or connection sessions
Audience outcomes
- A measurable shift in room energy that carries into the next session of the agenda
- Direct experience of laughter as a stress and tension release, not a description of it
- A simple set of practices people can use on their own when they need to reset
- A shared moment that breaks formality and helps a group connect across hierarchy
- A wellbeing message that lands without lecturing
Talks
A keynote on using laughter as a stress and resilience tool when conditions are hard.
Key takeaways:
- How laughter changes the body’s stress response in the moment
- Practical techniques to deploy under pressure at work
- A direct experience of the technique inside the session
A practical session on building laughter and positive habits into a working morning.
Key takeaways:
- The case for energy and mood as performance variables
- Habits that take minutes and compound across a week
- A guided practice the audience can repeat solo
A team-facing keynote on laughter as a productivity and connection lever.
Key takeaways:
- Why energy and trust precede output in team performance
- How laughter shortcuts both
- A facilitated team experience that demonstrates the effect