Best-selling Author Jay Payleitner

Jay doesn't just speak at an audience. He interacts with the audience. Like his books, Jay delivers messages that have audiences laughing one moment and grabbing breakthrough ideas the next. Expect lots of personal anecdotes and wisecracks -- from both the speaker's platform and the audience.

Jay customizes every talk for men's outreaches, school assemblies, parenting seminars, marriage weekends, staff meetings, women's events, dad/kid rites of passage, keynotes, writers' conferences, and Sunday services.

Other popular topics include "Be the Dad," "What If God Wrote Your Bucket List?" "His Secrets/Her Secrets," "Be the Husband Your Wife Needs," "Your Husband Has Secrets," "God's Design for Families," "Your Parents Really Do Love You," "Lifeology," "Loving Kids At very Age and Stage," "Intentional Storytelling," "WordSport: Etymology and Creativity." His newest book, "The Prayer of Agur," makes a great talk for helping members of your audience "find their sweet spot."

Prior to becoming a full-time author and speaker, Jay Payleitner served as freelance radio producer for a wide range of international minstries including the Salvation Army, Prison Fellowship, Bible League, Voice of the Martyrs, and National Center for Fathering. For more than a decade, he produced Josh McDowell Radio, Jesus Freaks Radio, and Today’s Father.

As an advertising copywriter, he created award-winning radio spots, print ads, and television commercials for national brands including Corona Beer, helped name and position Frito Lay’s “SunChips,” and wrote the very first ad for the mega-selling Left Behind.

Jay has sold more than 2/3 million books including 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad, The Prayer of Agur, The Jesus Dare, 52 Ways to Connect as a Couple, and What If God Wrote Your Bucket List? His books have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Slovenian, Polish, and Russian.

Jay's most recent 2022 release, Don't Take the Bait to Escalate" is an ideal topic and talk for today's turbulent times. The "Four Factors" can be applied to conflict on the job, in families, among friends, and in the neighborhood. Ideal for any association, leadership conference, lunch seminar, or life skills event.

Jay is a nationally-known speaker for Iron Sharpens Iron and the National Center for Fathering, and has emceed men’s events, led marriage retreats, keynoted writers' conferences, preached at weekend services, spoken at MOPS groups, and facilitated creative training sessions. He has given talks in 20 states and recently spoke to 1000 dads in an auditorium outside Warsaw, Poland. Jay has been a guest multiple times on The Harvest Show, 100 Huntley Street, and Focus on the Family.

Jay and his high school sweetheart, Rita, live in the Chicago area where they raised five great kids, loved on ten foster babies, and are cherishing grandparenthood.

Jay typically plugs his Macbook Pro into your projection system and tosses up short phrases, titles, quotes and verses on the screen. Not your typical Powerpoint. He can schlep along a projector, but would much rather use your gear. A lapel mic or Countryman is helpful. For groups smaller than 100, he projects well without a mic.

Jay likes to get set up early. Including a book table. He loves to chat and sign books afterward.