Speaker Bio

SCOTT REID & SCOTT FESCHUK
The Political Satirist & The Political Insider

Scott Reid - the political insider: strategist, confidante, pundit.

Scott Feschuk - a humour columnist who overnight, and without even really asking, became chief speechwriter to the Prime Minister of Canada.

The insider and the outsider: together, they spent two years working side by side at the pinnacle of Canadian political power. Now they run a speechwriting and communications firm, Feschuk.Reid.

Scott Feschuk has been a writer at the Globe and Mail, the National Post and CBC's This Hour Has 22 Minutes. He currently writes a humour column and blog for Maclean's magazine, and is the author of How Not to Completely Suck As A Parent and Searching for Michael Jackson's Nose. Scott has won the Gold Medal for Humour at the National Magazine Awards. More impressively, he once covered the Oscars as a reporter and was mistaken as a valet by Faye Dunaway, who ordered him to go retrieve her car. (Spoiler alert: He didn't.)

Scott Reid has advised many of Canada's leading corporations and political leaders. He was Senior Advisor and Director of Communications to Prime Minister Paul Martin. An expert in overcoming crisis and issues management challenges, Scott appears regularly as a commentator on CTV, CBC and TSN, in addition to writing for the Globe and Mail and Macleans.ca.

Together, they won the Pitch-It Comedy Competition at the 2007 Banff World Television Festival. To this day, no one quite understands how this happened.

Feschuk and Reid offer their audience an inside look at politics and communications, integrating humour and their unique experiences and perspective into the presentation. Being undeniably clever and candid, they will bring energy and insight to your next gathering.