Humor is a
way of seeing.
Carlos Aguilar is a Mexican American motivational and keynote speaker — a faith-based humorist who speaks to conferences, schools, colleges, companies, nonprofits, and faith communities.
Check availabilityThe Idea
Humor helps us recognize contradictions, question assumptions, connect across differences and find room to act when circumstances feel fixed. It is a perspective we can cultivate in how we teach, lead, work and live — laughter is part of the experience, and the ideas are what give it lasting substance.
Who books Carlos
Conferences
A keynote that opens the room up. Funny first — then the idea lands, and it stays.
Schools and districts
Staff gatherings, PD days, commencements. For people who spend the year giving, an hour of seeing the work fresh.
Colleges and universities
First-generation students, educators, and the staff who serve them. A life that crossed a few worlds, told plain.
Companies
All-hands and team gatherings that need more than a pep talk — a better way to see the work in front of them.
Nonprofits and faith communities
Faith taken seriously and talked about the way people actually live it. Humor is the door, not the whole house.
Past hosts include Bassett Unified and Ontario Unified school districts, Harvey Mudd College Upward Bound, College Track, and Occidental College.
Formats
The Talk · The Half Day · The Full Day
The talk details live in the packet I send to prospective hosts — ask for it with your inquiry below.
The Fundraiser
I can bring a comedy show to your school or district as a fundraiser.
Carlos hosts the evening and brings well-known comics to your school to fill out the night — a clean comedy night built around your mission, with the fundraising call to action woven into the evening. Tickets, sponsorships and donations can all feed the same goal. It stands alone as an evening event, or pairs with a full-day training.
We scope the numbers together before anyone commits.
Questions hosts ask
One premise runs through all of it: humor is a way of seeing. A room that sees more has more choices. The talks apply that to teaching, leading, working, and living across more than one world.
Yes — it's some of his most-requested work. He's a third-generation Mexican American speaker whose material comes from his own life, not from a theme deck. Heritage Month dates (September 15–October 15) book early; check while you're still planning.
Yes. He's a faith-based humorist with a background in philosophy of religion and years in classrooms and churches. The faith is real, the treatment is honest, and nobody gets hit over the head.
Three formats: a keynote of about 60 minutes with Q&A, a half-day workshop of about 3 hours, and a full training day of about 6 instructional hours. Every format is scoped to the room before anything is signed.
Yes. Carlos hosts the evening and brings other comics with him — a clean comedy night built around your school's mission, with the fundraising ask woven into the night. It stands alone or pairs with a daytime training.
Los Angeles — Covina, in the San Gabriel Valley.
Use the form on this page. You'll hear back within two business days, then a short call, then a written proposal with everything scoped. Dates are held in inquiry order.
Check Availability
Dates held in inquiry order.
What Happens Next
- 1. You hear back within two business days.
- 2. A 20-minute call to talk about the event and the room.
- 3. A written proposal with everything scoped.
Carlos Aguilar is Big Brown Dad — a TV writer and producer (the Daytime Emmys, the Hollywood Christmas Parade) and editorial director at Quantasy & Associates. He served as a visiting instructor in Education at Occidental College. His speaking premise: humor is a way of seeing, and a room that sees more has more choices.