Student Leadership

Motivational Speaker Working With Rotary

October 25, 2010

Great mention in this article from the Ramona Sentinel about some recent work I did as a motivational youth speaker for Rotary: Rotary shares message of leadership, ethics, determination with students Pixie Sulser Published 10/21/2010 – 9:47 a.m. Eighth-grade students Cassidy Blankenbaker and Colton Jansen were chosen at the end of their seventh grade year [...]

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How to Find a Motivational School Speaker

June 15, 2010

The kind of school speaker you’d want for your students can easily be found on Google. Simply do a search for the terms “school speaker” or “youth speaker. The top motivational speakers for schools will come up quickly. Motivational school speakers are in large supply, as you probably already know. Leadership teachers, school administrators and [...]

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Motivational Speaking in Troy, Pennsylvania

April 30, 2010

I’m on my way to Troy, Pennsylvania where I’ll be the motivational keynote speaker tomorrow morning at a district conference for the Pennsylvania Association of Student Councils. It looks to be a great event!

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Standing Up For Student Activities

October 21, 2009

As schools slash programs to balance decreasing budgets, it’s critical that administrators prioritize with the big picture in mind. It’s tempting to get rid of arts and activities. (Parents would never stand for sports being cut.) While there may be some fat to trim in these areas, student activities are essential to one’s personal growth. [...]

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Motivational Speaker Podcast: Is Busy Better?

September 28, 2009

Check out this podcast interview I did for the California Association of Directors of Activities. The topic was on over-involvement and spreading yourself too thin. Click here to listen…

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Student Leadership Training – Deer Valley High School

September 2, 2009

Here I am facilitating two days of student leadership training at Deer Valley High School in California. Great group of student leaders!

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Purpose Over Politics

August 24, 2009

That was a major theme for a recent presentation I gave as the motivational speaker for Circle K International. Circle K is an awesome organization of college students interested in volunteerism and service. They brought me in to do some college leadership training and to keynote their annual convention. It came to my attention that for [...]

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Self-Esteem or Self-Destruction

May 25, 2009

I had a troubling experience at a recent student leadership conference I facilitated for 7th grades. I took 45 students through an activity where they had to toss balls in a specified pattern around three separate circles. They had to set a goal for how many balls they could successfully move through the pattern without [...]

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Motivational Speaker for Youth

March 26, 2009

Being a Motivational Speaker for Youth continues to take me all over America. After a couple of motivational school assemblies at Templteon High School in California, I was off to Cape Cod to do a motivational keynote and leadership workshops for the Massachusetts Association of Student Councils. Then the Genesee County Youth Bureau brought me [...]

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Nine Reasons to Embrace Failure

October 23, 2008

I’ve always heard that “public speaking” is the number one most common fear. I once conducted a formal survey, however, and received different results. Overwhelmingly, my respondents chose “failure.” Like public speaking, failure is not inherently bad. We’re conditioned to avoid it, but there are plenty of reasons to change our perspective. Here are nine [...]

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