Speaking Topics

For Educators

• The Global Competition for Talent: How American Students Can Match Up to Their Foreign Counterparts
• It's Not Just about What You Know, It's about What You Know How to Do: Why What Students Do Can Matter More than Their IQ or SAT Scores
• Risk-Taking, Experience, Compassion, and Vision: Preparing Students to Solve the World's Greatest Problems
• Math, Science, Technology, and Critical and Creative Thinking Skills: Showing Students How to Solve Personal, Community, National, and World Problems
• Successful Intelligence: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills for Success in College, Career, and Life
• Gaming, New Technologies, and Student Ingenuity: Harnessing Students' Ability to Self-Teach and Contribute in Class Discussions and Teams
• School Leaders as Coaches: Becoming Champions of Change
• The Educational World is Flat: Coaching Skills and the New Global Competition for Talent
• Leadership and Coaching: Helping Students Be Their Best
• Leaders as Coaches: Working with Emotional and Social Intelligence
• Successful Intelligence: Developing Analytical, Practical, and Emotional Skills
• Majoring in the Rest of Your Life: The Top Ten Reasons Students Struggle or Drop Out of College
• Promoting Risk-Taking and Personal Accountability: Preparing Students to be World-Class Citizens
• Successful Transitions from High School to College (or from College to the World of Work)

For Students and Parents

STUDENTS

• Majoring in the Rest of Your Life
• What Employers Expect from College Graduates
• Write Your Own Success Story: Planning for the Future
• Developing Your Leadership Abilities
• Turning an Internship into a Job: How to Land an Internship and be Successful
• From Dreams to Reality: Making a Successful Transition into the Adult World

PARENTS

Elementary

• Setting Expectations and Holding Your Limits: Establishing Early Habits of Success
• Promoting Respective and Cooperative Behavior
• Developing a Love of Reading in Your Children: Strong Readers Are Strong Learners
• Healthy Homework Habits: Helping Kids Develop Perseverance
• Help Your Kids Manage Their Emotions: Tips for Raising Compassionate Children

Middle School

• Avoiding Adolescent Substance Abuse: Give Your Child the Tools To Say No
• Managing Peer Pressure: Critical Thinking Skills to Evaluate Good Risks and Bad Risks
• Managing Change: Help Your Student Navigate the Academic and Social Changes in Middle School
• Organization Intervention: Concrete Tools to Help Your Student Get Organized and Stay Focused
• Identifying Signs of Trouble with Tweens: Academic, Emotional, and Social Issues
• Help Your Child Develop Self-Advocacy Skills: Getting Help IN School and OUT
• College and Career Exploration: Get Your Child Thinking about Secondary Education and Career Options

High School

• Multiple Intelligences: Learning and Personality Styles
• Gifts and Talents for Teenagers: Help Your Kids Understand Their Strengths and Weaknesses
• College and Career Exploration: Help Your Child Plan for the Future

General

• Study Skills for Teenagers: Preparing for Academic Success
• Healthy Homework Habits: Committing to Persevere
• Helping Kids Manage Strong Emotions: Effective Self-Management
• Coaching Skills for High School Students
• Leadership Skills for Students
• Critical and Creative Thinking for Students