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Education Keynotes

Eleven keynotes for district, school, and classroom leaders. Every talk is evidence-based, grounded in Organizational Behavior Management, and built so your audience leaves knowing what to do differently on Monday.

Eleven Education Keynotes

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01

Positional Authority Ain’t Leadership: Build Influence, Alignment, and Follow-Through Without Burning People Out

Leadership problems are often environment and influence problems, not effort problems.

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Audiences leave with the Four Hats of Leadership and practical tools for creating clarity, strengthening follow-through, and improving performance without relying on positional authority or control.

Book cover: Positional Authority Ain’t Leadership
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02

QUICK Responses for Reducing Misbehavior and Suspensions

Student misbehavior is not simply a student or classroom problem. It is a systems problem.

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Audiences leave with practical tools for preventing and responding to behavioral challenges in ways that reduce disruptions, escalation, and exclusionary discipline while strengthening school climate.

Book cover: Quick Responses for Reducing Misbehavior and Suspensions (Second Edition)
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03

Classroom Leadership: Lead Smarter, Not Harder

Classrooms don’t need more control. They need stronger leadership.

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Audiences leave with behaviorally grounded strategies for creating clear expectations, motivation, engagement, and shared responsibility without relying on constant correction or coercion.

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04

Deliberate Coaching: Using the Science of Behavior to Accelerate Performance and Growth

Schools rarely have an effort problem. They have a system-design problem.

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Audiences leave with a practical framework for building consistent coaching systems across schools and districts using clear expectations, observation, feedback, and reinforcement.

Book cover: Deliberate Coaching (Education Edition)
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05

From Reactive Support to Coaching That Produces Results

Professional development fails when new skills never show up consistently in day-to-day practice.

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Audiences leave with practical methods for turning training, walkthroughs, and feedback into coaching that strengthens instructional performance and produces measurable improvement.

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06

From Intentions to Action: Using Quick Wins to Drive Real Improvement

School improvement often stalls when leaders take on too much before people experience meaningful progress.

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Audiences leave with practical tools for identifying, reinforcing, and communicating Quick Wins that build trust, create buy-in, and move larger improvement efforts forward.

Book cover: Quick Wins! Using Behavior Science to Accelerate and Sustain School Improvement (2nd Edition)
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07

The Resilience-Ready Classroom: Practical Tools for Helping Students Cope, Try, and Grow

Students don’t build resilience by avoiding discomfort. They build it by learning how to respond to challenges effectively.

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Audiences leave with practical strategies for arranging classroom conditions and adult responses that strengthen coping, persistence, emotional regulation, and recovery.

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08

Adaptive Leadership: Leading and Performing When Conditions Change

Awareness matters, but results depend on what people actually do when conditions change.

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Audiences leave with practical tools for navigating obstacles, adjusting behavior in real time, and staying aligned with their values under pressure.

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09

The Feedback Effect: Lead Smarter, Not Harder

Feedback fails when it is treated as advice instead of a behavior-change process.

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Audiences leave with practical tools for using timing, clarity, function, and reinforcement to provide feedback that improves performance rather than producing resistance.

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10

Finding Your Authentic Self: The Fight to Become You

Feeling disconnected from who we are is usually an alignment problem.

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Audiences leave with practical tools for clarifying their values and aligning their behavior with the person they want to be.

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11

Stressful Happenings Impact Tomorrow: Building Resilient Children in a Fragile World

Children don’t become ready for life through constant protection or pressure.

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Audiences leave with practical tools for responding to struggle in ways that build persistence, problem-solving, recovery, and confidence.

Book cover: S.H.I.T. Happens: Building Resilient Children in a Fragile World
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