Keynote Speaking Topics

Train staff, students parents in strength based, positive approaches to transform your school or start with just one! Each can build on the other.

Staff Keynote for Schools & Organizations

In this dynamic, highly interactive, story and researched based keynote, the participant will discover the four key principles and the three key shifts needed to create a strength or asset rich environment.A strength based approach can have powerful impact upon test scores, grades, attendance, and school engagement – plus connect more staff with students on a heart to heart basis. This approach is designed not to take more staff time, but rather shift attention and find out how small things can make an extraordinary different. engage them in extraordinary, but ordinary ways. Using stories from his book “Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand: How to Create a Culture That Cares for Kids” (Viking Penguin), Vollbracht has delivered this presentation at National Title 1 Conference, Regional educational and Youth Serving Organization Conferences, and Governor’s Summits across North America.

Parent/Community Keynote

In the ‘good old days” if a student did something wrong, the parents were upset with the students. Today, parents are now mad at the schools! Time to change this paradigm around. In this interactive and informative presentation, parents, grandparents, and guardians will interact, see the powerful data behind building strengths, and have a very practical action plan how they can be positive forces for change at school, support, not oppose school staff, and have a list of twenty small, and powerful practices they can use to help their kids.