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Saying "yes" feels safe. But each agreement without boundaries extracts a real cost—unpaid summer prep, emotional labor during contract disputes, career decisions delayed by others' comfort, retirement planning postponed.

For educators under yearly contracts, people-pleasing compounds: you absorb extra duties to secure renewal, you soften criticism to avoid conflict, you silence doubts to stay cooperative. The payoff? Exhaustion. Stalled advancement. Compromised benefits.

This isn't about becoming difficult. It's about recognizing what you're actually paying—in stress, time, and opportunity—when you chronically prioritize others' ease over your own stability.

What would shift if you reclaimed even 10% of that energy?

Educators are often expected to do more, adapt faster, and support everyone around them—sometimes at the cost of their own energy and well-being. In this practical session, Bill Boone introduces a simple strengths-based framework to help educators identify what energizes them, recognize what is quietly draining them, and make small but meaningful adjustments in how they work.

Attendees will learn how to protect their capacity, focus on the areas where they create the greatest impact, and redefine success in a way that is both effective and sustainable. They will leave with renewed clarity, greater confidence, and actionable steps they can use immediately to serve students and communities without losing themselves in the process.

A new curriculum, platform, assessment, or mandate lands with training, a timeline, and one sweeping expectation: Make it work.

When implementation becomes difficult, the explanation can move quickly toward the educator: more training, readiness, stronger buy-in, better fidelity. But the same frustration may signal four different demands: something new to learn, something requiring professional adaptation, support the initiative has not supplied, or a dependency that must be resolved elsewhere.

Drawing on more than four decades of guiding consequential change, Carla J. Lewis reveals what happens when those demands stay bundled and teacher effort becomes the answer to them all.

This energizing presentation gives educators a usable way to identify what a change requires, where their professional effort belongs, and what should not become a personal deficiency simply because they are closest to its consequences. Attendees leave with the Before I Carry It Decoder to use when the next initiative lands.

Educators dedicate their lives to helping others succeed, yet many quietly lose sight of themselves in the process. This empowering session explores why so many accomplished educators feel exhausted, overlooked, or disconnected despite making a meaningful impact every day. Participants will learn practical strategies to recognize the signs of burnout, reconnect with their own voice and purpose, and build the confidence to establish healthy boundaries without guilt. Through an actionable framework and reflective exercises, attendees will leave with tools they can immediately apply to renew their energy, strengthen their leadership, and continue serving students from a place of confidence rather than depletion. Because when educators thrive personally, they are better equipped to inspire, lead, and transform the lives of the students they serve.

You mastered lesson plans, classroom management, and the art of the parent email. But somewhere between taking care of everyone else's growth — you stopped tending to your own.

Sound familiar?

In this session, certified Joy Coach and recovering engineer Chantaine Rhoe-Bulluck gets honest about the silent cost of high-achieving, high-giving professionals who have been so busy performing that they've lost the signal to themselves.

This isn't a session about self-care tips or another checklist. It's about the inner work that actually precedes everything else — your leadership, your energy, your joy.

You'll leave with clarity you didn't know you were missing — and permission you didn't know you needed.

Because the best thing you can give your students isn't more effort.

It's a teacher who is fully alive.

Every educator reaches a moment when the tank is empty — when compassion fatigue sets in and the passion that once fueled the work feels buried under exhaustion. Dr. Deitra Payne knows what it means to lose everything and rebuild from nothing: two days after her father's passing, she lost her memory and ability to speak. What she discovered in that darkest season became a practical framework for reclaiming power when life — or the classroom — falls apart.

In this session, educators will learn a step-by-step approach to move from depletion to renewal, turning burnout into a launching point rather than a breaking point. Attendees will leave with a concrete practice to protect their energy, reconnect with purpose, and model resilience for their students — because an educator who has reclaimed their own power is best equipped to empower a classroom.

Bringing Awareness to the audience about the reading challenge of 10 struggling readers per classroom across our country. A possible solution for those educators who want to start a home biz teaching reading comprehension any grade level K-12. There is a demand of Reading Specialists to teach from home after school hours to bridge The Literacy Gap in USA of 30, million students. Educators can earn and change the future of a struggling rstudemt do to reading.

Bringing Awareness to the audience about the reading challenge of 10 struggling readers per classroom across our country. A possible solution for those educators who want to start a home biz teaching reading comprehension any grade level K-12. There is a demand of Reading Specialists to teach from home after school hours to bridge The Literacy Gap in USA of 30, million students. Educators can earn and change the future of a struggling rstudemt do to reading.

Bringing Awareness to the audience about the reading challenge of 10 struggling readers per classroom across our country. A possible solution for those educators who want to start a home biz teaching reading comprehension any grade level K-12. There is a demand of Reading Specialists to teach from home after school hours to bridge The Literacy Gap in USA of 30, million students. Educators can earn and change the future of a struggling rstudemt do to reading.

Bringing Awareness to the audience about the reading challenge of 10 struggling readers per classroom across our country. A possible solution for those educators who want to start a home biz teaching reading comprehension any grade level K-12. There is a demand of Reading Specialists to teach from home after school hours to bridge The Literacy Gap in USA of 30, million students. Educators can earn and change the future of a struggling rstudemt do to reading.

Bringing Awareness to the audience about the reading challenge of 10 struggling readers per classroom across our country. A possible solution for those educators who want to start a home biz teaching reading comprehension any grade level K-12. There is a demand of Reading Specialists to teach from home after school hours to bridge The Literacy Gap in USA of 30, million students. Educators can earn and change the future of a struggling rstudemt do to reading.

Bringing Awareness to the audience about the reading challenge of 10 struggling readers per classroom across our country. A possible solution for those educators who want to start a home biz teaching reading comprehension any grade level K-12. There is a demand of Reading Specialists to teach from home after school hours to bridge The Literacy Gap in USA of 30, million students. Educators can earn and change the future of a struggling rstudemt do to reading.

This talk powerfully explores the system educators function in. It deep dives into the narratives that shape it, the true purpose of the system and what changes are on the horizon.

You've spent your career caring for everyone else. Discover why strength, not age, decides what your next chapter feels like.

Educators are asked to lead, adapt, and inspire while navigating constant change and increasing demands. In this inspiring keynote, Enna Jimenez shows that confidence grows through courageous action rather than perfect circumstances. Drawing on more than 30 years of leadership experience, she shares practical strategies for managing uncertainty, embracing change with resilience, and leading authentically while staying true to your purpose. Participants will discover how to move beyond self-doubt, take intentional action, and strengthen a leadership mindset that creates lasting impact. They will also gain practical tools for making confident decisions, encouraging meaningful collaboration, and fostering trust within schools, teams, and communities. Whether leading a classroom, a department, or an entire organization, attendees will leave equipped with greater clarity, courage, and purpose to inspire others, navigate challenges with confidence, and make a positive difference every day through intentional, values-driven leadership.

Educators give everything to their students and often carry a quiet, persistent voice telling them it's still not enough. In this 20-minute session, you will be led through a live somatic exercise to help you identify and physically release the specific lie self-doubt has been telling you.

This isn't a lecture on mindset. It's an embodied practice, grounded in neuroscience and somatic therapy, that moves the work out of your head and into your body, where old patterns live and where real release happens. You'll leave with a felt sense of what it's like to set down a story you've been carrying, and a practice you can return to whenever that voice shows up again.

In this 20-minute session, Jenie Nowak will help educators identify how hidden wounds, judgments, and expectations can quietly affect the way they teach, lead, respond, and recover from stress. Through practical reflection tools and Christ-centered heart healing language, attendees will learn how to recognize what their hearts have been carrying, invite Jesus into the places that feel tired or guarded, and take the next step toward renewed peace, clarity, and sustainable impact. Educators leave with repeatable resources to sustain the change. Educators leave the session with renewed hope, practical reflection tools they can immediately apply, a repeatable Heart Check download to help them continue identifying wounds, judgments, and expectations as they surface, and the opportunity to book a free gifted call for additional heart healing support.

Educators are often told to do more, give more, and push harder. But the results we create are not only shaped by our actions. They are shaped by the identity and inner state we are operating from. In this session, Jerry Nwosuocha will help attendees see how hidden self-concepts, inner dialogue, and old identity patterns can quietly affect confidence, leadership, communication, resilience, and performance.

Participants will learn how to recognize the inner story they are living from and begin shifting into a more empowered state. This is not about adding more pressure or another strategy to the pile. It is about helping educators return to the version of themselves who can lead, serve, and create with clarity, authority, and renewed energy.

Educators dedicate their lives to helping others succeed, yet many experience stress and uncertainty when it comes to their own finances. In this practical and inspiring session, financial empowerment expert and Amazon best-selling author Josette Mandela shares simple, actionable strategies to help educators reduce financial overwhelm, build confidence with money, and create a clear path toward financial security. Drawing from her personal journey of overcoming post-divorce bankruptcy, Josette demonstrates that financial wellness doesn't require perfection—it starts with small, intentional steps. Attendees will leave with practical tools to better understand their finances, overcome limiting money beliefs, and begin building a future with greater confidence, peace of mind, and purpose.

Working moms are often praised for doing it all—but behind the capable exterior, many carry an invisible emotional burden. As the caretaker, fixer, and peacekeeper, they silently shoulder responsibilities that can lead to chronic stress, burnout, resentment, and a gradual loss of self.

In this empowering presentation, Coach Keya reveals why high-achieving women often find it difficult to ask for or receive support and how subconscious beliefs keep them trapped in cycles of overgiving. Attendees will discover practical strategies to establish healthy boundaries without guilt, prioritize their own well-being, and create more balanced, fulfilling relationships at home and at work.

Through compassionate insights and actionable tools, participants will leave feeling seen, understood, and equipped to release the pressure of carrying everything alone. They'll gain a renewed sense of confidence, emotional freedom, and permission to care for themselves as wholeheartedly as they care for everyone else.

Families today have more educational options than ever before, yet many feel overwhelmed by conflicting advice and fear of making the wrong decision. In this session, Kristina Heagh-Avritt draws on more than 30 years in education to help educators understand how they can better support families in making informed, values-based learning choices. Attendees will explore common misconceptions about educational pathways, discover practical ways to foster stronger partnerships with parents, and learn how focusing on each child's unique needs can improve both learning and well-being. Participants will leave with a renewed perspective on empowering families rather than simply directing them, creating more confident parents and more successful learners.

TEACHERS: If you are offer coaching to parents and/or students and want to use public speaking and webinars to grow, this talk is for you.

Most solopreneurs are passionate about helping others. Sadly, according to Forbes, shockingly few will make any real or consistent income. Running a business leaves them overwhelmed, selling makes them run screaming, and they can struggle for years to craft the one-minute message the modern world demands. This turns around when they see how a short message, focused on 4 keys emotions (backed by neuroscience), inspires right-fit clients to want to work with them, credit

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• Marina’s talks are highly engaging, humorous, raw. Audience participation is encouraged throughout. She weaves in case studies, testimonials, stories, and key tips audience members can use right away.
• Audience will leave with a template and actionable tips.

Curriculum mandates on social and emotional learning tell you what to teach but stop short of how to actually live it. As educators, you have lesson plans to follow, standards to meet, boxes to check. Yet the true nature of teaching has always been something more: drawing out a student's potential, not just delivering content.

This session explores where that "something more" comes from, the educator's own inner state. When you understand a few key principles of how the mind works, resilience and well-being stop being one more thing to teach and become something you naturally embody. That state ripples outward, shaping the classroom environment, the safety students feel, and their capacity to learn and grow.

We'll talk about moving from social-emotional learning to social-emotional living, for you first, students second. Come ready to rethink resilience, and leave with a simple way to bring more of it into your classroom.

Great education begins with great leadership, and leadership begins with meaningful conversations. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience in executive leadership, coaching, and higher education, Sally Bendersky shares practical insights that help educators strengthen trust, improve communication, and lead with greater confidence in times of constant change.

Participants will explore the distinctions between managing and leading, the role of self-leadership in creating positive learning environments, and how intentional conversations can inspire collaboration, innovation, and resilience among colleagues and students alike. Attendees will leave with practical strategies they can immediately apply to build stronger relationships, foster engagement, and create cultures where both educators and learners can thrive.

This session is ideal for educators, administrators, and academic leaders who want to make a lasting impact through authentic, human-centered leadership.

Imagine your business delighting you again — earning more while working less, feeling deliciously confident, turned on by your mission, and in love with the life you’ve built. In this uplifting, no-fluff session, I’ll reveal the secret to unstoppable success, freedom, and joy.

You’ll discover:

How to live in Grace and Gratitude, knowing how to be unstoppable, and how to mine the gold of your past instead of villifying it.

Reignite your vision and fall back in love with your business — this is your moment.

What if your lessons captivated students the way great movies do — pulling them in, refusing to let go, and leaving them forever changed?

In this session, educators will discover the storytelling secrets behind Hollywood's most powerful narratives and learn to apply them directly in the classroom. Great teachers don't lecture — they story. They build tension, create stakes, reveal character, and deliver moments of truth that students carry for decades.

Drawing on universal story architecture — the same structures found in every culture across human history — you'll learn to craft lessons that bypass resistance and speak directly to the part of the brain that feels before it thinks. No more "teachy" moments. No more glazed eyes.

Walk away with practical storytelling tools that transform any subject into an experience students can't forget — because the best lesson is one they never realized they were getting.