College Keynotes and Seminars!

Presenting a dynamic array of motivational, informative and fun keynotes, seminars and workshops for college audiences!

Kevin's bright energy and dynamic presentations have been a favorite with college audiences and college-age students for over 15 years in the U.S. and Europe. His varied experiences include teaching in three colleges, serving on active duty as an army officer, and as an entrepreneur of two companies. He has worked with hundreds of audiences of students, faculty and staff in over 20 subject areas. His passion lies in the power of leadership and the energy and lasting joy that comes through building effective relationships, managing stress and focusing our lives on what matters most. No one leaves Kevin's presentations without a renewed hope and excitement for life…and the tools to make new things possible!

Kevin will also present to your business and education colleges, student leadership teams and faculty and staff groups. He has over twenty topics custom designed for college audiences.

One package will bring him on campus for a whole day of multiple sessions to many groups!!

Favorite College Keynotes!

"Quit Screaming at the Microwave!" Kevin's high-energy keynote presentation about stress will have everyone relaxed and feeling great! There's lots of fun participation and interaction as he presents his six spoked "stress-out wheel" and demonstrates how humor, deep breathing, relaxation exercises, music, biofeedback, aroma-therapy and many other tools will dissolve the stress in college life and beyond!
Alternative title: Why are You Rowing Your Sailboat?

"Joyology: Finding Joy in Everyday Life" This is a thoroughly unique presentation like no other in the world. Kevin challenges the world's concepts of where joy comes from (it is always from within, not from without) and presents six principles for discovering, and rediscovering, the true sources of everyday joy. This life-changing workshop forever affects the way people live and think.

"Extraordinary Leadership: the Gettysburg Connection" Kevin's gripping presentation explores the powerful and critical differences between management and extraordinary leadership and outlines six fundamental imperatives for becoming exemplary leaders. Emotionally illustrated with powerful visuals and fascinating historical examples, such as the heroic leadership of Colonel Joshua Chamberlain in the battle of Gettysburg. This is also a great presentation for business and student government groups.

"Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High": Based on the New York Times best-seller, Kevin presents powerful ideas and dozens of practical tools on how to unlock the power of interpersonal communication to resolve conflict, create synergy and build lasting relationships.

"LifeLeadership: Creating Yourself in a Changing World" In this thought-provoking session, Kevin teaches the art of LifeLeadership. He presents tools and concepts for creating a personal life purpose statement with a handout that participants can later use to deeply analyze themselves and create a life purpose statement. He discusses key ideas for how to say "no" to unimportant, distracting things and stay focused on what is important. He teaches the art of setting personal SMART goals, and many other tools for leading a successful, happy life.

"Chill Out: The Art of Resolving Conflict": Packed with powerful tools for resolving conflict with others and turning conflict into opportunities and challenges. Audiences enjoy his fun way of using participants to illustrate the various conflict management styles and practicing using assertive I-messages. This seminar will leave everyone more confident in working out conflict with others.

Staff/Department Seminars and Workshops

One to two hour workshops include great participant packets, lots of interaction, and many useful tools. A full list is found on his website under seminars and workshops:

"Extraordinary Leadership: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders": This two hour seminar presents new findings on leadership based on the new book by this title, plus practices of exemplary leadership. Kevin illustrates it with great anecdotes from history and provides a stimulating handout packet that leaves participants with tools and challenges to become greater leaders.

"Making Meetings Work": Tool packed workshop filled with ideas on how to run powerful, energetic and effective SHORTER meetings. Your meetings will never be the same!

"Creative Teaching for Faculty": No one will ever teach quite the same after this dynamic and tool-packed seminar. Kevin demonstrated dozens of creative ways to teach just about anything, from creative and stimulating class openers, to how to use games such as Learning Jeopardy and Tic Tac Toe. He shows how to teach to different learning styles and how to identify learning styles in students. He shows how to use such tools as learning journals, the 3 minute paper, the 10-3 Rule, the 7 Minute Rule, jigsaw learning, small-group discussions and many other tools.

"Turn 'em On: Motivating and Empowering Others": This workshop will teach tools and ideas on how to motivate and energize others, create effective reward systems, and excite your team to achieve greater levels of productivity and personal satisfaction

"Igniting the Fire of Student Employees": One of Kevin's favorite workshops for college staff. He presents dozens of ideas on how to understand what turns Generation Y workers on and how to motivate and lead student employees to achieve incredible results. You'll come away with over a dozen useful ideas for getting student employees off to a great start and making the most of their talents and energies.

"Customers Only Want Two Things": One of Kevin's "signature" workshops in which he presents dozens of tools and ideas for firing up your customer service program in the university. This workshop provides a simple way to understand what customers want, and over fifty practical ideas on things your team can begin doing now to provide extraordinary service.

"Dealing with Difficult Customers": How to work with and recover cranky, disappointed, unhappy customers. Packed with great ideas and tools.

"Unleashing the Power": The Art of Delegating: Kevin presents an extremely effective six step model for delegating. This model gives leaders a great tool for unlocking the full potential in their team through effective delegating.

"Creative Problem Solving": A tool packed workshop that leads participants through a powerful problem solving model, including how to translate solutions into actions.

"Fear Not: How to Lead Change!" Kevin presents great information on how to lead your team or department through times of change. Based in part on the great book, Leading Change by John Kotter, this workshop provides great tools on how to inspire the change vision, overcome resistance to change and avoid the 8 pitfalls that derail change.

"Stress-Out and Joy-In": A two-hour, more in-depth workshop on how to achieve joy and reduce stress in self, family and work environments. A six spoke wheel model explains tools we can use to recognize and reduce stress and return our lives to levels of every-day joy.

"Pullin' Together: Building Powerful Teams": This two hour fun and very interactive workshop takes a group through the steps of team development: forming, norming, storming and performing. Kevin brings some fun, but non-threatening, illustrative team games and experiences. Great for departments or student government groups.

"Resolving Team and Interpersonal Conflict": Kevin presents great information and tools for unlocking the potential of positive differences and keeping conflict from steaming into contention. Participants will discover their "default style" for resolving conflict and learn how to use a broader range of communication and conflict resolution techniques. This workshop helps group members clear the air and understand each other better.

"Understanding and Dealing with Difficult People": An engaging and entertaining presentation about the seven types of chronically difficult people and filled with tools and ideas on how to work with them in a more positive way.