we need to start cultivating our most human abilities and put a premium on our uniquely human skills: judgment, vision, wisdom, creativity, and resilience.

There’s nothing soft about these skills, and we can’t afford to leave them to chance. Harnessing wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology, and psychology, Angela shares a framework for illustrating and understanding what is possible when we blend our technology with our humanity and work, and when we work together towards making the world a better place to be human for us and for our children.

Everyone in our lives need that same validation. Mattering a universal human need. We cannot capture the minds of our students, colleagues, employees, and customers if we do not first capture their hearts.

You matter is not a statement of inspiration. It is not a project, or strategy, an event, or an item on the agenda. It is the agenda. Mattering is not something that just happens to you. It is something you actively pursue.

This workshop will leave you with the knowledge, habits, and attitudes you need to transform the culture in your organization into one in which everyone knows they matter.

Hope is an essential component to our recovery and renewal. We invite you to join Angela Maiers as she connects the language, theory, and science of hope to our daily work and lives and discusses strategies for building and sustaining a positive and flourishing vision for the future.

Together we will:

• Reflect on the attributes of hope and the beliefs, values, and attitudes that bring them into practice
• Identify strategies for developing capacity to be hopeful and hope-filled
• Learn practical steps and exercises to assess, teach, and nurture hope and strengthen resilience
• Apply a H.O.P.E. model for setting and working towards recovery and growth goals

This presentation seeks to answer these questions by putting these elusive concepts of leadership and learning in place to deliver better results faster for you and those you seek to lead and serve.

Your mission is sacred. The world is hungry for people to step into their power to affect change. It is by daring to act with the courage we wish to see more of that we grow our capacity for influence and amplify our impact in the world.

Let’s not wait another second!

and students as a “set of skills” to be mastered.

New literacies do not make past literacy obsolete, but it will require a new look at the way we nurture and teach our future readers and writers.

This presentation explores the differences and similarities between literacies of the past and new digital competencies and investigates how technology challenges those perceptions.

Emerging digital platforms give us new venues in which to assert our right – set forth in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights – to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

from the addiction of security and acceptance of mediocrity and rekindle the genius within. We can no longer afford as individuals or as a nation to allow our best talents to remain buried beneath well-intentioned but lifeless rules of school.

Liberating Genius is a framework and system that fuels innovation, creativity, and the ability to impact our learning and the world.

There is genius within; together let’s unleash it.

But, what does BRAVE look like? How does BRAVE act and behave? And most importantly, how big can YOUR BRAVE be?

This presentation seeks to answer these questions by putting elusive concepts of leadership and learning in place to deliver better results faster for you and to those you seek to lead and serve.

It begins with one requirement. You must first value yourself and understand your worthiness. Setting yourself up for success involves a few key steps that will better position you to win business and make the most of the contacts you have to build authentic relationships that can lead to new business opportunities.

Angela Maiers will share what steps you need to take as a professional and business owner to be a business that is worthy of being picked.

Gain an understanding of what you need to do to enhance business relationships and strengthen your networking strategies.

Angela presents this powerful and easy-to-implement framework to guide your decisions and practices.

Over 150 resources are included in the presentation for you to get started.

to teachers and students as a “set of skills” to be mastered. New literacies do not make past literacy obsolete, but will require a new look at the way we nurture and teach our future readers and writers.

This presentation explores the differences and similarities between literacies of the past and new digital competencies and investigates the challenges new technologies present.

Emerging digital platforms give us new venues in which to assert our right – set forth in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights – to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.