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Bringing a World of Experience to Your Students
Inspiring and Interactive School Programs Empowering Students to Cultivate Understanding and Promote Respectful Engagement
At Speak to Students, we bridge the gap between curriculum and real-life experiences through our series of interactive programs. Our mission is to empower students to make positive impacts in their lives, schools, and communities.
We are passionate about inspiring the next generation. With our engaging in-school presentations and online courses, we captivate students and equip them with the tools to foster respect, understanding, and positive action. Whether you’re a teacher, student, or youth worker, our interactive resources will help you inspire and empower students, encouraging critical thinking and growth within your community
A series of Interactive, Educational, and Entertaining LIVE and Online Presentations for Your Students
At Speak to Students, we empower young people to make a positive impact on their lives, communities, and the world. Our programs create meaningful conversations about diversity, inclusion, respect, civility, peace, and life, fostering an environment where student voices are heard, ideas are valued, and actions speak louder than words.
Our interactive keynotes, workshops, webinars, and seminars engage students and encourage their involvement. We support teachers by reinforcing relevant messages and connecting what students learn in school to their world outside the classroom. Tailored to diverse student audiences—whether apathetic or passionate, focused or distracted, high-achieving or struggling—our programs meet students where they are.
Speak to Students provides a platform to take students on a journey without ever leaving their classroom. We bridge gaps and strengthen bonds that recognize our commonalities and envision a brighter future. Together, we create an environment that encourages ongoing conversation far beyond the presentation. By bringing in an outside voice, we not only support teachers' curriculum but also deliver a greater message to students.
Connect Your Students to Each Other and the World Around Them
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Working to build a community of empowered, thoughtful, and engaged young individuals ready to make a difference!
At Speak to Students, we believe in the power of conversation to transform education. Our programs are designed to engage students in meaningful dialogues, encouraging them to share their thoughts and ideas actively. This conversational approach not only makes learning more interactive and enjoyable but also fosters a sense of connection and understanding among students. By celebrating our common humanity, we highlight the shared experiences and aspirations that unite us all, regardless of our backgrounds. This focus on our similarities helps to break down barriers and build a more inclusive and empathetic community.
Inspiring future leaders is at the heart of our mission. We provide students with actionable insights and practical tools to make a positive impact on their lives, communities, and the world. Through our interactive presentations and workshops, we empower young minds to envision a brighter future and take the necessary steps to achieve it. Join us in fostering a generation of inspired, engaged, and compassionate leaders ready to make a difference.
Why a Conversational Approach?
Traditional Q&A sessions often feel limiting. Speak to Students flips the script, turning presentations into interactive dialogues.
Active Engagement: Students are encouraged to participate throughout the presentation, sharing their thoughts and ideas.
Ongoing Conversations: The dialogue doesn't stop at the end. Students continue the conversation, inspiring each other and building lasting connections.
Celebrating Our Common Humanity
Our differences are simply that—differences. Speak to Students programs facilitate conversations among students, focusing on our shared experiences and similarities.
No matter where they come from, students share universal experiences and aspirations. Speak to Students programs focus on these shared bonds, highlighting our similarities rather than our differences.
Inspiring Future Leaders
Speak to Students empowers young minds to envision a brighter future. By providing actionable insights and practical tools, we equip students to make a positive impact on their lives, communities, and the world.
Join us in fostering a generation of inspired, engaged, and compassionate leaders.
Discuss Diversity. Create Connection. Encourage Inclusion. Promote Peace.
There has never been a better opportunity for us to live respectfully together and benefit from each others wisdom and experience. Create conversations and celebrate the similarities of our cultural differences with the interactive presentations of Speak to Students online.
Topics Bridging Divides, Fostering Unity
Our differences can divide, but dialogue can unite. Speak to Students empowers students to connect, understand, and respect one another. Through interactive presentations, we address issues of incivility and promote peace. By bridging the gap between the classroom and the community, we inspire students to create a more inclusive world.
Create meaningful conversations that break down barriers and build bridges. Our interactive presentations empower students to:
Engaging, Informative, and Fun Topics for Students
As a teacher, you have an incredible opportunity to reinforce essential academic and personal skills in your students. Whether they're inspired or indifferent, presentations can be a powerful tool to bridge your curriculum with their lives beyond the classroom.
Diversity Matters
A Fresh Perspective on Diversity
Tired of traditional diversity training? Byron's unique approach sparks curiosity, ignites conversations, and inspires action. Through interactive sessions, students learn to:
- Challenge their own biases
- Appreciate different perspectives
- Become agents of positive change
By focusing on the similarities that unite us, we can overcome the divisions that separate us.
Empower Students to Make a Difference
Promoting Peace
Speak to Students offers a practical framework for promoting peace and understanding. Through engaging discussions and interactive activities, students learn to:
- Resolve conflicts peacefully
- Build stronger relationships
- Become agents of positive change
By empowering students to take action, we can create a more just and equitable world.
Unite Your Students
Focusing on what we have in common to create connection with and among students
Our differences are not right or wrong, just different. Speak to Students programs are interactive to encourage engagement, maximize personal relevance, amplify enjoyment, and ignite passion to enhance retention and inspire student action. Speak to Students programs are relevant to compliment curriculum, can enhance in person, remote, and/or hybrid student learning.
Involve Your Students with INTERACTIVE by Design Presentations
From the very beginning, Speak to Students has embraced interactivity. While it would be great to say it was because this approach is pedagogically sound- which it is - and based on the evidence that students benefit more when they are involved in their learning - which they do - the truth is more personal. Initially, all my presentations were interactive because when was a students I was BORED to DEATH just sitting passively and listening to teachers, preachers, and 'old' people. And it just seemed pretentious to stand there and preach about tolerance, open-mindedness, culture, and peace. Who was I to lecture anyone? So instead, I decided to ask questions and foster discussions. And that's how interactivity became the core of my presentations.
Speak to Students redefines the traditional school presentation. Interactive presentations engage students in their learning process, making it more memorable and meaningful. Byron's dynamic approach fosters engaging discussions that inspire students action. By integrating external perspectives with curriculum goals, these interactive sessions create a lasting impact.
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A Speaker Your Students Remember
Known as the 'guy with the crazy tie' or 'the speaker in sneakers', Byron has been speaking to students for over 20 years. With a message relevant for your classroom, Speak to Students brings the same interactive, educational, and motivational presentations he uses to speak live in schools to create connection with your students online.
Byron brings his experience working with youth from diverse backgrounds and in a wide range of settings with over 3,000 hours speaking to students into EVERY ONE of his presentations.
Whether your students are apathetic or interested, focused for their future or are unsure and undecided, Speak to Students presentations are perfect for YOUR STUDENTS.
Featured Speaker in Over 300 Schools.
Speak to Student Presentations Used by hundereds of Presenters in 26 States.
Teacher and Student Comments and Evaluation
Our greatest endorsement comes from the voices of those we serve. Teachers and students consistently praise Byron's engaging and impactful presentations. Teachers appreciate how Byron's sessions seamlessly integrate with their curriculum, enhancing classroom dynamics and student understanding. Students are captivated by the interactive and relatable nature of the presentations, often leaving with a renewed sense of purpose and motivation. From fostering critical thinking to promoting inclusivity and respect, the positive feedback from both educators and students highlights the transformative impact of Speak to Students. Read on to see how our programs have made a difference in classrooms across the globe.
Teacher Tested, Trusted, and Approved.
What our staff really appreciate about Byron's talks is that he gives excellent examples of everyday situations the students relate well to.
Barb Groth | Work Experience Coordinator
His presentation served well as a launching point to discuss diversity in a different context.
Megan LaChapelle | Health Teacher
My students and I were able to have a REAL conversation about cultural differences, prejudices, and how we can do a better job of accepting people.
Ashley Boutelle | World Language Teacher
Student Tested, Trusted, and Approved too.
Watch Byron Speaking to Students
See 3:49 of highlights of Byron speaking to students about Diversity and Culture LIVE in a large lecture hall full of students from multiple classrooms in multiple Academic Departments.
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3 Years in Japan
3 Years in Japan is one of my signature stories. It is a personal example for students how the more we know about people, the more we see we have much in common.
What Makes Us Us?
While I most often talk about cultural diversity there are many characrteristics that make us who we are as individuals.
Here I talk about the characteristics other than
culture that are central to who we are.
My World of Experience
Brining Your Students a World of Experience is the first tag line I used to market myself when I began speaking. But it is much more than just my tag line, it is my promise to bring my world of experience into each and every presentation for your students.
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Experience You Can Trust
Byron brings the experience of delivering over 3,000 presentations to large and small groups of students in 300+
Once a School Speaker. Always a School Speaker.
My earliest recollection of being kicked out of class for talking was in 2nd grade. I started talking
Purpose and Mission
Providing Programs and Services to Empower Young People to Make a Positive Impact in Their Lives, Their Communities, and in Their World.
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