Services
Keynotes and workshops on intellectual character, built for your community.
Every engagement is designed around one question your school is trying to answer. Here is where I most often help.
Keynotes
A signature talk that reframes what a school is really for, delivered to students, faculty, or a full-community assembly.
Sample session: Learning with Character
Student workshops
Activity-heavy sessions that give young people a working language for their own thinking and a commitment they leave with.
Sample session: Disagreeing Well
Faculty professional development
Practical PD for New England schools that turns the virtues into concrete classroom routines teachers can use Monday.
Sample session: Fostering Intellectual Virtue
Culture and leadership consulting
Ongoing work with leadership teams to make intellectual character part of how a school hires, teaches, and talks about itself.
Sample session: Mission Into Practice
The method
A thesis, answered by questions.
The way I design every session, from first call to lasting change.
Discover
A conversation about your community, your goals, and the shift you actually want.
What problem are we trying to solve?
Design
I build the session around a single thesis and the questions that resolve it.
What question drives the room?
Deliver
An activity-heavy keynote or workshop where we come together to grapple with these ideas.
Who is doing the work?
Embed
Handouts, routines, and follow-up so the practice outlasts the visit.
What happens on Monday?
Questions
Before you book
Primarily high schools and their communities: rising seniors, upper-school students, faculty, parents, and leadership teams. I also speak to undergraduates and at education conferences. Sessions are always tuned to the specific audience in the room.
My work is grounded in doctoral research on intellectual virtues as well as personal and professional experience, and it is built as an experience where lecture and activity complement one another. Schools leave with language, routines, and a handout they keep using, not just a good feeling that fades by the weekend.
New England is home and where I work most often, so travel there is simple. I do travel more widely for keynotes and multi-day engagements. Tell me where you are and we will make it work.
Keynotes run 45 to 60 minutes. Student workshops run 60 to 120 minutes. Faculty PD comes in half-day and full-day formats, and culture work runs across a school year.
A short conversation about your community and mission, plus a sense of the outcome you want. From there, I’ll draw up a proposal for an event built around your goals. The less generic the goal, the better the session.
Ready when you are
Let us design a session for your school.
Share your goals and I will follow up with formats, dates, and a proposal built around them.