Nationally recognized speaker
Why Book this Speaker:
Traveling From: Indiana
Fee Range: Virtual $5,000 – $8,000
In Person: $9,000 – $12,000
Kim Strobel is the secret to re-energizing classrooms, businesses, and organizations across the country. (Just ask the Texas Google Summit, who hired her to give a keynote.) For over 20 years, she’s been a teacher, top-tier leadership consultant, and nationally-recognized speaker who helps others rediscover their meaning, purpose, and passion.
During her 20-year education career, she has partnered with people at all levels to implement innovative and inspirational practices in the classroom, increase academic achievement, and create positive school-wide climates.
On top of running her education consulting company, she is also a happiness coach and is deeply, deeply passionate about empowering others to live bigger, bolder, braver lives.
Because of her own challenges and adversities, Kim teaches others how to overcome their fears, discover their joy, activate their potential, and boldly pursue a life that feels good to them from the INSIDE-OUT. She is results-focused and believes in giving people the tools to make permanent and enduring, positive changes in all areas of their lives.
When she’s not rescuing dogs (as in 129 dogs she’s rescued) or downing a McDonald’s Diet Coke, Kim has the unique ability to embolden audiences. With her contagious high-energy style, Kim empowers and emboldens her audiences. Motivational, inspirational, and always approachable, Kim’s “real talk” attitude is a refreshing approach that allows her to authentically connect with audiences everywhere.
Positive Brains Fuel Success
In this thought-provoking and compelling keynote, Kim shares how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive and step into our power. When our happiness and wellbeing is at the forefront, employees are ten times more engaged, 31% more productive, and three times more creative.
Emotions are at the heart of what teachers do and why they do it. Educators come to teaching with dreams of changing the odds for disadvantaged children and inspiring a love for learning.
Unfortunately, research shows that 40-50 percent of teachers will leave the profession within the first five years. Stress among teachers has reached unprecedented levels.
Teaching is an emotional practice, and teachers need support in strengthening their social and emotional skills to manage the stress that comes with teaching and stay in the profession for the long term.
Well-being” takes the stage front and center, and how we can create fulfilling lives while also working to improve performance in life and workplace success.
Kim unpacks the positive psychology science and research that pivots the crowd towards optimism. She asks, “Would you press a button to increase your happiness levels by 40% and your productivity levels by 31% while also having 300% more creativity on a Monday morning? When people respond, “Yes!” she explains how to achieve this.
Key Takeaways:
A Mission to Make the System Work for All
Schools are struggling. Administrators are frustrated. Teachers are overworked. Students are paying the price. And everyone is looking for a way to reform—and transform—a troubled education system.
But before any sort of reform can happen, Kim makes the case that everyone involved needs to ask themselves a very important question:
Do we need to reimagine what education can really be?
Educators are preparing young people for the future. And that’s why the outdated educational system needs to change. The future belongs to artists, inventors, storytellers—creative thinkers!
Key Takeaways:
Meaning, Purpose, and Passion in Education
As someone who has experienced moments of powerlessness in her personal life, as well as in her career as an educator, Kim is all too familiar with how easy it is to feel helpless. Teachers, in general, are struggling right now. Educators feel they are working in a time of chaos; they are over-worked, overwhelmed, and over-stressed.
Some have lost a lot of their joy.
And what concerns her the most is the toll these feelings are taking on them and how it’s affecting their lives, their classrooms, and their students.
But she believes that sometimes it’s out of chaos that solutions cry out. Teachers need to be reminded of their “why” to experience professional growth in education—and they need tools to help them navigate the ever-changing landscape of this profession.
During this keynote, Kim shares the story of a very special student who had a profound impact on her life. Teachers are moved to tears when they hear about this student who faced challenges not just in the classroom, but also at home. She shares this story because it drives home how truly important it is for teachers to remember and embrace their “why”—because this student taught her a lot about her own reasons for teaching.
Kim is determined to help teachers rediscover their passion for teaching, but more than anything, she wants them to reclaim their lives and stand proud on this path they have chosen. She wants to empower them, because they are the ones who step in our classrooms 180 days a year and hold great influence on our children.
What they do matters greatly, and the fact that they feel called to teach … well, this is truly a service of the heart.
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