Ruth Herman Wells Profile

Why Book this Speaker:

  •     Nationally known veteran trainer; author of dozens of books on problem students; juvenile mental health and behavior expert
  •     Creator of thousands of innovative, more effective strategies to turnaround troubled and problem K-12 students
  •     Passionate, unusual, compelling speaker 
  •     Inventive, updated solutions for school violence, defiance, work refusal, truancy, underperforming, trauma, abuse and more
  • One of the nation’s top ten presenters for K-12 school inservice training and teacher motivation.

 

Live In-person: $5500-$7500 

Virtual: $3000-$4000

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Stop wishing for more effective ways to prevent or manage problems like school violence, defiance, disruption, work refusal, trauma, family strife, underperforming, delinquency and more. Ruth Herman Wells covers it all– from ADHD to Zero Interest in School. Ruth’s presentations are packed with tested, use-now solutions that you can’t find anywhere else.

Youth Change Workshops Director and award winning education presenter, Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. has trained youth professionals throughout North America for more than 20 years. She has been recognized as a top 10 must-have presenter by numerous organizations including the U.S. Department of Education when the department ranked her Youth Change Workshops #9 on its list of educational resource organizations. 

Ruth has spent her life amassing student behavior change strategies that work when conventional approaches fail. She has the upgraded solutions that your staff need to maximize their results with troubled and problem students. She has helped thousands of K-12 educators and youth professionals throughout North America learn updated methods to positively impact  students who are struggling– and she can help your staff too. 

Working with difficult students doesn’t have to be so difficult. Ruth Herman Wells, M.S. is your K-12 Problem Student Problem-Solver. Ruth has spent her entire career amassing the newest and best strategies for the most intractable and hard-to-manage problems that K-12 students present. 

A prolific writer and author of dozens of books on the topic of preventing and managing school violence and student behavior, Ruth is a also popular keynote presenter known for her lyrical, emotional talks that are so motivational and compelling, that they they’ve pulled teachers back from the brink of retirement or resignation. Ruth also has extensive experience as a child therapist, mental health program creator, magazine columnist and adjunct professor. 

Keynote: Doing the Impossible Just Takes a Little Bit Longer

Veteran author/trainer Ruth Herman Wells’ compelling, unusual keynote will grab your participants’ attention, and take them on an emotional, thought-provoking roller coaster ride. Ruth’s talk is a frank, candid, unforgettable look at the world for children and youth today. This lyrical keynote is one part hard truth, one part humor, and one part story, all designed to inspire and reinvigorate even your most discouraged and worn-down participants. Every day, educators and other youth workers are expected to work miracles with struggling children and youth that others have discarded or disregarded. Ruth’s keynote looks that reality in the eye and stares it down. Your participants will leave this captivating keynote with new hope, new energy and a deeper, more profound commitment to doing the impossible every school day. If you are seeking a powerful, memorable way to open or close your conference event, rely on a lively, veteran presenter who will grab your participants’ attention and not let go. Ruth Herman Wells will help make your next conference your best conference.

Key Takeaways: 

  • Learn to develop stronger resilience,  hopefulness, encouragement and motivation about teaching– even during crises or challenging times
  • Learn powerful, more effective tools for working with difficult and troubled K-12 students’ emotional, social and behavioral problems
  • Gain a deeper understanding of how to prevent and manage even the most difficult student problems including work refusal, violence, defiance and truancy.
  • Feel re-charged and re-invigorated and ready to embrace the rest of their school year
  • Gain a deeper understanding of how to prevent and manage even the most difficult student problems including work refusal, violence, defiance and truancy.

Additional Program and Workshop Titles:

  • Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Workshop
  • Control the Uncontrollable Student
  • How to Teach in a Changed World: A Comprehensive Guide to Pandemic Survival
  • Maximum-Strength Motivation-Makers
  • What Works with Work Refusers: How to Help Students Who Refuse to Work in School.
  • And more than a dozen additional topics
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