Speaking and Professional Development

One of my great passions is working with schools, leadership teams, and faculty to reimagine learning and inspire change!

I have over 30 years experience working with audiences of all sizes around the world on topics connected to:

  • Reimagining Education

  • Creating Imaginative Learner-centered Schools

  • Inspired Teaching

  • Visionary Leadership

  • Innovative Administration

  • City Transformation

  • and issues related to and about Teenage Moral Development and Well Being.

I have experience leading:

  • Keynote sessions

  • Professional Development Workshops

  • Faculty Retreats

  • Research Conferences

  • Breakout Sessions

Previous Speaking Engagements include:

  • High Tech High Deeper Learners Conference

  • World Leadership School Global Purpose Summit

  • Norman High School Tiger Talks 1.0

  • SHARP Six Series

  • Professional Leaders and New Thinkers Conference

  • Santa Fe South Faculty Professional Development

  • MARKED Global Women’s Event

  • VEEA Values and Leadership Conference

  • Salt and Light Leadership Young Leader’s Retreat

  • Refuge Summer Learners

  • Dream Year Pitch Night

  • Association of Moral Education Conference: Moral Education and Human Flourishing

  • SALLTed Thinking Higher Conference

  • OKC Rotary Club 29 (largest Rotary club in the world)

Recent Speaking Keynote Topics include:

  • “Visionary Leadership: The Moral Art of Administration”

  • “Educating for Human Flourishing”

  • “Creating a School Without Walls: Using the Resources of Your City”

  • “Creating an Ecology of Care in Schools”

  • “Beyond School Reform: Imagination in Education”

  • “Educating for Wisdom, Virtue, and Compassion”

  • “Education and Moral Health”

  • “Dreaming New Dreams: Leading and Thinking With Innovation”

  • “Educating for Creation: Thriving Individuals = Thriving Communities”

  • “Teaching the Full Human: Educating with Adolescent Mental Health in Mind”

  • “What Breaks Your Heart? Helping Students Find Meaning in Vocation”

  • “Education: Struggles and Possibilities”

  • “Teaching as Soul-Craft: Creating Meaning-Full Curriculum”

  • “Cultivating the Fields of Education”

“Scott has been instrumental in our school’s understanding of education in its current state as well as our ability to envision what could be. This goes beyond tactics, practices and strategies. It is an imaginative voice that calls us to reimagine ALL things new. Scott is fully and uniquely qualified with experience and knowledge that make him a true expert. Partnered with this expertise is his compelling presentation style, making him a perfect asset to any group, event or conference.”— Head of School