Inspirational Speakers – Live Sessions
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The inspiring session presenters are high-profile professionals of color featured in the documentary,Told They Can’t. Growing up they experienced homelessness, hunger, poverty, neglect, and abuse. None of it stopped them. Today they’re doctors, research scientists, engineers, educators, and leaders in Congress. These gifted public speakers have impressive accomplishments including publishing hundreds of scientific research papers in The New England Journal of Medicine; contributing to the development of pivotal Apple products such as the Bondi Blue iMac, the Cube, iPad, MacBook Pro; serving as leaders in the U.S. Congress, California State Senate and Assembly and teaching medicine at Stanford School of Medicine and University of California San Francisco. One, several or all will present to attendees via motivational keynote talks, panel discussions, lectures, workshops, and breakout groups, in combination with exclusive clips from theTold They Can’t film.
Attendee Takeaways
- Boldness to refuse being told they can’t, even by those in authority. Choosing rather to aspire to become all they possibly can – without limits.
- Strength to reject being shamed if they come from a broken home, poverty, or have experienced extraordinary challenges and hardship. Courage to instead, OWN IT, understanding these struggles generate inner resilience which gives them an advantage in life.
- Confidence that they can, if they don’t give up, overcome the seemingly impossible problems and obstacles they face, as evidenced by those featured in the Told They Can’t film.
- Enlightened understanding concerning the limitless human potential of every child, no matter background, ethnicity, social status, family income or anything else. Acknowledging that as such, every child deserves to be treated with dignity and afforded opportunity – including the children of refugee and immigrant families, and families experiencing homelessness, food insecurity, and other extreme crises.
Intended Audiences
Professional Development conferences and seminars for professors, teachers, educators, staff, school board members, administrators, government leaders at city, county, state, and federal levels, prison staff, prisoners, those in juvenile detention and the staff, armed forces enlistees, officers and civilian employees, plus employee affinity groups across all industries. Students, parents, grandparents, K-12 schools, colleges, universities, graduate schools, student affinity groups (First Gen Club for example).
Copyright Notice
- Recording, duplication, and/or distribution of session speaker and/or film clips are strictly prohibited. Event clients, speaking contract holders and attendees may not publish, perform, or otherwise copy or distribute the copyrighted content provided at a live session.
- All forms of broadcasting, podcasting, streaming, or transmission by similar methods is strictly prohibited. This means no content may be placed on Zoom or any other video conferencing technology including FaceTime on a personal device or any format audio, video or both.
- These sessions are conducted for the live audience in attendance at the event, one-time only with no exceptions.