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Are Your Students Truly Future-Ready?
In today's rapidly evolving world, preparing students means more than just academic excellence. It's about equipping them with the essential life skills to communicate effectively, lead with purpose, navigate challenges, and build healthy relationships. Yet, many schools struggle to integrate these vital social-emotional learning and leadership components into already packed schedules, often adding to staff burden.
With over 30 years of working with youth Dan has the experience and tools to help your student grow and achieve their success.

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What will your teen learn?
Through practical teaching and demonstration, your students will learn how to master their delivery from the inside out:
 3 Confidence Tools: They will learn physical and mental resets, including proper Preparation, 4-4 Breathing techniques to calm the nervous system, and shifting from negative to Positive Self-Talk.
 Speech Mechanics: How to systematically hook an audience using stories, bold statements, or statistics, and how to execute a strong final closing sentence.
 Vocal and Body Language Mastery: Tips to control pacing (avoiding the biggest mistake of talking too fast), changing tone, making direct eye contact, and using natural hand gestures.
 Audience Psychology (DISC Integration): They will learn the basics of communication styles.
 Increased Confidence and Experience: Students will create and deliver a 60 second and 3 minute speech to the group.
CONFIDENCE
Overcome fear and build self-belief.
VOICE & DELIVERY
Use your voice with clarity, energy & impact.
BODY LANGUAGE
Communicate with confidence and presence.
SPEAK IN REAL LIFE
Practice in a fun supportive environment.


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This class can now be purchased through the Step-up Market ​Catalog #20141549 Fill the out form below to bring this incredible class to your group!

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Character Development Series

Students become the kind of person others can trust and follow.

​Character building series: The Engine Within 4-week series. Each 2hr Classes.
  1. The Engine Within: Building Character
  2. Confidence in a Comparison World: Social Media effects on you.
  3. The Architecture of Connection: Building Strong Meaningful Relationships
  4. Sometimes you Win Sometimes you Learn
This series focuses on the Engine inside the student that drives them. Focusing on Character, Self-Identity, True Positive Relationships, and Learning from Failures. This is a must for any youth to have success in navigating the teenage years. 
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Leadership University

This series is sold as a complete series.

​Student Leadership Series: Developing the Leader Within You: 4-week series. Each 2hr Classes.
  1. Leadership 101: What is a Leader and the 3 Keys to becoming a Leader.
    1. The Definition of Leadership.
    2. The Five Levels of Leadership.
    3. The Foundation of Leadership: Character
  2. Leadership 201: 4 Qualities of a Leader
    1. Influence
    2. Priorities
    3. Problem Solving
    4. Attitude
  3. Leadership 301: 4 Defining factors of a Leader
    1. Serving Others
    2. Self-Discipline
    3. Personal Growth
    4. Vision
  4. Leadership 401: The Key: Relationships / Real Success relationships
Developing the Leader Within You is based that Everyone can be a leader, and that leadership is a skill. There are those who can draw a crowd, but that does not make them a leader. Leadership elevates others around them to success, has vision, and leaves a legacy behind them.
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Mental Performance Series

​Mental Performance series: Forged to Succeed: 4-week series. Each 2hr classes.
  1. The Book of You: understanding the importance of communication styles.
  2. Control Your Thoughts Before They Control You.
  3. Social Media, Identity & Self-Image.
  4. Setting Goals and Achieving them: How to have Success.
The teenage years are a battle of the mind. The development from child to teen and then adult is not only physical but mental. This series was developed to give teens the tools necessary to understand themselves, fight negative influences, and set their minds on the things that will benefit them and lead to life of purpose and success.
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    ​For In-person Workshops.
    ​To set up a DISCovery meeting please fill out form.

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