Taylor Kyle The American Mystifier
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I provide dynamic, exciting and smart speeches to public and private gatherings focused on getting engaged and changing the world! Through powerful speaking, deep stories and meaningful points I get people to see their lives as powerful, positive opportunities to make a difference, whether they are youth, parents, social workers, public servants or business people.
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Gig Length: 15 - 180 minutes
Languages: English
I teach people how to engage everyone, everywhere, all of the time.
Sharing expert knowledge, powerful anecdotes, and humorous delivery for every audience, I excite, engage, and motivate audiences to take action. My speeches are focused on practical, purposeful and positive change in individuals' lives, schools, organizations and communities. I especially work to reconnect disengaged people in their lives and throughout the world.
Connecting directly with youth and adults, I bridge the gaps that can exist in organizations and communities. I can help classroom educators understand the necessity of student/adult partnerships; nonprofit executives comprehend the keys to community engagement; youth leaders experience the beauty of equity; and community leaders recommit to what matters most - their communities.
Packed with examples from my professional career, my speeches also feature research from around the world. I highlight the connections between people, share the tools needed to engage others, and build the excitement and energy of participants.
I believe in the power of personal engagement, and I want YOUR participants too, also. Book me today and find out how!
Adam Fletcher is a speaker, consultant, author and trainer serving with more than fifteen years experience in education, nonprofits and government agencies. With expertise focused on education, he is a recognized international leader in youth engagement in communities and student voice in schools.
Adam specializes in helping people engage youth become more effective. Customizing all of his work for individual clients, he conducts strategic planning sessions and implements organization-wide systems including quality improvement, change management, re-designing program processes, and mentoring programs. He facilitates organizational capacity building in topics such as engaging historically disengaged people, fostering connectedness, client/provider partnerships, nontraditional leadership development programs, change management, speaking skills, coaching, consulting skills, training competence, managing organization-wide change, handling the difficult client, organizational communication, conflict resolution, and effective listening. He is particularly adept at turning dysfunctional programs into productive strategies for social change.
Adam has developed media presentations and training materials and has presented at dozens of national and international conferences. He custom designs professional development sessions executive directors, leaders, trainers, staff members, educators, and consultants. Adam has been featured in dozens of publications including The Atlantic, Teaching Tolerance, and Educational Leadership.
As a consultant, trainer and designer, Adam has provided services to National PTA, the Alberta Ministry of Education in Canada, the American Institutes of Research, the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center, YouthBuild USA, the Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA), as well as Projecto Juventude and CENPEC in So Paulo, Brazil. He has also worked with hundreds of other public sector, education and nonprofit organizations.
Adam is the author of over fifty publications, including The Guide to Student Voice, Ending Discrimination Against Young People, and the SoundOut Student Voice Curriculum. Other publications of his include:
Youth Work for the Genius due 2015;
Meaningful Student Involvement due 2015;
The Practice of Youth Engagement 2014;
The Guide to Student Voice 2nd ed, 2014;
Ending Discrimination Against Young People, 2013;
SoundOut Student Voice Curriculum, 2013;
The Freechild Project Youth-Driven Programming Guide, 2013;
Guide to Students on School Boards, 2014;
A Short Guide to Holistic Youth Development, 2014;
A Short Introduction to Youth Engagement, 2013;
The Freechild Project Youth Action Guide, 2013;
Meaningful Student Involvement Deep Assessment, 2013;
Student Voice and Bullying: A SoundOut Focus Paper, 2012;
The Freechild Project Youth Voice Toolkit, 2011;
The Freechild Project Youth Engagement Workshop Guide, 2010;
Washington Youth Voice Handbook, 2007;
The Freechild Project Guide to Social Change Led By and With Young People, 2007;
Meaningful Student Involvement: Guide to Students as Partners in School Change, 2005;
Stories of Meaningful Student Involvement, 2004;
Meaningful Student Involvement Research Guide, 2004;
Meaningful Student Involvement Resource Guide, 2003;
Guide to Cooperative Games for Social Change, 2005;
Meaningful Student Involvement Idea Guide for Schools, 2003;
Firestarter Youth Empowerment Curriculum, 2000
Adam has his BA in Education Development from The Evergreen State College, and conducted graduate work in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington.
Adam is the recipient of the 2012 Seattle Child and Youth Coalition SOAR Innovation Award, the 2011 Youth Engagement Award from the Human Services Coalition of Miami/Dade County (Catalyst Miami), the 2010 Healthy Schools Hero Award from Action for Healthy Kids, and the 2008 Be The Change Award from the Hampton, Virginia Uth Civic Engagement Program.
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