Must-Hear Edutainer, Motivational Youth Speaker for Scholars, At-Risk Youth, TRIO Programs, AVID, & GEAR UP Cohorts & Advisors

Keynotes

• ALL In, We’re Gonna Win! ™

   "All we are going to win" is one of Doc Brown’s favorite phrases and student chants as an educator.  He used it most when a student was sitting in class, feeling a little overwhelmed by all the assignments, tests, and projects coming their way. But then, the teacher comes in with a huge smile and says, "All in we are going to win!”  Doc Brown now uses his signature student mantra “All In We’re Gonna Win!” to motivate, inspire, and challenge ALL students to stay connected or get connected to education, extracurricular activities, and to at least one caring adult.

  Doc’s mantra simply means that teachers believe in students wholeheartedly! They're not just there to teach facts and figures, but to empower students to reach their full potential. They're cheering students on ready to support us every step of the way!

  Learning Objectives:

  1.  When teachers say "all in," they mean they're fully committed to helping students succeed. They're dedicated to providing students with the knowledge, resources, and guidance they need to conquer any challenge that comes our way. They're in this with students, side by side, as their biggest cheerleaders!

  2.  And when teachers say "we are going to win," it's a reminder that success is within their reach! It's a positive affirmation that students have the ability to overcome obstacles, learn from their mistakes, and achieve greatness.

   

• GEAR UP for The Power of Possibility

  Join Doc Brown on an exhilarating journey of becoming ‘an Example, not an Excuse.’  As a first generation college student, Doc Brown knew first hand the challenges for “Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, (GEAR UP).” Doc Brown GEARED UP!  He embraced his inner superhero and unleashed his full potential!  Doc Brown took action by setting goals, making plans, and taking bold steps toward his dreams.  Now ‘poverty to power,’ Doc Brown is a tenured full professor and helps others take similar journeys while helping them to acknowledge that comfort and growth cannot co-exist.  

  Learning Outcomes:

  1.  Participants will learn to embrace challenges head on, learn from them, and celebrate every small victory.

  2.  Participants will learn how to embrace their unique strengths, and fearlessly chase their dreams.

• Put Down What You Are Carrying! Unpacking Your Emotional Baggage.

  Childhood trauma is an urgent issue with a profound effect on learning. In this seminar, Dr. Brown successfully addresses the needs of all young people and adults alike, by sharing the importance of dealing with the issues in your backpacks before they deal with your success and happiness. This seminar increases one’s sense of self, grows social intelligence, and promotes individuals’ capacities to work collaboratively to positively make a difference in the lives of others.

  Learning Objectives

  At the conclusion of this program the attendees will gain the following:

  1. Participants will be encouraged to see the toxic stress beneath the surface and connect from a trauma-informed perspective.
  2. Participants will begin to create relationships that develop a climate for learning where ALL students and educators experience success
• If It Is To Be, It’s Up To Me!
  Doc Brown takes young people on a journey of taking total responsibility for their own success.  Doc teaches youth that everyone who truly succeeds develops the attitude of a leader and becomes a winner. 

  
  Scholars will learn the following:

   

  1.  How a positive attitude prepares you for success. 

   

  2.  How being excited about what you are doing and where you are going makes a positive difference. 
• "Cousins. A LIVE & TRUE Story of Parallel Lives: The Journey of First Cousins Bound by Blood but Diverged by Choice."
  This master class delves deep into the intertwined lives of two first cousins whose choices led them down vastly different paths, yet their bond remained unbreakable. One cousin faced the challenges of incarceration, while the other pursued higher education and became a doctor. Through their unique experiences, they discovered how to empower each other, ultimately uniting to uplift high-risk youth.

   

  Learning Objectives:

   

  1. Explore Decision-Making: Analyze the pivotal choices made by two cousins in contrasting life paths, helping participants identify how their own decisions can shape their futures and the importance of accountability.

   

  2. Cultivate Empathy and Perspective: Engage in storytelling and role-playing to understand the environmental and social factors influencing each cousin's journey, fostering a sense of empathy and encouraging youth to embrace diverse viewpoints in their own lives.

   

  *Also facilitated over five (5) wellness circle sessions for selected youth participants:

   

  Session 1: Roots and Routes

  - Kickoff Storytelling: Each cousin shares their background, emphasizing the forces that shaped their paths. Use a storytelling circle to foster connection.

  - Visual Mapping: Participants create a life map, illustrating key decisions that led them to where they are now, highlighting the impact of family support.

   

  Session 2: The Power of Choice

  - Choice vs. Circumstance Workshop: Interactive discussions on the role of personal agency vs. external influences. Use case studies to analyze real-life scenarios of youth facing tough choices.

  - Empathy Exercises: Role-reversal activities where participants embody each cousin’s perspective, fostering understanding of their struggles and motivations.

   

  Session 3: Building Bridges

  - Mentorship Dynamics: Explore how the cousins supported each other. Create small groups where participants mentor one another, sharing strategies for support and encouragement.

  - Resource Mapping: Identify community resources available for high-risk youth and brainstorm collaborative initiatives that leverage the cousins' diverse experiences.

   

  Session 4: Transformative Action

  - Project Ideation: Participants design their own outreach programs for youth, inspired by the cousins' commitment. Groups pitch their ideas, receiving feedback from the cousins.

  - Action Plans: Develop actionable steps to implement these projects, including partnerships, funding, and community engagement strategies.

   

  Session 5: The Ripple Effect

  - Celebration of Progress: Reflect on personal growth and group achievements. Create a visual "ripple wall" where participants post how they plan to impact their communities.

  - Future Commitment: End with a pledge ceremony where participants commit to specific actions that support high-risk youth, inspired by the cousins’ journeys.

   

  Outcome:

  Participants leave with a deeper understanding of the complexities of choice, enriched empathy for diverse experiences, and actionable plans to uplift future generations, embodying the spirit of the cousins’ bond.

   

   
• Attitude Changes Everything!

  Your attitude and work ethic are the two things you have total control over.  You have the power to decide how you are going to see the world -- and how the world is likely to see you.  You can allow your attitude to support you, or defeat you.  Before you ever say a word, your attitude speaks on your behalf.  Come along on this flight with Dr. Brown to really see how "Your attitude affects your cruising altitude."  

  Learning Objectives

  1.  Learn how to operate from inside a positive attitude whereby your body language sends out unmistakable cues of openness.
  2.  Learn how your attitude can infect the people who see you with the same behavior.  

• A Youth Toolkit for Mental Health Awareness

  As a clinical and educational psychologist, Dr. Adolph Brown understands the importance of the capacity to feel, think and act in ways that enhance one's ability to enjoy life and deal with life and school challenges.  Approximately 20% of children and adolescents are suffering from some form of mental disorder and 70% of mental disorders onset prior to age of 25.  The adolescent and teen years are a critical time to promote mental health and to address any mental health problems that arise.  

  Learning Objectives

  1. Youth will understand the warning signs of mental health problems.

  2.  Youth will learn strategies to improve their overall mental health.

   

• Virtual Group Hug! Connecting Our Hearts In Trying Times.

  Laughing together and connecting our hearts are as close as you can get to a hug without touching.  Dr. Brown's "group hug" is the perfect gift for your team; one size fits all. 

  Learning Objectives

  1. ALL in attendance will experience the empathetic warm, profound appreciation and grateful recognition of their efforts in trying times.
  2.  Understand and appreciate Dr. Brown's explanation of interdependence and the fact that "we are better together, even if we are sometimes apart."

   

   

   

• Silence is Violence!

  Allow Doc Brown to take your staff, teachers, students, parents, and community stakeholders on a serious, yet loving and compassionate journey whereby all learn to have mutual respect for one another, and all feel physically, emotionally, and socially comfortable.  Ultimately, everyone will feel they are valued, belong, and welcomed. A safe learning environment is free of threat of emotional, physical, and psychological harm and allows all to risk exploring difficult issues and express their viewpoints honestly.  Schools cannot do this important work alone without the help of the home and community.  We must create a community of collaboration and cooperation where everyone understands that "silence is violence."

  Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will be led to understand that students often see more than educators and parents and have a duty to "see something, say something!"
  2. Participants will understand the damage of supporting and encouraging a “culture of revenge.”
• "Know the Difference Between Enjoying Your Youth & Destroying Your Future." Character, Choices & Consequences Student Success Assemblies Tour

  The Character, Choices & Consequences Student Success is the most sought-after and highly effective youth motivational, resistance skills and values clarification assembly today.  The tour team is compromised of motivational educators from all walks of life.  They are collectively known as the Dream Team because they never allowed anything to stand between them and their dreams. Individually, team members have experienced and overcome the challenges associated with bullying, family problems, language barriers, English as a Second Language, being black & brown in red-white & blue, alienation, the effects of family alcohol and drug abuse, aggression, racism and self-esteem.  

  Learning Objectives:

  1.  Through their stories of trials and triumphs of overcoming being a Mexican “Newcomer to Overcomer,” "Be A Buddy, Not A Bully," "At-Risk to At-Promise, "Be Better, Not Bitter," “Hugs Not Drugs,” “BE-YOU-TIFUL” and “It's Not How You Start, It's How You Finish!” the Dream Team connects with ALL students through powerful inspiring messages of hope, uplifting music and tons of motivation.

  The assemblies are SEPARATELY appropriate for ALL grade levels.

   

• Portrait of a Graduate. Your Most Important "Selfie!"

  Dr. Brown creatively reinforces the five descriptors that define your school's mission in terms of student outcomes.  Dr. Brown's uplifting and engaging message will capture the core values of your school while ensuring students, parents and staff alike understand the importance of preparing students for success in today's competitive world.  In essence, when students, faculty, administration and parents understand what their mission looks like in terms of student outcomes, EVERYONE will be better able to provide the support, education, resources and direction their students need to achieve success.

  Learning Objectives
  1.  Students will take responsibility and ownership of their education and will commit to achieving the goals they set.

  
  2.  Students will be inspired to strive for academic excellence in a challenging, healthy, engaging, supportive and safe environment.   

• “It Depends on Me!” - Master Class #247 No Excuses

  This master class is designed for high schoolers to college-aged young people to help them see that there are no good reasons or explanations to justify lack of effort, commitment or determination.

  PREREQUISITE: Be stronger than your strongest excuse. 

• De-STRESS the Test. Standardized Testing Success!

  Students and teachers alike are under considerable pressure for students to perform well on standardized tests.  A little stress can keep students on their toes, but too much stress CAN knock them off of their feet.  The undue stress and pressure as a result of tests can create excessive worry and anxiety.  This contradicts the desired outcomes of the student’s ability to process and understand test questions and perform at their best. Dr. Brown uses inspiring and informing strategies to reassure students that the most important thing to do is to try their best.

   

  Learning Objectives

  1. Students will learn the following coping strategies: the 3 Up’s of test taking, the S-T-A-R relaxation method and how to “Dance Through The Storm.”
  2. Students will be led to view testing as a challenge as opposed to a stress using a growth mindset.
• Starting Early™ Challenging Racial Bias before It Becomes a Habit

  Racial biases can be seen in children as early patterns of response arise from a basic psychological tendency to like and approach things that seem familiar, and dislike and avoid things that seem unfamiliar.  As a clinical psychologist, educator and parent, Dr. Brown takes young people on a fun and exciting journey of brain science, diversity awareness and the power of inclusion.  Dr. Brown’s approach suggests a promising new direction for reducing racial bias in children. (Appropriate separately for elementary, middle & high schools)

  
  Learning Objectives: 

  1.  Participants will learn why it is important to challenge racial biases.
  2.  Participants will learn how to challenge racial biases.

• Students As Leaders. A Motivational Makeover!

  This talk encourages students and professionals to be PREPARED NOT SCARED for the challenges they will encounter on the path to success. It will also explore the unhealthy hip cultural idioms and trends and its all consuming and devastating impact on society. Ultimately it will empower attendees to avoid the pitfalls of “life traps,” while empowering attendees to make positive choices.

  Learning Objectives

  At the conclusion of this program the attendees will gain the following:

  1. Participants will learn Better Attitude Development (B.A.D.™) strategies for self-improvement.
  2. Participants will learn the importance of INVESTING IN ONESELF!
• Why Fit In When You Were Born To Stand Out? Saying Goodbye To Negative Peer Pressure!

  Whenever Dr. Brown is asked "How are you?"  He vehemently responds "OUTSTANDING!!!"  He believes that to truly be "outstanding,"  one would have to "stand out."  Young people today get so caught up on how the world sees them and how to get the most social media attention, that they lose themselves.  Once they realize that they were born to stand out, with the talents they were gifted, they can live a more filling and compelling life, that changes not only the lives for themselves, but for any person with whom they come in contact.

  Learning Objectives 
  1.  Students will learn to grow within themselves to stand out, and not try to live in a manner that is untrue to oneself.

  2.  Students will learn to grow in physical, emotional, health and financial areas all to not only help them find themselves, but in the end making them stand out, due to the amount of self-confidence they glow with.

   

• Invest In Your Success! Commitment To Graduate

  Dr. Brown excitingly encourages and demonstrates to students how to take responsibility for their education.  Dr. Brown shares strategies for academic, career and life excellence with students, educators, administrators and parents.  He encourages students to strive for their high school diploma and set goals for the next stage of life beyond high school - trade schools, armed services, college and/or employment.

  Learning Objectives

  1.  Dr. Brown helps create a school culture that conveys a constant and consistent message to all stakeholders of the importance of graduation, education, and life-long learning.

  2.  Dr. Brown also offers supportive products to surround students with visual cues and symbolic non-verbal messages reminding them to focus on their future.  

• It’s A Tough Time To Be A Kid, But You Are A Tough Kid!™

  All generations have had their fair share of challenges and crises.  Today, kids are experiencing scary news on a regular basis.  Everything from shootings, cyber-attacks, school violence to terror attacks have become a harsh reality.  Although it may be tough, kids today can be taught to be tougher.  Dr. Brown takes young people on a growth-mindset journey to find the light in the midst of so much darkness.  Kids will learn that all is not perfect in the world but that they can make it better.

   

  Learning Objectives

   

  1. Children notice things aren’t quite right in the world, however Dr. Brown helps them learn how to make the world a better place…starting with them.
  2. Young people will also be led to think more deeply about people’s feelings and how they can solve problems.
• It's Not How You Start...IT'S HOW YOU FINISH!™

  Theme: If you get knocked down seven times, you must get up eight times. This motivational talk promotes youth inspiration in helping young people overcome a "victim mentality" and move toward a "victor mentality."  This talk helps every young person realize their dreams, hold onto their dreams, and promotes the 'hero' within each youth. Each youth will realize their capacity to re-create themselves and start anew.

  Learning Objectives

  At the conclusion of this program the attendees will gain the following

  1. The ability to recognize nothing is impossible, seize opportunities, and create new opportunities.
  2. The ability to rethink their priorities and reset their expectations.
• YOU GOT THIS! Moving Mountains - The Growth Mindset

  Often young people get discouraged when they face obstacles, challenges and hardships. Dr. Brown helps young people realize the "growth mindset" needed to overcome the seemingly mountainous ordeals they may face.

  Learning Objectives

  1.  Young people are led to increase their belief system and confidence to do the things that appear too difficult.

  2.  Young people will be led to "think BIG" to achieve spectacular and apparently impossible results.

• The One Love Anti Bullying Philosophy™

  This is a proven and engaging tool to improve school climate, address bystander and bullying behavior while creating caring anti bullying school communities.
  
  Learning Objectives
  At the conclusion of this program the attendees will gain the following:

  1. Create safe and caring communities by shifting power away from bullies and into the hands of the caring majority of students.
  2. Utilize a team approach to involve administrators, teachers, support staff, students, parents, and the community to change the climate in the school.
• A Drug-Free Me! How Will You Handle Your Storm?

  This assembly focuses on the message of living above the influence of drugs as well as learning about the consequences of using.  Many risk factors are addressed coupled with the accompanying protective factors. This is substance abuse and drug prevention education information & inspiration at its BEST!  

  Learning Objectives

  1. Learn common misconceptions leading to experimentation with drugs and other risky behaviors. Students will also explore the facts that "positive choices take you in a positive direction, and negative choices have negative consequences."
  2. Students will be empowered to embrace the belief that every storm in life is followed by a rainbow, and that dancing through the storm is a viable option.
• Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover! Creating Safe Spaces & Promoting Psychological Safety for ALL!

  Literally, one cannot tell the contents of a book by just looking at the material used to hold it together.  A book with a torn and worn cover may be more important, more entertaining, or more useful than a book bound in a flashier manner.  The same can be extended to relationships.  The attitude of making decisions solely based on outward appearance could cost one the chance of a meaningful encounter.  This is a journey that will provide opportunities for self-exploration of one's perception, the tools to adjust automatic patterns of thinking, and ultimately strategies to eliminate limiting behaviors.

  Learning Objectives

  At the conclusion of this program the attendees will gain the following:

  1. At the end of the session, attendees will be able to avoid the “pejorative tradition” of falling into the trap of only looking at the surface of people, things, and ideas without taking the time and effort to delve deeper into them.
  2. At the end of the session, attendees will be able to utilize strict self-discipline, concepts of psychological safety, empathy, safe spaces, and stereotype threat in bringing vision to blindspots and looking deeper into everything we do without "shaming and blaming."