Laurie Stewart
"Attitude Check: Being Real, Being Respectful, Being You!"
Laurie Stewart has a heart and passion for young people. Since 1984, she has been committed to developing confident, respectful leaders who powerfully and positively impact their world.
She is passionate about equipping schools to create a unified culture where, despite disagreement, everyone is respected…a culture where everyone encourages and helps each other to be their very best. She believes that when students strengthen and build one another up they create an environment of hope where they can reach their individual and collective potential.
Travels from: Michigan
Praised for relevance and impact on teen and adult audiences alike, Laurie Stewart energetically captures attention through active audience participation, life-changing stories, music, drama, and discussion.
Laurie impacts youth and changes lives through:
- Keynotes and workshops for conventions, retreats, rallies, gifted and talented programs, and university programs
- In-depth student council and student leadership training
- Youth and community leadership conferences
- Interactive student assemblies
- Staff development programs and parent talks
- Brainstorming and discussion sessions
- School / community climate consultations and programs
Helpful, ongoing follow-up is always available to keep your participants energized and excited, guaranteeing long-term results!
Laurie, a graduate of Western Michigan University, received her Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association. Laurie has written a book and audiotape program entitled: The Winning School: The Team Approach to Healthy School Climate.
PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH
Attitude Check: Being Real, Being Respectful, Being You!
* Treating every person with respect
* Creating positive peer pressure
* Becoming the best version of you!
Zits, Braces, and Poison Ivy: Getting Beyond the External**
* Building confidence in your own unique gifts
* Setting and achieving goals
* Taking healthy risks and making positive choices
Backseat or Honeymoon Suite: You Choose
* Developing healthy relationships
* Choosing abstinence-why, when and how
Student Leader and Student Council Leadership Training
* Developing leadership skills and understanding leadership styles
* Taking risks and modeling positive peer pressure
* Team building and school cohesiveness
* Transforming your school’s climate
Enhancing Speech Communication
* Presenting a 5-7 minute speech
* Capturing the attention of even the toughest audience
* Handling fear and developing stage presence
* Wowing with an impromptu speech
Positive Peer Influence: How to Put On An Impacting Assembly
* Using positive peer pressure to influence others
* Developing teen issue presentations that inspire and challenge younger students
Racial Unity Training
* Creating a racially respectful atmosphere
* Developing an action plan
** Is used as a follow-up to “Attitude Check: Being Real, Being Respectful, Being You!”
Making It Cool To Be Kind: A School / Community Climate Program
This program is different from any you’ve ever experienced! Whereas one-day programs create short-term excitement and change, this four-day, yearlong program creates sustainable long-term change. You’ll watch as your students empower each other to:
* Respect classmates, parents, and teachers
* Increase learning ability
* Reduce conflict
* Eliminate racial tensions
* Decrease discipline problems & choose right behavior
PRESENTATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL & EDUCATIONAL LEADERS
Igniting Your Passion To Serve!
This upbeat and informative presentation offers solutions for handling stress within your workplace. Through interactive activities, music, and discussion, this exciting seminar will empower your staff members to:
* Identify sources of stress within the work environment
* Implement 10 solutions to overcoming stress
* Clarify their purpose and focus on the positive
* Bring more joy, humor, and fun into their daily work routine!
PRESENTATIONS FOR PARENTS
Developing Respectful Kids
In this seminar, parents gain useful skills and insight as they learn to:
* Understand different temperaments
* Replace unconstructive criticism with life-changing encouragement
* Enhance the family unit
* Talk to kids about sex (optional)
CONFERENCES FOR COMMUNITIES
The Connect Effect Conference: Plugging the Energy of Youth into the Needs of Community (See the video above for more information)
This life-changing conference empowers teens to learn leadership skills, make viable connections with community leaders, and then immediately put these skills and connections to use serving others. Your entire community will be impacted as teens directly partner with community-based organizations to develop and implement service projects.
The Connect Effect Conference:
* Develops leadership in a broad range of young people
* Helps teens to discover their own unique ability and passion to serve
* Trains young people to confidently influence friends, peers, and communities
* Cultivates a commitment to community service and leadership
* Creates sustainable relationships between teens and their communities
“The day of the conference, Laurie exceeded any expectations we could have had. Her ability to engage each student, respect each student, and honor the differences in each student had a group of 185 7th - 12th graders sharing, taking risks, celebrating themselves and others and motivated to go into their world as kinder, more respectful people. The impact Laurie made is still being felt among those who planned and those who attended the conference. Students have recognized their ability to change the environment at home and at school through the simplicity of kindness.
As an adult leader I am particularly touched by Laurie’s ability to allow students to direct the course of her work. She listens to these young people, eager to hear their observations and wisdom and weaves her knowledge with their ideas. It is very obvious that Laurie thrives on her work with young people. Her skills as a facilitator have been keenly tuned and are evident at the end of the day when each young person stands in line to thank her for her presence.”