Program topics
Every program includes live chalk art unless you ask Ben to leave it at home. Sessions run 45 to 90 minutes, so you can fit one into a single period or build a morning around it. He will flex to your schedule either way, though you want at least 25 minutes for him to speak and draw.
Keynotes · 45 to 90 minutes · Whole staff
After a lifetime of setbacks and learning challenges, Ben built an approach to turning adversity and change into resilience and purpose. Insight, live art, humor and encouragement, with the message unfolding as the artwork does.
A story of resilience and influence. Ben's run through school with learning disabilities and the educators who refused to write him off. The through-line is what a resilient learning environment feels like from a student's seat.
Guiding others to their potential. Ben's life as an artist, coach and mentor set against his own ADHD, and how a personal obstacle becomes the exact instrument for spotting potential in a student everyone else has filed away.
A straight tribute. Written for teacher appreciation week, end-of-year events and the February staff meeting when everyone is done. The one that makes people cry in a good way.
Challenges leaders to break routine thinking, reframe obstacles and approach growth with fresh perspective. New results require new thinking, and creativity is a leadership advantage rather than a personality trait.
Reconnects a staff to purpose and meaning in the middle of pressure and burnout. Your presence has value, purpose is lived daily, and small moments of kindness and respect change a culture.
Entertainment with depth
A 15 to 25 minute live art performance that delivers more than entertainment. The room is drawn in through curiosity and anticipation, and a blank canvas becomes a finished painting in front of them.
Works as an opening session, a featured moment or a closing highlight. When the finished piece is revealed through the multimedia moment, the impact goes deeper still.
Bonus: everyone takes home a special art gift from Ben.
Breakouts · 45 to 90 minutes
What ADHD actually is, what it is not, and what it feels like from the inside. Ben clears out the myths your staff is still carrying and replaces them with something usable.
Classroom management for the student who is not trying to ruin your lesson. Structures, seating, transitions, and the small changes that cost nothing and buy back fifteen minutes a day.
Workshops and assemblies
An interactive add-on that puts bricks in everyone's hands. Teams build through creative problem solving, collaboration, adaptability and communication, then talk about what just happened.
For students. Obstacles, mental attitude, bullying and the difference one decision makes. Ben draws while he talks, which buys attention a microphone alone will not.
