The Anatomy Of Choice:
Dumb choices are common. Start making smarter choices today.

As college students, you're faced with some of the most critical choices of your  life. These choices will determine your immediate future and set you on life's grand journey. Your choices affect your career path, overall financial stability, personal and professional relationships, and your physical health. We expect you to make quality life and career choices (valued based decision making).  The problem is  we don't teach you how to make choices. How great would it be if you learned how to actively evaluate and make choices? The Anatomy Of Choice will give you a framework for understanding both the science and art of making choices.  We look closely at the five components of choice. You will learn the difference between a choice and a decision, and how they are unquestionably linked. There are three primary drives to choice: experience, integrity/values, and core personality. Fred will teach you how to utilize each drive to your advantage. You will also be given the tools necessary to identify how your perspective affects the three primary drives. 

You're faced with choices every day, and most go unnoticed. However, whether you're just going through the daily motions of college life, leading others on campus, a member of a team,  or making critical life choices, this keynote or workshop will be equip you to make better choices. When  you truly understand the art and science behind making choices you will reduce stress, increase confidence, decrease conflict, and improve your overall well being. You might just live happily ever after.

The Education vs Employment Paradox:
Close the gap and get hired.

We spend an extreme amount of time teaching students academic skills. These skills are necessary for survival in a growing global economy. Basic skill and knowledge are no longer enough. You have to be able to identify your personal strengths. This starts by uncovering your natural talents. Yes, you are talented. . . everyone is. As a society we have a very narrow view of what it means to be talented. If you're like most students, you're more aware of your weaknesses than of your strengths. It's the weakness trap, and we have been in it for decades.

Learning to identify your unique talents takes discovery. Fred instructs you on how to broaden your perspective on what it means to be talented. Once you can identify your unique talents you learn the essential formula for develop your talents into lifelong strengths. We will investigate how discovering talents is rooted in science of Positive Psychology and Strengths Philosophy. We will discuss a number of strengths assessments available  on your campus, including Gallup's StrengthsQuest, and the Values In Action Survey (VIA).

When you can identify your strengths you're 84% more likely to be engaged. Engagement in school increases academic performance, confidence and graduation rates. It's relevant whey you consider only a little over half of students entering college actually graduate, and only 1 in 3 students find a job in their career field. Let's work together to make sure these aren't your stats.

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Success Starts With Your Attitude

We've all heard the saying  "attitude is everything." Perhaps it's  not everything, but it is a significant gauge for highly successful individuals. There are numerous studies that support the notion that maintaining a positive or healthy attitude increases the likelihood of success in virtually every area of your life. Your happiness, health, and potential success are among the areas directly affected by attitude. Fred gives you practical steps to maintain a healthy attitude. You will learn to identify the triggers that shift your attitude from positive to negative. In this thought provoking keynote or workshop you will discover how to harness the power of your attitude to control your confidence, overcome obstacles, and adversity, and reduce stress.

You will be empowered to control the power of your attitude. 

Keynote or Workshop?

All of Fred's programs can be tailored to fit your students' needs. They can be delivered either as keynote presentations or in multimedia seminars/workshop presentations. In either setting, students will be given specific tools, frameworks, strategies,  formulas, and generally stellar advice they can immediately apply. 

Fred's teaching style is best described as instructive storytelling. He is not a comedian, though his stories seem to always get a laugh.  Fred's goal is to teach and deliver valuable content. He accomplishes this goal though story.

"After hearing me speak several times, someone asked me if I always had to be funny. My answer was no. However, it always seems to come out that way. . .  it's just who I am."- Fred