2017 Keynote Speakers:
2018 Key Notes will be updated as booked
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Sam Stecher is presently in his second year as the Superintendent of East Butler Public Schools in Brainard, Nebraska. Prior to this endeavor he spent 3 years serving as principal of Emerson Elementary in Kearney, Nebraska. He also held the position of Dean of Students at Kearney High School for three years. Sam got his start in education as teacher at Horizon Middle School where he taught History and coached wrestling for 11 years. He is also co-founder (with Mark Johnson) of educational consultant firm known as MissionMonday.com which specializes in providing teachers, schools, and communities with interventions to foster a positive school culture. The are also co-authors of It Happens In The Hallway, a dynamic account of their experiences in the classroom.
Mark Johnson has been in education for 20 years. He was an elementary school teacher for twelve years before moving into an elementary principal position, which he has held for the past nine years. He received the "Milken National Educator Award" in 2004 as a teacher, and as a principal was a “National Blue Ribbon Award" winner in 2010. He was also named “Outstanding New Principal of the Year” for the state of Nebraska in 2011 and was recently elected as the President for the NAESP in Nebraska.
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Chad Nico Hiu has served as National Specialist for Diversity & Inclusion with YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) since November of 2011, where he provides resources, training, capacity building support, and consultation related to diversity, inclusion, and global engagement, with a focus on building bridges between communities to ensure that all segments of society may access and thrive at the Y. Previously, Chad served as Director of Operations & Youth Exchanges for the International Branch of the YMCA of Greater New York, where he led an era of dynamic growth in youth exchanges, strategic collaboration & global education/inclusion programming. A strategic, effective and passionate Y professional of over twelve years, Chad holds a Bachelors degree in Human Services Administration & Youth Development and a Master’s degree in Organizational Management and Leadership through Springfield College’s Executive Master’s Program. Chad has traveled to 34 countries on almost every continent of the world, participated in the globally recognized ‘Semester at Sea’ study abroad program, volunteered with the CASA YMCA youth shelter in Tijuana (Mexico), represented the Y-USA in global settings and the World YMCA movement at the United Nations, lived in Hong Kong for two years and served as Teen Director with the YMCA of Honolulu. Chad can be reached at chad.hiu@ymca.net.
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Respected parenting and youth development expert, Deborah Gilboa, MD, is the founder of AskDoctorG.com. Popularly known as Dr. G, her passion for raising kids with character makes her a favorite family physician, media personality, author,speaker and social influencer. A mom of four boys, she inspires audiences with relatable stories and easy tools to develop crucial life skills in children ages 2-22.
Dr. G is a board certified attending family physician at Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill Health Center, caring for diverse patients from 100+ countries, speaking 47 different languages. Her work with the deaf community has received national recognition and was the focus of her service as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow. She has received multiple awards for clinical excellence in teaching, including the Alpha Omega Alpha Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award as a Clinical Associate Professor for the University of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine. A graduate of University of Pittsburgh’s SOM and Carnegie Mellon University, as well as alumnus of Chicago’s Second City Improv Theater, Dr. G’s diverse background and experiences add to her credibility and lively story-telling. Dr. G is the author of multiple books including Get the Behavior You Want, Without Being the Parent You Hate! (Demos Publishing) and parenting activity books focusing on building her 3R’s of Parenting: Respect, Responsibility and Resilience. Dr. and Dr. Gilboa have four boys together and are happy to call Pittsburgh, PA their home. |
