SPEAKERS
VIA SKYPE – AT SCHOOL & EVENTS – with prep, action, follow-up
A Unique Experience
We want to give you an experience that is
- rare, exciting, memorable, of high educational value
that sparks, nurtures and amplifies positive worldview, image of youth, humanity, outlook for the future, can-do feeling, solutions, global community, opportunity, a flair of adventure
tuned to your context, with a mix of
- presentation + workshop + personal focus
and rich opportunities for self-organized follow-up backed by a global tribe.
NEW! Activate youth Leadership in your city!
Bring us in with everything we’ve got, boundless passion, understanding for teachers, parents, professionals, with a big Heart for youth, a keen eye for win-wins with partners, handsfull of media, tools and tricks for a mix of campaign, exhibits, workshops, equipping caring folks to get strongly involved and kick off long lasting activities sending ripple effects across your community.
Option : Take our online tutorial, give the course yourself.
BOOK A SPEAKER
Eric
for everything “youth leadership”, YL, how to get started, evolve and adapt to your context.
Super Experts
on global topics, always with a look at concrete cases and living what we learn.
Teenage Hero*ines
Yes, the folks that wildly inspire us – for your group to get involved in their quest.
Adult Changemakers
Learn, boost, wield transfor-mational solutions for people and planet.
Pick your Format
Video Meeting
Easy to arrange, also across timezones, for classes and entire schools.
Tip: Take the initiative, take action for a hero*ine’s cause and send a video message. View tips below.
Tip: Make it a pinnacle event of a project, fest, UN Day, project week. Talk to us.
At School
Presentation, Workshop, Freestyle
Tip: Use the occasion for more than a brief presentation. Add workshops and coaching for fired up students, clubs, media crews, teachers, parents. Also beyond school hours? Of course! We are into positive action around the clock.
At Events, on TV
Our speakers are in high demand at events of all sorts and sizes, from WE Days to conferences, galas, talkshows and changemaker festivals.
We contribute youth- and action spirit, encourage you to involve your audience in action, and to use the occasion to activate local schools and media. Easy.
So inspirational to meet real changemakers face to face! They tare such huggable people, totally different from VIPs on TV, high up on their pedestal. It’s been my best day since childhood bdays. I feel more inspired than ever to spend my future in this field.
Meetings these practitioners was radically different from ‘inspiratio-nal speakers’. This is the real deal. They are living it, and they are achieving! Positive change feels like real-life now, and like I can do this. We all can! Yessa!
I look back at how first meeting inspired us as newbies, how the project developed, and later meet-ups felt like family reunion. I have seen students evolve as speakers and mentors for their younger peers. Life has become a real adventure, and I am thrilled that it will continue to be. Thank you for what you are doing for the children, and for all of us.
Meet Our Speakers
YL Staff & Experts
What is going on in the big picture, with global issues, proven solutions, and avantgarde sciences? What’s the views and emerging potentials of today’s youth? What amazing schools exist, and how do they succeed? How do we – as youth, teachers, parents and allies build an awesome school togethe? How do we nurture active citizenry and take over our city, our planet?
Let us talk about the things that really matter to all of us, with tools and support for turning your new found knowledge into action.
YL Staff
We give all our knowledge, resources and community to empower you and your group to cultivate youth leader-ship, evoke changes, develop vision, find support and achieve your dreams.
Global Experts
Bring global issues alive with our friends. They have years of experience, big hearts, and love sharing their amazing knowledge in fun, casual ways
Crash Course
A YL Volunteer gives your group an initiation to youth leadership, with favorite causes for everybody, new shared passion and vision, loads of options for instant action and follow-up.
Young Hero*ines
Meet your hero*ines live! What could be more exciting?!
Our approach is to boost their initiatives, to give back to them. Together, we step into our power for change, using their initiative as a practical example.
Our interaction is not limited to the live-meet.
- we can also use video messages
- we offer excellent preparation, view below
- we offer excellent follow-up, view below
Adult Changemakers
Yes, you can meet today’s Gandhis and Einsteins, even real mermaids!
They wield very powerful, transformational solutions to upgrade our societies to new peaceful, sustainable models. Still they are common sense, and young people play a vital role in taking them to global scale, perfectly aligned with learning, projects and community activities.
Make the Most of Our Encounter
Discuss this with your students, too. They need to be in the right spirit.
It is vital to understand today’s noble knights. They are very busy. It is a miracle that they are available. We do our best to arrange a meeting, and make it a rich, memorable and meaningful experience with ripple effects.
Observe Time
What makes the longest part of your learning experience?
- The meeting is just 1-3 hours
- Your preparation is longer
- Your follow-up is much longer
hence we help make the most of preparation and follow-up. It enhances the quality of our encounter and also makes it less important for ‘success’, in case that ‘life happens’.
We also collaborate for projects!
View below.
1. Know
These are the Gandhis and Gryffindores of our time. The people that give humanity hope for people and planet. Cheesy celebrities and the super rich have nothing to offer you to to protect what you love, and to achieve your dreams.
You get to meet badass changemaker athletes, noble knights, genius visionaries. These are your coaches for creating the world that your heart desires.
How will you use this special moment in your life?
2. Prepare
These are humanity’s finest, and they are busy. Do not waste their energy, your time, limit your experience. Read up on their story and solution using our Multimedia Hero Profiles, poster sets and action guides. This enables a much more meaningful encounter :
As their story sinks in, some group members will have ideas, come up with burning questions to ask. As you take action, you will have your own story to share, something to give and celebrate! This way, you can meet at eye-level. And as you become part of one story, you can dream up next steps together. I mean, wow …
3. Anticipate Follow-up
… or you would quench the spark of inspiration, interest, intrinsic motivation, disappoint your group, and actually sabotage what this learning experience is about : bring alive the Inner Hero*ines in your students, activate their changemaker skills, restore peace, prosperity and sustainability for people and planet, with win-win benefits for your greater community.
This follow-up can be formal, in class, as project, or informal, as student club, preferably instantly, possibly aiming at next dates like UN Days, school fests, and milestones, for a hero*ine’s initiative or of their own design.
We are available to coach inspired groups. View
- Activate Your School
- Change Generation Rising
4. Make it Memorable
to them. What is their dream? How can you help achieve their vision and soothe their hearts? The Action Guides tell you how to support and replicate their initiative locally and globally.
to the planet. What is Her dream? That you make grand positive impact for her innocent children alive today and in the future. What can you dream up together to make a relevant impact. What could cause ripple effects, create a mark on Earth, weave a thread into the fabric of human history, small or big, that never stops?
5. Make it a Breeze
- How can you make it casual and enjoyable?
- How can you totally mess it up?
Discuss this with your students. It is a learning experience of lifelong value.
Test the tech and have it set up. Appoint a student tech crew to arrange it well before the meeting. Honor them for it.
6. Document Your Experience
Add student journalism :
form a volunteer crew to take casual photos and notes on preparation, student voices and ideas, your activities, the meeting and testimonials to share with
- your personal, club and school news and social media
- with local news media
- us and YL Magazine
- changemakers’ social media feeds
Another excellent multi-faceted learning experience that honors everyone’s efforts + boosts local and global youth leadership + calls on audiences to join the movement.
7. Take it Easy!
Make preparation and follow-up 90% of the experience. Our speakers are the candles on the cake.
Expect the unexpected.
Be it inter/national conferences or google hangouts, we have seen everything fail. So, imagine the worst case, and to laugh about it, take it as an exercise in real life, also tell your students. Classic surprise worst cases
- snow blizzard
- students on leave for chess championship
- emergency – exam repetition, a regional revolt
- forgot a major religious or family matter
- they are bombing Yemen
- no stable internet or sound though it was fine earlier
- mixed up time zones, alarm clock fails
- sudden invitation to major event or talkshow
- it’s nighttime at your hero*ine’s wilderness camp
- hero*ine falls ill
- you fall ill
No one to blame, life happens.
> Preparation exercises are a rich experience by themselves
> Eric and YL Staff can jump in and save the day
Let us collaborate in this casual spirit of friendship.
Book a Speaker
Not sure who and how? We can also give your recommendations to align with your focus and goals.
Book a Speaker
When we take our school classes to the theatre or cinema,
we pay $3-7€ per student. No big deal.
Fees
We do not want to put any hurdles between youth and the knowledge they need to do good for people and planet. But there is also something else :
We truly know, honor and value the finest changemakers on the planet, and their lifetime.
Hence, we add another practical learning excercise for your group.
UNDERSTANDING CHANGEMAKERS
- what hero changemakers mean for them
- what self-employed social entrepreneurs live like
- how life works
- how to support them
- how to get real on positive change for our societies
DECIDING TO WORK TOGETHER
- because your youth want it!
- thereby bringing the encounter alive
- before, during and after the encounter
These badass active changemakers are constantly pionering new ventures, breaking new ground for people and planet. They do not have paid 9-5 jobs. They are not paid staff of organizations. They are like self-employed social entrepreneurs. Some work on the side to cover bills, but that’s really a waste of time, considering their potentials.
They don’t care about a house, house-keeping etc. The mission is far more important. But they still have bills to pay for the basics, and that’s okay : a roof over their head, insurances, some have families, move around, pay for tech, medical bills happen, they also pay other people for projects, buy equipment, and they deserve to eat and ice-cream, too.
It’s worthy pondering for a second about what income they deserve. Your 9-5 job neighbors and teachers cannot level up up to save your future. People you see on tv, and some you respect or even admire get rich by destroying Earth, by exploiting workers (your kind), and others are paid for administrating the misery. None of them have a clue how to evoke changes, or, well, work with them. Boring? Hopeless? Right. Top NGO CEOs say about Ecocide Law to protect Earth from industrial destruction “that’s too big for us”. They cannot help you. Our folks can. Badass Hero*ines may actually deserve better pay. What pay do the kind of people deserve who achieve to abolish slavery, worker holidays, avoid fascism and war, reduce violence on your streets? And … can you pay for that?
You shouldn't even open your mouth for less than $2,000€
Business people tell Eric, “because that’s what business consultants get, and they really have nothing relevant to say.”
The same is true for all our speakers.
We don’t ask you for that. We do however ask big wig events to pay it.
Personal 1-on-1 sessions with them unlock people’s dreams – for their lives and projects.
Their kind of personality, skills and services are valued at $100 to 1,000 per hour at workshops, for city- and nationwide campaigns, or IF they worked as personal coach. They don’t; or they do it for free, for like-hearted folks. Conferences pay considerable amounts for their travel and hotel expenses, but usually have no budget to pay them.
Hence, top-level changemakers rarely have money in their accounts, they are busy with their projects, and spending extra time is practically impossible. As school teachers, and students with parents busy with family and or work, you can pretty well asses : how can one realistically
- volunteer 10+ hours a week for teaching youth via video?
- take an hour off, at 10 at night to meet your time zone’s morning at school?
- deal with tech and internet issues?
Can your teacher take off for 10 hours every week? Your parents? Can they take one off, in between, spontaneously? Over a long time? For free? Not really, huh? And such changemakers … no.
Besides, if you don't value it for an ice-cream's worth
is there relevant reason for us to meet? You guess our answer. we all need to be clear, we cannot waste people’s precious time.
Our rockstar changemakers are super excited how YOUTH-LEADER opens up new ways to empower the young generation, especially at school and with self-powered clubs! It is part of their heart’s dreams, and a keystone to achieving big positive change for people and planet. All we need to do is to make possible that they liberate their time for us- without any stress on their feel or projects, but rather boosting their work and making their day !!
We really need to rock together now to evoke change!
We can overcome the enormous challenges piling up, if we put together our forces.
We have dreamed up a smart win-win that makes it possible, and it is crazy simple.
- they love empowering the young generation for action
- they have highly valuable knowledge to give, to upgrade learning
- schools are used to pay for trips to the theatre, coaches, etc
- you really want to meet them, because it matters to you, to do something relevant
- we / you can easily generate pre- and post-meeting activities with impact and media presence that so far were practically *impossible*, that people will strongly appreciate … making the fee appear ridiculous.
So, we say
- prepare well – to make the session smooth, intelligent and fun
- preferably take action before and after the session – to make it feel really worth and hands on integral part of the hero*ines project and mission
- gift a $3€ triple ball ice-cream’s worth per person – to liberate their time, give them energy to boost their work
- we meet casually and freestyle. Your group has prepared, has questions to ask, and we have an enormous trove of knowledge to wield at any time.
- If we meet for a specific topic, we may use slides, links, documents for you to print before the session. It’s all pretty easy-going, lightweight, personal and down to earth.
This way, everybody is inspired, grateful, empowered and feels part of our common quest.
We’re ready for this. If you are, get in touch.