Speaking

From engaging talks that get your audience thinking, to workshops and custom engagements, we can collaborate to foster focus, drive, and engagement.

Building Tween and Teen Motivation In and Outside School

This topic can be presented in two ways, depending on your audience and time constraints:

  • As a highly interactive workshop for educators and/or parents of tweens and teens, focused on applying insights from motivation science to school and home

  • As a 15-minute TED-style talk, followed by open Q&A

In either format, participants will leave with new ideas and practical strategies.

Custom talks & workshops

You want to understand how to build sustainable motivation, engagement, and focus, whether for young people or adults. You're dissatisfied with approaches that fail to be meaningful to faculty, staff, families and young people.

Ensure your school or organization has the support you need to help people learn and thrive by engaging me in:

  • Collaboratively designing new initiatives to build in meaningful stakeholder buy-in from the ground up.

  • Identifying the right data (quantitative and qualitative) to track to allow you to monitor, evaluate, and learn from your initiatives.

  • Leading workshops on how to build sustainable motivation in school, at home, or in the workplace.

Reach out to discuss your group's specific needs -- if I'm not the right person to support you, I'll happily connect you to others in my network who would be.

Becca Block holding a microphone speaking
Becca Block holding a microphone speaking
How to Build Lasting Drive at Work

For workplaces looking for a way to build awareness and skills in their leadership teams on how to cultivate an environment that fosters high employee motivation and engagement, this workshop brings together Becca's knowledge of research with her 15 years of leadership experience to help participants:

  • understand why common management strategies intended to boost motivation and employee engagement often backfire

  • identify the current strengths in their work culture and how to build upon them to improve energy and drive even further

  • design new, light-touch initiatives to support challenge areas that are currently inhibiting a culture of lasting motivation for individual contributors, managers, and leaders alike.

Leadership teams and manager cohorts leave with a shared plan of action and support on how to achieve their goals. .

You can bring Becca in to facilitate engaging conversations about...

”Thank you for leading such an excellent workshop -- I haven't come across anyone else talking about motivation the way you do, and it was really enlightening!”

- Dr. F, Asst Principal at a public High School

Becca is an engaging speaker who provided great advice for parents. I learned a lot about how to help my kids build lasting motivation.”

- Jen F, parent in a motivation in school talk