Keynotes
High-energy, practical talks that connect purpose, leadership, belonging, and action.
Keynotes · workshops · retreats · facilitation
Ideas that move a room.
Ideas that move the work.
Scott combines the credibility of a higher education practitioner with the energy of a storyteller. Every engagement is tailored to the audience, the moment, and the outcome you want to create.
Built for connection
Professional expertise without a lecture-room feel.
Scott makes complex ideas approachable and memorable. He reads the room, brings warmth and humor, and gives audiences practical ways to act on what they heard.
Programs can be designed for executives, managers, boards, faculty, staff, associations, students, or mixed campus audiences.
Ways to work together
Choose the format that fits the moment.
Each engagement is shaped around your audience, goals, timing, and setting. Virtual, in-person, and multi-session options are available.
Milestone & Motivational Addresses
Motivational and empowering speeches for convocations, orientations, graduations, and other defining campus moments.
Workshops & Professional Development
Interactive sessions that give participants ideas, tools, and a clear next step.
Student Leadership Training
Engaging programs that help emerging and experienced student leaders strengthen purpose, influence, teamwork, and impact.
Leadership Retreats
Purposeful experiences that help teams build trust, clarify priorities, and move forward together.
Facilitation & Panel Moderation
Thoughtful guidance that keeps important conversations engaging, inclusive, and productive.
Icebreakers, Team Building & Group Games
Purposeful, energetic activities that help participants connect, collaborate, and create momentum together.
Public-Speaking Coaching
Individual or group coaching to strengthen presence, structure, confidence, and audience connection.
Popular topics
A strong starting point, tailored to your audience.
- Leading through relationships, trust, and belonging
- Breaking silos and designing for adult learners
- Campus culture and traditions as retention tools
- Student leadership: finding purpose and making your mark
- Leadership development for students, staff, and emerging professionals
- Leading and communicating through organizational change
- Professional networking that builds authentic, lasting relationships
- Staff development that renews purpose, connection, and momentum
- Strategy, program delivery, and organizational change
- Building a message that people remember
Experience on stage and behind the scenes
A presenter who understands the full event.
Scott has delivered keynotes, conference presentations, workshops, leadership programs, and facilitated conversations for national, regional, and institutional audiences.
His experience as an emcee, program designer, administrator, and TEDx license applicant helps him collaborate well with event leaders from the first planning call through the final audience question.
Selected stages
A record of ideas shared with higher education audiences.
Selected keynotes and presentations for NODA, NASPA, ACCE, the First-Year Experience Conference, and university leadership programs.
Breaking Through Silos in Educating Older AdultsACCE · VirtualConference presentation with D. Predoehl
Magnifying First-Year Success by Expanding STEM Learning CommunitiesConference on the First-Year Experience · DallasConference presentation with J. Hernandez
The Impact of External Factors on Student AffairsNODA Region VRegional keynote
Achievement Unlocked: Finding Your Passion & Making Your MarkUniversity of UtahLeadership keynote
Campus Traditions Re-envisioned as Retention ToolsNODA · New Orleans & Las VegasNational conference presentations
At the Core: Incorporating Core Values into Your Orientation ProgramNODA · BerkeleyRegional conference presentation
From the Fish Philosophy to Who Moved My Cheese: Creating Raving FansNODA · AnaheimNational conference presentation
Creating Community OnlineNODA · Boston & RenoNational and regional conference presentations
Meeting the Needs of Commuter, Part-Time, Transfer, and Returning StudentsNASPA · PhoenixConference presentation