Staff Development Speakers
Top School Speakers helps schools turn professional development into a powerful experience educators actually remember. 💥📚
Tired of bad and boring PD?
So are we.
We bring the energy, encouragement, and actionable strategies schools need to inspire staff and create real momentum.
From student motivation and classroom culture to Special Education, school climate, and whole-child success, our trainings are practical, engaging, and built for real-world impact.
🎤 Engaging enough to hold the room
🛠️ Practical enough to use right away
🔥 Meaningful enough to make it stick
Perfect for PD days, staff trainings, conferences, and workshops.
Featured Staff Development Convocation Speakers...
Coach Josh Perez (NFL & Texas Educator)
ELEVATE: Helping Educators Rise, Reconnect, and Lead with Purpose
Coach Josh Perez’s ELEVATE convocation speech is a high-energy keynote designed to help educators start the school year with passion, purpose, and renewed belief. Through powerful stories, coaching wisdom, humor, and encouragement, Coach Perez challenges staff to rise above burnout, reconnect with their mission, and elevate the impact they make every day.
- Elevate Mindset — Start the year with confidence, clarity, and purpose.
- Elevate Relationships — Build stronger connections with students and staff.
- Elevate Culture — Create a campus environment where everyone can DREAM BIG.
Keith Davis (NFL)
Bend But Don’t Break: Building Resilience for the Year Ahead
Keith Davis’s Bend But Don’t Break convocation speech is a powerful, high-energy keynote that helps educators start the year with strength, hope, and resilience. Through unforgettable stories, humor, and heart, Keith reminds staff that pressure does not have to defeat them — it can develop them.
- Build Resilience — Learn how to stay strong through challenges, change, and pressure.
- Protect Your Purpose — Remember why your work matters, even on the hard days.
- Lead with Strength — Create a campus culture where students and staff keep going, growing, and believing.
Melvin Adams (Harlem Globetrotter)
G.L.O.B.A.L.: Bringing World-Class Energy to Your School
Harlem Globetrotter Melvin Adams’s G.L.O.B.A.L. convocation speech brings world-famous energy, humor, and inspiration to help educators start the year with joy, teamwork, and purpose. As the Harlem Globetrotters celebrate 100 years, Melvin shows staff how to create a campus culture that connects, encourages, and inspires every student.
- G — Greatness: Bring your best energy every day.
- L — Leadership: Lead with heart, hope, and high expectations.
- O — Opportunity: See every student interaction as a chance to make an impact.
- B — Belonging: Build a school where everyone feels seen and valued.
- A — Attitude: Choose positivity, even under pressure.
- L — Legacy: Leave a lasting mark on students, staff, and community.
Jonathan Medina
DREAM BIG: Inspiring Educators to Believe Bigger for Every Student
Jonathan Medina’s DREAM BIG convocation speech is a high-energy, heartfelt keynote that helps educators start the year with vision, purpose, and passion. Through his powerful story of becoming a first-generation college graduate, Jonathan reminds staff that one caring educator can change the entire direction of a student’s life.
- Dream with Vision — Help students see a future bigger than their circumstances.
- Believe with Purpose — Reignite the mission that brought educators into this work.
- Lead with Impact — Build a campus culture where students feel seen, supported, and ready to succeed.
"Knocked it out of the Park!
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- Superintendent Dr. Cavazos
Texas Superintendent of the Year
Best Speaker we have had in Years! Can't Wait to bring back a Top School Speaker this year for the 3rd year in a Row! Always Good!
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- Pete Wagner Texas Administrator
"ENGAGING! EASY to work with! Top School Speakers always bring the ENERGY!
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- Yolanda Adams North Carolina Administrator
Nothing is worse than starting the school year with a boring speaker who loses the room before the mission even begins.
Join the movement to impact 1,000 schools in 2026 with speakers who bring energy, purpose, and a message educators will actually remember.
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