Special welcome given by The Honorable Mayor Stopfer, City of Irving and Magda Hernandez, Superintendent of Irving ISD
Dr. Shaun McAlmont
Keynote Speaker
Thursday, Feb. 13th
8:30-10:00 AM General Session
Dr. Shaun McAlmont is responsible for providing career readiness and workforce development solutions as President of Career Readiness Education at K12, Inc. and serves on the BYU Marriott School of Management Advisory Council. Dr. McAlmont has had a vast array of experience in higher education having served as President & CEO of Neumont College, and CEO of Lincoln Educational Services. Shaun's extensive career and educational experience is balanced by student services roles earlier in his career at Stanford University and Brigham Young University. Shaun achieved a Doctor’s of Education degree in Higher Education, with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University, where he was an NCAA and International athlete. Dr. McAlmont’s education achievement with his 20+ years of career and technical training experience, positioned him as one of the leading educators in the country to straddle secondary and higher education.
Frederick H. Wentz
Featured Speaker & Author
Friday, Feb. 14th
10:15-11:45 AM Special Session
Fred Wentz, author of the book Softskills has had professional and volunteer experience working with hard-to-employ youth and adults who are most vulnerable to poverty, cultural alienation, social alienation, violence, and racism. His employment in the hospitality industry gave him the opportunity to train and develop disadvantaged youth and adults who were undereducated, unskilled, and were not traditionally served by the current workforce development system. Fred also has had experience working with those in trouble with the legal system, incarcerated, and enrolled in nonprofit inner-city training programs in order to prepare them for entry-level employment. This wide range of experience positions Fred Wentz as a resource of knowledge for programs dedicated to changing lives across communities through education and training.
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Shayla Rivera
Featured Speaker/Writer/Comedian
Saturday, Feb. 15th
9:30-10:45 AM Special Session
Shayla Rivera knows that the ‘stillness’ called for in the pursuit of enlightenment is not a static but a very dynamic thing. It is an awareness that we must carry within us at all times that helps us remain in the moment keeping our perceptions and perspectives in check. Knowing a thing but never applying it is not knowing the thing at all. There are so many of us who listen and study texts, attend seminars and even mediate daily but we never truly achieve peace. Actual peace can only be found after we unclutter the messy attics of our beliefs. The ABC Principle is about clarity and laughter. It is like getting some help the day you decide to clean up the attic. We don’t really have to get to that Aha! moment of, “Wow!, I can be the master of my own destiny”, but we actually need to get to the moment of “Holy crap!, I am the one running the show.”
Through laughter, Ms. Rivera asks people to look into the small places of limiting beliefs about themselves which keep them exactly in the same place they started and then moves them to endless possibilities by helping them see the person they want to become
Through laughter, Ms. Rivera asks people to look into the small places of limiting beliefs about themselves which keep them exactly in the same place they started and then moves them to endless possibilities by helping them see the person they want to become