Murray Banks
An honored educator and world champion athlete, Murray Banks knows how to craft and deliver an engaging and motivational message. His interactive style merges skill, inspiration, and fun to create dynamic and thought-provoking presentations that school administrators can truly appreciate.
You never get just a speech with Banks. Every keynote is custom tailored to resonate with educational leaders. His experience in education and collaboration with your planning team provide the insight to customize specifically to your conference theme. Banks's signature topics are fresh and in the moment – more of a lively conversation than a speech.
Murray Banks was Teacher of the Year in Vermont and has been to the world championships in two sports. Married for 40 years, he and his wife have raised two sons who are elite mountain guides. Their expeditions together often find their way into his presentations illustrating the power of focus, adaptability, and balance.
Banks delivers every keynote with the warmth, fun, and intensity that brought him success in the classroom and international competition. His three signature topics connect leadership performance to focus, adaptability, and life balance. Each can be custom tailored for a keynote or workshop session.
Topics
Recharge, Reenergize & Refocus
With several years of doom and gloom behind us, audiences are ready for a keynote that is uplifting and loaded with skills for leadership, change, and balance. Recharge, Reenergize & Refocus offers hilarious visuals, poignant stories, clever video, and specific key points that resonate on a personal level for each person in the audience. Murray Banks also provides highlights via web links or as a unique tent-style handout.
Leadership Under Pressure: Focus in Our Leadership, Balance in Our Lives
Educational leaders are between the proverbial "rock and a hard place" with high-stakes testing and accountability on one side, and a challenged and frustrated faculty on the other. Educator Murray Banks' keynote highlights the leadership skills that foster a climate of success for our faculty, staff, and students: enthusiasm, focus, positive problem solving, and optimism. He delivers four skills for staying focused under pressure and taking care of ourselves so we can also take care of business. It is a subject that fascinates everyone and Banks delivers it with a medley of science, inspiration, and humor. You'll get his 10/90 Rule to keep meetings on target and learn why you may need to go to the "B.A.R."
The Trouble with The Future Is, It's Not What It Used to Be! Strong Leadership in Changing Times
In a world of change, educators like stability and consistency. But with high-stakes testing, a tough economy, and transitioning Baby Boomers, that means pushing teachers out of their comfort zones. Banks presents skills and motivation to be agile, resilient, and adaptable. You'll love his "Lava Lamp Philosophy" for school change and parodies on our change resistant colleagues who have contracted "Psychlosclerosis!"
Tough Times, Tough Teams
These are tough times and successful school districts need tough teams – colleagues who pull together, work hard, stay positive, and are resilient. Banks is tough on those in the comfort zone, empathetic with hard workers, and funny with everyone as he provides four skills for spirit, morale, and teamwork. And, you'll take away his solution for Group Griping and his "Richter Scale of Stress" – both will keep your faculty and staff focused on student and school district success!
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