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Keynote Speaking
About this service
A keynote that your staff will still be talking about in October.
Most opening-of-year keynotes accomplish one thing: they get done. The speaker covers the material, the staff applauds, and by the time everyone is back in their classrooms on the first day with students, the message has already faded into the background noise of a new school year. Rise Up keynotes are built differently. They are designed to land — to give your educators a frame, a feeling, and a phrase they will return to in November when the work gets hard and the early-year momentum has worn off. That is not an accident. It is what happens when a keynote is built by someone who has spent thirty years in the buildings, the boardrooms, and the human moments that make up a school year.
Signature topics
Three messages built to meet your moment.
Topic 1
Leadership
Topic 2
The Power of Education
Topic 3 · Signature
Inspiring Belief in the Power of Education
Pricing by Audience Size
All presentations tailored to your goals · All topics available at every tier
Individual School Level Inspiration
100 people or fewer. Beginning of the year. Appropriate for teachers, educators, and entire school staff. Presentation tailored to your school’s current goals, culture, and what your staff specifically needs to hear at the start of this particular school year.
$--- / hour
Individual School Level Inspiration
100 people or fewer. Beginning of the year. Appropriate for teachers, educators, and entire school staff. Presentation tailored to your school’s current goals, culture, and what your staff specifically needs to hear at the start of this particular school year.
$--- / hour
District Level Inspiration
$--- / hour
Travel note: All speaking engagements which are not local — defined as more than approximately one hour’s drive from Parker, Colorado — will require the client to cover the cost of flight, rental car, lodging, and food in addition to the cost of the keynote.
What to expect
How the engagement works from booking to delivery.
Every keynote begins with a conversation, not a contract. Before any agreement is signed, Diana spends time understanding your organization — your current strategic priorities, the history and culture of your staff, what you need your people to leave the room believing, and what has already been said so many times that another version of it will land with an eye-roll rather than inspiration. That intake conversation is what makes the tailoring possible.
From there, the presentation is built around your specific context — your district’s language, your school’s current goals, your community’s particular challenges and strengths. The signature topic framework provides the structure. Your organization’s story provides the material. The result is a presentation that feels like it was written specifically for your staff, because it was.
On the day of delivery, Diana arrives early, familiarizes herself with the space, connects with building leaders, and reads the room before she speaks to it. The presentation itself runs at the agreed-upon length, with built-in moments for reflection and connection rather than passive listening from start to finish. Staff leave with something specific to carry — a frame, a practice, a commitment — rather than a general feeling of inspiration that dissipates by Wednesday.
Post-keynote, Diana is available for brief debrief conversations with building or district leadership to discuss what landed, what generated questions, and how the themes of the presentation can be sustained and reinforced throughout the year. A keynote is most powerful when it is not a single event but the opening note of a yearlong conversation.