College keynotes + workshops
Dynamic keynotes, live spoken word, and interactive leadership workshops help college students build the communication, resilience, self-awareness, and people skills that shape life on campus and beyond it.
Why this work matters
Today’s students are navigating rapid change while developing the soft skills that directly affect leadership potential, career readiness, relationships, and well-being.
Every experience is designed to help students communicate with confidence, navigate challenges with resilience, lead with self-awareness, and work effectively with people across differences.
Keynotes + spoken word
Designed for large student audiences, each keynote combines story, practical learning, audience reflection, and live spoken word poetry.
Using Your Voice to Heal and Lead
Students discover how owning their stories can support healing, growth, connection, and impactful leadership. Live spoken word and guided reflection help them recognize the strength already present in their experiences.
Students exploreRewriting the Narrative of Your Life
Students are invited to challenge limiting beliefs, reclaim authorship of their lives, and make bold choices about the future they want to create.
Students exploreFaith in Action in Your Everyday Life
A practical, creative exploration of how students can align faith, values, decisions, leadership, and everyday campus life.
Students exploreCreating a Life of Impact and Influence
Students look beyond grades and graduation to consider the legacy they want to leave, the influence they already hold, and the change they can begin creating now.
Students exploreClient voice
“Great and interactive presentation! The students from the U of U First Star program enjoyed learning from Sharlene. We highly recommend her!”
Dayan C. · University of Utah
The student leadership curriculum
Each four-workshop course can be delivered virtually or in person. Courses are designed as progressive learning journeys and can also be customized around your students’ needs.
New and emerging student leaders cultivate foundational skills that make them more effective in leading themselves and others.
Foundational Leadership
A high-energy foundation for the personal growth, self-awareness, and practical responsibility required to lead well.
Goal Setting & Organization
Practical tools for creating meaningful goals, organizing the work, and following through.
Conflict Management
Recognize types of conflict, understand why they occur, and protect healthy relationships while addressing them.
Relationships & Boundaries
An honest conversation about health, self-worth, relationships, and physical, mental, and emotional boundaries.
Growing student leaders strengthen the self-awareness, critical thinking, decision-making, and interpersonal skills that leadership demands.
Communication
Level up communication skills for professional, paraprofessional, academic, and community environments.
Personal Values
Identify the values behind your choices and examine how those values can create positive change.
Managing Anxiety & Burnout
Build professional boundaries and practical stress-management habits that make ambitious leadership sustainable.
Overcoming Obstacles
Use creative and critical-thinking exercises to turn setbacks into learning, resilience, and forward movement.
Experienced student leaders build practical skills for starting and sustaining careers, increasing their value in the marketplace, and leading with greater effectiveness.
Starting & Sustaining New Careers
Prepare for the rigor of the real world and learn how to build a career that adds value to an organization.
Entrepreneurship
Explore the foundational skills new entrepreneurs—and employees with an entrepreneurial spirit—need to succeed.
Developing Cultural Competence
Build a framework for working thoughtfully and effectively across cultural contexts.
Time Management
Use organization, leadership capacity, and community to move ideas forward and get meaningful work done.
Built around your outcomes
Tell us what your students need to know, practice, or become more confident doing. We can customize a keynote, select workshops across the three course levels, or build a connected campus experience around your goals.
Explore your needsIn their words
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The students from the U of U First Star program enjoyed learning from Sharlene. We highly recommend her!
The most meaningful topic to me was the Spoken Word Poetry done by Sharlene. Her part in the internship showed me just how important everyone’s voices are and how they should all be heard.
Sharlene Alice Provilus. If you do not know the name, you will! Multifaceted expertise, talent, skill and a wealth of experience paired with wisdom—all wrapped up in one phenomenal woman.
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