Keynote Speaker Day 1: Derek Clark     

Derek Clark is an inspiring motivational speaker and the author of Never Limit Your Life and the critically acclaimed I Will Never Give Up book series. Derek Clark spent 13 years of his life in the Alameda County foster care system and now shares his inspiring story of resilience and redemption throughout the world. Derek Clark knows first-hand the power of attitude in coping with adversity and overcoming hardship. At five years of age, Derek’s mother and stepfather (his biological father was in prison) turned him over to the California foster care system, where he would spend the next thirteen years of his life, contending with rejection, humiliation, emotional distress and overwhelming anxiety. Yet through it all, Derek never gave up, and went from victim to victor by defying the artificial limitations imposed on him. He literally took a disadvantage in life and turned it into an advantage. His remarkable story is one of resilience and redemption, from his personal to professional life.

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Keynote Speaker Day 2: Richard Paul

Richard Paul is an award winning speaker, bully prevention specialist and curriculum author. For more than twenty-five years, through his research-based anti-bullying, safe schools programs, Richard has promoted respect, responsibility and safe schools. He is also the author of a bully prevention curriculum and activities book that has received rave review from schools throughout the United States. It is a book that works within the guidelines of many school district bully prevention policies and positive behavior support programs.

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