WORKSHOP DETAILS Keynotes
Jim Harris | July 28 Leadership & Disruption Expert
“Disruptive Innovation in Student Transportation” Jim Harris is one of North America’s foremost management consultants, public speakers,
authors and thinkers on change and leadership. He has 20 years of experience as a profes- sional speaker and consultant. Jim speaks internationally at more than 40 conferences a year on topics such as innovation and creativity, customer relationship management (CRM), eLearning, creating learning organizations, environmental leadership, energy efficiency, strategic planning, and creating common organizational mission and vision. He was one of just 12 Canadians who were licensed to publicly teach Dr. Stephen Covey’s work, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” Jim works with leading businesses and Fortune 500 com- panies around the world. He recently finished a global consulting contract with IBM and a related white paper on how low carbon leadership drives profitability. His most recent book, “Blindsided,” is a No. 1 international bestseller, having hit the top spot on the Financial Times of London’s European Edition of Best Business Books.
Michael Dorn | July 29 School Security Expert
“How Much Integrity do your School Bus Safety, Security and Emergency Preparedness Approaches Have?” An international authority who has keynoted conferences from Virginia to Vietnam
and from Toronto to Trinidad-Tobago, Michael Dorn serves as the executive director of the nonprofit Safe Havens International, the world’s largest K-12 school safety center. The author of 27 books in his field, Michael has served as a full-time campus safety professional for most of his 36-year career. He began as a Mercer University police officer at the age of 18, then was appointed as chief of school police for the Bibb County, Georgia, Public School System at age 27. Michael was then appointed as the school safety specialist for the Geor- gia Emergency Management Agency – Office of the Governor. After Sept. 11, 2001, he was named state anti-terrorism planner and lead program manager for the Terrorism Division of the Georgia Office of Homeland Security. An FBI National Academy graduate, Michael has provided post-incident assistance for more than 300 school and school bus crisis events, including 15 planned shootings and a terrorist attack in Kenya.
Les Nichols | July 30 Child Safety Expert
“The Complacency Conundrum: Why Organizations Fail to Prevent Tragedies” Les Nichols is an expert in developing child and youth protection programs for
youth-serving organizations. For more than two decades, he served as the vice president of safety for Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), an international organization serving more than 4 million youth at more than 4,000 sites in 50 states, overseas and on U.S. military bases. In this capacity, he assessed youth centers in schools, military bases, tribal lands, uni- versity campuses, camps, public housing projects, parks, community centers, libraries and churches. Les has written, lectured and consulted on developing effective policies, person- nel screening, training, supervision, governance, internal reporting, hazard mitigation and emergency response planning worldwide. Between 2006 and 2016, Les was instrumental in developing BGCA’s “Public Trust Initiative,” which included authoring and co-authoring standard practice guides for child protection and staff screening.
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