Andrew Marotta

Today’s Significant School Leader: Surviving & Thriving

In this high-energy, fun, interactive session/keynote, Andrew will present on many aspects & twists & turns of being a school leader: Exuding energy and enthusiasm, the power of storytelling, having a presence, owning your time, and ending with the powerful concept of successful vs. significant. Andrew presents props, interacts with his guests, and motivates you to think beyond your comfort zone. This is NO lecture or regular talk.

His presentation style is infectious and he will engage the audience deeply, challenging them to think, reflect, and move to action. You will laugh, cry, and he will stir your emotions. Check out more at andrewmarotta.com.

The Partnership: Surviving & Thriving

The Partnership: Surviving & Thriving with Andrew Marotta
Building better relationships through proactive and intentional actions.

Want to have better, stronger relationships with your stakeholders? Tired of getting/feeling ‘beat-up?’ Want to improve your public speaking and communication skills? Have people coming at you way too hard and not sure how to handle it and want some effective strategies? Feel like you are being too reactive instead of more proactive in your relationships? Come join Andrew Marotta and be part of the fun, interactive, and thought-provoking workshop The Partnership: Surviving & Thriving: Building better relationships through proactive and intentional actions.

In this energy-filled workshop, Andrew will lead you through a variety of strategies, techniques, tips, and hacks that will help improve your overall communication and interactions with your stakeholders: staff, students, and parents. A few examples are:

• The difficult one on one conversation
• Awareness of body language
• The ‘Ladder’ of active listening
• The large assembly setting: How to own it?
• Presence
• E + R=O
• The energy of your office and school building setting
• Successful vs. Significant
• And much more

The goal of this workshop is that you feel more confident, comfortable, and prepared to handle the many complex and challenging social situations that are rapidly coming at school leaders in today’s world.

The Uncommon Scenarios

We, as school leaders, face so many situations in school and beyond. People, problems, and “this needs your attention now” come at us constantly, and sometimes we wonder: What should I do? Whether you are a beginner or veteran, come share in this session where Andrew will present a number of different, challenging scenarios, present the question to a participant: What would you do? Then, he along with the group will debrief. No judging, just sharing, learning, growing, and certainly laughing! This will be a fun, surprising, and powerful learning experience. Find out more about Andrew at andrewmarotta.com.

Tales from the Hardwood: High Performance Under Pressure from a former College Basketball Official

Andrew Marotta is a Principal & former Mens Division 1 college basketball referee. He officiated in several major Division 1 conferences including the ACC, Atlantic 10, CAA, IVY & Patriot Leagues, and more. He learned from the best working at the highest levels. Come hear stories, be inspired, and fill your leadership bucket learning from his time as an official and how they can relate to your own leadership with your job, family, and personal life.

Take-a-way points include:

• Mentorship: helping those around you while being at your best.
• How to be at your best when it matters the most.
• The pressure cooker: balancing your time, wellness, and family through it all.
• The power of your presence.
• How to make “the right call” at the most difficult times.
• Supporting your colleagues like a champion, and more.

You will laugh, cry, reflect, and be moved to action during this powerful, story-filled, inspirational session. Follow Andrew and learn more @andrewmarotta21, andrewmarotta.com.

Be a Master Story Teller: Lead better through authenticity, experiences, & the power of storytelling.

Want to become a better speaker, storyteller? Need a base of stories to get you started? Get nervous speaking to groups and want to get better? Want to speak more confidently and impact your membership/audience more deeply? Join Andrew for this fun, exploratory, interactive workshop on storytelling. Andrew will teach you to be like a comet when you speak and present: Brilliant, memorable, and brief!

Participants will learn how to tell the right story, at the right time, to the right people. Practical, relatable, usable take-a-ways include:

• A number of stories to get you started.
• HOW to tell a story.
• HOW body language, enthusiasm, voice, location, setting, and more all can have an impact on your audience.
• HOW to use props and significant experiences to make a deeper connection and impact.
• HOW to bring your audience alive and connect with them in a powerful, memorable way.
• HOW being significant is more important than being successful in your school, company, and organization.

Leading Faster: Surviving & Thriving Leading in today’s world empowered by ADD/ADHD

Blessed with ADD/ADHD? Want to learn how to channel this amazing superpower? Come join Andrew to share, celebrate, and learn the best strategies and practices to lead with the power of ADD/ADHD. Concentration, focus, simplifying, and more. What are our pitfalls, how to avoid them, and do the things that help us survive and THRIVE while leading with ADD/ADHD.

Be The ONE, Surviving & Thriving: Be the ONE that everyone wants to work with at school, your business, and more.

(For Facilities Management Groups, Business Officials, and other support groups for schools and organizations)

Why do some people just stand out? Some just have that glow? Oh, they’re just born with that magnetic personality or that special talent. They’re so lucky that they can just ____(fill in the blank.) NO-they work at! They practice their skills. They learn from others. They work at bringing value and positive impact to others.

Join Andrew on this fun journey of exploring, dissecting, and diving deep into the strategies and intentional actions of being THAT one that people want to work with, be around. Andrew breaks down these topics and more in this session:

• Connecting through stories.
• Bring positive energy to the workplace.
• Capitalizing on simple moments that can become important breakthroughs.
• Taking care of yourself to bring your best self to your family and work.
• Listening and being present for others.

For teachers, all staff, & district openings: Today’s Significant Educator: Surviving & Thriving

Want to make a significant impact on the lives of the students and community you serve? Want your reach to extend beyond your classroom? Looking to do more than expected, and create enriching, amazing experiences for students and families? Today’s Significant Educator is for you and your district.

Teachers and school staff face a complex and challenging task in today’s educational world, now more than ever. Andrew will empower and enthuse teachers and all school personnel to further develop significant relationships with students and stakeholders through the power of storytelling, creating enriching, authentic experiences, and applying strategies to better connect with these vital groups. You will laugh, cry, and be moved in your emotions in this powerful, energetic presentation. #SurviveThrive

Above the Line, Surviving & Thriving: Interactive Leadership Activity

Want to share best practices for leadership? Want to practice a growth mindset, learn more about the top, most effective strategies that leaders do publicly, and behind the scenes? Want to live your life more ABOVE THE LINE of average? Come join Andrew in the uplifting, engaging, and interactive workshop on being your best self. Topics include:

• What are some of the top behaviors & strategies ‘the best’ do?
• What are some things we need to STOP doing in our lives?
• How can we become more effective in our communication & relationship-building?
• Being intentional with our time and activities to be our best selves.
• Sharing, listening and collaborating with the group of learners and leaders.

In this activity, you will be up, writing, reflecting, & sharing with others. You literally participate by sharing your Above the Line strategies to be your best self. Learn some ‘awesome-sauce’ tools as well from Andrew and the group! #SurviveThrive

5 Part Book Series: The Principal: Surviving & Thriving

Five one-hour sessions. Join in an invigorating and inspiring journey with Andrew as he leads topics, stories, and scenarios Culture & Relationships, Efficiency & Owning your time, Resilience & self-care, & tackle the question: Successful or Significant? Andrew will pick the dates with you and make it work with your team. Reserve your book study today!

Support, Support, Support: You, your team, your future

Looking for ways to bounce back from Covid? Trying to re-start yourself or your team? Want to look ahead toward your future. Spend time with Andrew exploring and sharing awesome, practical ways to support you, your team, and the future of your school and program. No training needed, just a jump start, a dash of energy, humor, and empathy. Come join Andrew to fill your bucket with all things support!

________ Right Now: (Fill in your State, Organization)

Join Andrew for this energizing and action-provoking session. Andrew will collaborate with the organizers and present on the items at hand…what is the audience facing and how can they persevere through these challenging times:

• Standing up for what is right, even when it is not popular.
• Loneliness and isolation.
• Carrying the Banner for your school and organization.
• Looking out for one another & supporting our colleagues.
• Effective and immediate communication through hard times creating a good outcome for you, the school and your community.

Andrew will present real-life situations that have happened and how to survive and thrive through them. It is a journey, and we have to keep on moving, and keep rolling!

Creating Schools That Kids are Excited to Attend

Looking to break through at your school? Want to have that amazing school setting that so many hear about yet few can reach? Have a desire to have a lasting, deep impact at your school community? Collaborate, share, and grow with Andrew Marotta as he leads this powerful conversation about creating an amazing school setting. Topics include:

• Bringing amazing energy each day.
• Creating student voice & choice.
• Using technology & social media to tell your story.
• Inspect what you expect, being present, being intentional.
• Build a beautiful school setting and keep it that way!
• Smile, humor, and finding the joy in it all.

You can’t do it alone either. Andrew will brainstorm, converse, and share about not only strategies you can do as the leader, and how to build collective commitments from stakeholders.

Master your Mornings

Come join Andrew in this early morning session to Master your Morning. What are the routines, structures, and habits you can put into place to help you best jumpstart your day? In this proactive, self-care session, Andrew dives into the following:

• Mastering the first 60-75 minutes of each day.
• Making time to do the things you want to do.
• Build a shut-down evening routine.
• Books, distractions, zoning in, and more.

It is challenging to lead if you are not filling your cup first. Make the important thing the important thing and get it done daily, and early. Keep Surviving & Thriving. #survivethrive

Don’t Sweat Your Observation!

Get nervous when your formal observation comes up? Freeze when an administrator walks into your room? Overthink, over worry about your annual performance observations and scores? Breakthrough! Work with Andrew in this motivating workshop to overcome some of these fears and struggles that are holding you back from being your best self. Andrew will share practical tips and go-to’s that will help you put practice into action when it matters most.

For School Board groups: Today’s Significant School Board Member Surviving & Thriving

Serving your school community as a school board member can be quite rewarding and impactful. It also can be challenging at times as you face a number of complex and thought-provoking situations. You are also tasked with making difficult decisions in public, sometimes pressure-filled situations.

Are you looking to be reinvigorated in your role as a school board member? Do you want to add some new tools to your toolbox and sharpen up some existing ones? Want to improve your presence, communication skills, and focus on supporting your school team more?

Come join Andrew Marotta and the inspiring keynote: Today’s Significant School Board Member: Surviving & Thriving. Andrew is an active and proud Principal in NY in his 18th year, 25th in education. He is the author of four books, a motivational speaker, and former Mens Division 1 basketball official. He will share through positive energy and the power of storytelling the following take-a-ways for you as school board member:

• Practical and inspirational ways to support your stakeholders.
• ABC: Always be communicating: from body language to engaging communication techniques.
• The ladder technique of being an effective listener.
• E+R=O and F.E.A.R.
• Being the school board member that people want to work with.
• The power of a single experience.
• Being mindful and intentional of the climate and culture of your board and district.
• Successful vs. significant and more.

Andrew will move your emotions in this energizing keynote talk. Come join him to reflect, grow, and learn in your own practice to best serve your school community and stakeholders. Survive and thrive with Andrew today and beyond. #SurviveThrive, @andrewmarotta21, www.andrewmarotta.com.

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Faculty Meetings–Surviving & Thriving: The Do’s & Don’ts of running faculty meetings

Join Andrew for this nuts and bolts practical session on how to run effective meetings.

The Art of Communication to Build Meaningful Relationships Surviving & Thriving with Andrew Marotta

Building better partnerships through proactive and intentional actions.

Want to have better, stronger relationships with your stakeholders? Tired of getting/feeling ‘beat-up?’ Want to improve your public speaking and communication skills? Have people coming at you way too hard and not sure how to handle it and want some effective strategies? Feel like you are being too reactive instead of more proactive in your relationships? Come join Andrew Marotta and be part of the fun, interactive, and thought-provoking workshop The Partnership: Surviving & Thriving: Building better relationships through proactive and intentional actions.

In this energy-filled workshop, Andrew will lead you through a variety of strategies, techniques, tips, and hacks that will help improve your overall communication and interactions with your stakeholders: staff, students, and parents. A few examples are:

• The difficult one-on-one conversation
• Awareness of body language
• The ‘Ladder’ of active listening
• The large assembly setting: How to own it?
• Presence
• E + R=O
• The energy of your office and school building setting
• Successful vs. Significant
• And much more

The goal of this workshop is that you feel more confident, comfortable, and prepared to handle the many complex and challenging social situations that are rapidly coming at school leaders in today’s world.

Learn more at www.andrewmarotta.com & through his blog & podcast: Education Leadership & Beyond found on facebook, linkedin, twitter @andrewmarotta21, and instagram. #ELB #survivethrive #ELBlog

Podcasting, Blogging, & Surviving & Thriving for Today’s Leader & Educator

What to get started podcasting but don’t know how? Thought about that blog but just not sure? Want to do more, reach more, be more?

Come join Andrew Marotta as he takes you on an energetic and fun ride exploring podcasting, blogging, and more–Surviving & Thriving through it all. Andrew is a 20 year + school leader in Port Jervis, NY: Assistant Principal, Principal and now Director of Communication & Academic Services. He uses podcasting, blogging, and other creations to uplift his district and spotlight the amazing educators and students he is blessed to serve. This will be fun, interactive & more! Learn more about Andrew at https://andrewmarotta.com/.

Be a Master Presenter: How to make incredible, impactful and attention-grabbing presentations.

School leader, teacher, educator–Today’s world demands that you MUST be a fantastic presenter to reach people. Come join Andrew Marotta and add some tools, strategies, and practical takeaways on how to present and own the room!

Takeaways include:

• How to build a meaningful, creative, and beautiful presentation.
• How to incorporate the right story at the right time to the right audience.
• How to use props to bring home your point.
• How to make the presentations NOT just sit and get, but interactive, conversational, and have active participants.

Andrew will model, explain, and dive into these topics and more. Learn more at https://andrewmarotta.com/.