Dr. Kathy Koch

Educational Speaker, Teacher, Trainer,

Parent Educator, Author

Dr Kathy Koch ("cook") should be the speaker/trainer for your next event. She effectively equips teachers and parents to understand and work out their children's and students' challenges. She will:

• Equip, challenge, and motivate parents and teachers to teach children to use their strengths in healthy ways. Relevant topics: Multiple Intelligences, The Millennial Generation.
  
• Help teachers and parents understand and work to improve children's weaknesses. Relevant topics: Bullying Prevention, 8 Smarts, Friendship and Cliques, Kill the Spider, Mind Styles™ Matter.
  
• Instruct parents and teachers how to discover root causes of challenges like bullying and academic apathy so long-lasting change occurs. Relevant topics: Kill the Spider, Bullying Prevention, Change Process.
  
• Inspire students of all ages to believe in themselves so they will invest in relationships and their education. Relevant topics: Multiple Intelligences, Kill the Spider, Millennial Generation, Excellence.
  
• Build up families as parents and children learn together about appreciating each other's strengths and futures. Relevant topics: Multiple Intelligences, Miracle Qualities. 

Who and what exactly are we talking to:

• "Teachers" and "Parents" includes many relevant audiences: homeschool parents, foster parents, grandparents, private school administrators and teachers, public school administrators and teachers, and volunteers who work with children in churches and community groups such as scouts, mentor programs, and sports.
  
• "Students" includes children and teens who gather for public school assemblies, private school chapels, church youth groups, camps, and celebrations such as graduations.
  
• "Events" includes professional development for K-12 and college teachers (individual schools and district-wide), conventions (keynote speaker, seminar/workshop presenter), fundraising banquets, parent training, dad and daughter breakfasts, school and church based seminars, ...

Dr. Kathy Koch ("cook") is an experienced speaker with a clearly defined philosophy and framework that's the basis for all her public speaking. She's a great one-shot trainer and because of her variety of interests and topics you can also hire her over and over again, counting on new and refreshing truths and illustrations to inspire and empower you and your colleagues.

Dr. Kathy has the ability to encourage people at the same time she challenges them. Audiences leave with hope for tomorrow rather than guilt over yesterday and solutions that work instead of just theory that tickles their brain. Strategically using humor to enhance people's attention and memory for ideas, her attendees always leave more informed with ideas to use and a smile on their faces. 

Teachers, parents, and students leave her seminars knowing what to do and wanting to take action. And they do because her realistic approach and relevant content meets their needs.

Dr. Kathy's understanding and practical teaching about people's five core needs is what uniquely separates her from other speakers. She teaches that people need:

• Security - how to be trustworthy themselves and to discern this quality in others. 
• Identity - to discover more about who they are and how to use their strengths in healthy ways. 
• Belonging - how to stay connected in the day of texting and how to navigate friendships and relationships.
• Purpose - to know the world doesn't revolve around them, and there's something meaningful they can do.
• Competence - to develop skills necessary for improving identity and fulfilling purpose.

Dr. Kathy connects her ideas and recommendations to these needs. Parents and teachers begin to recognize the unhealthy ways they or their struggling children may have tried to meet these needs. When they get back home or back to class and apply these truths, changes happen. Discouragement is lifted, frustration is limited, encouragement takes root, and hope gains a foothold. This is why Dr. Kathy is often invited back as a speaker for the same groups and different groups within the same organization.

Dr. Kathy also teaches about the multiple intelligences. Teachers regularly tell her that they thought they knew all about them but after listening to her seminar realized they didn't. Her strength is to succinctly define all eight smarts and bring new, practical understanding that convince teachers they can teach to all eight parts of the brain. She demonstrates how to adjust teaching methods and study strategies for greater effectiveness. She also explains and demonstrates how children's misbehavior can be rooted in the smarts so teachers and parents have new ways of approaching the children and change.

The Millennial generation is Dr. Kathy's third main topic. It's essential that teachers and parents understand how young people's attitudes, expectations, and beliefs are being changed by all the digital technology toys and tools they're using. Understanding that technology is the root of students' anger, impatience, boredom, expectations for choice, ineffective problem-solving methods, and so much else is huge. Teachers and parents believe they must adjust their communication and teaching styles and they do. Dr. Kathy often sees weight falling off teachers' shoulders as they listen and gain compassion for their students and a healthier view of their own struggles to maintain student interest and engagement. (Check out the Millennial course - Extreme Lesson Plan Make Over: NOT!)

Another issue teachers deal with is bullying. It's another reason students are distracted during class and hard to teach. Some are afraid they'll  be targeted during the next break. Others are distracted because they're planning their next attack. Bullying also contributes to absenteeism and the dropout rate and the stress teachers are under. Because we're concerned for students' physical and emotional safety and we want them to be able to learn well, Dr. Kathy teaches about preventing bullying. She knows it can be decreased and eliminated all together. She has practical ideas and answers that you can successfullly apply so students' character will improve and healthy relationships will form.

Mind Styles™ is another of Dr. Kathy's main topics. This unique training uses a formal, quick assessment that has high explanatory power and compliments the DISC® and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®. Our Mind Style influences how we relate to tasks and people and how we think and feel. And, because it also influences the way we communicate in formal and informal settings, Kathy's training improves teamwork and helps teachers and leaders communicate more effectively to everyone in their classes and groups. Participants will more completely understand why certain behaviors in others have irritated them, how they may irritate others, and how to "bridge and flex" to better get along, increase success, and decrease stress. Difference won't be seen as "bad" or "good" and the new level of self-acceptance will increase everyone's freedom.

Dr. Kathy keeps up-to-date with the current research, observes the culture, and presents her ideas in a casual, engaging two-way-street style. Her informative and instructive keynote messages, seminars, and presentations are consistently well received.