Keynote Speakers
Cyndi Laurin
Author of Catch! A Fishmonger's Guide to Greatness and founder of Guide to Greatness, LLC.
“Path to Educational Greatness”
One of the more important lessons learned while working at World Famous Pike Place Fish is that you do not hand off the responsibility for getting the job done when you hand the activity off. Each person in the process is responsible for the whole experience. Education and the learning process is a shared responsibility. While teachers help students find their intention, students (of any age) have to choose to be great. It is a humbling experience when we do our best as teachers, and some students choose to be ordinary or to not engage in the learning process at all.
Educators can choose to instill in students that, with every exchange with another human being, each has a choice to make things better, perpetuate what currently exists or degrade that interchange. Collectively, the choices made by all of us over time create our culture and the world we live in. This presentation will provoke your thinking about how you choose to contribute to the path of educational greatness.
Cyndi Laurin, Ph.D., is an author, speaker and organizational developer. She served as keynote speaker at several national and international conferences and delivered presentations to private and public organizations all over the United States.
Cyndi taught for 10 years in the College of Business at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo in the areas of systems thinking/process improvement, corporate training and management presentations. More recently, she taught with the National Graduate School's Master's Degree program in quality systems management - teaching Six Sigma, Baldrige performance criteria, Lean thinking, team-building, performance excellence and best practices. Cyndi is the author of Catch! A Fishmonger's Guide to Greatnes s (published under her maiden name, Crother). In 2005, she founded Guide to Greatness, LLC as a resource for organizations interested in integrating their people and processes to achieve desired outcomes.
