School Board Officials
Business Officials
Continuing Ed
Teachers
Principals
Nutritionists
Administrators
Assistant Principals
Early Education
School Nurses
Maintenance Engineers
Transportation
A keynote speaker who understands education –
That’s Jan McInnis!
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Jan will show you how to deal with the changing challenges facing education professionals:
Smaller Budgets
No Child Left Behind/ESSA
Encouraging Student Achievement
Mutant Lice?????
Paperwork
Wearing More Than 1 Hat
Solutions, Humor, Connection – Jan delivers that and more!
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Read the “Value for Attendees” statement here
How do you handle the many changes in education?
How do you deal with all the moving parts while making sure students, staff, parents and board members are happy and reach their goals?
Keynote speaker and comedian Jan McInnis shows you how with her keynotes.
“Jan combined relevant content with humor. It was just what she promised! In addition, she made the session personal incorporating current issues principals are facing today!”
D.S., Director, Mich. Elementary & Middle School Principals
Jan Connects With Education Audiences such as. . .
School Business Officials, School Boards, Transportation Managers, Teachers, School Superintendents, Administrative Staff, School Nutrition, Community Colleges, State Departments of Education, Principals Associations, in-service events, 4-Year Colleges, Libraries, School Plant Managers, Head Start Associations, Business and Tech Education Associations, Education Users Groups, Education Service Centers.
Education Clients Are Saying…
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“Your presentation was a huge success with our membership. You received very high marks from IAPSS members in attendance. Our members would highly recommend your presentation “Finding the Funny in Communications.” While having a GREAT time, they left with what they saw as some great pointers for working more effectively with different publics. Great concepts! Again, please accept our appreciation for a great opportunity to learn.”
“Jan was just what we needed at the end of our 3 day conference to send us off with humor and humility. She not only made us LOL many times, she enlightened us on how to shift the energy in work situations to create a new way of looking at things. Her practical suggestions were “spot on” and can be applied to any group setting. Also, her newest breakout session Flourishing in Failure received rave reviews on our evaluations. Thank you, Jan McInnis for ending our conference on a high note!”
“Your message is wonderful and I look forward to sharing some humor with our staff and students. I will keep in touch with hopes we can bring you to Idaho again in the near future.
Thank you for all of the laughs.”
“Jan, Thank you for your slides! I really enjoyed your presentation! I am the chairperson for SWMSTA TEPS so I get the joy of picking our speakers each semester with the TEPS committee. We made an excellent choice having you speak!”
“Just wanted to drop you a few lines regarding your awesome presentation for Kennett School District #39!! I have received numerous comments from staff members on how great your performance was and how energized they feel for the upcoming school year. Several staff members made the comment, “That was the best orientation presentation since I have been at Kennett.” Once again, thanks for the top notch performance and providing a great start to our school year.”
“Thank you Jan. You were a HIT!!! It was a good conference and you capped it up for us perfectly.”
“Jan, just wanted to let you know how much our group enjoyed your performance last Thursday evening. I was nervous about bringing in a comedian — I felt sure that any comedian clean enough for our crowd would be a little too clean for me. You struck just the right tone — grown-up, real-world humor appropriate for everyone in the audience. There’s nothing more gratifying for an event-planner than a room full of people having a good time — and you definitely made that happen for our group.”
“We were looking to instill some energy and fun into our conference. Jan brought that and more. Our customers not only enjoyed Jan’s comedic presentation, but also were able to take with them some great insight to better deal with the many challenges they face in their daily jobs. Well done Jan!”
“Wonderful feedback from our membership, just the kind of balance we need in our professional development and keynote speakers. I’m so delighted that we took a leap of faith and stepped out of our usual box.”
“Thank you for providing our organization with such a fantastic opportunity and tremendous insight! You were awesome!”.
“Wow! I don’t know where to begin. We loved you! You were fantastic for our group. I don’t think anyone expected to be laughing so hard at the end of a long day. Your act is beyond hilarious. If I watched you do it all over again today, I’d laugh just as hard. Thank you for taking the time to tailor your material just for our audience, who had tears in their eyes and were doubled over.“
“Your keynote session was a big hit. I know this because one of our biggest critics, who routinely hates the keynote/motivational speaker no matter how great everyone else thinks they are, came up to me and said, “I like her. She’s funny and she has a good message that isn’t sappy or overly emotional.” Indeed, your sense of humor and coaching on why and how humor can make all the difference in our relationships with others, was both entertaining and useful. And they were impressed that you knew they are not teachers. And that they don’t get the summer off. So thanks for paying attention to the background information I sent you – it really paid off. My favorite post-conference evaluation comment is, “Jan McInnis rocks!”.”
“At 8 o’clock in the morning after a late night Jan “wowed” 450 School Principals with laughter and inspiration. Her humor and practical advice for finding levity in all that we do provided our conferees more tools to take back to their schools. I highly recommend Jan for your next conference or event. She is the best!”.
“Having Jan McInnis as our opening keynote speaker was a perfect way to start our annual conference. She helped set the tone with her humor and her helpful ideas on using humor to deal with stressful situations. Throughout the remaining days of the meeting members could be heard referencing her comments. We would highly recommend her to any group.”
“On behalf of ASPAA, thank you again for your keynote speech. We all thoroughly enjoyed your presentation and the nonstop laughs that came with it. “
Comments from Idaho Department of Education State Prevention and Support Conference
- She was very entertaining and addressed ways that we could help to lighten a tense meeting or classroom presentation. It was very helpful.
- The information was great but I really appreciated the uplifting time. As an educator, I look forward to conferences to be encouraged to keep going. Sometimes we have given out everything we have and need the tank to be refilled. Jan provide this encouragement.
- Great Strategies!
- Great way to end the conference. She was amazing!
- Never hurts to leave feeling good!
- She was a great choice for a closing keynote. I was expecting something much different (and to be honest wasn’t excited about it) but she was great and it went by almost too fast.
- Great way to end the conference! Loved her humor!
- Skeptical at first, but she actually gave a good talk.
- Loved her comments!
- Great way to end the conference!
- I remembered that “laughter is the best medicine” and, since I work with MS kids sometimes it is the “best practice!”
- I loved the humor at the end. Just what I needed.
- Great applicable strategies to incorporate humor.