Motivational Speaking

Sample Speech Topics

Middle School

• Creating your own Happily Ever After - Using the original Shrek movie to spur conversation, Dr. Kenya challenges listeners to be responsible in creating paths of opportunity to ensure success in their chosen areas of endeavor.
• Go! Have an Adventure! - Dr. Kenya shares from the movie Finding Nemo to explores the importance of maximizing opportunities, being true to one's self and finding one's life's purpose.
• Choice Not Chance Will Determine your Destiny - Taking a cue from the movie, The Matrix, in this talk Dr. Kenya encourages young audiences to think carefully about the choices they make and the long term impacts.

• Defining your Legacy - Dr. Kenya asks listeners to consider this pivotal question, "In the final analysis, how will you be remembered?"
• Curing the Destination Disease - With straightforward talk and great humor, Dr. Kenya challenges the audience to enjoy and learn the lessons of the journey toward their ultimate destiny rather than being completely fixated on the end result.
• Dwell in Possibility - Dr. Kenya states, "within your hands lie the keys to your destiny". What are you doing with them?
• In the Blink of an Eye - Life is short and things can change in the blink of an eye. As chance favors a prepared mind, how can a person situate himself to be ready when doors of opportunity open on his behalf? Dr. Kenya definitively teaches on personal agility in order to answer this question.
• It's Up to You - Dr. Kenya suggests to the audience that "uncommon lives require uncommon effort and sacrifice...though reaching your goals may require heightened commitment, the rewards can be far larger than you've ever begun to imagine!" [Click To View]
• For Such a Time as This - This message challenges higher education professionals to revisit the purpose for the work that they do by exploring the bigger picture of their long-term impact on students' lives.
• Embracing our Shared Values in a Sea of Transition /Making an Impact in a Climate of Change - When others are embroiled in institutional politics, is it possible to create positive change and spur forward momentum? Dr. Kenya suggests it is...
• Own the Largest Room in the World - What's the largest room in the world? Are you in it? Should you be? Dr. Ayers answers this question in a way that prompts the audience to take ownership for their lives in new and important ways.
• Unprecedented Flight Conditions - Dr. Kenya challenges listeners to "articulate, infiltrate and dominate" areas about which they are passionate in order to make a difference in their communities, cities, state, our nation and our world. [Current Featured Presentation on DKTV]
• Tenacity's Rewards - Examining the process of the creation of diamonds, this motivational address, invites listeners to focus on the importance of challenge and adversity in molding our character for the best.
• The Beautiful Struggle - How does one see beauty in the midst of challenge and difficulty? Hear this powerful lecture by Dr. Ayers to find out.
• The Journey of 1000 Miles - So often people get stuck on step one...in this talk, Dr. Kenya encourages listeners to take the essential first steps toward their future aspirations by asking "what one step can you take today to move you closer to your destiny?" and providing concrete suggestions for doing so.
• Take the Limits Off! - In an era when soaring gas prices and housing market declines are causing most to worry about the future, Dr. Kenya will encourage attendees to "take the limits off" in order to create and enjoy a vibrant, authentic life.
• The Power of One - Through this dynamic motivational message, audiences are challenged by the question, "Have you begun to envision, embrace and enlarge that with which you have been uniquely and divinely empowered" in order to live a life of purpose?
• It's Time out for Business as Usual - Herein, Dr. Kenya states, "It's time out for complacency, self-indulgence and limited thinking!" as she encourages listeners to understand that "what will matter most will be the efforts you made to seek out your purpose, understand your giftedness and celebrate your uniqueness".