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Jeff Eben is an award-winning educator, leader, author and speaker. A promising young athlete with dreams of a college football scholarship, Jeff sustained a catastrophic injury at 16 that left him paralyzed and tasked with building his life and career in a wheelchair. After graduating high school and earning his degree and teaching credential from Fresno State University, Jeff Eben enjoyed a 30 year career in public education that included coaching football and basketball, teaching, and administration.

 

He has spent over 15 years as a principal, including being the founding principal of a National Blue Ribbon High School in the acclaimed Clovis Unified School District. Seeking a different leadership opportunity, Jeff spent the last years of his career in Racine, Wisconsin, where he was widely credited with the total cultural shift of a long-time under-performing large urban high school. ​ His powerful story and a unique philosophy of “Feel The Love” has taken him to speaking engagements around the world, including an educational roundtable at Oxford University in England. In 1998, Jeff was named Fresno County’s Administrator of the Year, and in 2006, he was inducted into the Clovis Hall of Fame for Lifetime Achievement in Education. In 2007, he was recognized by Fresno State as its Noted Alumnus, and his work in Wisconsin earned him the Distinguished Educator Award given by Phi Delta Kappa in 2013. ​

 

Jeff spent 4 years away from education when he was appointed Deputy Mayor of Fresno in 2007, followed by a stint as the CEO of the Fresno Convention and Visitors Bureau. He is the author of three books, including his autobiography “How Many Wins Have YOU Had Today?” Jeff is the proud father of 2 grown children, Jared and Noelle. They currently make Fresno California their home base.

Speaking Topics

The "How Many WINS Have You Had Today" Journey

Jeff will take your audience on a journey through his own life experience. It will make you laugh, cry, laugh again and then reflect on your own life. Attendees will receive powerful mental tools to help them celebrate wins and become a leader at work, in their team and in their school or corporation. This powerful keynote includes music performed by Jeff and will change the future of your attendees and your school, district, business or corporate community.


​Appropriate for educators, school staff, student leaders, churches and corporations or other business organizations.

Purpose Discovery & Team Building (Workshop)

Requires the “How Many Wins Have You Had Today Journey Keynote” first.


This workshop emphasizes transformational leadership and begins with changing the way you and your team THINK. Jeff will help you and your team find or rediscover your organization’s purpose. Educators can get caught up in testing and scores. Corporations can get trapped in productivity metrics. Jeff will help your team break that spell and find the true purpose that will motivate them.


Then, through small groups and story-telling, Jeff will lead your team in having the key conversations that help them build their team around that purpose and develop their voice so everyone can participate in making lasting changes.


You and your team will:

  • Identify the common purpose in your organization
  • Discover what it means to be a “team firster”
  • Create for implementation the organizational core values and normative behaviors
  • Learn the Winners Vocabulary for both leaders and team members and develop a system-wide plan to celebrate all wins
  • Begin writing your own custom constitution to memorialize your organization’s belief system


The result will be a school that creates a strong enough purpose to get staff and teachers out of their silos and put the success organization before themselves.Corporations will develop a purpose that gives everyone an opportunity to be part of the culture. When schools and businesses make people part of the team they will improve morale, increase productivity (however you define it) and keep (happier) employees longer.

Developing YOUR “How Many Wins Culture” (Workshop)

Requires the “How Many Wins Have You Had Today Journey Keynote” first.


This workshop will help you develop a plan that you can begin implementing immediately. It is a systematic approach to developing a culture of love, inclusion and winning every day for EVERY student, teacher, executive or employee.


It’s easy to have a strong culture when things are going well, but this workshop is designed to help you create a culture that will stay strong and that will pull together when tragedy, loss or disaster strikes members of your team, your organization or your community. Jeff has systematically implemented this culture-building program in multiple organizations.


You and your team will:

  • Show your people how to develop the habit of success.
  • Learn how to implement the plan immediately to start seeing changes fast.
  • Clarify where you want to grow and learn how to develop and track it every day.
  • Find out how to use the winners vocabulary and teach it to others.
  • Create systems for celebrating, memorializing and making your culture a part of the fabric of your organization that will not fade or falter.

 

The result will be a culture that is strong and that is self-sustaining so that it survives changes in leadership and the inevitable flow of new students coming in and then graduating, or employees joining or leaving the company. Rather than have to deal with daily disruptions and flog people to improve moral, you’ll have a culture of winners who lift up and encourage themselves and each other.

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