Who We Are

ABOUT US

We are typical speakers that talk down to your students during low-energy, noninteractive, disengaging, and boring seminars while standing behind a podium and reading the slides. On top of it, we ensure that everything is high-maintenance, high-cost, and low quality.  :)

Just kidding! Think of the worst lecture you’ve ever seen...we do the opposite!

Face it: most podium speakers are boring and most lectures suck. You know it's true and so do we. That's why we do what we do. We are Collegiate Empowerment.

WHO WE ARE. Collegiate Empowerment is a nonprofit, for-purpose educational production company hell-bent on Helping ​College Students, Parents & Families, and Higher Ed Profs Get What They Want & Need. We are not a speakers agency. We are a dynamic team of educational performers, artists, and educators on a mission to do great work for you and your students. We’re here to make your job easier and to help you look like a hero to the members of your campus community.

WHAT WE DO. Collegiate Empowerment is home to a series of national best-selling educational productions perfect for the first-year experience and student leadership development focused on What Every College Student Needs to Know®. Our curriculum is research-driven, grounded in practicality, and easy to apply. Our diverse, relatable, and ever-growing team co-creates, customizes, and facilitates high-energy, interactive, engaging, and fun shows, seminars, conferences, and retreats. Events range from NSO shows to empowering seminars, from weekend leadership development retreats to multi-year consulting partnerships. We deliver on stage, online, in large groups up to 2,400 and small groups of just five participants, during one-to-one professional coaching, through our podcasts, and via our published books and articles.

OUR TRACK RECORD. We've got one heck of a track record. Since 1995, the Collegiate Empowerment Squad has empowered over 2 million students and 50,000 Higher Ed pros at more than 3,000 campuses during 5,000+ events. We’ve also been featured in hundreds of national media outlets including The Chronicle of Higher Education, NASPA, CNN, Oprah’s O Magazine, and SPIN Magazine.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING WITH US. We create educational experiences that Higher Education Professional​s​ know and trust, delivered ​in a context that students can relate to at a price your campus can afford. Best of all: if your students don’t like it, your school doesn’t pay for it! (How cool is that?!)

Don’t you wish everything in life was guaranteed?

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU. ​So, if you are looking to provide your students with some of the best educational programming available in the US Higher Education market and more than just some motivational speaker to empower your campus community, then be certain to check out Collegiate Empowerment. If you HATE lectures, you’ll LOVE this! It’s kind of like fireworks: we can explain it to you with words, but once you experience us live, you’ll really get it. Check us out!

HERE ARE SOME MORE HAPPY CLIENTS...

"Collegiate Empowerment offers professional staff and students equal levels of support in getting the job done well. You facilitate the challenge-by-choice very well and leads people down the path to finding their own answers."

— Anna Droste-Glowinski, Director of Student Life and Development
Ivy Tech Community College

"Collegiate Empowerment seminars always hits home for me. It’s very personal. It makes me think about myself. It’s really effective to get me to look inside myself to do things better."

— Amanda DeRose, Coordinator of Student Activities and Leadership
Carroll Community College