Bring Dr. Rod to Your School
Dr. Rod brings the ideas behind his books and leadership programs into schools through engaging experiences designed to get young people thinking, talking, and putting leadership into practice.
From a single school visit to deeper leadership experiences, the goal is the same. Help young people recognize the influence they already have and become more intentional about what they do with it.
Find the Right Experience
Whether you're looking for an experience that reaches a large student audience or an opportunity to go deeper with a smaller group, Dr. Rod's work is designed to make leadership practical, memorable, and relevant to everyday life.
Live With Dr. Rod
01Large-group student experiences
Engaging, story-driven leadership experiences that help students connect ideas like vision, resilience, energy, connection, attitude, ownership, empathy, and everyday influence to their own lives.
Big ideas made understandable, memorable, and worth talking about after the assembly ends.
Lead With Dr. Rod
02Deeper, ongoing leadership development
For schools that want to go beyond a single experience, Dr. Rod's leadership programs create opportunities for young people to explore important ideas, apply them to their own lives, and grow alongside others.
Featuring the Dr. Rod Mastermind
A deeper youth leadership experience built around conversation, reflection, practical action, accountability, and growth.
Read With Dr. Rod
03Story-centered experiences for young readers
Bring Dr. Rod's stories off the page and into meaningful conversations with students.
Ages 5 to 8
The Rhino That Became a Unicorn
Dreams · Resilience · Help · Courage
Ages 13 to 19
The Zoo of Success
Vision · Resilience · Energy · Connection · Attitude · Ownership · Empathy
Stories can give young people language for ideas they are already experiencing in their own lives.
Learn With Dr. Rod
04Leadership conversations for the adults who guide them
Help the adults who guide young people continue meaningful leadership conversations beyond a single visit or event.
Dr. Rod's approach gives educators, parents, and mentors practical ideas for talking with young people about character, confidence, resilience, responsibility, relationships, empathy, and everyday choices.
More Than a Message
Young people hear messages all day about what they should do, who they should become, and the choices they should make. Dr. Rod approaches leadership differently.
He uses stories, animal metaphors, real-life situations, thoughtful questions, and conversation to help students recognize leadership in experiences they already understand.
The goal isn't simply to inspire students for an hour. It's to give them ideas they can remember, talk about, and put into practice long after the experience is over.
Make it memorable.
Stories and animal metaphors give students a simple way to remember bigger leadership ideas.
Make it personal.
Questions and discussion help young people connect those ideas to situations they are already experiencing.
Make it practical.
Students leave with something they can actually try, practice, or do differently.
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Seven Lessons From the Wild
The Zoo of Success uses seven animals to give young people a memorable language for leadership. Each animal represents an idea they can recognize in their own lives, talk about with others, and put into practice.
Vision
Resilience
Energy
Connection
Attitude
Ownership
Empathy
Seven animals. Seven leadership ideas. One language students can carry with them.
When Ideas Become Action
Leadership becomes meaningful when young people begin applying it to the choices, challenges, and opportunities in their own lives.
Varnika · Age 15
Varnika connected with the Rhino lesson about developing thick skin. She began learning not to let criticism or setbacks derail her and became more intentional about the people she allowed to influence her.
Resilience · Influence · Relationships
Sahasra · Age 15
Through the Mastermind, Sahasra began setting clearer goals, becoming more self-motivated, and growing more confident in her own decisions. She also became more intentional about moving away from negative influences and surrounding herself with people who supported where she wanted to go.
Confidence · Goals · Self-Leadership
Aarohi · Age 16
Through accountability, encouragement, and the leadership lessons she was learning, Aarohi began approaching failure differently. Instead of allowing the possibility of failure to keep her from acting, she moved forward and eventually started an organization supporting battered women.
Courage · Action · Service
Different stories. Different challenges. The same idea. Leadership becomes real when you begin to use it.
Built Around Your Students
Every school community is different. The right experience begins with understanding your students, what they are navigating, and what you hope they will carry with them when the experience is over.
You don't need to have the format, program, or every detail figured out before reaching out. Start with the need. Together, we can determine what kind of Dr. Rod experience makes the most sense.
The conversation starts with your students, not a package.
Age or grade range, group size, and the young people you want to reach.
What you want students to think about, talk about, practice, or take with them.
Assembly, classroom, leadership group, school event, parent or educator gathering, or another setting.
Together, we'll identify the experience and level of depth that best support your goals.
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Bring Dr. Rod to Your School
You don't need to know exactly which experience is right for your school before reaching out. Start by telling us about your students and what you're hoping to create.
Share your students, age groups, goals, timing, and what you're hoping to accomplish.
Together, we'll identify which Dr. Rod experience best fits your students and school community.
Dr. Rod brings the stories, leadership ideas, energy, and conversation into the room.
Let's Start a Conversation
Share a little about your students, your goals, and what you're considering. You don't need to have every detail figured out yet.
Sometimes all it takes is the right story, the right question, and someone who believes young people are capable of more.