Aug 042011
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Aug 042011
Yesterday, Liz got an email from one of the senior people at Grady High School, looking for a a last minute speaker for freshman orientation day. The email came in while she happened to be on the phone with Atlanta TV personality Jeff Johnson, who instantly said “yes” he’d do it. She and I are pretty proud of our start up organization, Grady Talks! Have you ever been able to solve a problem that quickly?
So now, Grady Talks will be providing the motivational speaker for the new student orientation Friday August 5th, at Grady High School and I’ll get to video tape this one and post in online.
Want to see last years kick-off talk by basketball legend, Chris Webber? Follow this link: http://bit.ly/qDR5bf.
Liz has a bunch of business professionals lined up to deliver talks to a class this Fall at Grady. They will be telling stories from their work experiances and help the kid get focused on a successful career.
Interested in talking to a class of 30 high school kids about the lessons that you have learned? I’m sure Liz would love to talk with you about it. Say, what’s the biggest lesson that you’ve learned while on the job? For me, it’s that if you put together a team, you have a better chance of getting what you are looking for.
Here are some excerpts from Jeff’s talk last school year:
Aug 032011
As part of the project to inspire kids to stay in school and get on a meaningful career path, we’ve developed a library of one-hour videos. The archive of talks are currently being presented and streamed at AtlantaForumNetwork.org, a service of Public Broadcasting Atlanta in association with PBS and NPR.
As we are launching the new Grady Talks website (coming soon), the library of talks is being moved to vimeo.com and is currently available at:
We’d love to know what you think. Do you think that providing inspiring talks by business professionals will help reduce dropout rates?
Aug 022011
Today we begin the Grady Talks Blog. Grady Talks is a non-profit organization dedicated to linking business professionals with high school students in order to help young people start out on a meaningful career path. It’s also a great way to make education a priority and stay in school.
What if it were easy to tell your inspiring business story to a high school class? What if you could help change the lives of 30 kids in just one hour? What if every high school in the country had a chapter of Grady Talks and a coordinator you could call to schedule a your talk? What if it was just that simple to make a positive impact on young people. In Atlanta, it is! Gradytalks.info