Change in Opening Speaker Brings Leading Expert on EQ, Performance to IECA
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association
We are pleased to announce the addition of one of Canada’s leading experts on emotional intelligence and high performance to the roster of outstanding speakers. Dr. J.P. Pawliw-Fry will address the conference as Wednesday’s keynote speaker. He replaces Peter Jensen who needed to cancel due to illness.
I had the opportunity to speak to Dr. Pawliw-Fry a week ago. He brings together a number of personal experiences, academic training, life experiences, and professional accomplishments
that make him ideally suited to open the conference. Having recently moved from Geneva to Toronto, Dr. Pawliw-Fry has just gone through an independent school search with his own daughter and understands well the role of an educational consultant in assuring a great match between a student’s interests and abilities, and a school’s approach to teaching and community. As an international expert on EQ (emotional intelligence), he is able to tie the theory of multiple intelligences to the school and college search and understanding the whole child. EQ has long been a topic of interest to IECA since the author, researcher, and ‘father’ of EQ, Daniel Goleman, spoke at IECA’s 20th Anniversary conference in Boston.
Dr. Pawliw-Fry trained at Harvard Medical School’s Mind Body Medical Institute and at the Stress Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. His many clients include several educational groups, governmental organizations, and Olympic athletes, where he is welcomed as an expert on achieving maximum performance. For his presentation at IECA, he will meld state-of-the art research with real-life inspirational stories to create a thought-provoking talk. Attendees will leave with a custom-designed workbook to ensure the research, lessons, and insights will carry outside of the room.
We always like to hear from previous groups a speaker has addressed in order to ensure great presentations. Consider these comments from some recent presentations given by Dr. Pawliw-Fry:
“Best keynote presentation I have been to in years! Very different than the usual: extremely interesting and powerful—yet highly entertaining. It is not often I hear someone who can really ‘put it together’.” Ernst & Young
“Dr. Pawliw-Fry is impassioned and enthusiastic.” Kellogg Graduate School of Management
“J.P. is an inspirational presenter and he infuses passion into his material… He can take complex ideas and simplify them, giving the members of the audience real solutions they can easily implement.” LANSA, Inc.
Additional information about registering for the IECA conference is available on the IECA Web site.
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