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Grady Talks is the inaugural program of Georgia non-profit Talk About Your Future, Inc. Grady Talks links urban Atlanta public school students with professionals, executives and mentors. The program brings leaders from within and beyond the Atlanta community to Grady High School, where they share their experiences and insights with the students. Our presenters motivate, challenge and inspire. They offer positive messages of hope and resilience. Our vision is to provide every student in urban Atlanta schools the chance to engage professionals from a host of fields, in order to ignite the passion in our students that is so necessary for career and personal success.
Suneel Mandava, Managing Director at William Blair and Company, tells the story of how his father's choices made all the difference in his life, and the lives of his children. When you are in high school, it's hard to imagine how your choices will have an impact on future generations, but that's exactly what happened in India many years ago when his father was growing up. He tells how "working the fields" was his family's destiny for thousands of years. That all changed when his dad got the chance to go to school and chose to work hard.
Experienced Lawyer, Genie Sockel, owner of Akamai Sensitivity Training (akamaisensitivitytraining.com) talks to a class at Atlanta's Grady High School about her career and the student's future. Genie shares her experiences with the students and asks them to think of the benefits make a good impression on people and avoiding unintended offenses due to a lack of cultural sensitivity. She explains what it means to understand your own personal "Smarts" and to use your "Smartness" to leverage improvements in other parts of your life.
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Atlanta Personality, Jeff Johnson, talks about the characters in his life and how they play a role in shaping his life. As an entertainer, Jeff uses his talents to motivate high school students to take the first step towards building their future. He asks, "How are you going to go out today and start that process of making this world a better place to be?"
Don Walker, former Delta Airlines pilot, talks about Situational Awareness to a class at Atlanta's Grady High School.
Jae Brown, CDC Emergency Management Specialist, told stories of his youth and getting in the kind of trouble that would kill anyone else's career. Jae's inspirational tales remind us that you can bounce back from adversity, if you are persistent and can recognize opportunity when you see it.
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On new student orientation day at Grady High School in Atlanta, business attorney David Walker and TV Personality Jeff "JJ" Johnson address the new freshman class. They offer words of encouragement and talk about personal responsibility. They spoke on behalf of Grady Talks, Liz Liebemran's organization that provides students with career advice from business professional.
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Denis Brosnan, CEO of Prommis Solutions, talks to a group of high school students about necessary evils in life. He tells about three tools that can help propel you forward in life. Modeling your behavior after others can help you fit in and do what people do. We join groups to accomplish more than we can do on our own. We can get great guidance from mentors. Denis talks about the pitfalls of using the three tools.
KEF Media Senior Producer, Amani Channel, talks to Grady High School students about the importance of working on your character in order to get the job of your dreams. He says that he hasn't really done anything exceptional to get where he is now. You just have to always do your best, do what you say you will do, be on time, look your best and practice your craft. He offers a comprehensive list of ways you can improve the way people see you.
Business Executive Ed Hill, discusses the trap of "Employee Entitlement" and how important having the right attitude is in order to succeed in business. He tells a group of Grady High School students about how having a strong "work ethic" will increase your value to a company. He says relationships are key and tells a story of how he got his new job from a relationship he forged 15 years ago.
Travis and Trinity Townsend are brothers, attorneys, and authors of When The Cops Come Knockin': An Illustrative Guide to Criminal Law. They speak to a class of high school students about criminal law, offer teenage survival skills and deliver insightful information about commonly committed cybercrimes. They discuss how to assert and protect legal rights when confronted by police officers, prosecutors, and other representatives of the criminal justice system.
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Whitney Munn, Associate Director, Social Responsibility for Kilpatrick Stockton law firm, talks to a class of students at Atlanta's Grady High School about their future careers. She tell of her success creating the firm’s award-winning community involvement initiative, “IMPACT” and the firm’s highly successful Booker T. Washington High School (BTW) Freedom Writers mentoring program.
Everyone has an “inner genius,” a uniquely personal skill set that enables them to stand out from the crowd and shine. Mark Fogarty, an editor with New York based SourceMedia, recently delivered this message to a group of students at Grady High School in Atlanta.
Publicist Carrie Whitney discusses what it's like to be an independent publicist with group of high school students at Grady High School in Atlanta. In this 44 minute talk, Carrie covers a brief history of Public Relations including a story of Edward Bernays and how he went from creating war propaganda to creating the very first "Flash Mob".
Don recently came to Grady High to speak with the students about the process of discovering ones passion and the makings of a successful career. Don told the students that he himself did not know what he wanted to do for a long time; he said that in his experience working with college students, it’s common not to “know what you want to be when you grow up.” Yet, Don explained, even if you don’t know what exactly you want to do, there are certain practices which will help guide you in the right direction.
Basketball Legend Chris Webber talks with freshman students at Atlanta's Grady High School on how to go through a process of achieving career goals. He tells kids that the thing that's your hobby today, might be your talent. Find something that you love to do, find people that you love to work with who will encourage you, don't listen to the "haters" when they say you can't do it, write a list of all the negative things and the reasons that you shouldn't make it, and then go get what you are looking for.
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Genie Sockel: Being Your Akamai Self
Dave Walker and Jeff Johnson Talk to Grady High 9th Graders
