UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
Where we come together curious, brave, and resolute.
Rosalind speaks at live and virtual events based on a singular foundation: to understand the power of dignity to build courage, connection, and community. She speaks at private and public events throughout the world.
Association of China & Mongolia International Schools (ACAMIS) Spring Conference - China
The ACAMIS Spring Leadership Conference’s theme this year is Opportunities to Build: Futures, Leaders, Spaces, & Lives. As schools are all about people, the conference will explore the opportunities to nurture excellent learning environments and develop leaders. Rosalind is a keynote speaker at the conference and will also work with Hangzhou International School for their professional development day.
Dartmouth College - Hanover, New Hampshire
Rosalind Wiseman and Shanterra McBride will present the keynote address and speak with small groups on topics related to their book, Courageous Discomfort: How to Have Important, Brave, Life-Changing Conversations about Race and Racism. How can we have honest conversations about topics that silence most of us or in which only a few people dominate? How do we create and sustain an inclusive community where people feel a sense of belonging? How do we know when to advocate for each other or receive feedback when our intentions don't match our impact? We live in a time where it can feel too hard, too frightening for some of us to step into these moments and make a difference.
LeadingBetter Summit 2024 - Louisville, Kentucky
Rosalind Wiseman and Shanterra McBride will present the keynote address, speaking on topics related to their book, Courageous Discomfort: How to Have Important, Brave, Life-Changing Conversations about Race and Racism. How do we create and sustain a community where people feel they can ask questions and make mistakes? Rosalind Wiseman and Shanterra McBride will show you how with warmth, grace, and humor.
2024 Massachusetts Conference for Women - Boston, Massachusetts
Rosalind will present two workshops at the 20th annual Massachusetts Conference for Women: Power in Unity.
American International Schools in the Americas (AMISA) 2025 Educators' Conference - Panama City, Panama
Rosalind will be the keynote speaker at the 2025 AMISA Conference, Bridge Builders: Connecting What Matters. She will also host two breakout sessions.
Miami University - Oxford, Ohio
Rosalind will speak at Miami University as part of their Lecture Series on social dynamics, emotional well-being, and leadership for unn
Lecture Series strives to bring in speakers covering a broad spectrum of contemporary issues for the Miami University, Oxford, and Southern Ohio communities. Through a seminar, dinner, lecture, and public reception, Lecture Series provides access to the speakers for as many people as possible.
St. Catherine’s School - Richmond, Virginia
Rosalind will host a virtual presentation for the St. Catherine’s community. In this presentation, she will share how young people's social group dynamics influence their interactions and offer step-by-step advice on how to navigate these common yet complex situations, such as why young people can be reluctant to ask for help. She’ll also give common-sense suggestions that adults can use to break through communication barriers.
Rumson Country Day School - Rumson, New Jersey
Rosalind will work with parents, faculty, and students over her two-day visit to Rumson Country Day School speaking on Queen Bees & Masterminds: Helping Young People Navigate Friendships, Social Conflicts, & Popularity.
American International Schools in the Americas (AMISA) 2024 Educators' Conference - Asuncion, Paraguay
Rosalind will hold an interactive multiple day seminar on Visionary Leadership for educators and school leaders at the 2024 AMISA Conference: Growing & Connecting: Better Together.
This conference will take place in Asuncion, Paraguay.
American School of Asuncion - Asuncion, Paraguay
While in Paraguay for the AMISA conference, Rosalind will host a Parent Presentation at the American School of Asuncion.
Harvard-Westlake - Los Angeles, California
Rosalind will host a virtual presentation for the Harvard-Westlake community. In this presentation, she will share how young people's social group dynamics influence their interactions and offer step-by-step advice on how to navigate these common yet complex situations, such as why young people can be reluctant to ask for help. She’ll also give common-sense suggestions that adults can use to break through communication barriers.
Genmab - International Women's Day Virtual Presentation
How do we leave Mean Girls behind us?
While there is so much intention and effort to empower women in the workplace, we are missing an essential understanding of the challenges women still face: moving beyond the social conditioning we thought we left behind in our adolescence.
Without realizing why, we struggle to advocate for ourselves or communicate assertively; we avoid necessary but difficult conversations because we fear coming across as mean and uncooperative. Until we acknowledge this deep rooted social conditioning, we will sabotage our best efforts to empower, mentor, and support each other. Work doesn’t have to be like middle school. We can change our patterns. We can increase our capacity and potential individually and in our professional partnerships.
Join Rosalind Wiseman as she takes you on a journey to understand Girl World and its implications for women in the workplace today.
National Charity League Virtual Presentation
As part of Rosalind’s ongoing partnership with the National Charity League, this event is focused on supporting the teen members of the organization.
Next50 - Denver, Colorado
Rosalind will facilitate a discussion on Courageous Discomfort.
The Kaust School - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Rosalind is partnering with The Kaust School (TKS), an IB international school located within the Kaust University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a multi-faceted program with students, faculty, and parents. In addition, she is the keynote speaker for the Thrive Educators Conference where educators in the community will join the Kaust faculty to listen to Rosalind speak on Living a Principled and Powerful Life.
Robert College - Istanbul, Turkey
Rosalind will speak with students and learn about what they are doing with Social Emotional Learning and environmental sustainability programs.
Webinar - Microsoft Women in Tech
Rosalind will speak on “How to Get MORE When You Said “Yes” to the Opportunity but Forgot to Negotiate”.
REDgen - Milwaukee, WI
Rosalind will speak with Middle & Upper School Students, Faculty & Staff, and Parents on the following topics: Relationships Are Everything, Raising Our Village, and Bridging the Generational Divide.
Many young people feel that the world is so different now that it is impossible for adults to relate to their experiences and challenges. At the same time, many adults feel that it is increasingly difficult and frustrating to reach young people. We want to do our best by them, we believe we do our best for them, but our attempts to understand their world are rebuffed and communicating with them can escalate into misunderstandings and disconnection.
We have to figure out another way to be in relationship with each other. For our children, for their education, for the foundation of our communities and our collective welfare, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Combining the latest adolescent brain and behavioral research with over twenty-five years of work with young people, Rosalind will answer these questions. She will show how to get beyond the stereotypes and expectations young people and adults have of each other and transform our interactions into meaningful exchanges where adults are credible, powerful mentors.
Independent Educational Consultants Association Fall Conference - Tampa, FL
Rosalind Wiseman and Shanterra McBride, authors of Courageous Discomfort, will present the keynote speech and facilitate a workshop on Courageous Discomfort: Having Brave, Positive Life-Changing Conversations at the IECA Fall Conference in Tampa, FL.
As people in the profession of helping young people and their families decide on their next steps in higher education, our everyday experience is facilitating conversations between people who often see the world very differently. When we combine that dynamic with conversations around diversity and inclusion, things can get even more complex.
Based on their latest book, Courageous Discomfort, Rosalind Wiseman and Shanterra McBride give the answers to handling these complex dynamics. Courageous Discomfort acknowledges the challenges of breaking through our hesitancy, frustration, and fear around issues of diversity and inclusion by grounding our thinking and actions in dignity—the belief that everyone has the right to be recognized for their inherent worth. It is only from this foundation that we can transform our work and family relationships with the skills to be effective advocates and allies for building diverse communities where all feel welcome.
The Nueva School - San Francisco, CA
Rosalind will join Psychologist, Rob Evans Ed.D and Denise Clark Pope from Stanford Graduate School of Education and Challenge Success at the Nueva School’s 2023 Innovative Learning Conference (ILC).
How do we support young people to pursue their academic and creative purpose, develop emotional and intellectual resilience, and support their mental health? What truly motivates young people, and what makes them turn away from us? How do we create SEL programs where students can see the connection and relevance between the program content and their lives?
Combining the latest understanding of adolescent development, Rosalind will show participants how to identify assumptions that can lead to miscommunications between young people and adults, including those that often contribute to the pitfalls of many SEL programs. From there, she’ll show how to transform these miscommunication moments so that we can have more positive interactions with young people, and share what young people really want from SEL programs to keep them credible and relevant.
Visitation Academy - Saint Louis, MO
Rosalind’s book Queen Bees and Wannabess: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolescence was the basis for the movie and then musical Mean Girls.
High school theater departments around the country are now hosting their own musical productions of Mean Girls. And one in particular, Visitation, has been a long-time partner with Rosalind. During the 2023-2024 school year, in collaboration with Visitation Academy’s theater director and counselors, Rosalind is creating curricula around the musical; integrating art, theater, and social and emotional learning to bring the larger lessons of book and movie to life. Rosalind will work with the cast, individual grade levels, and parents for in-person presentations, and will provide support throughout the school year in alignment with the school’s mission and values promoting the overall wellbeing and development of all students.
National Charity League Summit - Dallas, TX
Creating a Culture of Dignity: In this workshop, NCL leaders will learn how to create and sustain an inclusive community where people feel a sense of belonging. We’ll explore how to advocate for each other, give and receive feedback and build relationships and resilience.
Western Academy of Beijing - Beijing, China
Rosalind Wiseman is honored to be chosen to speak at the Distinguished Speaker Series hosted by the Western Academy of Beijing (WAB). In addition, WAB has an impressive SEL program that Rosalind will help strengthen and align with their mission and vision. In advance of her in person visit, she is virtually partnering with WAB students, faculty and staff to design the visit’s content to the school’s emotional learning (SEL) program.
ACS Athens - Athens, Greece
Rosalind is partnering with ACS Athens to build support systems for students, faculty, board members, staff, and administration. She will work with the community to help identify strategies so students will more easily request help and adults know what kind of support is helpful, she will help students strengthen their leadership skills, and she will establish student orientation programs.
National Charity League Virtual Presentation
Rosalind will be joining the National Charity League virtually on September 19th, speaking on Practical Skills for Creating an Inclusive Environment. She will then join the NCL in-person for their Summit Event in Dallas on October 21st for VP Membership officers.
Warren Woods Public Schools - Warren, MI
Over four days, Rosalind Wiseman will present interactive assemblies throughout the school district in six elementary, middle and high schools. In preparation for her work with the students, she is designing the presentations with selected student groups across grade levels to create assemblies relatable and realistic to their experience and community. While the focus will be on social media, communication, and emotional well-being, the presentations will empower the students to take ownership of their school culture and peer interactions.
Warren Woods Public Schools - Warren, MI
Rosalind will present to the Faculty & Staff on Courageous Discomfort: Having Brave, Life Changing Conversations
Courageous Discomfort acknowledges the challenges of breaking through our hesitancy, frustration, and fear around issues of diversity and inclusion by grounding our thinking and actions in dignity—the belief that everyone has the right to be recognized for their inherent worth.
Rosalind Wiseman is partnering with Warren Woods School district to support educators’ skills in in their common yet often complex interactions with their students. From the classroom to the hallway, educators are tasked with teaching moments that can often become power struggles and disconnection. This training will build on educators and staff skills to manage difficult conversations around belonging and inclusion and connect these topics to academic engagement.
Topics covered:
Managing emotions in complex interactions with studens
Recognizing the difference between a curious question and a question that intensifies conflict
Demonstrating the connection between emotional regulation, emotional hijacking, and boundaries with building a sense of belonging in the classroom and individual students
Overseas Schools; United States State Department - Leadership Seminar for Overseas Principals (LSOP), Washington DC
For more than fifty years, the Office of Overseas Schools (OS) has been charged with the responsibility for ensuring the best possible educational opportunities for dependents of U.S. Government personnel stationed abroad. It is also responsible for strengthening mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
Every year, the OS brings a cohort of emerging school leaders to Washington DC for a three day leadership conference. Rosalind has the privilege of co-facilitating this training with Professor John Verdi of St. Johns College with this extraordinary group of people as they enhance their leadership skills and prepare for increasingly complexities of education in an international context.
National Charity League Virtual Event
Rosalind will speak with the National Board on “belonging”.
Fusion Education Group - Managing Friendships Over Summer Break
No matter how old you are, having close friends while we process life’s joys, successes, sorrows, and frustrations is profoundly important. The highs and lows are better experienced with people who get you; with whom you share a common bond. Friendships are everything for young people, but conflicts and problems within them are inevitable. Not knowing how to navigate these common yet tricky waters can be challenging, and young people need support as they go through them.
We have returned to doing the things we did before COVID. School happens. Summer break happens. Friendships are still complicated. Adults want to know how to get involved in their children’s social lives in a way that builds their resilience and comforts them at the same time.
Topics covered:
An overview of understanding young people’s emotions and their social dynamics
Building skills to talk to children when you have concerns about their friend groups
Defining loyalty in friendships and other relationships
Establishing and maintaining boundaries as an invaluable part of any healthy relationship; particularly as they navigate the transitions between the school year and summer break
Strategies to strengthen communication between adults and young people about friendships
Please click here to register!
Virginia Year of the Peer Conference - Courageous Discomfort: Having Brave, Life-Changing Conversations
How can we have honest conversations about topics that silence most of us or in which only a few people dominate? How can we have a candid discussion around race and become better advocates? And how do we create and sustain an inclusive community where people feel a sense of belonging?
Based on our latest book, Courageous Discomfort, Rosalind Wiseman gives us the roadmap. Courageous Discomfort acknowledges the challenges of breaking through our hesitancy, frustration, and fear. Courageous discomfort grounds our thinking and actions in the principle of dignity—the belief that everyone has the right to be recognized for their inherent worth. Courageous Discomfort empowers people to build their capacity and competence to make meaningful life changes.
Topics covered:
Defining and managing emotions and building social skills in contentious interactions
Recognizing the difference between a curious question and a question that intensifies conflict and reframes the interaction in a positive way
Transforming people’s discomfort into the capacity to strengthen relationships and resilience
Defining the connection between emotional regulation and emotional hijacking to increase people’s reception to diversity and inclusion efforts
Building people's capacity to thrive when they give support to others’ experiencing mental health and substance use challenges
A Book Club!
Hosted by Kirsten Ivey-Colson, The AntiRacist Table Co-Founder and Book Club Facilitator - start living and acting in your AntiRacist values -- learn to embrace Courageous Discomfort in this four session Book Club.
Join us for Courageous Discomfort by Shanterra McBride and Rosalind Wiseman.
How many times have you witnessed anti-Blackness or white supremacy in action and were disappointed with your own silence? Are you struggling with how to show up as an AntiRacist in real life? Do you find yourself being silent in the face of anti-Blackness because you can't figure out what to say or where to start? Courageous Discomfort is a straightforward practical guide that is sure to help you in your everyday quest to embody AntiRacism.
Starting Wednesday, April 5th, we will meet weekly at 7pm EST concluding with authors Shanterra McBride and Rosalind Wiseman for our final meeting on April 24th! Free Registration Here!
Pick up your copy today! Bring a friend!
Session Details
Wednesday, April 5th at 7 - 8:30 pm EST -- Part 1: Head and Heart
Wednesday, April 12th at 7 - 8:30 pm EST -- Part 2: Friends and Relationships
Wednesday, April 19th at 7 - 8:30 pm EST -- Part 3: Work and Community
Monday, April 24th at 7 - 8:30 pm EST -- Epilogue :"So now what do we do?"
What Does the Book Club Entail?
We will delve into the practical guidebook, Courageous Discomfort, using discussion and breakout sessions for practice. In our private circle there will be continued discussion and even the opportunity to find a Book Club Buddy. For our final session, authors Shanterra McBride and Rosalind Wiseman will join us for an engaging and interactive workshop.
Learn more about Courageous Discomfort by visiting the website and downloading the Introduction.
A Book Club!
Hosted by Kirsten Ivey-Colson, The AntiRacist Table Co-Founder and Book Club Facilitator - start living and acting in your AntiRacist values -- learn to embrace Courageous Discomfort in this four session Book Club.
Join us for Courageous Discomfort by Shanterra McBride and Rosalind Wiseman.
How many times have you witnessed anti-Blackness or white supremacy in action and were disappointed with your own silence? Are you struggling with how to show up as an AntiRacist in real life? Do you find yourself being silent in the face of anti-Blackness because you can't figure out what to say or where to start? Courageous Discomfort is a straightforward practical guide that is sure to help you in your everyday quest to embody AntiRacism.
Starting Wednesday, April 5th, we will meet weekly at 7pm EST concluding with authors Shanterra McBride and Rosalind Wiseman for our final meeting on April 24th! Free Registration Here!
Pick up your copy today! Bring a friend!
Session Details
Wednesday, April 5th at 7 - 8:30 pm EST -- Part 1: Head and Heart
Wednesday, April 12th at 7 - 8:30 pm EST -- Part 2: Friends and Relationships
Wednesday, April 19th at 7 - 8:30 pm EST -- Part 3: Work and Community
Monday, April 24th at 7 - 8:30 pm EST -- Epilogue :"So now what do we do?"
What Does the Book Club Entail?
We will delve into the practical guidebook, Courageous Discomfort, using discussion and breakout sessions for practice. In our private circle there will be continued discussion and even the opportunity to find a Book Club Buddy. For our final session, authors Shanterra McBride and Rosalind Wiseman will join us for an engaging and interactive workshop.
Learn more about Courageous Discomfort by visiting the website and downloading the Introduction.
