Keynote Speaker

A Courageous Conversation® with Glenn Singleton

Founder & President, Courageous Conversation®, Washington, D.C.

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Glenn Singleton has devoted over thirty years to constructing racial equity worldwide and developing leaders to do the same. Author, thought leader, and strategist, he is the creator of Courageous Conversation®, a protocol, and framework for sustained, deepened dialogue, and Beyond Diversity™, the curriculum that has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to use it. Glenn is the Founder and CEO of Courageous Conversation®, an agency that guides leadership development in education, government, corporations, law enforcement, and community organizing. He is the award-winning author of Courageous Conversations About Race; A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools, Third Edition; and of MORE Courageous Conversations About Race.

Glenn has consulted executives at Wieden + Kennedy (W+K) Advertising, Google, Amazon, Procter & Gamble, the New York Department of Education, the New Zealand Ministry of Education, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, and the Bill & Melinda Gates foundations. Along with W+K, he received the 2017 Most Valuable Partnership (MVP) Award by AdColor. He is the recipient of the George A. Coleman Excellence in Equity Award by the Connecticut State Education Resource Center. Cited in the June 2018 edition of the Hollywood Reporter for his work with 21st Century Fox Animation, most recently, Glenn was awarded the AdWeek/AdColor 2020 Champion Award, the 2021 Ad Age Creativity Awards Diversity & Inclusion Champion of the Year, a National Speech and Debate Association Communicator of the Year Award. In 1995, Glenn founded the Foundation for A College Education and continues to serve on its Board of Advisors. He is also the founder and Board Chair of the Courageous Conversation® Global Foundation, which develops partnerships to promote racial justice, interracial understanding, and human healing worldwide. In 2020, Glenn became a Partner with WorkWider, a professional community dedicated to the advancement of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. In 2022, Glenn founded Glenn Singleton & Associates, a consulting firm that will pioneer the support and training for executive leadership to advance their racial equity agenda throughout their organizations and beyond.

Glenn has trained law enforcement leaders with the U.S. Embassy in Western Australia and established the Courageous Conversation® South Pacific Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. For eight years, he served as an adjunct professor of educational leadership at San Jose State University. Glenn has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University and has instructed faculty, students, and administrators at the University of Minnesota, New York University School of Medicine, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University, Glenn Singleton is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and 100 Black Men. Glenn currently resides in Washington, D.C., and Accra, Ghana.

Pre-Conference Academy

FOUNDATIONS IN COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION®
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

10:00AM - 4:30PM
$175 per person (includes lunch, all workshop materials, and Certificate of Completion)
ULA, MLA, CB, DS, PK, E, M, H, HE

This one-day, Pre-Conference Academy is an experience that acquaints individuals with a set of tools known as The Protocol™, to engage, sustain and deepen dialogues about race. Participants will be introduced to the three components of the Protocol™: The Compass, Four Agreements, and Six Conditions. This initial engagement with Courageous Conversation® guides an exploration of the life impact of race, and promotes an essential literacy and consciousness to examine our personal, professional, and organizational ways of being. Designed to meet participants at whatever their level of experience, Foundations in Courageous Conversation® will enhance any effort to promote racial equity.

CORE TOPICS & CONCEPTS

Courageous Conversation® Protocol
The Rhetorical Power of Personal Experiences
Deep Listening Skills
Defining Race and Its Impacts

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GENERAL SESSION KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Glenn Singleton will present their Keynote Address at the Opening General Session on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 8:45am-9:45am in the Palm Springs Convention Center.

Erasing The Story of Us to Rewrite Who Belongs in the Story of Now

32 years ago, esteemed legal scholar and professor Cheryl I. Harris helped us to understand racial identity and property as deeply interrelated concepts. Mr. Singleton will guide and engage us in Courageous Conversation® on why the assumed ownership of the American story has been claimed as the property of racial privilege and power, and how the holders of the same are exercising both to erase America's true story, control its future, establish what gets told, who belongs in it and how.

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Keynote Meet & Greet and Book Signing

Glenn Singleton will also be participating in our Keynote Meet & Greet and Book Signing event on Wednesday, April 30th at the BOOST Collaborative booth in the Exhibit Hall. You can pre-purchase their book in your online account. Their books will NOT be available for sale during the conference. Please make sure to pre-order your book in your online account before April 1st.

Courageous Conversations About Race - A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools and Beyond

Deepen the dialogue to address racial disparities in your organization

Schools, like all organizations, face a nearly insurmountable hurdle when addressing racial inequities—the inability to talk candidly about race. In this timely update, author Glenn Singleton enables you to break the silence and open an authentic dialogue that forges a path to progress for racial equity. The third edition offers new coverage of the structural inequities in schools and society that have been exposed by the pandemic as well as heightened public awareness of racial injustice.

Courageous Conversations about Race allows you to deepen your personal understanding of race and its impact on all students. You will discover how to apply the strategy and protocol to

Embrace the four agreements—stay engaged, speak your truth, experience discomfort, and accept non-closure—to deepen interracial dialogue
Build a foundation for advancing equity using the Six Conditions of Courageous Conversation
Examine the role of race in your life using the Courageous Conversation Compass to understand and guide your actions
Expand your capacity to lead others on the journey in addressing institutional racism disparities

This guide empowers you with practical tools and insights to successfully challenge racist policies and practice in schools and beyond. It is your call to leadership—one that will impact student achievement and drive systemic transformation.

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EDUCATE YOUR TEAM ON COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS

BOOST is proud to bring prominent experts, researchers, and leaders to our General Sessions. We have created a useful guide to support your learning prior to attending the BOOST Conference. Download our guide on How to Educate Your Team on Courageous Conversations with Glenn Singleton and share these with your team so you know what to expect from our 2025 BOOST Conference Keynote Speaker.

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