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There are a million leadership speakers. What makes Pete unique?

Pete Mockaitis (muh-KITE-iss) has touched thousands of student leaders with his insights on leadership and accountability.

He has worked with Fortune 100 companies, high-growth startups, major non-profits and a wide variety of student campus groups. As a student, Pete led nine different student organizations. He’s a young professional who is uniquely able to bridge the space between the opportunities of student leadership and the talents necessary to excel in the world outside college.

He believes that students have the power to make huge impacts on their campuses, especially if they take their student leadership challenges seriously.

“There is no need to wait for ‘someday’ when it comes to leadership,” Pete said. “They are living leadership right now.”

Pete authored the book The Student Leader’s Field Guide while a student at the University of Illinois. In it, Pete provided principles and tactics to enhance organizational performance and crack student leaders’ most frustrating challenges.

Today, he runs the Launch Point Institute, a research and training organization that equips first-year college students for adulthood’s new challenges.

In his keynotes and workshops, Pete offers fresh ideas for student leaders looking to increase their effectiveness on campus. Pete’s sense of humor is contagious, and he captivates audiences. Students leave excited to grow as leaders, shape their organizations for maximum impact, and take on new challenges.

If you are looking for a leadership keynote with youth, energy and enthusiasm, book Pete immediately.

• Keynotes

• One Year to Make It Happen
• The Four Frustrations of Student Leadership
• Secrets from the Hunt
• Making Meetings Matter

One Year to Make It Happen

You’ve got a new, energetic group of officers and big plans to dominate this year. But few years result in legendary leaps. Most only maintain the organization’s status quo. How do you make sure that THIS year—your year—amazing things happen? How do you make this year the one where membership multiplies, events rock, finances flourish and you emerge a hero on the other side?

In this transformational keynote, Pete illustrates practical approaches to catapult your organization to the next level. Pete reveals proven strategies for students to:

• Inspire super engagement among members
• Keep it real and promote meaty exchanges
• Ensure that members follow through on their commitments
• Stay passionate and focused in the heat of challenges
• Learn from their successes and failures

Pete’s hilarious, passionate delivery provides enough laughs and real-world examples to kick your organization into high gear. You can make this a legendary year, and Pete will show you how.

The Four Frustrations of Student Leadership

Student leaders have challenges coming at them from every direction. Sometimes, it’s enough to drive you to the edge of sanity! Have you ever found yourself losing sleep because too few members are coming to meetings? Too few officers and chairs are doing their stuff? Too few people are coming to events? Too few members are paying their dues on time or meeting deadlines?

Have you ever just felt exhausted from the whole “leader thing?”

There’s hope. In this engaging keynote, Pete helps you put things into perspective and offers tactics to immediately transform frustrations into possibilities.

This program can be conducted as a keynote for a large group, or an interactive workshop or breakout for smaller groups. Pete offers his perspectives and then facilitates dialogue where students can help each other generate solutions and strategies for coping with their most draining challenges.

Secrets from the Hunt

Job hunting in college can be a brutal minefield, with conflicting advice coming from all directions—and some advice deliberately withheld. In this breakout, Pete shares novel insights gleaned from both sides of the hunt. Pete’s independent voice provides candid, practical perspectives hard to find elsewhere.

Students will learn how to:

• Narrow their focus to broaden their options
• Discover opportunities outside career services systems
• Network with audacity and authenticity
• Develop and de-fluff their resumes using the SARs formula
• Out-hustle 4.0 students to nab the interview
• Deliver the “right” answers to common interview questions
• Evaluate salaries and offers

Making Meetings Matter

It’s okay to admit it. Sometimes meetings suck. Attendance is low and those who do show up talk around in circles, achieving little. Or maybe you’ve just got a nagging feeling that your meetings have some extra hidden potential.

In this hands-on workshop or breakout, Pete combines his hard-earned insights from corporate consulting and student organizational leadership to transform your meetings forever. Pete will reveal practical, how-to tips spanning the whole meeting process. Student leaders will leave better able to:

• Determine if a meeting is the best means of achieving their immediate goals
• Establish meeting objectives
• Ensure ample attendance
• Gain broad participation
• Think effectively as a group
• Have fun while building camaraderie
• Follow up on individual commitments toward action items

This program is perfect for new officer training and transition events and may be added to one of the above keynotes at no extra charge.

Pete's Bio

At 26, Pete Mockaitis has already touched thousands in his roles as speaker, author and consultant.

Pete began his “grown-up” career at The Bridgespan Group and Bain & Company, a firm CNN has called the “the elite in the already elite field of management consultants.” He now runs the Launch Point Institute, a research and training organization that equips incoming college freshmen for adulthood’s new challenges. His latest book, Team Up: Becoming Accountable to Your Dreams, released to bookstores nationwide in December 2009.

Pete lives in Chicago.