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Dawn partners with schools, universities, healthcare systems, women's leadership conferences, parent communities, and mission-driven organizations ready to move past surface-level talks and into work that actually changes how people read, lead, and live. Whether she's delivering a keynote on literacy as liberation, a faculty workshop on trauma-informed teaching, or a women's retreat session on embodied leadership and the Pleasure Curriculum™, audiences leave with three things: a sharper lens, a usable framework, and the courage to act on what they already know. Event organizers consistently report higher engagement scores, deeper post-event conversations, and measurable follow-through — from teachers redesigning lessons on Monday morning, to parents starting overdue conversations at the dinner table, to leaders finally naming what their teams have been afraid to say out loud. Bring Dawn in when you need a speaker who reads the room as carefully as she reads the research — and leaves your audience braver than she found them. 📧 Book Dawn: [email protected] 🌐 Learn more: freelyreading.com/speaking
Read Everything. Fear Nothing. — The Glow Code for Modern Leaders
Keynote • 45–60 min
We're raising a generation that can scroll faster than they can think — and leading teams that can present faster than they can feel. This keynote reintroduces literacy as liberation: the ability to read people, systems, language, and self with courage. Drawing on three decades in classrooms and the founding of Freely Reading™, Dawn shows leaders how to dismantle the fear filters that quietly shrink performance, intimacy, and influence — and gives them a "Glow Code" practice they can use Monday morning. Best Fit: Ideal back-to-school keynote, district PD day opener, or education conference plenary. Especially powerful for districts navigating absenteeism, post-pandemic recovery, or equity work. Pairs beautifully with a half-day workshop the same day.
Key Takeaways
Audience
Executives & C-Suite · Women's Leadership Conferences · Higher-Ed Faculty · Mission-Driven Founders · Association Annual Meetings
Format
Duration
45–60 min
Delivery
Maaslow Before Bloom™ — Why Belonging Beats Benchmarks
Workshop, Webinar, Masterclass • 60–180 min
Maslow Before Bloom™ is Dawn's signature framework for re-sequencing the work of schools and organizations so that human needs come before academic or performance demands. Practical, research-backed, and immediately actionable, this session gives leaders the audit, the language, and the courage to defend human-first practices in data-driven environments
Key Takeaways
Audience
K–12 Educators · District Administrators · School Boards · Higher-Ed Student Affairs · ASCD / NAESP / NASSP / AASA
Format
Duration
60–180 min
Your Pleasure Is Academic — Sexual Literacy as Mental Health Infrastructure
Keynote • 45–75 min
Sexual literacy isn't a private issue — it's public-health infrastructure. Drawing on the 6 Dimensions of Sexual Wellness framework, Dawn makes the clinical and educational case for treating pleasure, body literacy, and consent as essential mental health work. This is the talk that gives clinicians, educators, and wellness leaders the language to engage what most institutions still avoid — with dignity, accuracy, and zero apology. Best Fit: Built for medical, clinical, and wellness audiences ready to treat sexual health as essential health. Strong fit for grand rounds, university health symposia, women's wellness retreats, and public health conferences. Not for K–12 venues.
Key Takeaways
Audience
Healthcare · Mental Health Professionals · University Wellness · Public Health Conferences · Women's Health Summits · AASECT-adjacent
Format
Duration
45–75 min
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