Jonathan Catherman

Raising Them Ready is a parent enrichment that provides relatable and highly relevant insights into raising confident, capable, and kind kids who are prepared to launch in life. Based on bestselling authors Jonathan & Erica Catherman's book Raising Them Ready, the event is designed for parents, grandparents, and guardians in families with children ages 2 to 22. This engaging experience introduces three invaluable parenting practices that prepares kids to thrive in the demands of life. 1. READY introduces parents to an easy-to-understand Readiness Assessment of how kids often view the everyday demands of life as challenges to thrive or threats to survive. 2. SET provides parents with an age-and-ability appropriate Launch List of more than 300 life-ready skills and tools kids should know before flying solo. 3. GO guides parents through the importance of following a Release Plan that celebrates the phases and adventures of letting their kids go a little at a time, over time.

Audience: Professional organizations, athletic teams, student leadership groups. Objective: Provide audience with a relevant, multi-generational model of why and how people qualify for leadership through the practice of stewardship. Teaching your next generation of leaders to first be stewards should be one of an organization’s top priorities and exactly what employers are seeking. Overview: Over half of all business managers report frustration with the lack of “leadership” skills employees possess. Skills needed to steward the organization’s people, services, products, and reputation. The solution to the problem is not found in offering early, more, or better training on leadership. The answer comes prior, in the teaching and practice of stewardship as the responsible management, supervision, and protection of something entrusted to one’s care.

Audience: Professional organizations, athletic teams, youth and student groups. Objective: Introduce audience to a better understanding of how there is absolutely no lack of talent in the workforce, education, organization, or yourself. What is lacking are strengths. With the stewardship of talent, training, timing, and treasures we can all transform raw talents into the valued strengths that separates the best from the rest.