Keynote Speakers

Houston Kraft is a prominent speaker, curriculum maker, and kindness advocate. He has spoken at over 700 events internationally and co-founded CharacterStrong, which serves over 1 million students globally. Kraft's work focuses on transforming the way schools teach social-emotional learning, character education, and kindness. He has been featured on various media platforms, including Good Morning America, CNN, and Hallmark, and has authored books such as "Deep Kindness: A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk, and Act in Kindness" and "Be Kind: A 52-Week Journal for Practicing Kindness." His mission is to spread kindness and compassion in the world, and he is known for his dynamic and interactive speaking style that engages audiences from all walks of life.

Willow Sweeney is a co-founder of Top 20 Training that provides training and materials to empower leaders, teachers, parents and students to develop their potential. Her career has included high school teaching and coaching. She has been a national speaker and trainer since 2002. Willow and her Top 20 team have trained over 1,000,000 people throughout the United States. Her work focuses on helping others develop their potential through a practical and proven curriculum and using her insights to create more effective workplace teams and cultures. Willow has co-authored Top 20 Teachers: The Revolution in American Education, Top 20 Parents: Raising Happy, Responsible and Emotionally Healthy Children and Top 20 Teens: Discovering the Best-kept Thinking, Learning and Communicating Secrets of Successful Teenagers. She and her husband, Brian, have two sons and live in St. Cloud, Minnesota