A little intro to my website.
I was giving a motivational speech when I went into cardiac arrest. I don’t remember this, but I was told later that when I fell off the stage, people started clapping because they thought it was part of the talk. During the helicopter ride to Cleveland Clinic, it dawned on me: I’ve got it all wrong. For decades, I’ve talked about the power of one person to make a difference. But the power of one wasn’t going to save me that day. If these other people don’t step up, I’m dead.
It was a cool thing to go through, and it changed my message. I used to go around the world and have people in the audience stand up and say with me: "The Power of One.” Now it’s a deeper message: “The Power of One, but together we are the Power of Many.” Before, someone would walk out of one of my talks feeling like Superman. Now, you’ll walk out a more humble Superman.
We’re all standing on someone’s shoulders. You have “the Power of One” to start a fire, but you need “the Power of Many” to keep the fire burning. I think this message resonates with the times. We have to work together. I’m glad to be here today to get this message out.
– Stephen
It’s all about Relationships.
A keynote presentation that is an educational journey, based on research and reality, to pump up your life and have some fun as we struggle to get to the heart of education in order to reach, teach and protect.
Relationships may be the most important variable for effective learning, leading and living.
The challenges of building relationships are based on the 4 C’s: Communication, Collaboration, Cultural Competency and Caring.
This motivational keynote is filled with "tips from the trenches" to help you keep your students, staff and community safe and healthy so they can learn more and live better. It is packed with cutting-edge information, practical strategies and heartfelt stories about mental health, kindness, the power of words, the trauma-informed brain (adverse childhood experiences), social emotional learning, stress management, wellness, and school and community climate and safety.
Dr. Stephen Sroka has spoken worldwide with The Power of One message, how one person can make a difference. Steve died while presenting a school in-service. A principal, two SRO’s and others saved his life and changed his message. He now talks about how you need The Power of Many, how it takes a team, to make a lasting difference.
Research-based and reality-driven, this session offers honesty, humor, and hope. It stresses the importance of Resiliency and the 4 P’s: Purpose, Passion, Pride and Persistence. It will warm your heart, stir your soul and ignite your brain. It has been said that it can even change your life professionally and personally. Let’s see if it can spark the fire and the WHY within you.
Relationships may be the most important variable for effective learning, leading and living.
The challenges of building relationships are based on the 4 C’s: Communication, Collaboration, Cultural Competency and Caring.
This motivational keynote is filled with "tips from the trenches" to help you keep your students, staff and community safe and healthy so they can learn more and live better. It is packed with cutting-edge information, practical strategies and heartfelt stories about mental health, kindness, the power of words, the trauma-informed brain (adverse childhood experiences), social emotional learning, stress management, wellness, and school and community climate and safety.
Dr. Stephen Sroka has spoken worldwide with The Power of One message, how one person can make a difference. Steve died while presenting a school in-service. A principal, two SRO’s and others saved his life and changed his message. He now talks about how you need The Power of Many, how it takes a team, to make a lasting difference.
Research-based and reality-driven, this session offers honesty, humor, and hope. It stresses the importance of Resiliency and the 4 P’s: Purpose, Passion, Pride and Persistence. It will warm your heart, stir your soul and ignite your brain. It has been said that it can even change your life professionally and personally. Let’s see if it can spark the fire and the WHY within you.
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Watch TV coverage of Dr. Stephen Sroka encouraging school staff to make a difference. Click here.
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The POWER of ONE and
The POWER of MANY Speaker
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“part teacher, part preacher and part showman - gets the full attention of students and adults for a good cause…”
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Who is Dr. Stephen Sroka? Come along an incredible ride from the “projects” to The National Teachers Hall of Fame and far beyond.
"Boy is retarded,” reads the top of Dr. Stephen Sroka’s third-grade report card. In ES, he was mocked for having a crossed eye and a speech impediment. He was crippled in a HS fight. Doctors said, “ Listen to your teachers.” The more he listened, the smarter the teachers became. His HS counselor told him that he didn’t have the IQ to go to college, but he didn’t know that Steve had the I WILL. He learned to live with the gifts of ADHD and dyslexia. His struggles to become a teacher made him a better educator.
He went from the “projects” to being inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame. He was awarded The Walt Disney American Outstanding Teacher of Health and received the Outstanding School Health Educator Award and Fellow status from the American School Health Association. Recently, he was named the Person of the Year for The International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention and received the first-ever School Health Leader Award from the American Public Health Association.
Today, he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and president of his company, Health Education Consultants.
He travels the world striving to reach, elevate and inspire with The Power of One message. After a cardiac arrest, he realized that The Power of One was not enough. He needed The Power of Many. Everyone does. He now believes that one person can make a lasting difference with the power of many, and that is his WHY.
"Boy is retarded,” reads the top of Dr. Stephen Sroka’s third-grade report card. In ES, he was mocked for having a crossed eye and a speech impediment. He was crippled in a HS fight. Doctors said, “ Listen to your teachers.” The more he listened, the smarter the teachers became. His HS counselor told him that he didn’t have the IQ to go to college, but he didn’t know that Steve had the I WILL. He learned to live with the gifts of ADHD and dyslexia. His struggles to become a teacher made him a better educator.
He went from the “projects” to being inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame. He was awarded The Walt Disney American Outstanding Teacher of Health and received the Outstanding School Health Educator Award and Fellow status from the American School Health Association. Recently, he was named the Person of the Year for The International Association for Truancy and Dropout Prevention and received the first-ever School Health Leader Award from the American Public Health Association.
Today, he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and president of his company, Health Education Consultants.
He travels the world striving to reach, elevate and inspire with The Power of One message. After a cardiac arrest, he realized that The Power of One was not enough. He needed The Power of Many. Everyone does. He now believes that one person can make a lasting difference with the power of many, and that is his WHY.
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How The Power of One became The Power of Many.
Read the story. Click here. Watch video. Click here 
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Catch the excitement of the Power of One presentation. Click here.
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News
Dr. Steve with Michele Gay a co-founder of Safe and Sound Schools: A Sandy Hook Initiative.
Michele lost her daughter, Josephine Grace, at the tragic shootings. Dr. Steve and Michele both keynoted the NASRO Conference. |
Keynoters at the Virgin Islands Department of Education conference. Dr. Steve with Pedro Noguera, Distinguished Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.
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American Public Health Association’s 2017 School Health Leader Award “For Years of Outstanding Leadership and Commitment to the Health and Well-Being of America’s School Children.”
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