Raising Problem Solvers vs Direction Followers: How to Step Back So Your Child Can Step Up

Parents want their teens to take ownership of their time, tasks, and decisions, yet most find themselves stuck in a cycle of reminding, rescuing, and micromanaging. In this presentation, award-winning ADHD student & parenting coach, Leslie Josel shares her signature coach-approach method to help parents shift from directing to developing their teen’s independence. You’ll learn how to guide your child to create realistic plans, and build the habits and routines that strengthen executive functioning skills.

She’ll explore the parent language that truly moves the needle—words and prompts that build time sense, future thinking, and internal motivation. Leslie will also reframe the word “problem,” showing how its overuse can shut teens down and erode confidence. You’ll learn how to turn the classic “I don’t know” into a strength-based opportunity that builds cognitive flexibility and problem-solving muscle, along with a set of “Full Thoughtful Guided Questions” you can use immediately to shift responsibility back to your child.

Through real examples and interactive moments, Leslie will demonstrate her 3-step habit-building model and provide practical, actionable tools parents can implement right away.

Stress-Free Studying: Smart Strategies for Student Success

STUDY. Why is it that such a small word produces so much fear, anxiety, and paralysis in our students. Especially those with attention deficits and learning challenges. For some, it’s simply that they just don’t know how. Or the methods they’ve been taught don’t work for them. They learn differently so therefore, they need to study differently. For others, getting started is too difficult. Too overwhelming. Or just too much.

In this presentation, award-winning ADHD student and parenting coach, Leslie Josel brings to the table over 19+ years as an academic/life coach working with thousands of students to show us what truly works. and what doesn’t. She’ll teach us the EXACT methods students need to use to take effective notes, study smarter, ace exams and create fun study tools.

Late, Lost & Lagging: A Parent’s Guide to Executive Function Skills

Executive Functioning skills are the real engine behind how our teens learn, stay organized, manage time, follow through, and keep distractions at bay. And when those skills lag? You see the procrastination, the forgotten assignments, the missed deadlines, the late-night panic, and the “Why can’t you just…?” moments that leave everyone frustrated.

In this high-energy, insight-packed presentation, award-winning ADHD student & parenting coach Leslie Josel breaks down the 6 pillars of Executive Functioning and shows you exactly how they show up in your teen’s daily life—academically, socially, and emotionally. You’ll learn why your incredibly bright teen may still struggle with planning, working memory, motivation, and follow-through, and why understanding their Executive Age is the game-changer every parent needs.

Leslie will give you concrete, doable strategies to strengthen your teen’s “executive functioning muscle,” including the scaffolding, systems, and supports that work for neurodiverse learners.

And of course, she’s bringing her signature Triple T’s—tips, tools, and techniques —drawn from over two decades in the trenches. You’ll walk away with practical, real-life solutions to help your teen conquer time management challenges, tame distractions, boost working memory, and build habits that stick.

How To Do It Now Because It’s Not Going Away: Powering Through Procrastination

Let’s face it. Everyone procrastinates. And while we’re all wired to put things off, we also have the capacity to manage this tendency.

In this workshop, award-winning time management expert and coach, Leslie Josel will dive deep into the different types of procrastination, explain how “mood” is one of the leading causes of procrastination, dissect the differences between time management and motivation management, and share how your environment plays an ENORMOUS role in how you get things done.

Leslie will offer up her real solutions and strategies for over 19 years in the trenches to help you initiate, sustain effort, and remove those barriers to entry.

It's 9:00 PM: Don’t You Have Homework To Do?: Taming The Homework Madness

As a parent, do you dread the constant homework battles every night? Are you spending hours hovering and handholding while your child wastes endless amounts of time getting homework accomplished? Do you wish you child would just get their work done…on their own?

In one of award-winning, ADHD student and parenting coach, Leslie Josel’s most popular talks, she shares how using her signature “Personal Homework Profile” allows students to learn the best way to get homework done… for them.

She’ll also cover the most effective and anti-boring study tools and methods for your student to use, her "secret sauce" for getting students unstuck and started, how to set up your student’s environment so it engages them to get homework done and why homework DOESN’T start at home but at school.

It’s About Time: Time Management Strategies for Student Success

Time Management is a challenge for everyone, but it’s a particularly daunting challenge for students. There’s an expectation that once they hit their teens, they should be fully capable of managing their own time. But most students lack the tools and/or skills to know how to “see” their time. To know how to feel time. How to prioritize and plan their time.

In this workshop, award-winning, time management expert, Leslie Josel will open the door to the world of time management from the lens and perspective of a student. She’ll discuss what being time-challenged truly looks like, and why “bubble wrapping” your time is crucial to building healthy habits such as consistent self-care schedules. Leslie will dive into concepts like “future awareness” and “time travel” and why working time over task and “seeing done” will help your students see time and stay motivated.

She'll offer ways for your students to externalize time so they can internalize it, as well as how to create routines and rituals to help them become time aware. Leslie will also dissect the differences between time management and motivation management and share how their environment plays an ENORMOUS role in how we get things done.

The workshop will be highly interactive, and students will leave knowing how to create their own “Personal Time Profile” so they can tap into and learn their best productivity practices.

Navigating the College Landscape: Preparing High School Students With Attention Differences For The Transition

Navigating the college process can be overwhelming for most students, but it’s a particularly daunting challenge for those with learning and attention challenges. Unfortunately, there is no test for your student to take to score college readiness. And if you need more to worry about, according to the NCES (2020), 72% of post-secondary students with a disability drop out of college. Staggering, right?

In this presentation, award-winning, ADHD student and parenting coach, Leslie Josel, will explain why learning life skills is the key to day-to-day college success. She’ll walk us through the ins and outs of navigating the college’s Student/Disability Office and the essential questions needed to be asked. Leslie will also demystify college accommodations – or why your student can’t bring his IEP to college -- and breakdown the supports and accommodations that may be available.

She’ll go over the essential life and school skills needed for student success OR how to truly measure college readiness, how to utilize the college’s academic and tutoring resources and accommodations and get your student to use them and how to find the perfect academic coach and integrate them into your student’s college life.

Time, Tasks & Teen Brains: The Real Guide to Getting Stuff Done

Time management is tough for everyone — but for high schoolers juggling classes, activities, and homework, it can feel impossible. In this presentation, ADHD student coach and time-management expert Leslie Josel breaks down what it means to be time-challenged and why “future awareness” might be the skill you never knew you needed. You’ll learn how to see time, understand how to work time vs task, and use “seeing done” to stay motivated. We’ll also look at routines, energy management, and how your environment plays a huge role in getting things done.

Once you understand time, we’ll dive into how to study in a way that works for YOU. Leslie is sharing the exact tools and mindset shifts she has used in the last two decades with her private coaching clients to turn “I don’t know where to start” into “I’ve got this.”

You’ll learn the three must-haves for real study success, why rereading your notes doesn’t count, and the simple swaps that make review stick. Leslie will also show you her “Four-Core study method, and her “anti-boring” study tricks, — no guessing, no stress spirals, no last-minute panic.

You’ll walk away with your own Personal Productivity Profile, — a snapshot of how YOU work best — so you can study smarter, stay organized, manage your time, and finally feel on top of your workload instead of buried by it.

The Overwhelmed Student: Parenting a Teen with BIG Emotions

Today’s teens aren’t just busy—they’re overwhelmed. Academic pressure, social expectations, digital distraction, and executive function challenges create a perfect storm that leaves many teens feeling that EVERYTHING is too big, too hard, too fast, or simply too much. And when that overload hits, your child may shut down, withdraw, explode, avoid work, or look unmotivated. For parents, these behaviors can be confusing, frustrating, and yes, overwhelming

In this presentation, award-winning ADHD student & parenting coach Leslie Josel explains what overwhelm looks like in teens and why your child’s spirals and shutdowns are brain-based responses, not character flaws. You’ll learn how to recognize the early signals—decision fatigue, task paralysis, emotional flooding, fib telling—and how to respond with tools that calm, clarify, and support rather than escalate the situation.

She’ll share the cutting-edge, parent-ready strategies she teaches her coaching clients every day from over two decades in the trenches: practical language that helps regulate your teen’s emotions, ways to “cubby-size” information, the WAIT method, how to preempt overwhelm triggers, and how to remove “barriers to entry,” You’ll also gain insight into the impact of the “TOO Syndrome,” what happens when the right brain floods, and why overwhelmed teens often default to fight, flight, freeze—or fib.

You’ll leave with a clear understanding of what’s really driving your teen’s overwhelm and a powerful toolkit to help them move from shut down to supported, and “too much” to “I can do this.”

Putting The FUNCTION Into Executive Functioning: Tools and Techniques for Classroom Success

Executive functioning isn’t just a “skill set” — it’s the engine that drives how our students learn, behave, and show up in our classrooms. Yet every day, teachers are faced with students who struggle to initiate, manage time, stay focused, or follow through… and it’s rarely about motivation. It’s their brains. And without understanding what’s happening underneath those struggles, it can feel impossible to teach effectively.

In this dynamic and practical presentation, award-winning, executive functioning expert Leslie Josel cuts through the noise and breaks down the six core pillars of executive function that are clear, actionable, and immediately applicable. You’ll learn how EF challenges appear in real classrooms — missed deadlines, inconsistent effort, time blindness, and that “I don’t know where to start” paralysis — and what’s truly driving those behaviors.

She’ll provide concrete scaffolding strategies, tools, and simple systems that teachers can put into play right away to support students’ time management, working memory, and study skills. These are realistic, teacher-friendly approaches designed to strengthen the skills students rely on most.

Productivity Rewired: Why We Get Stuck & How to Move Forward

Let’s be honest—getting things done isn’t just about trying harder or managing your time “better.” In this presentation, award-winning productivity expert Leslie Josel unpacks why we get stuck, how our brains, moods, and environment shape our work, and the hidden obstacles that trip us up every day. You’ll see why procrastination happens, why traditional productivity hacks often fail, and how your brain wants to get things done…if you set the right conditions.

Leslie will share practical strategies—including AI tools—that fit how you work. You’ll learn to recognize your personal procrastination patterns, structure your environment and tasks to support focus, manage decision fatigue, sustain effort, and use concrete tools to finally finish what you start.

"What’s Your Story?”: Using Authentic Storytelling to Grow a Best-in-Class Business

How many times have you listened to an industry expert describe their intimate and personal path to building their business and instantly identified with them, their business’ mission and their “story?” And how many times have you wondered how they incorporated their personality and journey to create the narrative for their business and brand to build their audience?

In this presentation, award-winning entrepreneur and coach, Leslie Josel, shows us how authentic storytelling can be the catalyst to establish and grow a best-in-class business with integrity and connection.

She’ll guide us through the essential 4 “P’s” – people, purpose, principles, and passion that’s needed to define your business’ mission and audience. Leslie will also explain how crafting your business’ origin statement connects your audience to you and your business in the most compelling manner. We’ll explore why building micro commitments on your website and using nurture sequences is essential for engaging audiences. And Leslie will rip back the curtain to show us firsthand how to use various types of stories on different platforms and mediums such as video, blogs, newsletters, your website, and social media sites.

How to Create Multiple Streams of Income For Your Business

Are you tired of earning money as a labor for hire? Would you like to earn money while you sleep? Or on weekends? Even holidays? Would you like to diversify your company’s offerings so if another world-wide catastrophe hits your business is well prepared and protected to ride out the storm?

As an award-winning entrepreneur for over 19 years, Leslie Josel, turned her local, sole-practitioner business into a multi-faceted, global, virtual company. And she’s helped countless business owners create strong foundations for their businesses so they could seamlessly integrate new business silos into their existing structures.

In this interactive workshop (or keynote), Leslie will teach YOU how to incorporate other streams of income, such as coaching, affiliate marketing, writing, speaking, product development, and brand collaboration into your brand and business. She’ll also cover how to monetize your existing content, so you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Leslie will also teach you the “power of the ask” and how to do it correctly, how to “sell it before you develop it”, how to build community and get buy-in to mitigate risk.

Speak up! Create Powerful Workshops and Webinars to Market Your Business!

Are you tired of finding clients one at a time? Would you like to expand your exposure and share your knowledge with large groups? If you want to reach a larger audience and grow your business; workshops and webinars are the answer!

In this presentation, award-winning coach and entrepreneur, Leslie Josel will rip back the curtain to show you how she has created workshops and webinars to market her business to thousands of people.

She’ll review killer presentation styles, dive into the necessary steps you need to show up as an expert and teach you her signature “Five P Strategies” to successful workshops. You’ll get clear on your passion, purpose, and people, and she’ll share her one no-fail method to get attendees to give you their email address...the key to generating referrals.

The Intentional Entrepreneur: Success By Choice, Not By Chance

Success in business isn’t a one-time milestone—it’s the result of consistently making deliberate, focused choices that fuel sustainable growth.

That’s exactly what Leslie Josel, award-winning entrepreneur and business coach with over 20 years of experience, is here to help you master. In this dynamic keynote, Leslie will uncover the overlooked habits and foundational practices that can either drive your business forward—or quietly hold it back.

You’ve built a thriving move management business. But is your success as intentional—and as sustainable—as it could be? Or have some of your original disciplines slipped in the day-to-day shuffle?

Leslie will help you revisit the core principles that once laid your foundation and show you how to return to them with renewed purpose. You’ll learn how to ask for what you need—from clients, partners, or your team—to unlock opportunity and build momentum.

While it may be tempting to constantly chase new business, Leslie will explain why your greatest growth potential often lies in nurturing the relationships you already have.

She’ll also introduce the “Mission First, Assets Always” mindset—an essential strategy for aligning everything from your website to your marketing materials with your purpose, people, principles, and passion. When your outward presence clearly reflects your inner mission, you stand out in a crowded market—and stay true to the heart of your work.

Walk away with fresh clarity, renewed energy, and practical strategies to run your business with greater intention. Because true success isn’t accidental—it’s a choice you make every day.

How to Cultivate Loyal Clients and Monetize Webinars

If the pandemic has taught us anything, having one stream of income is just not good business. Many of us small business owners have had to think about alternative income streams. Leveraging virtual operations like webinars is a great way to boost your revenue!

In this presentation, award-winning ADHD Student & Parenting Coach, Leslie Josel, walks you through how she built her prolific webinar business, which she started eight years ago. She highlights the importance of being generous with your content, having an abundance mentality, and giving things away for free. Rather than using a sales funnel approach, Leslie is upfront and transparent about the costs her clients will incur. She talks about why she has chosen to operate her business in this way rather than continually trying to upsell. Participants will also learn how Leslie continues to build her community and why she always asks her clients the most important question a business owner can ask — “What Do You Need?"

Leslie will also dive into the power of affiliate marketing to amplify your webinar business, why webinars offer more flexibility than courses, and how she structures the before, during and after!

Other topics include:

• How Leslie used her webinars alongside building her email list, and why she recommends doing your first few webinars for free.
• Discussing the role of consistency when producing webinars and how often you should do them.
• Exploring the platform Leslie runs her webinars on and the level of interactivity she maintains.
• The value in asking your community questions, and why it is helpful to bring guest experts into your webinars, especially as you grow.
• How having a video component for all content can help you bring in customers.
• The importance of repurposing content you’ve already produced to generate multiple streams of income.
• Why it is important to cap webinar attendance. And much more!