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There are a million leadership speakers. What makes Pete unique?

Pete Mockaitis (muh-KITE-iss) has touched thousands of student leaders with his insights on leadership and accountability. He shows you how to meet your leadership challenges with a sense of humor, organization and the empowerment to make a huge impact on your campus.

He has worked with Fortune 100 companies, high-growth startups, major non-profits and a wide variety of student campus groups. As a student, Pete led nine different student organizations. He’s a young professional who is uniquely able to bridge the space between the opportunities of student leadership and the talents necessary to excel in the world outside of college.

He believes that students have the power to make huge impacts on their campuses, especially if they take their student leadership challenges seriously.

“There is no need to wait for ‘someday’ when it comes to leadership,” Pete said. “They are living leadership right now.”

Pete authored the book The Student Leader’s Field Guide while a student at the University of Illinois. In it, Pete provided principles and tactics to enhance organizational performance and crack student leaders’ most frustrating challenges.

Today, he runs the Launch Point Institute, a research and training organization that equips first-year college students for adulthood’s new challenges.

In his keynotes and workshops, Pete offers fresh ideas for student leaders looking to increase their effectiveness on campus. Pete’s sense of humor is contagious, and he captivates audiences. Students leave excited to grow as leaders, shape their organizations for maximum impact and take on new challenges.

If you are looking for a leadership keynote with youth, energy and enthusiasm, book Pete immediately.

• Keynotes

• One Year to Make It Happen
• The Four Frustrations of Student Leadership
• 6-Figure Salaries and 6-Pack Abs
• Making Meetings Matter

One Year to Make It Happen

You’ve got a new, energetic group of officers and big plans to dominate this year. But few years result in legendary leaps. Most only maintain the organization’s status quo. How do you make sure that THIS year—your year—amazing things happen? How do you make this year the one where membership multiplies, events rock, finances flourish and you emerge a hero on the other side?

In this transformational keynote, Pete illustrates practical approaches to catapult your organization to the next level. Pete reveals proven strategies for students to:

• Inspire super engagement among members
• Keep it real and promote meaty exchanges
• Ensure that members follow through on their commitments
• Stay passionate and focused in the heat of challenges
• Learn from their successes and failures

Pete’s hilarious, passionate delivery provides enough laughs and real-world examples to kick your organization into high gear. You can make this a legendary year, and Pete will show you how.

The Four Frustrations of Student Leadership

Student leaders have challenges coming at them from every direction. Sometimes, it’s enough to drive you to the edge of sanity! Have you ever found yourself losing sleep because too few members are coming to meetings? Too few officers and chairs are doing their stuff? Too few people are coming to events? Too few members are paying their dues on time or meeting deadlines?

Have you ever just felt exhausted from the whole “leader thing?”

There’s hope. In this engaging keynote, Pete helps you put things into perspective and offers tactics to immediately transform frustrations into possibilities.

This program can be conducted as a keynote for a large group, or an interactive workshop or a breakout session for smaller groups. Pete offers his perspectives and then facilitates dialogue where students can help each other generate solutions and strategies for coping with their most draining challenges.

6-Figure Salaries and 6-Pack Abs

You’ve probably heard older folks refer to today’s generation of college students as the “entitlement generation.” Maybe you find that label unfair and inaccurate. Or maybe it feels about right. Either way, it’s easy to be misled that results come easily in the age of Zuckerberg, reality TV stars and Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Body/Workweek. In this eye opening keynote, Pete reveals how we’ve been deceived by pop culture and what to do about it. Pete provides a thought provoking ride from Jersey Shore to Farmville that resets our expectations. With hilarious stories, multimedia illustrations and insightful data, Pete destroys myths and spells out the real success factors required to achieve our dreams.

In his keynote, 6-Figure Salaries and 6-Pack Abs: What our generation is really “entitled” to—and how to get it, Pete shows students:

• How marketing machines, internal bias and our upbringing all jerk our expectations out of line
• The “glamorous” behind-the-scenes world of actors, dotcom millionaires and bankers/consultants
• What kind of cash you can really expect to make when you graduate
• Why winning still takes hard work
• The five keys that differentiate those who dominate from those who drift

Making Meetings Matter

It’s okay to admit it. Sometimes meetings suck. Attendance is low and those who do show up talk around in circles, achieving little. Or maybe you’ve just got a nagging feeling that your meetings have some extra hidden potential.

In this hands-on workshop or breakout, Pete combines his hard-earned insights from corporate consulting and student organizational leadership to transform your meetings forever. Pete will reveal practical, how-to tips spanning the whole meeting process. Student leaders will leave better able to:

• Determine if a meeting is the best means of achieving their immediate goals
• Establish meeting objectives
• Ensure ample attendance
• Gain broad participation
• Think effectively as a group
• Have fun while building camaraderie
• Follow up on individual commitments toward action items

This program is perfect for new officer training and transition events and may be added to one of the above keynotes at no extra charge.

Pete's Bio

At 26, Pete Mockaitis has already touched thousands in his roles as speaker, author and consultant.

Pete began his “grown-up” career at The Bridgespan Group and Bain & Company, a firm CNN has called the “the elite in the already elite field of management consultants.” He now runs the Launch Point Institute, a research and training organization that equips incoming college freshmen for adulthood’s new challenges. His latest book, Team Up: Becoming Accountable to Your Dreams, released to bookstores nationwide in December 2009.

Pete lives in Chicago.