Pete Canavan

Establishing routines and staying within our comfort zones breeds complacency – both online and offline. Just because you have never been a victim of identity theft or sexual assault doesn’t mean it can’t happen to you. Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. This keynote is intense, and gets to the root of why most people ignore situations until they become victims. It will inspire others to not be complacent, but proactive in being aware and prepared before the need to act arises.

Everyone is faced with obstacles in life – it is the ones who have the Warrior Mindset that allows them to go though, around, under or over anything between them and their goals. This keynote enables the audience to identity with various traits of the warrior including patience, harmony, fortitude, courage, innovation, respect, discipline, teamwork and focus and learn how to apply them to the challenges they face every day in school, work, relationships and more. It is a very empowering keynote, and will leave attendees with a renewed sense of being able to achieve anything they set out to do – in business, in school and in life!

Online threats are typically not given the attention they deserve, yet the chances of someone being affected from an online threat are much greater than offline safety concerns. Online threats can develop into offline personal safety risks without proper understanding and recognition. This session will allow participants to understand, identify and define numerous online safety threats that will allow them to formulate and apply solutions to keep students, staff and faculty safer and more secure, in both the digital world and the physical world. Attendees will better understand and be able to identify the multitude of online safety risks they face every day from emails, web sites, cell phones and social media and then learn how to increase their security from these risks. The correlation between online safety concerns and offline safety concerns will be addressed and the impact of inaction and complacency will be discussed.