2022-2023 Schedule
Eric Smith
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
WTS-TLB Auditorium 7:30 p.m.
Eric Smith is a nationally acclaimed financial literacy presenter with the expertise needed to teach you how to succeed financially. Eric’s resume is unlike anyone else you will meet. Eric was the first ever financial literacy speaker on the NCAA’s national Speaker Registry. Eric has shared his financial education programs with over 200,000 college students and over 20,000 middle and high school students since 2011. He has also been an invited presenter at 27 NFL rookie camps, has been hired twice by the NBA to teach money skills to all of their G League players and presented at the NBA Draft Program. Eric currently has the highest reviewed in person financial education program ever created for college students. Eric's passion is helping to empower, educate and inspire everyone he meets how to make the most of their financial opportunities.
Patty Accorso
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
WTS-TLB Auditorium 7:30 p.m.
Patty Accorso is an Industrial/Organizational Psychology specialist, motivational speaker, team building coordinator, training facilitator, and producer. She incorporates her entertainment production and performing skills with extensive knowledge of personal and corporate health in her consultations, workshops, and lectures. Her focus is on leadership development, training and improving the overall health of an organization as well as improving one’s personal physical and mental health to stabilize a healthy work/life balance.
Patty’s Master's degree aligns perfectly with her experience in team building, the world of professional entertainment, her passion for positivity, health, and exploring ways to open new pathways for diversity and inclusion.
Patty has had the honor of working for several large corporations: Walt Disney World, Sea World and Universal Studios in the capacities of: entertainer, stage manager, trainer, consultant, and coordinator.
Patty is also a licensed healthcare practitioner who has worked in cooperation with chiropractors, doctors, nutritionists, and several other integrated health organizations.
As a multi-award-winning producer, director, choreographer, speaker, and actress for live events, workshops, training programs, and video productions, Patty enjoys working with her clients in an interactive way that encourages, celebrates and catalyzes her clients as they explore, discover and grow their talents in the classroom, on stage and in the work place.
Heather Miller
Tuesday, February 7, 2022
WTS-TLB Auditorium 7:30 p.m.
From growing up in an abusive, drug dealing home on welfare to serving impoverished children in Africa, touring the country as an indie-pop duo, or partnering with her husband, director of Brave Enough Artist Agency, Heather has embraced a healed heart, and teaches others the tools to move beyond their own limitations. Heather is not only a vulnerable, compelling speaker, but she creates a safe place for your students to interact and reflect, identify and take action steps to improve their lives. She helps students jump on the fast track for emotional intelligence, empowering them to become healthy and confident leaders who can in turn foster a powerful and exciting campus culture.
Dr. Joshua Fredenburg
Tuesday, March 28, 2022
WTS-TLB Auditorium 7:30 p.m.
Recognized as a top leader under 40, Dr. Joshua Fredenburg is an internationally acclaimed speaker, author of seven books, leadership/diversity consultant, member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., TEDx Speaker, and President/Founder of the ‘Award Winning Circle of Change Leadership Experience.
For over a decade, Dr. Joshua Fredenburg has not only served as a keynote speaker in 49 states across the country, but he has transformed the lives of thousands of people as a keynote speaker, workshop presenter, trainer, and facilitator at different conferences, retreats, cultural programs, and training that revolve around leadership, diversity/inclusion, student success, new student orientation, first-generation students, student wellness, professional development, fraternity, and sorority life, and college graduations.
In addition to appearing on various television/radio shows, he is the President and Founder of the Circle of Change Leadership Conference. The Circle of Change Leadership Conference is an award-winning national leadership conference in Los Angeles and New York that prepares diverse and first-generation students for career leadership success and connects them with executives from companies such as Pepsi, Columbia Pictures, Hewlett Packard, CNN, UPS, MTV, Mattel, Starbucks’s, VH-1, Verizon Wireless, NBC Universal, IBM, Warner Brothers, Chipotle, Disney, and Fox to name a few.