Ready before the interview, the contest, or the presentation.
I'm Colleen Lawson. FFA chapters, teams, and organizations bring me in to coach students for interviews and contests, including CDEs and LDEs, and to train staff and leaders to command any room and get it engaged.
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Former state FFA officer
California FFA
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2nd in the nation
Job interview contest, National FFA
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Former ag teacher
Ten years, PBIS coordinator, coached multiple state champions
Master's in ag education, leader in CATA
For schools and chapters
1:1 coaching
$100/hr
Officer, interview, or contest prep, in person or by video. Students, advisors, and parents can all book. Four sessions for $360.
Group session
$500-750
Two to three hours at your school, with you and your officer candidates, contest team, or class.
Leadership day
$1,000-1,500
A full day for a chapter, section, or team. Banquet keynotes also available.
Travel is included within about an hour of Elk Grove. Beyond that, a flat travel fee, agreed before you book.
Get a quoteFor organizations
Half day
$1,750+
Your staff and leaders learn to command a room and get people engaged. Up to four hours.
Full day
$3,000+
The same training over a full day, with more time for each person to practice and get feedback.
Keynote
$2,000+
For your conference, annual meeting, company event, or leadership program.
Travel is included within about an hour of Elk Grove. Beyond that, a flat travel fee, agreed before you book.
Get a quoteAbout
Colleen coaches students for the interview chair and professionals for the front of the room.
She taught agricultural education for ten years, at Lodi and Elk Grove High Schools, where her students won multiple state titles. That decade taught her something she couldn't have learned from a textbook: developing exceptional people takes more than exceptional teaching.
She left the classroom to coach full time, and has developed more champions since. She has been the advisor, and before that the candidate in the chair.
Whether a chapter, a team, or an organization brings her in, she coaches the whole room: students with their advisor, staff with their leaders. Everyone leaves sharper, and ready for the real thing.
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Purchase orders welcome. W-9 and district fingerprinting on request.
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