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The 5 SMILE skills we build for teens across every session
S – Self-Confidence
M – Motivation
I – Improv (for quick thinking, creativity, interviews)
L – Listening (active, empathetic communication)
E – Energy
This is the same method we’ve used to help over 40,000 students and 65,000 business professionals including teams at Amazon, Wells Fargo, and Duke University. It’s designed to prepare teens for the classroom today and the boardroom tomorrow.
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Lead with a SMILE
Why Invest in Leadership Training at Ages 13–18?
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Perfect Window for Brain Development:
The adolescent brain is undergoing massive rewiring, especially in the prefrontal cortex (responsible for decision making, empathy, emotional regulation, and creative problem solving). This is a neuroplasticity sweet spot for building real world leadership skills.
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Parents Invest Early in Other Areas...Why Not Leadership?
Parents routinely enroll 5 year olds in ballet, piano, or math enrichment. But leadership, confidence, humor, and communication? Those are often left to chance. Ages 13 -18 are the ideal years to build these skills to strengthen public speaking, sharpen creative thinking, prepare for job interviews, and develop the kind of humor and likability that open doors.
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Right Time for Right-Brain Activation:
SMILE leverages science backed, improv based exercises to develop the right side of the brain, boosting self-confidence, active listening, and creative expression.
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Social Emotional Timing Is Critical:
Teens are already experimenting with identity, peer relationships, and independence. SMILE gives them a safe, structured outlet to practice self expression, leadership, and humor in real time.
Meet the teachers
Been Working With Teens for Decades
Paul and Kelly have been helping teens succeed in academics too. They’ve taught SAT prep to high school students through Briarcliff Hall for more than three decades. Click the link to see that information
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Schools and Colleges That Have Used their Workshops
See the schools and colleges that have invited Paul and Kelly to work with their students in some cases more than 50 times.
"Amazing. Simply amazing. Better then a sunset."
-Alan Vitale, North West School of the Arts