DAVE HELPS CREATE LEADERS – GUARANTEED!

• Empower your student leaders – Dave’s comprehensive and effective leadership training programs cover all aspects of their roles and responsibilities as leaders.
• Infuse your student leaders with confidence in their leadership skills – They’ll learn how to lead, motivate, work as a team, resolve conflicts, achieve organizational objectives and more.
• Immediately improve student leaders’ effectiveness – in their activities, their studies and their lives! They’ll learn to lead one and they’ll learn to lead many.
• Increase student involvement on your campus – Because students who are confident in what they are doing stay involved and achieve more!
• And have fun while you’re doing it – As a former stand-up comic, Dave’s uses quick wit, clean material and knowledge of what it’s like to be in their shoes to fully engage your students. He naturally combines humor with serious training to make it fun for both your new and experienced student leaders.

Dave has spent over 20 years training college students to be leaders! He’s been a student leader himself and has served in leadership positions with student, professional and volunteer organizations at local, state, regional, national and international levels.

He’s combined his training and experience into the nation’s most comprehensive Student Leadership Training Program. Dave has trained leaders from Student Government Associations, Campus Activities Boards and campus clubs of every kind. He’s taught his proven techniques on college campuses throughout the U.S. with dramatic improvements in student involvement, retention, and productivity.

Dave describes his programs as “different, outside the box and fun.” As a former stand-up comedian, Dave brings and energy that makes serious leadership training fun.

“I try to be a little outside the box and at the same time make sure we use everything that’s in the box,” says Dave. It’s leadership delivered in a fun and different way that students are not used to – that’s what makes it fun.

Invite Dave to your campus for one of his LEADERSHIP LECTURES or a training program from his LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY and you’ll invite him back over and over again!

Dave’s programs help your student leaders grow from novice freshmen to knowledgeable graduates armed with powerful leadership skills.

Gonzo’s Leadership University Training and Retreats provide first-rate training for:

• Student Volunteer Organizations
• Campus Community Service Programs
• Student Orientation Volunteers and Coordinators
• ALL Student-led Organizations
• Student Government Associations
• Campus Activities Departments
• Leadership Programs
• Greek Organizations
• Recreational Clubs and Organizations
• Academic Clubs and Organizations
• Business Clubs and Organizations

Gonzo’s Leadership University Keynotes are perfect for:

• Student Government Associations, Campus Activities Departments, Greek Organizations, Recreational Clubs and Organizations, Academic Clubs and Organizations
• Leadership Programs and Retreats
• Student Orientations, Welcome Week, First Year Experience Programs, Club Kick-offs and Orientations
• Parents/Siblings Programs, Life Skills Programs, Convocation Programs, Graduation Programs

What They’re Saying

“The presentation was fantastic! I learned so much. Dave was very funny and knows how to keep his audience entertained & informed. I’m going to take a lot from this day. Plus, I got a free book! J Thanks, Dave!!” – Amanda Prom

“I love your energy! You have great ways to improve your life and how to follow it. This really helps/motivates me to organize & get my life more in order.” – Becky Klink

“This made me realize a lot about my life I have never thought about…This is one of the best classes I have ever been to. It was worth 100% of the time!” – Nick Barnes, Moraine Park Technical College, West Bend, WI

More About Dave

IN THE BEGINNING… Dave started on his speaker’s journey on a high note, delighting audiences as a state champion storyteller in high school. Since then he’s lived his dream of inspiring and entertaining people as an actor, stand-up comedian, writer, and speaker while maintaining ‘real jobs’ as a lobbyist, bill collector, and mortgage broker along the way.

BECOMING A LEADER… Dave’s journey to leadership started in similar fashion as he jumped right in to serve as president of the 14,000 member, Circle K International campus chapter while attending the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Since then, through his experiences as a student and community leader, he’s developed his own powerful set of leadership skills, philosophies and expertise.

By the way, Circle K is the college campus branch of Kiwanis International, the community service organization – and NOT the convenience store chain. So instead of serving slurpees, (get that picture out of your head) Dave took on a volunteer leadership position while in college and continued his involvement with Kiwanis long after graduation. Most recently, for nine years, Dave served as the District Administrator for the Georgia District of Circle K and tripled the number of active charters and members on college campuses from around the state. His leadership earned him nine consecutive Distinguished District Administrator awards and his perfect streak is still a record in the organization’s history.

MAKING A LIVING… As a businessman, Dave’s big accomplishment was founding a multi-state mortgage company in the late 1980s and serving as its president and senior loan officer for ten years. Dave grew the company to five offices in four states and at the same time served as a volunteer on the board of directors of the Georgia Equity Lender’s Association, including two years as president. Dave finally left his mortgage company over a disagreement with his business partner – “He was stealing from me and I didn’t want him to!” says Dave.

LEADERSHIP EXPERT… Because he’s a speaker, trainer and entertainer at heart, Dave has turned his years of expertise and leadership experience into a series of powerful programs for student leaders. He calls it Gonzo’s Leadership University and he travels the country teaching student leaders and young professionals that serious leadership can be fun, especially if you have the right tools.

“Over the years in school and in business I’ve taken hundreds of leadership courses and training programs and I’ve served in leadership roles for as long as I can remember,” says Dave. “Now I get to share everything I’ve learned and experienced with young leaders just like I was. This is the realization of a life-long dream.”

CAMPUS SPEAKER… Dave has provided leadership training for thousands of college students at workshops, retreats, and conferences since his graduation from college. He energizes and excites audiences with his humorous, real-life stories and brings his own experiences, successes, failures, challenges, victories and leadership lessons to audiences in a fun way that teaches and entertains.

On a personal note, Dave insists on mentioning that he’s a BIG Green Bay Packers fan. He roots for his beloved Pack each week in his Brett Favre jersey (picture that, huh!) and waits for his turn to move up on the season ticket waiting list…he is currently number 43,056!

• Dave has spoken at more than 250 events for Kiwanis Family organizations
• In 1983 Dave spoke in front of an audience of more than 10,000 at the Kiwanis International Convention in Vienna, Austria.
• Dave has facilitated three Y’All Conferences – a regional gathering of Circle K clubs from around the south and has attended and worked at hundreds of student recruiting fairs.
• Dave has worked one-on-one with members of the Georgia Circle K District Board for 18 years helping them to develop their personal leadership skills.
• During Dave’s nine years as Circle K District Administrator, Georgia was the most recognized of 30 districts. Under Dave’s leadership they were awarded 60 different Distinguished Awards, including 7 for Distinguished District, the most awarded to any single District Administrator.

So where’d GONZO come from?…

“When I decided to become a speaker, they said I should get a website and all the ‘Dave Kellys’ were taken and were either real estate agents or mortgage brokers. I wanted to get as far away from that as possible AND I wanted to have fun with it. Gonzo used to be a nickname so I went with it… Wish I had a better story!”

DAVE HAS SPOKEN AT…

• Alvin Community College (TX)
• Art Institute of Portland (OR)
• Bergen Community College (NJ)
• Broward Community College (FL)
• Cerro Coso Comm. College (CA)
• Colorado Mountain College
• Contra Costa College (CA)
• Cuyahoga Comm. College (OH)
• Bergen Community College (NJ)
• Bucks County Comm. College (PA)
• Daniel Webster College (NH)
• East Georgia College
• Franklin Pierce College (NH)
• Georgia Perimeter College
• Georgia State University
• Grandview College (IA)
• Howard College—Big Springs (TX)
• Howard College—San Angelo (TX)
• IP—Ft. Wayne (IN)
• Keuka College (NY)
• Kutztown University of PA
• Lander University (SC)
• Lemoyne College (NY)
• Lewis-Clark State College (ID)
• Meredith College (NC)
• Mid-State Technical College (WI)
• Moraine Park Tech. College (WI)
• Newberry College (SC)
• Oakland University
• Ogeechee Tech (GA)
• Oxford College of Emory U. (GA)
• Pace University
• Piedmont College (GA)
• Post University (CT)
• Reinhart College (GA)
• Ripon College (WI)
• Salem International U. (WV)
• San Juan College (NM)
• Snow College (UT)
• Southern Methodist U. (TX)
• St. Joseph’s College
• St. Xavier University (IL)
• State University of New York
• Tarrant Co. Comm. College (TX)
• Tennessee Technological U.
• Tompkins Cortland Com. Col. (NY)
• Treasure Valley Comm. Col. (OR)
• University of Evansville (IN)
• University of Indianapolis, IUPU
• University of Hartford (CT)
• University of Houston
• University of Maine
• University of Maryland
• University of New Haven (CT)
• University of South Florida
• University of Southern Indiana
• University of Texas—Brownsville
• University of West Georgia
• University of Wisconsin
• U.S. Coast Guard Academy (CT)
• Western Kentucky University
• Yavapai College (AZ)
• AND MORE!!!

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