K.D. Wilson
K.D. Wilson
K.D. Wilson is a nationally recognized Leadership Development and Student Success Educator. He is an author and advocate in the areas of Leadership Influence, Greek Life Enhancement, D.E.I., Educator Compassion Fatigue, Social Justice, and Program/Workplace Culture Transformation across the nation. As one of the nation’s leading empowerment educators, K.D. provides developmental training, seminars, breakout sessions, workshops, and keynote speeches to help programs reach their desired goals.
K.D. Wilson is a nationally recognized Leadership Development and Student Success Educator. He is an author and advocate in the areas of Leadership Influence, Greek Life Enhancement, D.E.I., Educator Compassion Fatigue, Social Justice, and Program/Workplace Culture Transformation across the nation. As one of the nation’s leading empowerment educators, K.D. provides developmental training, seminars, breakout sessions, workshops, and keynote speeches to help programs reach their desired goals.
He is a husband and father of three, 8x Published Author, Former Public-School Teacher, 2x USA Masters Track & Field National Champion, Former First Responder of 7 years, and active member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated. K.D. is an honors graduate of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University , and Duke University. He not only shows students “HOW” to achieve fulfillment in school and life, but also “WHY” education is a critical component too.
When he isn’t inspiring students, K.D. can be found empowering educators by helping them overcome burnout, build better student/teacher relationships, and re-igniting their passions. K.D. is the host of his very own leadership podcast titled, “I Lead the Way,” found on all podcast platforms. He believes that everyone was born on purpose, with purpose, and for a purpose.
PROGRAMS
Owning The Outcomes: A New Standard for Leadership Success
Keynote | Workshop
It’s said that there is a major shift in life from renting to ownership. A shift that includes prioritization, sacrifice, and personal accountability. This is also true with leadership.
But what do great leaders do that others do not? They don’t rent their position and opportunities, they own them!
For years K.D. Wilson has helped develop student leaders to embrace a sense of ownership of the process, potential, and outcomes. He knows the core of student leadership is about amplifying the power of each voice, embracing challenges and vulnerability, and recognizing the result of great leadership is a better campus community.
This vibrant program blends proven strategies for effective leadership with a core mindset message:
To be successful, you must own it!
Audience members will…
Embrace a sense of ownership of leadership processes, potential, and outcomes
Recognize their role as student leaders in creating a stronger campus culture
Internalize the core elements of leadership success including vulnerability, sacrifice, and personal responsibility
Ideal Audiences
- Leadership Development
- First Year Experience/Orientation
- Community College
More Than Letters: We Are About Something More, Right?
Keynote | Workshop
We work hard to get the letters. We work through the new member process, we learn the history and values of our organizations, and we do it all with an ultimate goal in mind. To get the letters!
But, then what?
K.D. Wilson is a proud fraternity man, a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and an advocate for the power of what sorority and fraternity can be. But first, he says, we have to see membership as about more than the letters.
For our organizations to be relevant now and into the future, we must prioritize our standards and values. Among these are integrity, honor, scholarship, courage, action, hope, and unshakeable love. Why? Because these are at the core of who we are and, ideally, what we are all about.
For membership in Greek-letter organization to mean anything, we must work to ensure today’s members are working to become tomorrow’s mothers, fathers, siblings, friends, doctors, pastors, teachers, engineers, and leaders! To have meaning we must be about something!
We have to be more than letters.
Audience members will…
Reflect on the “getting the letters” process and mindset
Process how to move beyond the limitations of these beliefs to become better members
Imagine the short-term and lifelong impact of being more than letters
Ideal Audiences
- Fraternity/Sorority Life
Multiplying The Power of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Keynote | Workshop
We’ve heard all the cliches about diversity, equity, and inclusion…
Make sure everyone is in the room.
Get everyone to the table.
Ensure all voices are heard.
But beyond recognizing differences and getting everyone involved, what is the true benefit of DEI? It is about more than just adding voices, K.D. believes. It is all about the massive good we can do when we multiply our collective humanity!
In this dynamic program, he challenges audiences to think about the ultimate power of difference; it isn’t about absolute agreement, but instead about understanding, acceptance, and respect. By embracing these ideas, we can also build on an undeniable truth:
All people have purpose, value, and deserve to be treated with humanity. And, once we do, the power of our collective potential is limitless!
Audience members will…
Consider the limitations to the ways in which diversity, equity, and inclusion is typically practiced
Practice expanding perspectives of others through understanding personal beliefs
Champion moving beyond the addition mindset to one which truly multiples the voices of all
Ideal Audiences
- Leadership Development
- Fraternity/Sorority Life
- First Year Experience/Orientation
- Community College