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Dr. Kevin Reynolds
Bystander Intervention Speaker for College Students
Dr. Kevin Reynolds' Programs
Intent to Prevent: Sexual Violence Prevention Through Purposeful Bystander Intervention
Intent to Prevent challenges students to take active, intentional steps in their everyday lives to prevent sexual violence in their communities. By providing concrete, realistic, practical examples on how to keep themselves and each other safe, Kevin both challenges and empowers students to take responsibility for their communities and environments. When it comes to preventing sexual assault, awareness isn’t enough anymore. Our communities need agents of action. We need to evolve the conversation from “It’s On Us” to “It’s On Me.”
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The way students are trained to combat sexual violence needs to change. Most models never go beyond reinforcing the definition of consent or force-feeding them online modules that require clicking enough boxes to complete the same training they’ve heard before and they are tuning us out.
The only logical solution is to give them something they haven’t heard before, in a way they haven’t heard before, and to make it make sense in their actual experiences in college.
Kevin’s program, Intent to Prevent, will provide students with concrete, actionable, realistic examples of how individuals can choose to make their communities safer.
We know that environments affect actions, and environments can be changed. If we want to prevent acts of violence, we need to change the environments that enable them.
Students leave this program inspired and prepared, joining a movement of those who will choose to intervene, to step up, and to take responsibility for those around them, evolving the conversation from “It’s On Us” to “It’s On Me.”
Awareness isn’t enough anymore. We need agents of action.
Ideal Audiences
- Sexual Assault Prevention Month (April)
- Fraternity & Sorority Life
- New Student Orientation
- Welcome Week
Care > Clout: Accountability Requires Courage
Are you willing to be labeled as a buzz kill if it means keeping your friend safe? Leaving the party early, taking someone’s keys, calling for help, or being the voice of reason is never popular or easy. Confronting someone who you think is drinking too much or developing a substance abuse problem sucks. You have to do it anyway. Care > Clout is a program that gives you the language and the tools to show up for the people in your life in the ways they need it, even when it’s hard. This program is for communities who are ready to move their culture from passive, performative prevention tactics to one of accountability, action, and leadership.
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Prevention programs around alcohol and drug misuse and abuse all sound the same. “Don’t drink.” “Make good choices.” “Just say no.” Students tune these empty messages out immediately because social clout is gained from doing the thing that is taboo or surviving the thing that was dangerous. Messages like “Make good choices” are being drowned out by the louder, more provocative “Do it for the plot.” Care > Clout takes a different approach. Drugs aren’t demonized. Alcohol isn’t treated like the enemy. Instead, students are challenged to rethink what their choices say about their priorities when they see something that they know is wrong and look the other way. Care > Clout gives students the language and tools to do the hard thing when it’s the right thing.
When we have courage, we choose action over apathy, accountability over approval, and care over clout.
Ideal Audiences
- National Substance Abuse Prevention Month (October)
- New Student Orientation
- Welcome Week
- Fraternity and Sorority Life
Earned, Not Endured: Reframing Belonging Without Hazing
Earned, Not Endured takes a proactive and values-based approach to challenge hazing cultures in fraternities and sororities. Kevin helps students recognize the signs of hazing, understand the group dynamics that fuel it, and build the confidence to intervene before harm is done. With a deep belief in the power of authentic brotherhood and sisterhood, this program empowers students to protect their community while preserving pride, tradition, and true connection.
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Earned, Not Endured is an interactive, engaging program that focuses on the why behind hazing. No one joins a group expecting to be harmed. But too often, the traditions meant to forge lifelong bonds instead become lifetime regrets.
Kevin’s keynote challenges the secrecy and silence that fuel toxic initiation practices and offers a powerful alternative: building communities where belonging doesn’t come at a cost. Kevin doesn’t tell students what not to do, he shows them what they can do to foster authentic connection, tradition, and pride without risking harm.
Hazing isn’t earning your letters. Hazing is what we do when we don’t understand what earning letters is supposed to mean. Kevin is a proud fraternity man and believes in the idea that letters don’t mean anything if they aren’t earned, but we need to reframe what earning letters looks like within a context of belonging, ritual, and personal growth.
Participants will leave this session empowered to protect themselves, one another, and the transformational experience that is fraternity and sorority membership on campus and in their communities for good.
Ideal Audiences
- National Hazing Prevention Week (September)
- Fraternity & Sorority Life
- New Student Orientation
- Welcome Week
The Delta Principle: Facilitating Personal, Organizational, and Community-Wide Change
The Greek letter Delta is the mathematical symbol used to represent change. The Delta Principle workshop provides a framework for change within the context of the individual, the chapter, and the community. There are certain leadership principles that are applicable for sustainable, positive growth within all three contexts. Ideal for council leadership or chapter presidents, this workshop is designed to facilitate personal, organizational, and community growth and improvement.
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Ideal for communities that want to examine opportunities for growth at the personal, organizational, and community-wide levels, this workshop engages students in strategic planning that starts with the foundation of mission, vision, and values, incorporates reflection and research-supported concepts of self and organizational evaluation, and ends with the formation of execution plans for each individual participant, their organization (chapter, team, or council), and their community.
This workshop is best facilitated with a group of 20-60 participants with at least 90 minutes.
Ideal Audiences
- Leadership Retreats
- Fraternity & Sorority Life Council Training
- Emerging Leaders Programming
Extend the Impact
Dr. Kevin Reynolds can also serve as a consultant for your group on the topics of:
- Strategic Planning
- Philanthropy/Fundraising
- Leadership Development
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Meet Dr. Kevin Reynolds
As a researcher, speaker, advocate, and consultant, Dr. Kevin Reynolds is an industry expert in prevention programming and risk management. For more than a decade, Kevin has been speaking and writing on the importance of bystander intervention as a strategy for sexual violence prevention and combatting hazing and has partnered with colleges and universities nationwide. His signature programs challenge students to take active, intentional, meaningful roles in their communities as agents of action.
Kevin lives in Kentucky, currently serving as the Senior Vice President for Mission & University Advancement at Thomas More University. Kevin is a member of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in communication from Northern Kentucky University, a master’s degree in College Student Personnel Administration from Illinois State University, and a doctorate in Leadership from Spalding University.
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