YouUplift Keynotes & Workshop

From nationally acclaimed Keynotes to hands-on Kindness eWall training, YouUplift provides research-based, POSITIVE school culture solutions for your Convocation, Conference, or Professional Development!

"WOW...that was the word on everyone's lips at the end of Doug's program! Need a Speaker? Stop looking and contact Doug now! The message he delivers will leave you mesmerized, inspired, and ready to take on any challenges that life may throw at you!"
"I met Doug at the West Virginia Reading Conference and the profound impact his presentation had on me - I can't even explain."
"EVERY Educator needs to hear this! - PERIOD"
"By FAR - the best Convocation Speaker our school system has had in the 20 years since I've been here."
"Without question - the best session we saw at the entire Conference!"
“We had Doug share with our staff last year, and we were blown away! We are bringing him back again this year to share the exact same message. It’s THAT good, and those in our profession can’t hear this enough… especially now!”
“You are a true inspiration and your message is life-changing!”
"We've had some powerful programs in the past 9 years since I've been here, but nothing as powerful as this!"
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Kindness Keynote
“Kindness: the World’s #1 Teaching Tool”
This Keynote defines “Kindness” as it applies to a leadership role and combines evidence-based research with real-life examples to show how “Kindness” is the world’s #1 teaching tool. This presentation will praise and uplift your faculty and staff for choosing the world’s most important career path and will provide everyone with additional “Kindness Tools” to help reach students of all ages and abilities!
(60 or 90 Minute Keynote Available)
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Happiness Keynote
“If We Want to be Happy…”
Gallup Survey says that nearly 70% of all Americans are unhappy. This Keynote provides real-life teaching examples from parents, teachers, and coaches who used a wide variety of techniques in order to help teach students how to be happy. This presentation will include 6 specific, evidence-based concepts that every Educator can use to help reach and maintain their position in the top 30% and further help their students to do the same!
(60 or 90 Minute Keynote Available)
The Little Things
YouUplift Kindness eWall Training
The YouUplift eWall is the world’s first and only 100% POSITIVE messaging and display platform for school families and is currently serving over 4300 K12 schools worldwide.
This cloud based platform allows everyone to submit positive messages about one another, gives your faculty moderator 100% push-button control over which messages become visible, and automatically customizes and places all APPROVED messages into a rotating display in the locations of your choice (facility monitors, school website, chromebook notes, digital newsletters, social media). Positive content of any kind can also be submitted (shoutouts, positive recognition, pictures, quotes, memes, animated gifs).
Demo Video
About the Presenter
YouUplift Team
Doug Reavis is an In-Demand Professional Motivational Speaker, Author, and Co-Founder of the YouUplift Kindness eWall.

Doug has a combined 25 years of teaching and coaching experience at the Elementary, Middle, High School, and Collegiate levels. A former two sport collegiate All-American and Rhodes Scholar nominee, Doug earned All-American honors in football and Academic All-American honors in baseball during his senior year at Emory & Henry college (VA) where he graduated in 1990 with a double major in the fields of History & Social Sciences and Education.

In 2012, Doug launched the Silent-Strength Kindness Program that has since been shared with hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, parents, businesses, civic organizations, and community members nationwide.

In 2019, Doug, his wife, Denita (also a former teacher), and their son, David (BIT graduate of Virginia Tech), created and launched the YouUplift Kindness eWall, as the platform is currently serving over 4,300 Elementary, Middle, and High Schools worldwide.

Doug and Denita are college sweethearts and have been happily married for 33 years. The family resides in the quaint little town of Fancy Gap located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
Request a Quote
Onsite YouUplift Presentation pricing is based upon 2 things:
1. Total Number of Schools Participating
2. Travel Expenses
To receive a quote, please fill out the form below, and we’ll get back to you as quickly as possible!

    Yes! There are no Sign-Ups and no Log-Ins required in order to participate, as we collect no data or information of any kind. The platform is currently being used by large and small school systems throughout the country in almost all 50 states, and it has passed 100% of all school privacy regulations to date.
    Yes! You can have all messages sent to as many faculty email inboxes as you’d like for Approval, and we can change or add to this list at any time.
    Yes! Many of our schools do this, because if your students take to it – then the messages can begin to overflow your school email inbox at times. Not only will a separate gmail account prevent this from happening, but you can also make it accessible to all faculty members if you choose to.
    You can choose one of three ways to display your messages onto a facility TV monitor.
    1. HDMI CORD – Some schools will access their Kindness eWall on a laptop and run an HDMI cord to their TV monitor.
    2. CAST – Some schools will access their Kindness eWall via a tablet or device and will cast it to their TV monitor via a Chromecast or Apple TV device.
    3. SMART TV WITH INTERNET BROWSER – If your Smart TV has an Internet Browser (Samsungs), then you can place your Kindness eWall link in the browser and it will run from there.
    Yes! You can edit the text of any message before Approving it. In addition, if you’d like to keep a message but would like to remove an included image… or if you’d like to keep an image and remove the text, then you can do this before Approving the message. Your Rotating Display will only display exactly what you choose to make visible.
    You will have a back office ADMIN PANEL that will allow you to delete, edit, and approve messages (individually or in bulk).
    You will have a back office ADMIN PANEL that will allow you to customize your colors, logo, title, and font size.
    Upon your request, we can replace your current Anonymous Submission Form with a Form from your school’s email system (ex. Google Form). This makes messages come to you with the author’s email address included, and you simply COPY/PASTE the message onto your INSTANT POST Page in order to make it live.

    (Note: Because messages are submitted through your school’s email system, the Character eWall collects no data or information – making it fall within all school privacy regulations.)
    We can provide your Tech Team with a simple line of code that will allow them to embed your Rotating Display of Approved Messages onto your school website, so that they are visibly scrolling whenever anyone comes to your site.
    The system is set to display the 100 most recently Approved messages, as older messages start falling out of the rotation in order to make room for the newer messages. However, we can increase or decrease this number to be whatever you’d like it to be.
    Your subscription includes an unlimited number of messages and an unlimited number of displays for everyone in your school for the entire length of your subscription.
    Yes and No. Your Character Wall is a web app, but it is not located in an App store. However, this link shows you how you can easily turn your Kindness Wall into an app for any android or apple device: Phone Web App Instructions
    Phone App Install Feature
    Currently, YouUplift does not have an app located in the App Store. However, the following link provides simple instructions on how to easily turn your Kindness eWall into a homepage app for any mobile device: Phone App Install Instructions
    (Great tech assignment for students!)
    Website Embed Feature
    This feature provides your Tech Team with a simple line of code that would allow you to embed your Rotating Display of Positive Messages into your school website, so that visitors can instantly see your messages.
    Social Media Share Feature
    This feature places Social Media Share Buttons on your entire Kindness e-Wall webpage or just on your Rotating Display only – whichever you prefer.
    Yes! There are no Sign-Ups and no Log-Ins required in order to participate, as we collect no data or information of any kind. The platform is currently being used by large and small school systems throughout the country in almost all 50 states, and it has passed 100% of all school privacy regulations to date.
    Yes! You can have all messages sent to as many faculty email inboxes as you’d like for Approval, and we can change or add to this list at any time.
    Yes! Many of our schools do this, because if your students take to it – then the messages can begin to overflow your school email inbox at times. Not only will a separate gmail account prevent this from happening, but you can also make it accessible to all faculty members if you choose to.
    You can choose one of three ways to display your messages onto a facility TV monitor.
    1. HDMI CORD – Some schools will access their Kindness eWall on a laptop and run an HDMI cord to their TV monitor.
    2. CAST – Some schools will access their Kindness eWall via a tablet or device and will cast it to their TV monitor via a Chromecast or Apple TV device.
    3. SMART TV WITH INTERNET BROWSER – If your Smart TV has an Internet Browser (Samsungs), then you can place your Kindness eWall link in the browser and it will run from there.
    Yes! You can edit the text of any message before Approving it. In addition, if you’d like to keep a message but would like to remove an included image… or if you’d like to keep an image and remove the text, then you can do this before Approving the message. Your Rotating Display will only display exactly what you choose to make visible.
    You will have a back office ADMIN PANEL that will allow you to delete, edit, and approve messages (individually or in bulk).
    You will have a back office ADMIN PANEL that will allow you to customize your colors, logo, title, and font size.
    In it’s default setting, your school’s Kindness eWall uses an Anonymous Submission Form in order to comply with all school privacy regulations. Therefore, though you will be able to APPROVE all submitted content before it becomes visible, you will not know who the author of the message is.

    HOWEVER, upon your request, we can include a SUBMISSION FORM LOGIN which would require users to enter their email / password in order to submit a message. This would allow you to APPROVE all submitted content before it becomes visible and will also provide you with the email address of each message’s author (whether you Approve it or not).
    We can provide your Tech Team with a simple line of code that will allow them to embed your Rotating Display of Approved Messages onto your school website, so that they are visibly scrolling whenever anyone comes to your site.
    The system is set to display the 100 most recently Approved messages, as older messages start falling out of the rotation in order to make room for the newer messages. However, we can increase or decrease this number to be whatever you’d like it to be.
    Your subscription includes an unlimited number of messages and an unlimited number of displays for everyone in your school for the entire length of your subscription.
    Yes and No. Your Kindness Wall is a web app, but it is not located in an App store. However, this link shows you how you can easily turn your Kindness Wall into an app for any android or apple device: Phone Web App Instructions