Steve Banno, Jr.

Hi, I’m Steve.

I’m an award-winning educator spanning a 29-year teaching career (and still counting). My great joy has been to foster happiness, benevolence, compassion, and kindness.

I’m the author of Teaching What Matters: Activating Happiness, Kindness, and Altruism, which has been sold worldwide and translated into multiple languages. I am also a co-author of Remodeling Sports To Transform Lives.

How My Work Will Benefit You

I’m a firm believer in what Aristotle taught, “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

My hope is to not only help improve how you teach but how you live.

The central question of my work is this: “How do we connect our intellect with our hearts to improve our lives and the lives of others?”

Creating opportunities and encouraging adolescents to open their hearts to the world, to others, and to themselves is the most worthy and important endeavor adults can provide to them.

My experience is in the application of positive psychology, human flourishing, human development, and mindfulness-based stress reduction.

I simplify and codify the science of human flourishing and kindness and compassion into actionable tools and strategies. My work focuses on the following:

•Result-oriented processes.

•Helping individuals identify the 20% of inputs that will drive 80% of key results: people developing into better versions of themselves at work and outside of it.

•Writing and developing curriculum.

•Delivering keynote speeches and providing experiential and interactive workshops that result in tangible tools that can be implemented at any stage of one’s life or in any classroom.

•Helping to create changes we all wish to see in the world, in our schools and organizations:

Optimism instead of cynicism; flourishing instead of languishing; compassion instead of combativeness, thriving instead of surviving, and togetherness instead of isolation.