Hi, I’m Steve Banno, Jr.

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 in both my professional and private life. 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.

Many middle and high school educators have recently discovered my book as a resource, full of teaching lessons that help all students reach their fullest potential while exploring the scientific and philosophical pillars of wellbeing, kindness and altruism.

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?”

Consider that the desire to be happy and live a good life has been a constant throughout history. 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 wellbeing and fundamental psychological needs 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.

There is no one size fits all approach to well-being. There is no magic formula. However, well-being is a skill that can learned not unlike learning to play an instrument or sport.

©Steve Banno, Jr. 2022