── SPEAKING, TRAINING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Real Experience. Practical Leadership. A Different Lens.
Wylie Howard Jr. brings more than three decades of educational experience to keynotes, leadership sessions, professional learning, and organizational conversations. His presentations combine lived experience, practical leadership lessons, student-centered systems, and a belief that meaningful transformation begins when leaders are willing to see people and problems differently.
── SPEAKING TOPICS
Presentations That Connect Experience to Action
Each presentation can be customized to the audience, the event context, and the organization's goals. Topics are grounded in decades of real educational leadership and can be adjusted for length and format.
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The Alternative Mindset
Changing the lens through which educators and leaders understand students, behavior, opportunity, and success.
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Leadership in Alternative and Nontraditional Settings
Leading complex environments, building culture, creating pathways, and maintaining high expectations for students who have not thrived in traditional systems.
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The ALTER Framework
Awareness, Love, Tailored Learning, Empowerment, and Restoration as a practical framework for transforming student and organizational outcomes.
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Relationship Before Rigor
Why authentic relationships create the conditions for accountability, engagement, learning, and growth without lowering expectations.
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Beyond the Behavior
Understanding what behavior communicates and building systems that respond with structure, accountability, support, and restoration.
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Resilience, Purpose, and Leadership
Lessons from adversity, professional experience, and personal growth that help leaders continue forward with clarity and purpose.
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Ways Wylie Can Engage Your Audience
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Conference keynotes and featured presentations
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Leadership retreats and executive-team sessions
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School and district professional learning
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Workshops and breakout sessions
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Customized training series and implementation support
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Virtual presentations and facilitated conversations
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About Wylie Howard Jr.
Wylie Howard Jr. is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Alt-Ed Consulting Group, LLC, an educator, author, and experienced educational leader whose career spans more than three decades.
His work has included classroom teaching, behavioral support, comprehensive high school leadership, technical and career education, adult education, juvenile justice, correctional education, and more than a decade leading alternative education programs.
His leadership philosophy centers on restoration, relationships, accountability, individualized pathways, and creating meaningful opportunities for students and organizations to move forward.
── OUR EXPERIENCE
Grounded in Real Leadership
What distinguishes Wylie Howard Jr. as a speaker and trainer is not the stage experience alone, but the depth of practical experience behind every lesson he shares.
Recognition has included the Broward Alliance of Black School Educators Leadership Award, recognition by Legacy South Florida as a Top Black Educator, and multiple nominations for Principal of the Year.
30 +
Years in Education
10 +
Years Leading Alternative Education
20 +
Years in Educational Leadership
K–12+
Alternative, Technical & Workforce Education
