Chasing Greatness Workshops

At Chasing Greatness Enterprises, our workshops are built on one mission: to elevate school culture by empowering educators, inspiring students, and strengthening connections across the entire learning community. Each session blends high-energy storytelling with practical strategies that participants can implement immediately—creating environments where joy, belonging, leadership, and learning thrive.

From unleashing personal superpowers to transforming culture through micro moments, from strengthening family partnerships to mastering positive influence, these workshops equip educators with the mindsets and tools they need to make a lasting impact. Participants leave inspired, supported, and energized ready to build relationships, maximize everyday moments, and create world-class learning experiences for kids.

Every workshop is designed with one purpose in mind: helping schools do great things for the students they serve. Let’s Chase Greatness together! 

A Leadership Workshop for Navigating Influence & Strengthening School Culture

Everyone Has an Eeyore is an energetic and eye-opening workshop that helps educators understand the personalities that shape school culture—and how to turn even the most negative influence into an opportunity for growth. Using the influence framework from the 100 Acre Wood (Negative Leaders, Negative Followers, Positive Followers, Positive Leaders) 

Every has an Eeyore, Don Epps shows how to minimize negativity, maximize positive leadership, and move your entire school community “from Negative Leaders to Positive Leaders!”

Through humor, real examples, and practical strategies, participants learn how to:

• Identify the Eeyores, Tiggers, and hidden leaders in their building
• Reduce the impact of negative behavior
• Unleash the influence of positive leaders
• Build a culture rooted in resilience, accountability, and connection
• Strengthen classrooms, hallways, and teams through everyday leadership moments

This workshop gives educators the tools to shift culture, elevate morale, and empower the people who make schools great.

When positive leaders rise, the entire school rises with them.

A Coaching & Teaching Workshop That Transforms Leadership

Coaching on the Field and in the Classroom is a high-energy workshop that helps educators and coaches become the leaders their students and teams truly need. Blending real coaching stories, classroom wisdom, and #ChasingGreatness principles, Don Epps shows how powerful growth happens when we adapt our playbook to the people in front of us.

Participants learn how to:

• Value what their people value
• Balance tight and loose control to create clarity without chaos
• Focus on the “right now” instead of the “what ifs”
• Adjust strategies to fit different learners and players
• Build trust through meaningful feedback and everyday moments
• Harness positive influence and reduce negative behaviors
• Lead with honesty, courage, and genuine care

This workshop inspires educators to rethink how they motivate, connect, and support the ones they serve. It’s practical, motivating, and packed with lessons that help teachers and coaches bring out the best in every student.

Become the coach who changes the game — in the classroom, on the field, and in the lives of the kids you serve.

A Workshop for Strengthening School–Family–Community Relationships

Building Connections is an inspiring and practical workshop that helps educators deepen relationships with the families and communities they serve. Focused on the pillars of Connection, Relationship, and Trust

Building Connections - Workshop

, Don Epps shows how meaningful engagement—not just communication—creates stronger schools and better outcomes for kids.

Participants learn how to:

• Build authentic connections before delivering information
• Understand what families value and how they prefer to engage
• Use the Parent Diamond framework to inform, empower, teach, and support families
• Amplify positive community influence and strengthen school culture
• Create visibility, trust, and kid-centered communication that brings people together

This workshop gives educators simple, powerful tools to form partnerships that matter. When schools connect with families on purpose, every child wins.

Stronger connections build stronger schools—and it starts with us.

A Workshop for Igniting Growth & Lifelong Learning

Learning Never Ends is an inspiring and energizing workshop that encourages educators to embrace continuous growth, for themselves and for every student they serve. Using powerful stories and real-world insights from the presentation slides 

Learning Never Ends, Don Epps shows how resilience, curiosity, and high expectations create classrooms where students feel safe to learn, try, fail, and rise again.

Participants learn how to:

• Model lifelong learning through reflection and courage
• Reframe challenges as opportunities for growth
• Build strong relationships that fuel student confidence
• Create a culture where effort, improvement, and perseverance matter
• Inspire every student to believe in their own potential

This workshop leaves educators motivated to keep growing, keep improving, and keep believing in the greatness within themselves and their students.

When we grow, kids grow, because learning never ends.

A Workshop Built on Small Moments With Big Impact

Transform Culture Through Micro Visits is a powerful, practical workshop that shows educators how the smallest moments of connection can create the biggest shifts in school culture. Using the Micro Visit framework from the presentation 

Micro Visits 

, Don Epps teaches how quick, intentional interactions—often just 10–30 seconds—can close the caring gap, build trust, and strengthen relationships with students and staff.

Participants learn how to:

• Make meaningful, informal connections throughout the day
• “Win the overlooked moments” to build stronger relationships
• Use the Two-Week Micro Visit Challenge to reach hard-to-connect students
• Become a Value Finder who elevates and encourages others
• Boost self-efficacy, belonging, and positive leadership across the building

This workshop gives educators simple, high-impact tools to transform the climate of their classrooms and campuses—one powerful moment at a time.

Small moments build strong cultures. Micro Visits make it happen.