Speaking

I love sharing my passion with others. I’ve spoken all over North America & Canada about understanding and engaging youth, decoding Gen Z and Gen Alpha, overcoming generational differences, building healthy and sustainable ministries for children and teens, navigating young adulthood, and how to effectively counsel people through crisis.

Additionally, I share my love of writing fast-paced historical fiction adventure novels with audiences of all ages. I’ve keynoted events at history museums, schools, non-profits, and civic groups alike.

I’ve presented to groups of all sizes and ages on the following topics:

• youth ministry
• engaging middle school, high school, college students, and young adults
• understanding Gen Z
• understanding Gen Alpha
• generational differences
• building healthy ministries for children and teens
• helping youth through crisis
• creating safe spaces for young people
• leadership development
• loneliness in the age of connection
• navigating young adulthood
• suicide prevention
• harnessing your creativity
• behind-the-scenes of an author’s life
• secrets of writing historical fiction

Past notable speaking engagements include keynoting at the Lutheran Church Canada National Youth Gathering, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod’s National Youth Workers Conference, the History Museum of Hood River County, the Florida-Georgia District Middle School Youth Gathering, the Missouri District Youth Gathering, The King’s Academy, Concordia University Chicago’s Careers for Christ, Lutheran Hour Ministries Regional Outreach Conferences, Pacific Southwest On The Edge, Lutheran Hour Ministries Men’s Network Resource video, and the Ontario Canadian Circuit Youth Gathering.

I’ve been a featured speaker at many private organizations, events, workshops, round tables, and focused trainings including the Lutheran Church Canada National Youth Gathering, Florida-Georgia District Middle School District Youth Gatherings, President’s Equip Conference, Pacific Southwest District Educators’ Conference, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod’s National Youth Workers Conference, and the Lutheran Educators Association National Convocation.

Additionally, I am a certified QPR Gatekeeper Instructor, trained in QPR’s industry-leading approach to suicide prevention. This is an excellent way for individuals and organizations to help empower their communities to effectively intervene on behalf of suicidal and in-crisis people. I offer QPR training sessions for non-profits, churches, schools, and teams both in person and digitally.

I enjoy speaking to groups both virtually and in person and will customize my presentation to your particular group, creating an interesting and engaging event that includes the latest research on the above topics. Please contact me for any speaking inquiries.

Want to book Cassie for speaking about life as an author? Learn more about author visits for classrooms, schools, and organizations here.