Trey was a college football player with dreams of playing in the NFL when he suffered a traumatic knee injury tearing his ACL, MCL, both medial and lateral meniscus and patellar tendon all in one snap. His life changed in an instance and he had to figure out a way to reinvent himself. Trevon’s educational, professional and athletic leadership experiences have allowed him to develop different concepts and perspectives on how to effectively lead through adversity and opposition. Trevon uses his Division-1 football experience to motivate and challenge those who have faced any level of difficulty or challenge through their position of leadership. As a Residential Hall Director at the University of New Hampshire, Trevon has worked with students closely through their personal and professional development.

Trey is sharing his message through “Talking with Trey” and is uplifting people all over the world.

What do you do when the thing you worked so hard for doesn’t go the way you expected it to? How do you find the capacity to maintain and generate great production on the job when an outside factor takes a huge role in the performance of your duties? We all hold a leadership position in some aspect of our lives. Leadership requires one to be firm in their values, beliefs, and vision, but as we all know, leadership doesn't shield one from experiencing some adversity of their own. No matter the leadership position one holds, adversity and opposition in one's personal life can knock them off their pedal stool. How is it that we lead through our personal adversity and opposition holding firm to our values, beliefs, and vision, when our mental health, self-identity and status are challenged and the people, place or things are still looking towards us for the best leadership?

Trevon has a belief that the difference between us being successful and unsuccessful in life is the perspective one takes towards their challenges. This presentation will be thought provoking and self-evaluating for the audience. Trevon’s ability to be relatable to and be vulnerable through sharing his personal experiences and capturing the audience through his electrifying energy will have any group or organization ready to go head-to-head with any challenge they face.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe what a leader needs to have in order to maintain an effective leadership position.
2. Discover the importance of taking advantage of your challenges.
3. List the ways identity plays a role in the failure or success of one's leadership journey.
4. Define strategies on how to bounce back quickly and be an effective leader.

Ideal audience: Student Campus leaders, Student athlete leadership council, Student Organizations leaders, University Department leaders, Fraternity & Sorority Leaders, Residential life, New Student Programs.

Leaders are set apart from others for their unique styles of leading and ability to connect through authenticity and relationship building. Student leaders today are challenged with the influence of social media, body dissatisfaction and comparison, which affects the way in which we see ourselves, our level of confidence in our abilities to lead in our communities and tapping into the unique talents that makes us different. As a Residential Hall Director at the University of New Hampshire, Trevon has worked with students closely through their personal and professional development. A common theme noticed is that most adolescents and emerging adults struggled with the byproducts of social media influence, body dissatisfaction and comparison to others.

Finding a way to combat these road blocks our student leaders face, Trevon’s method of self-embracement and starting within has helped thousands of teens, young adults and adults excel in their area of interest. Get a chance to hear Trevon’s personal story of how he navigated an identity crisis and climbed out of the pit of comparison changing his thought process and perspective towards these challenges.

When all it takes is a shift of one’s perspective, we will explore how you get ambitious teens/young adults to see their challenges as positives instead of negatives, while also creating and maintaining a healthy mentality throughout their leadership.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe how social media creates a false sense of identity and affects the development of teens and adults.
2. List ways comparison can be damaging to our success if used the wrong way.
3. Summarize ways of maintaining a warrior mentality and how one can combat a negative mindset.
4. Implement processes of accepting oneself.
5. Analyze strategies on how to build confidence back into one’s leadership role.

Ideal audience: Student Campus leaders, Student athlete leadership council, Student Organizations leaders, University Department leaders, Fraternity & Sorority Leaders , Residential life, New Student Programs.