Stronger People.
Better Standards.
Real Leadership.
Keynotes and workshops for higher education, schools, and mission-driven teams. Practical, story-driven sessions that help people stop running on empty and build the standards to show up for the people who depend on them.
Your people aren’t short on motivation. They’re running on empty.
Educators, administrators, and leaders spend their days pouring into others. Students, teams, families. Too often, there’s nothing left for themselves, and it shows up as burnout, inconsistency, and leaders who can’t model the resilience they teach.
- Every session is story-driven, evidence-informed, and immediately actionable.
- Participants leave with a simple daily system, not just a burst of inspiration.
- Content is customized to your culture, audience, and goals.
Pay yourself first, so you’re not pouring from an empty cup.
Max learned it the hard way. At 35 he was running on empty as a husband, father, and leader. Rebuilding his life around simple daily standards changed his energy, his confidence, and how he shows up at home and at work. Now he helps audiences build the same thing.
Win the Workday
Building Resilience, Discipline, and Momentum
Burnout and stagnation are everywhere in higher education and beyond, for students and professionals alike. Most people have clear goals. Few have a system that moves them forward on the days motivation doesn’t show up.
Win the Workday introduces a practical, habit-based resilience framework. Participants examine the gap between their current habits and the outcomes they want, then build a personalized set of daily non-negotiables that support leadership, wellbeing, and sustainable growth. They leave with a repeatable way to win the day, not just a burst of inspiration.
Find the Gap
See where your current habits and the outcomes you want don’t line up.
Define Priorities
Get clear on the personal and professional priorities that match your values.
Daily Non-Negotiables
Build a short list of daily actions that fuel leadership and wellbeing.
Build Momentum
Simple accountability that turns consistency into progress and reduces burnout.
Pivot Points
A Personal Responsibility & Resilience Framework for Leaders at Work and Home
The moments that define us rarely feel big when they happen. Pivot Points shows audiences how ownership-driven decisions, made daily, build sustainable performance under pressure. It’s Max’s own story turned into a framework any leader can use the next morning.
Mindset Pivot
From blame and waiting to ownership-driven thinking.
Behavior Pivot
Turning good intentions into daily action.
Systems Pivot
Repeatable processes that hold up on busy days.
Standards Pivot
Non-negotiable expectations that shape culture.
More ways to bring Max to your team
Every session can be delivered as a keynote or an interactive workshop, in person or virtually.
Becoming Your Best Self
Resilience Strategies for Career, Family, and Life TransitionsPractical, habit-based strategies to manage stress and lead well through change, at work and at home.
- Adaptability during organizational change
- Staying steady under pressure
- Aligning work and life with your values
- Resilience practices that last
The Energy & Performance Blueprint
Why Your Health Is Your Most Underrated Leadership Advantage“Most professionals don’t have a time problem. They have an energy problem.” Health as a leadership responsibility, with habits that fit a full calendar.
- Steady energy through the workday
- Fewer afternoon crashes
- Sustainable health habits
- Leading by personal example
Nutrition Coaching Workshop
Build Better Habits. Perform at a Higher Level. Lead with Energy.A free 45-minute virtual session on nutrition that actually fits a busy schedule.
- Nutrition fundamentals for energy and performance
- Habit strategies for demanding schedules
- Simple, balanced meal building
- Fueling for focus and consistency
Student leader workshops
For student organizations, Greek life, orientation, and leadership programs.
Resilient Leadership
Becoming the leader your campus needs by connecting daily habits to your chapter’s values and culture.
Win Your Way to the Top
The Power List: five daily non-negotiables for health, academics, your organization, your future, and your mindset.
Building Your Legacy One Win at a Time
How the small choices you make today create an impact that lasts long after graduation.
The Separation Factor
Why some students build extraordinary lives and others drift, and why personal ownership makes the difference.
For schools & families · K-12
Bring The Ketchup Club
to your school.
For kids who do hard things.
Every kid runs into moments when things don’t go as planned: a tough test, a lost game, a friendship that gets complicated, or running out of ketchup at dinner. Resilience isn’t about never feeling disappointed. It’s about knowing what to do next.
The Ketchup Club pairs a short, high-energy talk with a live, laugh-out-loud reading of The Day We Ran Out Of Ketchup. Every student joins a club with one rule: never give up.
The Legacy Forge, kid-sized.
The same framework we use with parents and professionals, in words kids can shout back.
Flip It!
Flip your hands overChange the way you think. “I can’t” becomes “I can’t… yet!“
Try It!
Fist pumpUse the Try Again Toolkit. Pause and breathe, name the feeling, make it smaller, pick one next step.
Own It!
Thumbs to your chestMake it who you are. “I’m someone who tries again.”
What’s included
- Age-paced assemblies for Kindergarten, Grades 1-2, and Grades 3-4
- A live, interactive book reading
- The Club Pledge and resilience chant
- An official membership card for every student
- A take-home Try Again Toolkit with conversation starters for families
Ways to bring it to your school
- Assembly Day: the full club experience for your whole school
- Classroom Library add-on: a signed copy for every classroom
- A Book for Every Member: a signed book for every student
- Family Fitness Night: a family workshop, workout, and Refuel Station, powered by the Bay State Fitness Club. PTOs often run it as a fundraiser.
Why schools say yes
Proven with 17,000+ students. Max has delivered prosocial bystander and anti-bullying assemblies to more than 17,000 K-12 students across Massachusetts.
Real expertise, kid-sized. 15+ years supporting students in education, plus a resilience and nutrition coaching practice.
Lessons that outlast the day. The talk, book, pledge, and toolkit keep the message alive in classrooms and at home.
Social-emotional learning. Supports the CASEL competencies of self-awareness and self-management.
Turnkey. We bring the content, materials, books, and fuel. You bring the space, a projector, and a mic.
Request Packages & DatesNow booking schools across New England.
Where Max has been speaking
Win the Workday: Building Resilience, Discipline, and Momentum
Higher Education Networking Collective, Professional Development Day, Simmons University, Boston
Win Your Day: A Practical Framework for Building Resilience, Discipline, and Daily Leadership
NASPA Mid-Level Administrators Conference, Providence, RI
Becoming Your Best Self: Resilience Strategies for Career, Family, and Life Transitions
Higher Education Networking Collective, Virtual
Becoming Your Best Self: Resilience Strategies for Career & Life
NEGAP Fall Conference, Bryant University
Forging Personal Excellence: Mental Toughness in Graduate Enrollment Management
NEGAP Fall Conference, University of New Hampshire
Bay State Fitness Club
Free community workouts where the same standards come to life in person, every level welcome.
Max Quinn, M.Ed.
Max has spent more than 15 years in higher education, leading residence life, graduate enrollment, and student affairs. At 35, running on empty, he rebuilt his life around four daily standards and lost more than 80 pounds. The bigger change was who he became: a more present dad and husband, and a steadier leader.
That journey became the Legacy Forge (Metanoia, Praxis, Hexis) and the foundation of The Family Legacy Project. His philosophy is simple: before habits change, thinking must.
Formats that fit
Every session is customized to your culture, your audience, and your constraints.
On-site
Keynotes and interactive workshops at your campus, school, or conference.
Virtual
Live, engaging sessions on Zoom or your preferred platform.
Retreats
Custom half-day or full-day experiences for teams and divisions.
Series
Multi-session professional development that builds habits over time.
Bring Max to your next event.
Tell us about your audience, your date, and what you want people to walk away with. We’ll build a session around it.