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Let's Create Something Remarkable Together!Every collaboration starts the same way mine always have — with a story. A district that wants its librarians to lead. A conference that wants its audience to leave changed. An organization that wants its educator community to feel like a movement, not a mailing list.
If that sounds like the chapter you're writing, I'd love to be part of it. I bring 15+ years in classrooms and libraries, global program leadership at Adobe, and one unshakeable belief to every stage, workshop, and partnership: your story matters and the best learning happens when every voice in the room knows it. Now booking for the 2026–27 school year! |
Signature Keynotes & Featured Sessions
These are the conversations I love most, and they are starting points, not a set menu. Every talk is shaped around your community, your goals, and the story you want your people to walk away telling.
Don't see exactly what you need? Let's chat! Every engagement can be delivered as a keynote, breakout session, workshop, or multi-day experience, and I regularly build custom sessions around a community's specific goals.
- Your Story Matters: Amplifying Every Learner's Voice My flagship keynote. Literacy, creativity, and community are not three separate initiatives. They are one promise we make to students: that their stories are worth telling and worth hearing. Equal parts inspiration and practicality, this talk sends educators home with renewed purpose and tools to match. (Perfect for: conference keynotes, convocations, back-to-school kickoffs)
- The Heart of the School: Telling Your Library's Story Advocacy is storytelling, and every library has a remarkable story to tell. Drawn from my years as a state association president and award-winning librarian, this conversation equips library teams to champion their impact with administrators, families, and communities, so the library's value is seen, celebrated, and protected. (Perfect for: library conferences, district library teams, leadership summits)
- Compassionate Creativity: Making Space for Every Heart in the Room Where social-emotional learning and creativity meet. When students create, they process, connect, and heal, and the library or classroom becomes a place where every learner feels seen. Practical, research-grounded, and full of heart, this session shows how creative expression builds belonging. (Perfect for: SEL initiatives, counselor and librarian collaborations, whole-school PD)
- Creative Literacy: Reading It, Writing It, Making It, Telling It Literacy is bigger than decoding text. It is podcasting, designing, making, and storytelling in every medium. A hands-on look at how creative tools transform how students consume and create, from the library to every classroom. (Perfect for: literacy conferences, district PD, library media events)
- Community Over Competition: Building Educator Communities That Move How do you turn 2,000 educators into 8,000 across five continents who show up, present, create, and lead? Lessons from scaling Adobe's global Creative Educator community, translated for districts, organizations, and companies who want their people to feel like they belong to something. (Perfect for: edtech organizations, association leadership, community teams)
- Maker Magic: Student Agency from the Library Out The story of Georgia's first all-student-run MakerSpace and what it taught me about handing students the keys. Practical frameworks for building student-led spaces and initiatives that outlast any single champion. (Perfect for: STEM/STEAM events, library conferences, innovative-schools programs)
Don't see exactly what you need? Let's chat! Every engagement can be delivered as a keynote, breakout session, workshop, or multi-day experience, and I regularly build custom sessions around a community's specific goals.
Coaching & Consulting
For Districts & Schools: Tailored coaching cycles for librarians and educators: creative literacy, project-based learning, SEL through the library, and SMART goal-setting aligned to ISTE, Future Ready, and AASL standards. I've coached 200+ educators, and I'd love to work alongside yours.
For Organizations & Education Companies: Community strategy and program design from someone who's done it at global scale: ambassador and advocate programs, educator engagement, events from TeachMeets to 24-hour global create-a-thons, and feedback loops that turn community insight into product and program decisions.
For Libraries & Library Associations: From makerspace launches to advocacy strategy to future-ready visioning. Support built by a past state association president who's been in your chair and championed your work.
For Organizations & Education Companies: Community strategy and program design from someone who's done it at global scale: ambassador and advocate programs, educator engagement, events from TeachMeets to 24-hour global create-a-thons, and feedback loops that turn community insight into product and program decisions.
For Libraries & Library Associations: From makerspace launches to advocacy strategy to future-ready visioning. Support built by a past state association president who's been in your chair and championed your work.
Martha is a rare blend of strategist, connector, and compassionate leader, and any team is stronger with her in it... She is the kind of leader who builds community as a calling.
— Shel McConville, Global Education Community, Adobe
Thank you for organizing and running such an amazing event. Everything was great, and I know those things don't come together accidentally.
— Shawn Canney, educator
Let's Connect!
Every partnership begins with a conversation. Tell me about your goals, your community, and the story you're trying to tell, and we'll shape the right fit together, whether that's a 60-minute keynote, a custom workshop, or a year-long coaching partnership.
Currently booking speaking and consulting for the 2026-27 school year. Virtual and in-person options available.
Currently booking speaking and consulting for the 2026-27 school year. Virtual and in-person options available.