You Have to Reach Them to Teach Them
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Using Adult Learning Principles to Create Engaged, Resilient Learning Environments
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Many instructors, trainers, and leaders are hired for their expertise—not for formal training in how people learn. As a result, they often rely on outdated methods that leave adult learners disengaged and frustrated.
At the same time, educators and helping professionals are expected to carry increasing emotional demands while continuing to motivate and support others.
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In this engaging keynote, Dr. Christa Evangelisto combines research in adult learning with practical insight from her experience as a college educator and leader. She demonstrates how effective teaching and sustainable leadership are deeply connected, and how small shifts in learning design and communication can transform both engagement and professional resilience.
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Through practical strategies and meaningful reflection, participants learn how to create environments where people feel motivated, supported, and capable of growth—without burning out the people responsible for leading them.
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Audiences will learn to:
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Apply core adult learning principles to teaching and training
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Design learning experiences that increase engagement and motivation
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Create supportive environments where learners and professionals thrive
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Recognize how stress and emotional exhaustion impact learning and leadership
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Develop sustainable approaches to teaching, training, and helping others
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Ideal for: faculty, trainers, healthcare educators, corporate learning teams, nonprofit leaders, and professionals responsible for teaching or leading adults.
Still Open
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Learning to Live, Lead, and Remain Human After Life-Altering Loss
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Life changes us. Loss, trauma, and unexpected disruption reshape how we move through the world, connect with others, and show up in our work. Yet many professionals—especially educators, healthcare workers, and helping leaders—are expected to continue functioning as though nothing has happened.
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In this deeply moving keynote, Dr. Christa Evangelisto draws on both lived experience and professional insight to explore a different understanding of resilience. Rather than returning to who we were before hardship, she invites audiences to consider how we remain open, compassionate, and fully human within the marks life leaves behind.
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Through story, reflection, and practical frameworks, participants gain language for hidden grief, cumulative stress, and emotional exhaustion while learning sustainable ways to continue leading and caring for others without shutting down emotionally.
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Audiences will learn to:
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Understand the difference between surviving and healing
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Recognize hidden grief and cumulative emotional stress
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Reframe resilience as openness rather than emotional shutdown
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Practice sustainable compassion and “boundaried openness”
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Continue meaningful work without losing connection to themselves or others
Ideal for: educators, healthcare professionals, nonprofit leaders, helping professionals, and anyone navigating meaningful work after life-changing events.