The assembly is over.
What you do next isn't.
He set them pushing his quintuplets in a five-seat stroller, after missing the first one twice in public. He’s a father of seven who spent five years teaching math inside San Quentin and 20 years in behavioral health. All three of his talks are built for grades 9 to 12.
4x Guinness World Records Title Holder
Book one, or spread all three across a school year. Every story in them is documented. Your teachers get a plan for the next morning.
Four Guinness World Records set pushing his quintuplets in a stroller, and the public failures that came first. A motivational assembly with receipts. Every student leaves holding a goal card with their own handwriting on it.
See the Anything Is Possible assembly
A stress and help-seeking assembly. Four plain terms, a tool for each one, and a take-home sheet that goes home with every student. Chad follows safe-messaging guidelines for talking about suicide and meets with your counseling team before he walks into the gym.
See the mental health assembly
An assembly about the bystanders. Chad tells his own hallway story, then hands students something concrete to do with the next empty seat they see.
See the anti-bullying assemblyBefore his quintuplets were born, doctors said they probably wouldn’t survive. Before his first world record, he missed the qualifying time twice, in public. And before any of that, he and his wife held their twin sons as they died.
So when Chad stands in a gym and says anything is possible, he isn’t reading it off a poster. He made the “Anything Is Possible” sign for his father, before an Ironman he dedicated to him, and carried it across four Guinness World Records finish lines. His father’s gone now. The sign is in a museum in Copenhagen. The belief didn’t go anywhere.
Read the Full Story"I didn't grow up thinking anything is possible. I saw things and I thought, man, I would love to do that. But I just never thought it could be me."— Chad Kempel
He’s new to school assemblies. He isn’t new to rooms that are hard to hold.
He makes the material simple so we can understand it and he involves the class in activities or games so we are fully present in class.
This is probably the most approachable person I’ve had so far that it feels like talking to a friend.
I think what really contributed to engagement of the students was his ability to relate to the students.
Professor Kempel provided a space where we can discuss theories and methods without fear.
Every document a district office asks for is already written. All of it lives on the documents page.
How a booking goes
Every inquiry gets an answer within 48 hours. Planning is one short call. Fifteen minutes usually covers it, and email works.
Invoice after the talk, payment due within 30 days. PO numbers welcome. Cancellation terms are spelled out in the sample booking agreement up front.
Chad Kempel LLC carries $1M per occurrence / $2M aggregate general liability insurance. A W-9 and certificate of insurance are available on request, with your district named on the certificate if you need it.
West Ada School District (Idaho’s largest) and the Idaho Department of Correction.
Your counseling team gets the full talk outline before the day. Anything the school asks him to leave out stays out.
A wireless handheld mic is the whole tech rider.
Need to send this up the chain? The one-page speaker sheet (PDF) and the two-page principal approval packet (PDF) were written for exactly that.
Based in Idaho, available nationwide. Rates for Idaho, California, the West, the Midwest, the East Coast, the South, Hawaii and Alaska are on their own pages. Everywhere else, a quote within 48 hours.
Working out how to pay for it? Here’s how schools pay for an assembly speaker.
Chad walks out the door. The materials don’t.
Plus two pages for the people still there the next morning. Nothing to print, nothing to install.
Discussion questions and journal prompts for the talk your school heard, a two-week plan, a projector mode for the classroom screen, and what to do if a student opens up.
See what your teachers getThe tools from the talk, three things to do this week, and the stories behind it. It’s theirs, not homework, and it’s there whenever they come back to it.
See what your students get
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"The dad and the quintuplets setting a world record. Our person of the week."
"240 pounds of toddlers — we each have two and we can barely push those."
"I still really can't even get my head around this story."
"There's a dad who knows how to multitask—Respect!"
"Dad of seven AND a two-time marathon record holder?! Chad Kempel is definitely our #MondayMotivation"
Send the date and the bell schedule. You’ll have an answer within 48 hours.
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