Chad Kempel — top youth keynote speaker in Boise Idaho, 4x Guinness World Records title holder
Youth speaker • Boise, Idaho

The best high school assembly speaker in Idaho is the one no student can dismiss.

Chad Kempel is a Boise-based youth keynote speaker with 4 Guinness World Records titles, an MA in Research Psychology, and three talks built for Idaho high schools. Every claim he makes on stage is publicly verifiable. Available across the Treasure Valley, statewide, and nationwide.

When you book a youth speaker from out of state, you're paying for a flight, a hotel, and a speaker who has never driven past your school. Chad lives here. He's in the Treasure Valley. He knows what Idaho students are dealing with because his own children attend Idaho schools. Booking a local speaker in Boise means lower travel costs, faster scheduling, and a speaker who understands your community — not one reading a Wikipedia entry about it on the plane.

For schools in Meridian, Nampa, Caldwell, Eagle, Star, Mountain Home, and everywhere across the Treasure Valley, Chad is a same-day drive. For schools in Sun Valley, Twin Falls, Idaho Falls, and Pocatello, Chad is a short drive to your door. For schools in McCall, Moscow, Coeur d’Alene, Sandpoint, and Lewiston, he’ll come to you — no airline markup, no out-of-state fees. Coeur d’Alene and Sun Valley in particular are communities that invest in their students and understand the value of bringing in a speaker whose credentials hold up. And for schools outside Idaho, he travels nationwide and internationally.

Kempel quintuplets and older sisters with the Guinness World Record stroller in front of the Idaho State Capitol building in Boise
All seven Kempel children with the quintuple stroller in front of the Idaho State Capitol in Boise — the same stroller Chad pushed to four Guinness World Records titles. Photographed shortly after the marathon and 10K records were set in 2019.
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Guinness World Records titles
MA
Research Psychology
5 yrs
University Lecturer, San Jose State
30+
National media features

Chad set all four Guinness World Records titles while pushing his five children — quintuplets born at 27 weeks — in a stroller. Marathon: 4:42:49. Half marathon: 2:19:54. 10K: 1:04:52. 1K: 5:34. He holds an MA in Research Psychology and taught psychology and statistics at San Jose State University for five years. He volunteered inside San Quentin State Prison for five years teaching math, unpaid, by choice. He counseled children with disabilities. He doesn’t just tell stories — he gives students vocabulary for what they’ve been feeling.

Anything Is Possible
The flagship all-school assembly — resilience, failure, and thirty years of proof.
Opens in a locker room, not on a finish line. Chad traces one phrase through bullying, wrestling, an academic turnaround, Ironman Canada, five babies born at 27 weeks, a three-attempt marathon arc, and a sign that made it to a museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. Every claim is verifiable — the race times are in public databases, the records are on the Guinness website. The best motivational speaker for Idaho high schools is the one whose story holds up when a student Googles him after the assembly.
Best for: full-school assemblies · graduation ceremonies · kickoff events
The Weight You're Carrying
The mental health assembly your counseling department has been asking for.
Chad opens at a university podium — the moment his phone rang and he learned he was losing his twin sons. Then a 100-mile run past every landmark of his life. Then the freeze response, named and explained. Grounded in his MA in Research Psychology, this talk gives students vocabulary for what they’ve been feeling — and teaches them that naming it is the first step to putting it down. Idaho schools looking for a mental health speaker who goes beyond platitudes will find it here.
Best for: mental health assemblies · counselor-requested events · wellness programming
I Walked the Hallways Alone
The anti-bullying and belonging talk that doesn’t wag a finger.
No Guinness World Records. No stroller. No marathon. Built entirely on relational evidence — a kid who watched classmates group up and had no fallback plan, who later counseled children with disabilities, taught inside San Quentin State Prison, and coached Special Olympics athletes. Closes with the simplest call to action a school will ever hear: sit down next to someone who looks like they’re alone. For Idaho schools running anti-bullying or school culture programs, this is the assembly that changes what happens in the hallways the next morning.
Best for: orientation week · anti-bullying programming · school culture initiatives
Idaho media
National media
How much does it cost to book a youth speaker in Idaho?
It depends on the event, format, and whether travel is involved. For Treasure Valley schools, there’s no travel cost. Reach out and we’ll have an honest conversation about budget — Chad works with schools, not against them.
Do you speak at schools outside the Treasure Valley?
Yes. Chad travels statewide across Idaho and nationwide. Schools in Sun Valley, Twin Falls, Idaho Falls, Pocatello, McCall, Coeur d’Alene, Sandpoint, Moscow, Lewiston, and everywhere in between have the same access as Boise-area schools.
Do you customize the talk for our school?
Every time. Before your event, there’s a brief conversation to understand your students, your goals, and anything happening on your campus that the talk should speak to. The message stays consistent — the delivery is tailored to your room.
What makes Chad different from other youth speakers in Boise?
Every claim he makes on stage is publicly verifiable. The race times are in public databases. The records are on the Guinness website. The media features are one Google search away. Students can fact-check him on their phones during the assembly — and they’ll find the same truth he told them in the gym. No other motivational speaker in Idaho carries that combination of credentials.
How far out should we book?
As early as possible, but Chad has accommodated events with as little as two weeks’ notice. Send your dates and we’ll see what works.

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