Speaking & Events
Kendra Simms translates school improvement, implementation capacity, and responsible innovation into practical sessions leaders can use.
Turning promising ideas into implementation that lasts.
2027 speaking pipeline
Kendra has submitted the following practitioner sessions for 2027 conference consideration. Conference dates are provided for reference; presenter participation remains pending selection.
From Initiative to Impact: Making Special Education Improvement Stick
A practitioner session about building the readiness, capacity, support, evidence, and sustainability conditions that move special education improvement beyond short-lived initiatives.
From Initiative to Impact: Building the Capacity That Makes School Improvement Stick
A school-improvement session grounded in implementation capacity, practical systems thinking, and the conditions that help worthwhile change reach classrooms and endure.
From AI Initiative to Impact: Building the Capacity That Makes Responsible AI Adoption Stick
A practical framework for helping institutions move responsible AI from announcement and training into supported, measurable, sustainable use.
Core speaking areas
Kendra’s sessions connect research, frontline reality, and organizational strategy—so audiences leave with a sharper diagnosis and a practical next move.
How leaders build the human and organizational conditions that turn promising initiatives into consistent practice.
How schools and institutions move beyond access and excitement to capacity, supported use, evidence, and responsible scale.
How systems thinking, workflow redesign, and implementation support can make improvement practical for the people doing the work.
About Kendra
Kendra Simms brings an uncommon combination of business thinking, communication, frontline practice, and doctoral research to implementation work.
Stephen F. Austin State University
Education, Business, and Mass Communication · Stephen F. Austin State University
The University of Texas at Tyler · Expected Summer 2027
Her frontline special education experience grounds her work in the operational realities of organizational change—from workflow friction and stakeholder adoption to capacity constraints and the distance between policy and practice.
Speaking, facilitation, and collaboration
For conference sessions, panels, workshops, facilitated conversations, or future hosted-event collaboration, share your audience, goals, date, and format.
Start a speaking inquiry kendrasmms@gmail.com