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Jim Roberson

Behaviour - Rapport - Relationships

Chances are you won’t have met a Jim Roberson before. And once you have, it’s something we guarantee will leave its mark, as it has for thousands of young people and their teachers.

For Jim, drawing on his experience as a professional sportsman and coach and his many years’ experience working both in school and outside with some of the country’s most vulnerable and demanding young people, it’s not what others do for you, it’s what you do for yourself.

Jim, the self-styled Discipline Coach and author of the book of the same name and currently an Assistant head on the south coast, is a powerhouse of ideas and insights designed to help young people help themselves. The lessons Jim shares are lessons hard earned, growing up in New York’s Bronx, being the only Black kid in a high-flying White school where he had a sports scholarship to play his beloved America Football, something he did at professional level until injury took its toll.

"Your education is your number one key to unlocking a whole world of opportunities."

Jim Roberson

Recent titles include:

  • Unleashing the Superhero Within You!
  • Relationship Building and Branding
  • The Power of Rapport to Improve behaviour and Raise Aspirations

Delivered in his incredible, inimitable style Jim has no trouble totally enrapturing audiences ranging from school leaders and teachers to children and young people for whom time is running out to make something from themselves and their school lives.

A qualified and experienced teacher based in the UK for many years, he has also created and run a whole series of programmes outside of schools, working with local police, community workers, local business and sports clubs, all designed to help children and young people grasp the opportunities they have and understand that whatever has happened in the past there is always another way.

For Jim, the message for young people is incredibly simple. Education is the answer. Now, what’s your problem? And when it comes to working with teachers, he is equally pragmatic about what he expects from them when it comes to supporting children presenting even the most challenging behaviours. The lessons he shares are lessons from his own time at the sharp end in schools, showing that discipline (by which he means discipline of self rather than discipline of others - this is no ‘zero tolerance' fop to current trends on behaviour) is the single most critical life skill to develop.

For a charismatic and memorable speaker sharing genuine experiences and practical ideas when it comes to bringing the best out of all children, especially those most at risk of dropping out of the system, then Jim is who you need.

He is quite simply, and according to the most frequent description given to him by young people he works with, ‘a legend’.  

"...it is an amazing experience to see student’s expressions change as their perspectives about who they are and what they are capable of changes (and he only spent two hours with them!)"

"I am grateful that you have came to our school as you have really inspired me to do my best at school as I have not always found school easy and am not the best behaved"

"I am inspired by the way you get your points across as your positive energy has definitely helped most people including me"

"This was the best day at school I have had in a long time and you really have made me think about my life choices"

"He energised, amused, and inspired people, and I am very grateful to him for fulfilling his brief and more"

"Thank you so much for yesterday, the positive feedback from staff and students has come in thick and fast"

"The students enjoyed it so much and I am sure they will take a lot from it"

"Jim was both passionate, high-spirited and kept me engaged throughout. His genuine love for his profession was palpable, he was both inspiring and uplifting!"

"He was brilliant, very engaging, amazing style and delivery. An incredible human being with very special Superhero Powers"

From start to finish this course was inspirational, upbeat, reassuring and certainly flashed all my neurons, music was fabulous and I will certainly be buying your book.

Absolutely amazing, Jim presented in a way I’ve never seen.

"He nailed it!! Jim was brilliant and just the lift my team needed to be ready for the children to return on Monday"

"As a motivational speaker – superb. As a leadership motivator – possibly the best I’ve heard"

"Jim was absolutely brilliant. Great feedback from staff. Thank you so much for recommending Jim to us"

"After the final session with you today, a student said, "It was the best lesson I’ve had in ten years!"

"Your energy and passion for education certainly inspired the students, and the staff too."

The feedback from delegates was fantastic! You were definitely the star of the show – even in the graveyard slot!

Jim Roberson In His Own Words

“DISCIPLINE IS NOT WHAT YOU DO TO YOURSELF, BUT FOR YOURSELF” - THE DISCIPLINE COACH

The Big Book of Independent Thinking

The Discipline Coach

There Is Another Way - The Second Big Book of Independent Thinking

Resources by Jim Roberson

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