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Helping Kent Place Students Turn Courage Into Confidence, Stories Into Superpowers, and Concern for the World Into Ethical Leadership and Meaningful Action
Planet Courage is a student-centered speaking and storytelling experience that helps young people build resilience, discover their voice, strengthen their confidence, and connect who they are with how they lead, serve, and advance the world.
Today's students are navigating pressure, uncertainty, anxiety, big questions about the future, and a world that can often feel overwhelming. At Kent Place, students are already being empowered to grow as confident, intellectual, and ethical leaders who can help advance the world.
Planet Courage builds on that foundation.
Through storytelling, reflection, media, and real-world examples of changemakers, Planet Courage helps students recognize that their lives already hold the raw material for courage, confidence, leadership, ethics, service, and impact.
This is not just a talk students listen to. It is an experience that helps them name their gifts, reflect on what they care about, and take one meaningful step toward becoming the brave and brilliant leaders Kent Place prepares students to become.
Why Planet Courage Fits Kent Place School
Planet Courage connects directly to the values Kent Place already nurtures in students: confidence, intellectual curiosity, ethical leadership, communication, belonging, service, global citizenship, and the courage to use their gifts to advance the world.
Confidence, Purpose, and Resilience
Helping students navigate uncertainty, pressure, fear, self-doubt, and big life questions with courage, self-awareness, and a stronger sense of purpose.
Communication and Student Leadership
Helping students see communication as a leadership skill and use their voice, story, values, and gifts to connect with others and make a difference.
Hope, Belonging, and Emotional Strength
Offering a non-clinical but deeply human message about courage, anxiety, grief, belonging, self-worth, and the strength that comes from being seen, supported, and connected.
Ethics, Service, and Real-World Impact
Helping students move from awareness to action by asking: What do I care about? Who is affected? What choices can I make? And where can I begin?
Climate Courage and Global Citizenship
Helping students face climate anxiety with stories, solutions, and real-world examples of responsibility, stewardship, global citizenship, and possibility.
The Student Experience
Planet Courage is designed for Kent Place students who may be wondering:
- Who am I becoming?
- What gifts and talents do I have?
- What do I care about?
- How can I use my voice with courage and clarity?
- What does it mean to lead with confidence and integrity?
- How do I face the future without feeling overwhelmed by it?
- How can I help advance the world in my own way?
By the end of the experience, students are invited to see themselves as people with real-world superpowers:
What Students Walk Away With
A stronger sense that their story matters
A clearer understanding of their "real-world superpower"
Language for naming their gifts, values, and purpose
A hopeful way to think about fear, pressure, and uncertainty
A deeper connection between confidence, communication, ethics, service, and leadership
Examples of everyday people making meaningful change
A practical invitation to serve their school, community, and world
A reminder that leadership can begin with one honest question, one true story, one thoughtful conversation, or one brave next step
Featured Work
Explore examples of storytelling, speaking, hosting, and media work connected to the Planet Courage approach, including stories of climate solutions, community leadership, service, global citizenship, and everyday changemakers.
Drawdown's Neighborhood
A storytelling series highlighting climate solutions and everyday heroes in communities across the country.
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The Global Solutions Diary
Stories of changemakers around the world turning climate solutions into action.
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20s & Change: San Francisco
A pilot film passing the mic to changemakers who often go unheard. Join the conversation on identity, inspiration, and impact.
Watch / Learn MoreTrusted by Colleges, Universities, and Institutions Including:
What Students, Educators, and Partners Are Saying
"Matt's 'pass the mic' project is beyond inspiring. It is so smart, so creative, so needed. Several students said to me how much they enjoyed Matt's presentation and conversations… And how much they learned from him. Getting to know him and working with Matt has been an immense pleasure and privilege. He is such a special and gifted person. I have enjoyed our collaboration – and look forward to much more."
Frank Sesno
Emmy-winning journalist; Director, School of Media & Public Affairs and Alliance for a Sustainable Future
The George Washington University
Talk Experiences
Planet Courage can be adapted for Kent Place assemblies, advisory programming, leadership development, Ethics Institute connections, Girls' Leadership Institute connections, wellness programming, community life initiatives, service learning, global citizenship conversations, climate and sustainability events, and community-wide experiences.
Pricing note: Lower-end investment reflects an experience with Matt Scott (based in the DC area). Higher-end investment reflects an experience with both Matt Scott and Erik Douds (based in the Denver area).
Keynote Experience
$2,500–$5,000
+ travel & lodging
Half Day
A powerful single talk designed for a Kent Place assembly, advisory program, leadership event, wellness day, or community-wide experience.
Includes:
Best for: Schools looking for a high-impact assembly or featured speaker experience.
Inquire About KeynoteDay of Talks
$5,000–$10,000
+ travel & lodging
Full Day
A full-day experience that brings Planet Courage to multiple Kent Place student groups, classes, and communities across divisions.
Includes:
Best for: Schools that want to reach multiple divisions, leadership groups, or student communities in one visit.
Inquire About Day of TalksPlanet Courage Embed
$10,000–$20,000
+ travel & lodging
5 Days Total
A deeper engagement designed to build momentum with Kent Place students over time. Typically across two visits of approximately 2.5 days each.
Includes:
Best for: Schools that want Planet Courage to support a larger initiative around student leadership, ethics, service, sustainability, or community impact.
Inquire About EmbedPlanet Courage Residency
$25,000–$50,000
+ travel & lodging
10 Days Total
A signature multi-visit experience that helps Kent Place students move from inspiration to storytelling, action, and community celebration. Three campus visits.
Includes:
Best for: Schools looking for a transformational, community-wide experience that builds student voice, confidence, ethical leadership, and impact over time.
Inquire About ResidencyA Message for Kent Place Leaders
You are not just booking a speaker. You are creating a moment for students to pause, reflect, feel seen, and connect their own stories to a larger sense of confidence, purpose, ethics, and leadership.
Planet Courage meets students at the intersection of the questions they are already carrying: Who am I? What gifts do I have? What matters to me? How do I deal with fear? What kind of future is possible? What role can I play in building it? And how can I use my voice and story to help advance the world?
For Kent Place School, this experience can support the values already woven through school life: confidence, intellectual curiosity, ethical leadership, communication, self-awareness, belonging, service, global citizenship, and the development of brave and brilliant girls.
Planet Courage gives students language, stories, and tools to begin answering those questions with courage.
Customize This Experience for Kent Place School
Every Planet Courage visit can be shaped around Kent Place's goals, values, calendar, divisions, and student needs.
Bring Planet Courage to Kent Place School
Help Kent Place students turn courage into confidence, stories into superpowers, and concern for the world into ethical leadership, service, and meaningful action.