Keynote Speaker
What Frank Brings
Frank Meeink is not your typical keynote speaker. For one thing, he has actually lived the thing he is talking about.
For another, he is genuinely funny, which turns out to be one of the most disarming tools in the room when the subject matter is hate, addiction, and the rotting infrastructure of systemic racism.
You Will Laugh.
You Will Squirm.
Frank tailors everything to his audience. A room full of teenagers and a room full of law enforcement professionals will both leave feeling like he was talking directly to them, because he was.
His gift is universalizing the human struggle, finding the thread of shared experience that runs through every person in the room regardless of where they came from or what they believe. That thread is what makes it possible for people to lower their guard, lean in, and start having the conversations they came to avoid.
You will hear a man take an unflinching, honest, and often darkly funny look at himself and the world that made him.
And by the time he is done, the hard realities he came to talk about will not feel so impossible to face.
