Michael Griffin provides professional development for teachers that clarifies the key teaching and learning principles resulting in greater student achievement and engagement. Michael synthesises mindset, intrinsic motivation & metacognition into a model that challenges teacher expectations and capped-potential self-conception. He also provides enrichment lectures and seminars for students of all ages, and parents, distilling the factors that lead to exceptional achievement. Michael also specialises in music education, and is the author of seven books including 'Learning Strategies for Musical Success'. Based in Australia, Griffin regularly tours throughout Australia and the UK, and has to date worked for about 500 clients in about 30 countries. His website is professional-development.com.au.

For listers of Teacher Chatter who are looking to engage in one of Michael's Professional Development Courses, Michael is offering a 20% discount - all you have to do is send him an email at michael@professional-development.com.au and let him know we sent you :) 

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Hear passionate outdoor athlete and marketing guru Michael Griffin talk about growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee and later Athens, Georgia, his early love for rock climbing that developed there and grew into a full blown lifestyle for years after high school (and how that pursuit has continued throughout his life), his move to Portland once he was ready to get more serious about college and his graduation with an Environmental Science degree, how he came to shift career paths from an Environmental Science job into marketing, his path to Finex from being a consultant during their Kickstarter to Marketing Director and an integral part of the recent acquisition by Lodge Cast Iron (since 1896!) 5 years later, how Portland had changed in his years here, the exciting new community marketing he's doing by supporting (and taking part in) Gabriel Rucker's Bird Dog Run Club, what's next for him and Finex, and much more.

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On this episode of The Proverbial Life Podcast I have Michael Griffin Jr. on the show. 

This episode is  jam packed with biblical truths and experiential in sight from two brothers whose passion is to be the best fathers and husbands we can be for our families. 

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