Motivation Speaker Talks with Gloucester City High School Students

Do not mistake Dr. Michael \”Mykee\” Fowlin’s one-man show of \”You Don’t Know Me\” as a routine, school assembly.

When he challenged the audience with questions like: \”Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?\” and \”Are you doing what you need to do or are you doing what you are supposed to do?\” it was as if he was speaking to each person individually.

The deliberate and thoughtful pauses following his questions signaled that he expected a response. 

Fowlin prefers to call his presentations \”performances\” as opposed to \”assemblies,\” because he portrays people and situations we encounter every day.

Presenting the material this way allows the show to have more of a performance feel than that of an assembly, he said. 

\”This seems to be more effective than the typical approach of motivational speaking in getting students to reflect on the subject of diversity,\” he explained.