“…takes complicated subject matter and breaks it down to its essence with total clarity.”
— Melisa C, Event Coordinator
“When it comes to communicating science, Dr. Suzuki lives outside the box.”
— Kyle T, High School Honors Biology Teacher
Most Requested Presentations
The Timeline of Your Life
Soar above your day-to-day and year-to-year as you are taken on a perspective-opening journey through the possibilities and certainties of your life. Seeing the Big Picture of your life for the first time will make an indelible impression that will make you more effective, inspired, and present in every precious fleeting moment of the rest of your life.
The Timeline of Your Life: Workshop
For groups of 40 or fewer, The Timeline Talk is also available as an intimate interactive workshop. This service is most common for groups that have seen the Timeline Talk and want to dive deeper into the material. With interactive exercises and personal investment, Dr. Jessie guides you to the next steps in your eye-opening life-affirming journey.
The (Hidden) College Curriculum
This talk unveils the mysterious secrets to college success that first-generation college students will enter school not knowing. People whose parents went to college already know this secret curriculum, but don’t realize that its secret! This talk can be the different between success and failure for disadvantaged learners.
Biological Ethics: Workshop
We scientists are becoming more and more powerful, but when do we learn how to use that power ethically? Unlike ethics courses that emphasize debating various positions, this workshop will show how to make a choice and take a stand. Through a combination of personal stories, simply explained science and whimsical comparisons, molecular geneticist Dr. Jessie Suzuki delivers a talk is both intellectually accessible and morally challenging.
Turn Your Disabilities into Super Powers
What if the unique way your brain works (or doesn’t) is a source of power and creativity? Award-winning educator and failing-student-turned-Ph.D. success story, Dr. Jessie Suzuki can help your audience discover their hidden super powers.
Grad School Application Success
Your students will get the big zoomed-out picture of how grad school applications work, which will save them from making rookie mistakes. Then Dr. Suzuki will give them the winning formulas for 1. choosing a program, 2. choosing an advisor, 3. gathering the information they need to 4. write VERY strong application essays that will put them in the perfect place to continue their studies.
Testimonials
Siri B.
Middle School Science Teacher
“She grabbed their attention and held it for an hour! Her lecture, though serious in nature, included plenty of humor. Dr. Suzuki had this group of 12-years-olds actually considering their future and valuing their education!”
Kyle T.
High School Honors Biology Teacher
“so in-depth and eye opening that it permanently altered many of my students’ hopes and wishes for their future careers. Following Dr. Suzuki’s example, my students understood that beyond grades and finals and the rigid structures of school, as long as they earnestly fed and followed their curiosity, their work would change the world, just as Dr. Suzuki has.”
Jeremy M.
Director Human Resources
“On the one hand, I really needed a speaker that would knock my boss’s socks off, but then there I was standing in the back of the auditorium with tears in my own eyes.”
Susan C.
Director Human Resources
“…one of the smartest, most charismatic, and relatable people I’ve ever known”
Snap The Pencil 