Success in Education and Business with Principal Baruti Kafele

The Lionel Shipman $HAPE YOUR FINANCES Show is a financial and life empowerment show focusing on our lives around money and finances. The show aims to educate and motivate people to improve their financial outlooks and empower them to take charge of their lives and to live life to the fullest. 

Guest: Principal Baruti Kafele (BS in Mgmt Science/Marketing from Kean University and MA in Educational Admin from New Jersey City University). Recipient of more than 100 educational, professional, and community awards, including the prestigious Milken National Educator Award and the National Alliance of Black School Educators Hall of Fame Award. Inductee into the East Orange, New Jersey Hall of Fame. City of Dickinson, TX proclaimed February 8, 1998 Baruti Kafele Day. He and his wife Kimberley are the parents of three children, Baruti, Jabari, and Kibriya.

One of the most sought-after school leadership experts and education speakers in America, Principal Kafele is impacting America’s schools! Since leaving his principalship in 2011, he has delivered/conducted more than 1000 conference and program keynotes, professional development workshops, parenting seminars, and student assemblies. An expert in the area of “attitude transformation,” he is the leading authority for providing effective classroom and school leadership strategies toward closing what he coined, the “Attitude Gap.” A prolific writer, Principal Kafele has written extensively on professional development strategies for creating a positive school climate and culture, transforming the attitudes of at-risk students, motivating Black males to excel in the classroom, and school leadership practices for inspiring schoolwide excellence. In addition to writing several professional articles for popular education journals, he has authored 10 books, including his five ASCD best sellers. 

Website: PrincipalKafele.com