William Bennett

Host of The Bill Bennett Show, Former Host of Morning in America, Former Secretary of Education

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    North Carolina, USA

  • William Bennett Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

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  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    North Carolina, USA

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Translating Trump

There is still a great deal of puzzlement and bewilderment about the election of Donald Trump. As the former host of a national radio show and as a regular contributor to Fox News, Bennett can offer both an insider’s and outsider’s view of the process, explain the huge ...

There is still a great deal of puzzlement and bewilderment about the election of Donald Trump. As the former host of a national radio show and as a regular contributor to Fox News, Bennett can offer both an insider’s and outsider’s view of the process, explain the huge mistakes made by those who predicted the election wrong, discuss what shaped the final outcome, and give a progress report on Donald Trump’s presidency.

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America Divided: How to Mend It

A great deal is being made of the great divide (and decline) in American society. But this can be remedied. The two parties and many factions could possibly come together on some common basic principles and values: economic growth for all; strong national defense (because the ...

A great deal is being made of the great divide (and decline) in American society. But this can be remedied. The two parties and many factions could possibly come together on some common basic principles and values: economic growth for all; strong national defense (because the safety of the people is the first object of government); true equality which is colorblind, gender blind, and identity group blind; and a common educational system with high standards and shared values.

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Education and the Future of America

America is in dire need of improving its educational system but more inputs—from money to personnel—is not the solution. The Secretary of Education who garnered both controversy and admiration for his fiercely passionate views on educating—and not failing—the nation’...

America is in dire need of improving its educational system but more inputs—from money to personnel—is not the solution. The Secretary of Education who garnered both controversy and admiration for his fiercely passionate views on educating—and not failing—the nation’s children, Bill Bennett delivers bold solutions for closing the achievement gap through testing, tough standards, better books, and better teachers (and more rewards for those teachers). With an eye toward the future, Bennett shares what America must do to stay competitive with the systems in Europe and Asia including innovating in areas such as online education, charter schools and cutting the educational bureaucracy so that states and localities have the resources they need to increase educational performance and secure America’s economic future.

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Our Children and Our Country

For one of the most successful and richest countries in the world, the condition of our children is not what it should be, from low educational performance to increased drug use to dislocation due to family and community dysfunction. Bennett can explore the ways in which our ...

For one of the most successful and richest countries in the world, the condition of our children is not what it should be, from low educational performance to increased drug use to dislocation due to family and community dysfunction. Bennett can explore the ways in which our children are hurting and how we can remedy this.

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About Keynote Speaker William Bennett

William J. Bennett is one of America’s most important, influential, and respected voices on cultural, political, and education issues. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Bennett studied philosophy at Williams College (B.A.) and the University of Texas (Ph.D.) and earned a law degree (J.D.) from Harvard. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of Udacity, one of the world’s leading online education organizations, as well as the Advisory Board of Viridis Learning, Inc. He is a Senior Advisor to HigherEducation.com, which assists colleges and universities in transitioning in-classroom curriculum to a digital, scalable platform. Dr. Bennett is also a member of the Trump Leadership Council, a private citizen advisory group to the president.

Over the course of his professional life, in education, government and the private sector, Dr. Bennett has succeeded in a trifecta of American institutions. He is an award-winning professor in academia, having taught at Boston University, the University of Texas and Harvard; he is a three-time confirmed executive in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations including holding two cabinet-level positions, Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan and the Nation’s first Drug Czar under the first President Bush. He was formerly the host of Morning in America, one of the largest national talk shows in the country, and is now host of The Bill Bennett Show podcast. He is an official Fox News contributor appearing weekly on some of the nation’s highest-rated cable TV shows.  He is also an experienced technology entrepreneur, having been the founding Chairman of K12.com a multi-billion dollar online education company.

In his various roles, Dr. Bennett is perceived—even by his adversaries—as a man of strong, reasoned convictions who speaks candidly, eloquently, and honestly about some of the most important issues of our time.

Dr. Bennett has written or co-authored more than 25 books including two New York Times number one best-sellers, one of them being the Book of Virtues, which was one of the most successful books of the 1990s. His latest book Tried By Fire: The Story of Christianity’s First Thousand Years has also quickly become a best-seller. His three-volume set of the history of the United States entitled America: The Last Best Hope, has been widely praised and adopted for use in schools around the country. The Sunday New York Times previously named Dr. Bennett the “leading spokesman of the Traditional Values wing of the Republican Party.” Although he is a well-known Republican, Dr. Bennett often has crossed party lines in order to pursue important common purposes.

Testimonials

“Dr. Bennett was absolutely wonderful and the evaluations are so good. The audience really responded to him. His remarks were timely, pertinent… Read More

Darcel Harris

Blanchard Training & Development Company, Inc.

“Bill Bennett was awesome! He was such a good speaker. Everybody loved him and wrote down that he was one of the best parts of the conference. He was just so gracious. His talk was right on target. It was really, really, really a success.”

Meghan McCartan

Director of National Accounts, Royal Alliance Brokerage Service

“Dr. Bennett gave two marvelous speeches, tailoring each to the demographics of the audiences. He truly does have his finger… Read More

Cindy Skaff

Town Hall Chairman The Junior League of Toledo, Inc.

“The SIA’s 24th Annual Forecast & Award Dinner was the best in our history and Dr. Bennett’s discussion was certainly the highlight of the evening. His comments were not only entertaining, but his.. Read More

George Scalise

President, SIA

“We had an AWESOME event last evening! Dr. Bennett was very well received. As one influential supporter of the school commented, ‘Bennett was a high water mark for our dinners.’ We definitely made the right decision… Read More

Bob Bostick

Director of The Faulkner Fund, Faulkner University

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