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Opening Session

Conversations that matter

Kentucky School Advocate

March 2018

“Do the best you can with what you’ve got some of the time,” was the reassuring message the opening speaker delivered for KSBA’s annual conference, March 2–4 in Louisville.

Jessica Pettitt, professional speaker, trainer and author, told the crowd of 1,000 school board members and others: “You have to truly invest in being good enough now.”

She outlined her theory of different personality types and how those differences can keep people from getting along. The key, she said, is that “We’re not miscommunicating – we’re not connecting. That’s the difference.”

Realizing people are “differently right,” she said, can make it easier to talk with them.

“You may have a conversation that matters,” Pettitt said. “If we can have conversations that matter, we will continue until it is a habit to do the best we can with what we’ve got some of the time.”