Dr. Munib Rezaie brings a decade in K–12 schools, a PhD in Communication, and direct experience building and running boys' programs to keynotes, professional development sessions, panels, and consulting engagements.
"Most speakers on this topic have read the research. Munib has lived it — in the counseling office, in the hallway, in the principal's chair."
There's no shortage of researchers who can cite statistics about boys. What's rare is someone who has spent more than a decade inside schools in every role where the reality shows up — as the counselor who heard what boys said when no one else was listening, as the principal who had to make the call when interventions failed, as the father who's working through these questions at home the same night.
That combination — research training plus direct clinical experience plus administrative perspective — produces a very different kind of talk. The data is there. So is the specificity: what the moment actually looks like, why the usual approaches don't work, and what does.
Audiences leave with more than a framework. They leave with language — things they can say the next day in a hallway, a classroom, a parent meeting. The measure of a good professional development session isn't whether people were moved. It's whether they changed what they do on Tuesday morning.
Munib has presented research at academic conferences, created an online course on masculinity used by adults across the country, and built a curriculum deployed in schools. He knows how to translate research into practice — and practice back into something an organization can act on.
45–60 minute keynotes for conferences, staff development days, parent education nights, and organizational events. Adaptable for educators, parents, youth-serving professionals, or general audiences.
Available in-person and virtual. Standard AV setup. Custom title and framing for your audience — not a canned talk.
Half-day or full-day professional development for school staff, counseling teams, or district cohorts. Grounded in the same frameworks as the Redefining Masculinity curriculum — practical, direct, designed to change what adults do on Monday.
Includes pre-session survey, facilitated discussion, and take-home tools. Can be paired with a school curriculum pilot.
Panel participation, moderation, or expert commentary for education conferences, media appearances, and organizational events focused on boys, masculinity, SEL, or adolescent development.
Available for in-person and virtual panels. Media inquiries: see the press page.
For schools, districts, and youth-serving organizations that want to build something more sustained — reviewing existing programs, designing staff training, developing a strategy for addressing boys' needs across the organization.
Scoped by project. Starts with a discovery call to understand what you're actually trying to solve.
The achievement gap, the discipline gap, the engagement gap — what the data actually shows, why the usual explanations fall short, and what schools can do about it now.
Where boys are getting their ideas about manhood, why it's getting more extreme, and what adults in schools can realistically do to counter it without losing the room.
Why most SEL programming misses boys, what the research says about what works, and how to design programs that reach the students most likely to opt out.
For school counselors — the specific clinical and relational challenges of working with adolescent boys, and concrete frameworks for building trust and getting to real work faster.
For parent audiences — the practical, evidence-grounded conversation about what parents can actually do: modeling, language, the moments that matter, and how to stay in the relationship when it gets hard.
For leadership teams — how to build the kind of sustained, aligned school culture where the work on boys doesn't live only in the counselor's office. Includes curriculum, PD, and family engagement.
Dr. Munib Rezaie spent more than a decade inside K–12 schools in every role where the conversation about boys actually happens — as a teacher, a licensed school counselor, and a principal. He holds a PhD in Communication and a master's in school counseling, and has presented research on masculinity and adolescent development at academic conferences.
He is the creator of the Redefining Masculinity curriculum, the author of a Kirkus-reviewed children's book and three ebooks for parents and educators, and the creator of a Udemy course on masculinity used by adults across the country. He is also a father of two boys — which is less a credential than the reason the work is personal.