ESDPA Speaker Series
2025-26 ESDPA Speaker Series
Join us for an engaging presentation by Jennifer Breheny Wallace, author of Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—and What We Can Do About It. This year's ESDPA Speaker Series will be held on September 10 at 6:30 p.m. in the Bray Performance Hall. We would love to see you there!
About the 2025-26 Author, Jennifer B. Wallace
Jennifer B. Wallace is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author whose work explores the power of mattering in our everyday lives. Through research and storytelling, Wallace examines the hidden forces shaping modern life, from the crisis of meaning in achievement culture to the essential role of mattering in personal, workplace, and societal health.
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and What We Can Do About It
In Never Enough, award-winning reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture, and finds out what we must do to fight back. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and an original survey of nearly 6,000 parents, she exposes how the pressure to perform is not a matter of parental choice but baked in to our larger society and spurred by increasing income inequality and dwindling opportunities. As a result, children are increasingly absorbing the message that they have no value outside of their accomplishments, a message that is reinforced by the media and greater culture at large.
2024-25 Speaker: Jean Twenge |
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About the 2024-25 Author, Jean Twenge
Generations: The Real Difference Between Gen Z, Millenials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents and What They Mean for America's Future
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2023-24 Speaker: Mary Ann Little |
About the 2023-24 Author, Mary Ann Little
Childhood Narcissism: Strategies to Raise Unselfish, Unentitled, and Empathetic Children
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