Speaking

This is the core of my inspirational speech, I customize this speech depending on my audience but this one is particularly focused on students, especially High School, Junior High, and Community College students. In Junior High I was diagnosed with a behavior disorder after hitting a teacher with a chair. I was a terrible student in general until a Christian Brother named Brother Peter got me started boxing which gave me a positive outlet for my anger, after he gained my trust he confronted me about my school work and dared me to study, I eventually took the dare and became the most improved student at my high school. In junior college at College of DuPage,  Professor David McGrath turned me onto literature through the work of Ernest Hemingway. After reading the Sun Also Rises in one sitting I decided to devote my life to literature and run with the bulls. I have gone on to author three books write for dozens of major outlets, earn a Bachelors Degree from Elmhurst College and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago and I have now earned a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana Lafayette. I’m a Doctor of English, and am now a full-time Professor at East-West University. And as you will see in my speech, I got to tell my junior high teacher about it. I’m booking speeches all year round except for July of course when I am running with the bulls in Spain.

“Bill Hillmann is a remarkable person.” -Chicago Tribune.