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Keynote Speaker: Ant Toombs
Ant Toombs
Anthony (Ant) Toombs Sr. is the Senior Playmaker Guide and Outreach Specialist for The Life is Good Playmaker Project (LiGPP). Throughout his 15 years with LiGPP, Ant has partnered with thousands of Early Childhood professionals to help create more safe, loving and joyful environments for kids to engage, connect, and explore. Ant, along with the entire LiGPP team believes that when children grow to see the good in themselves, the good in others and the good in their world – their social, emotional, and cognitive superpowers emerge.
Today, Ant inspires audiences with true stories of how optimism can be harnessed to overcome adversity, and how ANYONE can cultivate a more optimistic disposition to insulate against toxic stress, connect more easily, and experience more joy.