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Andrew Allen - Keynote Concert

Personal stories • Live music • Live looping. 

A framework that puts students back in the driver's seat of their own future.

"All eight schools have asked to bring Andrew Allen back to our school system, which is unheard of."
"In the gymnasium with 500 students, you could have heard a pin drop."
David Warner, Artistic Director, Darke County Center for the Arts

The HYDA Framework 

How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything 


    It gives students a clear, honest tool to see how their character is already showing up in their results

    and a framework to build their character intentionally to drive responses, actions and ultimately, results.


    Celebrate what's working. 

    Change what isn't. 


    HYDA shows you how. 

Available Formats

Keynote Concert
60-75 min. 
Live music, storytelling, and the HYDA Framework as one experience.

Concert Add-On
Up to 90 min. Flexible format for entertainment programming.

HYDA Workshop Add-On
2 hours. Deep dive into character training. Runs as a follow-up to the Keynote Concert.

KEYNOTE OVERVIEW

Your students are navigating a world that feels increasingly out of their control. 

The pressure is real, the noise is loud, and most of the messaging they receive either minimizes what they're feeling or tells them to think positive and push through.  Neither works.  

What does work is giving them a framework that's honest about what they can't control, and clear about what they can, giving them agency, power and the ability to train who they want to be so they can have the life they want to have.


That's what Andrew Allen brings to your campus.


Andrew is a Multi-Platinum singer-songwriter with five Top-10 hits

a touring history that includes Bruno Mars, One Republic, Andy Grammer and more, co-writing credits alongside Meghan Trainor and Carly Rae Jepsen

and over two decades on stages around the world.  

He now channels that career into a format that’s unique in the campus programming market: The Keynote Concert. 


Original songs performed live, woven directly into a keynote message built around character, resilience, and response-ability. 

The music isn't an opener or and add-on. It's part of the delivery system. 

And it changes how the message lands.


The program moves through personal storytelling, live music, and live looping to arrive at one clear framework: 

HYDA | How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything


Students learn to look honestly at their own results, trace them back to the responses and choices that created them, 

and identify the character traits they want to intentionally build.  


It's practical, it's earned, and it respects their intelligence.  


When 500 students in a room go completely quiet, 

it's because something makes sense.


What your students leave with isn't just a feeling.  It's a tool.  

A way of growing themselves that they can apply immediately so they’re prepared for the next day, the next hard moment, or the next decision that feels too big or too uncertain.  

That's the takeaway.  

And according to the presenters who've seen it, it's incredible.

Single dates and block bookings available. 


Block bookings share travel costs across the run, making each campus date significantly more cost-effective. West, Ontario, and East Coast runs all available. 


Contact Mitch for pricing and more details on block booking by using the form below and someone from our team will respond as soon as possible!