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Jim Cantoni Bio
Give a smile … Get a smile™. GivaGeta™ spreads positivity and specializes in helping you engage kids in valuable lessons that help sustain them throughout their lives. Jim Cantoni, GivaGeta Co-Founder is the creator of over 80 short, 
catchy, kind and positive ways of thinking that help you make a positive difference in people’s lives. Based in Glastonbury, Connecticut, GivaGeta workshops and three (3) Leadership Tool kits, Educational Kindness™, Corporate Kindness™, Heavenly Kindness™ plus the nine editions of The World’s Kindest Playing Cards™, Positive Pen™ and Positive Pencil™ the Ambassador of Character™ patch and more. These are being used in over 45 states and 27 countries for experiential character, leadership, family and team development. In less than two years, their “learn by doing” tools and activities are helping team build and develop youth - our future - as leaders of character.
Give understanding … Get understood™. So what’s GivaGeta? It is a simple, positive, interactive and engaging approach that helps you facilitate interaction, make connections and build relationships. It opens the dialogue and engages all ages from 5 to 105, although people have shared they are starting to use our tools with pre-school children.
Give leadership ... Get dedication™. inspired by Jim Collins best seller Good to Great, Jim helps children, students, youth leaders, staff, teams and families proactively talking about kindness, character, honesty, respect, appreciating diversity, friendship, caring, teamwork, leadership, a positive attitude and more. With inquiry based learning, our youth build developmental assets in a fun-filled way that they remember throughout their lives.
Give inspiration … Get inspired™ GivaGeta engages all ages as schools, camps, business, families, and faith based organizations with staff professional development that transfers right onto the kids. Camps, schools and youth development organizations use our fun educational tools tools to improve climate and culture. Our tools are also used for prevention - to reduce emotional bullying by teaching kindness and as intervention – for peer mediated conflict resolution. Families also use GivaGeta to build houses of character to strengthen and bring the family together.
As of March 2011, Jim Cantoni has conducted more than 90 character, leadership, family and team development workshops in twelve states since starting in May 2008. He is co-author of three books including Give Teamwork … Get Results – Playing with a Full Deck of The World’s Kindest Playing Cards. It is a character, leadership and team development activities programming book with a collection of experiential creative card games used to facilitate conversations with ice-breakers, mixers, problem solving, energizers, time fillers, diversity, trust, opening and closing team activities all with reviewing, processing, reflection and debriefing.
Give a hug … Get a hug™ Jim was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, graduated from Central Connecticut State University and received an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Jim now lives in Glastonbury, CT with his wife Jackie who is also a GivaGeta Co-Founder. Born in Rhode Island, as a little girl Jackie would dot the “i” in her name with a special smiley on notes she wrote. That smiley, now called GivaGeta Smiles, is helping spread more smiles, kindness and understanding throughout the world. Jackie and Jim Cantoni have two boys, Jimmy Jr. and Nathan. At nine years old Jimmy Jr. came up with the idea to put the short, catchy, kind and positive ways of thinking called GivaGeta Kindness Messages™ onto playing cards. Nathan, who the GivaGeta Foundation was created in honor of to help other children with special needs, is blind, has cerebral palsy and epilepsy and communicates with contagious giggles and smiles that make Jim and Jackie appreciate the gift of a smile even more.