Biography
  
 

Joe Manthey is an educational consultant and workshop presenter who leads Teaching to Gender Differences in Brain Development, Raising Good Sons, and How Boys Are Shortchanged in the Schools presentations.       His professional activities have included being a K-12 public school teacher, juvenile hall counselor, and seminar leader/panelist/guest speaker/writer/consultant on a host of men's and boy's issues. Mr. Manthey presents a realistic male affirming portrait of boys and men that, while honoring the inherent neuro-biological differences between the sexes, allows the audience to see the often hidden psychiatric and intellectual fragility of boys.      Mr. Manthey, a founding advisory board member of The Boys Initiative, has been featured in the Associated Press, United Press International, National Public Radio, Newsday Magazine, USA TODAY, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News, KGO NEWSTALK 810 AM & ABC 7 NEWS (S.F. Bay Area ABC affiliate), KABC AM (Los Angeles ABC affiliate), KCRW FM (Los Angeles NPR affiliate), KQED FM (San Francisco Bay Area NPR affiliate) and many other media outlets nationwide.