Dayton Edmonds has had extensive experience serving as keynote speaker for various lecture series, conferences and camps nationwide. At Kentucky's Union College, John Carroll University, Central State College, Pan-American University, Wenatchee Valley Community College, University of Puget Sound, University of the Virgin Islands, Lewis and Clark College, Washington State University, Linfield College; numerous statewide United Methodist Convocations for (high school) Youth, among others; he has led workshops, seminars, and retreats in cultural sensitivity and diversity issues, language usage, and women's issues and concerns, and taught storytelling, puppetry, clowning and fine and applied arts; for Elderhostel programs, Washington Employment Security, the National Forest Service, Peace Corps Schools, Americorps, Colville Confederated Tribes, Pine Ridge Lakota Nation, and other community and church organizations. He has been a frequent facilitator for goal-setting and planning events, and has served on and provided frequent facilitator for goal-setting and planning events, and has served on and provided expertise for many local, regional and national organizational boards and committees.

Much of Dayton's personal expertise comes from his experiences while serving for fifteen years with Okanogan County Community Action Council; ten years with the United Methodist National Camping Committee; eight years with United Methodist General Commission on the Status and Role of Women; as well as five years serving the board of Okanogan County Child Development Association (Headstart, Epic, and others) and 25 years of mission service to the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church in the fields of community development and education.