Susan Stiffelman

Susan Stiffelman, Huffington Post Parent's weekly advice columnist ("Parent Coach"), is an engaging speaker whose presentations leave audiences upbeat, entertained and fortified with practical strategies that will make an immediate and significant difference in their day to day lives.

Susan is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child therapist, a credentialed teacher, and a highly regarded parenting coach. Instead of offering standard, scripted advice to parents about how to control their children, Susan focuses on helping them be what she calls the Captain of the ship their children need and naturally want to cooperate with, confide in, and respect.

Susan has worked with every demographic, from top notch celebrities to villagers in Africa, communicating with humor and warmth a highly effective approach to making parenting less stressful, and more enjoyable.

Susan is an adventurer: She took her 15 year old son on a two and a half month trip to Uganda, Tanzania, Australia and New Zealand. The trip included volunteering at the community outreach compound of former Black Panther Pete O'Neil, visiting Masai tribes, and spending time at village schools in both Africa and Maori establishments in New Zealand. (He has since received a scholarship to American University where he studies Peace and Conflict Resolution in their International Studies program.)

She's an innovative teacher: She was employed as a private teacher for a family whose international travels allowed her to teach--and learn--what it means to be a global citizen through day to day experiences which shaped her understanding of what a child can learn when given freedom and inspiration.

Susan's an outside-the-box thinker: She taught herself Hindi as a teenager and when she ran out of people with whom she could practice her conversational skills, called people named "Singh" out of the phone book.

Susan's wealth of knowledge and understanding of children and parents, combined with a tremendous capacity for setting others at ease, make her a perfect speaker for any group whose members deal with children. Regardless of the setting--corporate, education, conference--attendees are grateful to have been offered the chance to take home genuinely useful strategies for making life easier. Those who attend Susan's presentations routinely email her office with thanks, and a request to come back again!