Kathy can help parents to
restore balance to their lives
Kathy Lynn is Canada’s leading speaker on parenting issues. She has helped thousands of parents to regain some order in their lives by improving their skills as parents.
Employees often need help balancing the needs of a demanding career and an active family. Kathy Lynn’s presentations –- keynote addresses, workshops and seminars –- can help employees do a better job at work by doing a better job at home.
Through her company Parenting Today Productions, Kathy brings valuable strategies and practical solutions to the kinds of problems parents face every day. And when people feel able to manage their home issues, they’ve got more energy for other parts of their lives.
In her dynamic and upbeat presentations at conferences, during workshops and in the workplace, Kathy quickly gains the confidence of her audience. She gets them working on issues related to their children and families, and helps them find answers to their tough questions about what’s going wrong at home.
Conferences and seminars
When someone invests valuable time in today’s busy world to step in to a conference break-out room, they need it to be worth their while. When Kathy is the presenter people leave with valuable and pertinent information and skills they can put to use immediately. And they leave with smiles on their faces.
Kathy brings practical solutions, valuable strategies and down-to-earth information. She gets right to the heart of the issue. Whether the issue is child discipline, typical teen development, child self-esteem or teaching children to become capable, her presentations resonate with today’s parents. She is upbeat, knowledgeable, caring and a definite asset to any conference schedule.
In the Workplace
Kathy is an experienced workshop presenter and keynote speaker. She can also offer ongoing services within your workplace.
Kathy works with progressive employers who understand the high cost of dysfunctional homes among their workers. Family-friendly strategies such as flex time, telecommuting and job sharing are helpful, but helping workers increase their understanding, skills and awareness as parents can dramatically increase their effectiveness on the job.
Retaining employees can save business millions of dollars. Workplaces with strong wellness programs find that employee retention is heightened. A growing number of employees are also parents and while family friendly policies such as flex time, telecommuting and job sharing do reduce the stress on parents raising children, training about the actual job of parenting is most beneficial. After all, having more time with children and more knowledge and skills reduces stress and creates healthier employees and parents.
Kathy’s program in your workplace can help:
• decrease absenteeism
• fewer family disruptions during the workday
• reduce stress leave
• increase staff loyalty
• Increase employee retention
Enhance staff communications:
Kathy can provide a series of parenting education articles for your staff newsletters. These articles will be delivered camera-ready or electronically and can be reproduced as needed.
Learning on the Run
Parenting Today has published three audio workshops available in cassette tape and CD. By making these available to your parent employees, you will be making it easy for them to receive quality information.
Because it's audio they can listen during their daily commute.
The audios also make great wellness rewards in your lifestyle program.
Parents and Professionals
Kathy is a popular speaker with parent groups, healthcare professionals, childcare providers, educators and other professionals and organizations. Over three decades of speaking to parents and professionals about kids and families, Kathy has helped thousands of Moms and Dads become better parents and has made a big difference in the lives of Canada's children.
Participants at her presentations go home with immediately usable tips and strategies. Not only do they see changes right away, but many years later they tell Kathy that what they learned from her continues to help them be the best parents they can be.
An experienced professional speaker
Kathy began offering quality parenting education services in 1978. Her career in parenting education began when her children were young and she sought out help for the day-to-day challenges of raising children. There was very little professional help available, so she trained as a parenting educator and began leading parenting classes. She now devotes much of her time as a professional speaker for conventions, workshops and seminars for school groups, parents and professionals in BC and across Canada.
Biographical notes
Kathy's career includes stints as a Child Protection Worker and director of a family services agency. She has a diploma in Community Service, a BA in applied social services, and is a Certified Canadian Family Educator (C.C.F.E.). She is the Parenting Education Advisor to the Council of Parent Participation Preschools in BC, and is an active member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.
Kathy serves on the Repeal 43 Committee which is seeking repeal of the Canadian law which permits parents and teachers to strike children. She and her husband have two grown children, and live in Vancouver, BC.
Kathy has produced and hosted a television program and a radio show offering advice to parents. She writes columns for 24 Hours (Vancouver’s leading commuter daily newspaper), the North Shore News and Today’s Parent magazine. She is also the author of two best-selling parenting books, Who’s In Charge Anyway? and But Nobody Told Me I’d Ever Have to Leave Home. She also produces a helpful newsletter for parents and professionals.
In her keynote addresses to parent groups and members of the helping professions, in her work on television and radio, and through her newspaper and magazine columns, Kathy inspires parents to re-dedicate themselves to raising their children.
"All parents want to do a better job of raising their kids," says Kathy. "Grandparents want to help as well. When they come to me for advice or support and it works back home, they're delighted and so am I."
