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Anita Cleare

Anita Cleare (MA AdvDip) is an award-winning parenting speaker, writer and coach who supports working parents to balance successful careers with being a parent. She speaks at events for parents across the UK and internationally and delivers support for working parents in top global companies. Her books have been translated into twelve languages.

Her latest book How to Get Your Teenager Out of Their Bedroom provides practical tips for parents on maintaining a good relationship with teens and supporting them through the challenges of modern teenage life.

Anita’s first book, The Work/Parent Switch (known as The Working Parent’s Survival Guide in USA) is a positive parenting guide for working parents of children aged 1-10yrs.

Anita is currently featuring as an on-screen parenting expert in At Home With Katherine Ryan Series 2.

In 2012 Anita founded The Positive Parenting Project, a social enterprise which aims to bring the benefits of proven evidence-based parenting strategies to as many parents (and children) as possible.

Anita started her career in international development, spending four and a half years in Mongolia where she went through both of her pregnancies. (Her eldest son learnt to say ‘mummy’ in Mongolian before he said it in English!).

After becoming a single parent, Anita changed careers. She worked as a strategic manager in a local authority children’s services for nine years, setting up and managing early intervention, targeted and specialist family support services including Sure Start Children’s Centres, parent support lines, teenage pregnancy prevention projects and intensive family support.

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Anita has studied developmental psychology (child development) to postgraduate level and is an accredited Triple P® parenting coach.

She is highly valued as a source of support across all levels within top international firms, delivering high calibre support to help working parents balance careers and family.

Fascinated by children and how they develop, Anita has a talent for helping parents view their children and their own parenting strategies from different angles.

Anita has two children (now young adults) and two grown up step-children.

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Work With Me

I am available to speak at events and conferences (previous clients have included Google, Microsoft, EY, KPMG, PWC, Linklaters, Macfarlanes, Novartis, Ogilvy and The Big Retreat Festival).

I am an engaging public speaker on big stages and small, blending neuroscience, psychology, a sprinkling of humour and lots of empathy to help parents understand their children better. I aim to equip every attendee with concrete ideas they can apply in their family life straight away.

My specialist topics are how to be a great parent with only limited time, supporting children’s mental health, and parenting teenagers.

I have had broadcast media training and am interviewed regularly on radio/TV (including Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, LBC Radio and BBC Radio 5Live).

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Anita Cleare parenting expert

I provide expert consultancy services to production companies developing TV programmes on parenting themes (eg C4 It Pays To Behave). I also contribute to product development, ideation and consumer research processes to ensure that new products and services meet the needs of children and families.

I provide specialist advice and act as an expert spokesperson for brand campaigns (previous brand co-operations have included Fisher-Price, Petits Filous, Lego, Disney Party, SMARTY Mobile, Welcome Break, PGL and Nivea). I am skilled at tailoring evidence-based parenting messages to different niches and audiences.

I have been featured in many online and print publications including Mother&Baby CNBC, BBC News, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Telegraph, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Mail, Marie Claire, Good To Know, The i Newspaper, The Independent, The Financial Times, Huff Post, and Cafe Mom.

You’ll also find me on a variety of podcasts, like Mums the Word!, Made by Mammas (paid collaboration with Nivea), Mind Health Matters (paid collaboration with AXA), Power Your Parenting and Badass Women’s Hour.

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Parenting Expert Anita Cleare: Advice for Working Parents

 

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seamless from start to finish

It has been a pleasure working with you and the whole process has been seamless from start to finish. As you know, we were working to quite a tight timeline and this required last minute changes to the media materials, it was therefore great to work with someone who understood these pressures and was happy to turn things around quickly.

Threepipe PR/Marketing Agency

You were fantastic

Just wanted to drop you a line to say thank you so much for a your hard work on this project. You were fantastic, a very wise and reassuring presence.

Executive Producer, Primal Media

inspirational and truly reflective

Many thanks for your excellent presentation last week. It provided an inspirational and truly reflective start to the day. It set the right tone and the feedback has been excellent; many staff saying it was one of the best inset presentations they have had.

Mental Health in Schools Conference

expert speaker

Anita is a very engaging and experienced speaker, blending parenting theory with practical advice and responding thoughtfully to the many questions raised by the participants. I highly recommend her as an expert speaker on parenting topics.

Helen Beedham, Cityparents

really impressed

Thanks so much for all your work on this campaign, we’ve universally been really impressed by your professionalism and how great the interviews sounded.

Wonderland PR Agency

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