Book Dr. Laura Markham for Your Event
Make Your Parent Event the One Everyone Talks About with Dr. Laura Markham
Why Event Planners Choose Dr. Laura
Give your parent audience the breakthrough moment they've been waiting for. Dr. Laura Markham combines research-based parenting guidance with warmth, humor, and practical tools parents can use immediately — helping overwhelmed parents become calmer, more confident leaders in their families.
Event planners worldwide choose Dr. Laura because she consistently delivers what every organizer dreams of: standing ovations, glowing feedback, and parents who leave with practical tools they can use immediately.
What Event Organizers Are Saying
Your parents will thank you. Your event will be unforgettable. Dr. Markham will make it happen.
Whether you're hosting 50 parents or 5,000—live or virtual—Dr. Markham's evidence-based approach and highly interactive presentations will make your event the one parents talk about for months. Through real-time coaching and audience Q&A, parents gain practical insights they can apply the very next day with their own children.
Don't just educate your audience—help them transform their families and create the peaceful, connected homes they've always wanted.
Dr. Laura frequently speaks for:
- Schools and school districts
- Conferences and professional trainings
- Workplace parenting programs
- Community organizations
- Parent education programs
What Parents Are Saying
Meet Dr. Laura Markham
Dr. Laura Markham is a clinical psychologist, internationally recognized parenting expert, and bestselling author whose work has helped millions of families create calmer, more connected homes.
Her award-winning book Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids has sold more than 300,000 copies in English and has been translated into 26 languages, with her other bestselling books also reaching families worldwide. Dr. Markham is widely known for translating cutting-edge research on child development and emotional intelligence into practical tools parents can use immediately.
Through her website PeacefulParentHappyKids.com, which has reached more than half a million parents a month, and her weekly parenting newsletter read by over 150,000 subscribers worldwide, Dr. Markham has become one of the most trusted voices in parenting today.
A sought-after keynote speaker for conferences, schools, and organizations around the world, Dr. Markham delivers presentations that combine developmental science, warmth, humor, and immediately usable strategies—leaving audiences inspired, empowered, and eager to bring peaceful parenting into their own families.
When parents need solutions that work, from someone who genuinely understands, they turn to Dr. Laura Markham.
Why Parents and Event Organizers Love Dr. Laura’s Presentations
Dr. Laura Markham’s presentations are highly interactive, warm, and practical. Parents appreciate the opportunity to ask questions about the real challenges they face at home, and Dr. Laura is known for answering those questions with unusual clarity, compassion, and insight. As she responds to audience questions, she often coaches parents in real time—helping them understand their child’s behavior through the lens of child development and emotional intelligence, and offering practical tools they can use immediately.
A clinical psychologist and bestselling author, Dr. Laura combines deep knowledge of the research with the lived experience of raising her own children. Audiences leave feeling understood, hopeful, and equipped with concrete strategies to create calmer, more cooperative families.
Your parent community gets solutions that truly work and a transformative experience they'll never forget—exactly the kind of meaningful event that gives you glowing feedback and grateful families.
Book Dr. Laura for Your EventThree Big Ideas The foundations of peaceful parenting
Calm
Kids learn to manage their emotions when their parents model how it's done. That’s why Dr. Laura’s free coaching emails give you a blueprint for self-regulation, and the self-care that makes it possible.
Connect
From tantrums to texting, the secret of happy parenting is a close relationship with your child. Without that connection, we have little influence (”My kids won’t listen!”) and parenting becomes exhausting.
Coach
Coach, instead of trying to control, so your child wants to cooperate with you. Sure, you need to set limits—but if you set them with empathy and respect, you’ll find your child is much more likely to comply.
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I'm a clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience, but I'm also the mom of two grown kids—so I understand firsthand how challenging parenting can be.
I love connecting with parent audiences and helping them discover that parenting can become calmer, more connected, and more joyful. I would be honored to support the families in your community and help make your event one parents remember long after it ends.
Recent Speaking Engagements
- City of Irvine Child Care Coordination Training, Irvine, CA
- Institute of Child Psychology
- International Gentle Parenting Conference, Cambridge, England
- New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children
- Oregon Psychological Association, Portland, OR (for Clinicians)
- Santa Clara Valley Council Parent Participation Preschools Unplug & Play Conference
- Smith College Center for Early Childhood Education, Northampton, MA
- Brooklyn Early Childhood Directors Association
- University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice
- Norfolk Children’s Hospital, Norfolk, VA
- American Express Parents
- Elevate Parents (USAA)
- Retail Industry Leaders Association Parents
- Text Now
- World Bank Parent Employees
- Abu Dhabi - Parenthood: The Unconference.
- Beijing, China - Parent Talks & Parent Educator Training.
- Bucharest, Romania - Parent Talks & Parent Educator Training.
- Canadian Women in Medicine Conference Keynote.
- Children the Heart of the Matter Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
- International Gentle Parenting Conference.
- London - Westminster School (for Parents Place).
- Mom To Mom Arabia.
- Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, Canada.
- South Africa - Arise for Children & Families
- Ackerman Family Institute, New York, NY
- Adoptive Parents Committee Annual Conference
- Blue School, New York, NY
- Beit Rabban School, New York, NY
- Bluebonnet Montessori School, Austin, TX
- Bowery Babes, New York, NY
- Casa Montessori, Brooklyn, NY
- Charlestown Nursery School, Boston, MA
- Cobble Hill Preschool, Brooklyn, NY
- Columbia Greenhouse Nursery School
- Common Ground Speaker Series
- Congregation Beth Israel & Pachie’s Place, San Diego, CA
- Discovery Charter School, San Jose, CA
- Enfield Family Resource Center
- Golden Gate Mothers Group, San Francisco, CA
- Hawthorne Montessori School, Austin, TX
- Holistic Moms Network National Conference, Montclair, NJ
- Jersey City Moms MeetUp, Jersey City, NJ
- La Leche League of the Sunshine State, Daytona Beach, FL
- La Leche League of Canada National Conference, Ontario, Canada
- Monterey Bay Charter School
- Montessori Day School, Brooklyn, NY
- Mulberry School, San Jose, CA
- Parents Education League, Los Angeles, CA
- Partnership for Awareness, San Marino, CA
- PS 9, PS 154 and PS 321, Brooklyn, NY
- Resurrection Episcopal Day School, NY
- San Francisco Council of Parent Participation Nursery Schools, San Francisco, CA
- Speakers for Parents in Cooperative Education, Redwood City, CA
- Tampa Bay Birth Network, Tampa Bay, FL
- Unitarian Church of Staten Island, NY
- Utah Foster Care Symposium
- Village for Families and Children
- Wellesley Mothers Forum, Wellesley, MA
- West Chester School District, West Chester, PA