Anita Cleare

Anita Cleare is a renowned parenting expert, speaker, and coach specialising in helping working parents navigate the challenges of balancing a thriving career with raising children.

With a strong academic foundation in developmental psychology, Anita has a unique ability to guide parents in reflecting on parent-child relationships and making small, actionable adjustments that lead to significant improvements.

In 2012, Anita founded The Positive Parenting Project, a social enterprise dedicated to making evidence-based parenting strategies accessible to as many parents and children as possible.

As a leading UK parenting expert, Anita speaks at events nationwide, offers parenting seminars, webinars, and one-to-one support, and is frequently featured on TV and radio programs.

She has shared her expertise with Google, Microsoft, AXA, Allianz, Flightcenter, KPMG, Pepsico, and Noble Foods.

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Anita Cleare began her career in international development, spending four and a half years in Mongolia, where she had both of her children. She also lived and worked in Hungary and Kazakhstan during this time.

After becoming a single parent, Anita shifted her career focus. For nine years, she served as a strategic manager in local authority children’s services, where she developed and led early intervention and family support programs. These included Sure Start Children’s Centres, parent support helplines, teenage pregnancy prevention initiatives, and intensive family support services.

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Anita Cleare | Books

Her award-nominated blog, Thinking Parenting, has been recognised by The Sunday Times Magazine as an essential resource for parents. Anita’s first book, The Work/Parent Switch (UK), The Working Parent’s Survival Guide (USA), offers practical strategies for making the most of the limited time working parents have to engage meaningfully with their children.

Her second book, How To Get Your Teenager Out Of Their Bedroom, was released in the UK and USA in 2024, providing insights for parents navigating the teenage years. Anita is a sought-after speaker at working parent events worldwide and frequently delivers webinars for leading global companies. Her expert advice is regularly featured in major media outlets, including the BBC, CNBC, The Telegraph, and The Times.

Anita’s books have been translated into no less than seven languages!

Anita Cleare | Speaker

Anita is an expert on parenting and her talks and webinars are adapted to meet the needs of the organisation and audience.

Popular talk and webinar topics include:

– Raising resilient children
– How to be a calm parent
– Ensuring a balanced childhood in a digital age
– Teens and screens
– The power of positive parenting
– How to listen so children will talk
– Building confidence and self-esteem
– Being a resilient family during tough times
– Supporting children’s mental health
– Are you doing too much for your kids
– How to parent smarter, not harder
– Family team building with tweens and teens
– Children and bullying
– Encouraging co-operation

Anita recently appeared as a speaker at high-profile event SXSW London.

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Testimonials

Anita Cleare joined us for one of our Comeback Community employee experience live Q&As and she was terrific. Our topic was “How to feel like you’re getting the parenting bit ‘right'” and every question was met with a warm, evidence-based, practical response. She really takes the pressure off parents by showing us that we need to do less ‘work’ rather than more. I wish I could have had Anita in an earpiece when my children were younger.
Jessica Chivers, CEO, The Talent Keeper Specialists

We invited Anita Cleare to be our host during a global internal webinar about children’s mental health. During the prep sessions, she was actively involved and came with great suggestions on how to deal with sensitive topics while respecting our culture and objectives. The event itself was a big success thanks to her very professional, personable, confident and calm way of presenting and moderating the Q&A. She is very knowledgeable on the topic and a pleasure to work with. I would definitely recommend Anita as a speaker.
Simone Vroegop, BNY Mellon

Anita Cleare ran 2 fantastic events for us for Dive In 2016 on positive parenting. The sessions were lively, fun and interactive as well as offering lots of practical advice and takeaways. I cannot recommend Anita enough and hope we will be able to use her again next year!
Michaela Gibson, AXA