Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE, CTSS is a second-generation parent educator and award-winning author of several research-based parenting programs and resources. In the past 30 years, she has trained over 50,000 parents and professionals, and served as an expert to the media. She founded a non-profit parent networking group still going strong 25 years later. From 1992 to 2002, she coordinated a nonprofit parent education program and did an outcome evaluation study of her curriculum with outstanding results. Since 1995, she has certified over 100 Parent’s Toolshop® trainers and coaches worldwide. (www.ParentsToolshop.com) Since 1998, she has received comprehensive, advanced marketing training, served on the training teams of top marketing experts, and presented marketing workshops, articles and even textbook chapters on marketing to family life education professionals.