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Liz Bayardelle, PhD

Psychology, Parenting,
and Small Business Expert

Research Nerd and Sarcasm Enthusiast

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Who Is Liz?

Author   •   Speaker   •   Consultant

Liz (or Dr. Mommy, as her toddler started calling her after learning what a PhD was) is the happily sleep-deprived mom of a baby boy (and professional raccoon noise impersonator), a sparkle-clad toddlernado, a teenage stepdaughter, the canine embodiments of Pinky and The Brain, and a rabbit of unusual size.

During nights and naptimes, she uses her PhD in business psychology as an author, speaker, and consultant. She also serves as an executive and principal for three companies, two of which she co-founded with her very patient (and equally exhausted) husband.


Want to read more? Liz is a founder (or co-founder) of several websites on parenting, business, or otherwise attempting to do an unsafe number of things at the same time.

How to Parent without Going Crazy

How to Weaponize Yourself as Human Capital

How to be a Mom and Get Things Done
(At the Same Time)

People Are Saying

Liz is an AMAZING Mentor and Speaker! Liz finds creative ways to make her presentations engaging and filled with life changing strategies. She is able to lift your spirits and enrich your life with much needed information and resources.
Leslie Mueller , Mental Health Counselor (Talk Attendee)
I highly recommend Clean Your Plate! to any parent interested in stepping up their game or to anyone interested in understanding the science behind our kids' reasoning-it's a fascinating read, indeed. Peppered with humor any parent will appreciate, Bayardelle's book is a must-have.
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Liz's books apply the reassuring stability of psychological research to the absolute chaos that is parenting and business ownership.

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Clean Your Plate! 13 Things Good Parents Say That Ruin Kids' Lives

This book goes over 13 different statements parents hear (and say) all the time and dissects them from a psychological perspective. For each "parent-ism" it goes over why parents say it, what kids hear (which is usually nothing like what we say), and what parents could say instead.

Everything in the book is based on psychological research, but it wouldn't be amiss in the humor section. This is probably just as well, because most parents would much rather have coffee with a friend and commiserate about their miscreant children than be lectured at by a psychologist anyway.

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Parenting in a Pandemic

Parenting has always been a challenge.

Under normal circumstances, the average parent is over-worked, under-slept, perpetually worried, and stressed to the point of visible aging. This was true long before we ever heard of the coronavirus.

We now refer to that life as “the good old days”.

Courtesy of the pandemic, parents now have to navigate a wide variety of different responsibilities, trading our “parent” hat for ones that say “teacher”, “bouncer”, “triage nurse”, and more. This book helps you prepare to perform each of these roles without having a teacher’s license, years of self-defense training, or a medical degree. For each role, you’ll get the wisdom of experts who are actually in that field, a guide for how to apply this knowledge to parenting, and a quick list of tips and tricks of the trade that will help you and your kids survive the pandemic as smoothly as possible.

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Speaking

Despite her PhD and love for research, Liz speaks fluent SSL (sarcasm as a second language) assuring her audience will not only learn things but also laugh with (and often at) her.

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Parenting (and Working) in a Pandemic
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Parenting (and Working) in a Pandemic
The skills needed to parent in this quarantined, Zoom-dependent, coronavirus-driven "new normal".
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Be Your Own Mother
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Be Your Own Mother
Learning how to parent ourselves is a necessary skill for those of us with tiny humans depending on our stability..
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Chief Parental Officer (CPO)
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Parenting Secrets from the World of Business Psychology: How the strategies used to run the world's most successful companies can make you a better and more sane parent.
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I Used to Be a Real Human
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I Used to Be a Real Human
How to balance being a parent with your work demands, household chaos, and actual adult life.
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Parenting (and Working) in a Pandemic

The skills needed to parent in this quarantined, Zoom-dependent, coronavirus-driven "new normal".

Parenting (and Working) in a Pandemic

Parenting has always been a challenge.

Under normal circumstances, the average parent is over-worked, under-slept, perpetually worried, and stressed to the point of visible aging. This was true long before we ever heard of the coronavirus.

We now refer to that life as “the good old days”.

Courtesy of the pandemic, parents now have to navigate a wide variety of different responsibilities, trading our “parent” hat for ones that say “teacher”, “bouncer”, “triage nurse”, and more. This talk helps you prepare to perform each of these roles without having a teacher’s license, years of self-defense training, or a medical degree. For each role, you’ll get the wisdom of experts who are actually in that field, a guide for how to apply this knowledge to parenting, and a quick list of tips and tricks of the trade that will help you and your kids survive the pandemic as smoothly as possible.

Take-Home Points

You are still a parent more than anything else.

Give your kid(s) a long leash.

Give yourself a long leash.

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Be Your Own Mother

Learning how to parent ourselves is a necessary skill for those of us with tiny humans depending on our stability..

Be Your Own Mother

Whether you had the best mom in the world, you came from a dysfunctional parent-child relationship, or you practically raised yourself, you are now a parent.  You've seen first-hand the importance of mothering.

Even though we're focused on mothering our own children, the need to be "parented" never actually goes away.  Just like tying your shoes, remembering a jacket, and driving places, mothering becomes one of those skills that healthy, functional adults do for themselves, regardless of your relationship with your actual mother.

Learning how to mother yourself will give you a better understanding of what it means to be a mother, a happier and more stable outlook on your own life, and an increased ability to be the parent your own kids need.

Take-Home Points

Sometimes you need to give yourself discipline

Sometimes you need to take care of yourself

You need to know when to do which one

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Chief Parental Officer (CPO)

Parenting Secrets from the World of Business Psychology: How the strategies used to run the world's most successful companies can make you a better and more sane parent.

Chief Parental Officer (CPO)

A common inside joke in the field of psychology is that childhood or educational psychologists often have the most messed up kids.  Similarly, many parenting books may tell you what meconium is or the specific hormones that get released in puberty, yet leave you utterly unprepared to actually raise a child.

This talk introduces the concept of framework-based parenting, leveraging the strategies that top executives and business psychologists use to run Fortune 500 companies to help you raise your mischievous progeny. 

You will leave with a set of overarching principles that can be applied to almost any parenting situation, a few specific examples (that almost every parent has faced), and a renewed hope that you might survive until bedtime without shame-eating Oreos in the back of your closet.

Take-Home Points

Parent for the long-term, not the short-term

Parent for skills, not outcomes

Parent as if you and your kid are on the same team

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I Used to Be a Real Human

How to balance being a parent with your work demands, household chaos, and actual adult life.

I Used to Be a Real Human

The hardest part about being a parent isn't the midnight feedings, the potty training accidents, or the teenage hormones.  It's the instantaneous transformation from being your own person to being "so-and-so's mom".

Even though parenting is the most important job we do, it's rarely the only thing on our plates.  We have jobs, marriages, houses to manage, finances to maintain, careers, and ambitions that don't involve finding your kid's shoes before the schoolbus gets there.

This talk helps parents find that balance where they know they're showing up 100% for their children, but they don't have to sacrifice everything that made them an individual before their name was "mom".

Take-Home Points

Find a conceptual balance that makes you proud and happy (at the same time).

Develop realistic short-term and long-term plans.

Create a daily routine that isn't impossible.

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Consulting and Coaching

Sometimes you need some one-on-one troubleshooting to get your career, business, or life off the ground.

If you or your business is having an issue that requires focused individual attention, in-depth research, or customized strategic interventions, start a conversation to see if you could be a fit for one-on-one consulting or coaching.

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