Shaping Technology and Digital Wellness for Children and Families
I help tech companies design digital tools that parents trust and kids actually benefit from.
As a clinical psychologist with 20+ years in practice, I bring real-world insights from families—and direct software consulting experience, including apps like Carrots & Cake—into product design, policy, and corporate wellness.
Whether you’re building the next family-facing platform or supporting employees at home, I bridge the gap between child development and technology.
Speaking Topics
Digital Wellness & Healthy Childhoods
How technology shapes children’s attention, relationships, and overall growth.
Bridging Families and Tech
Translating insights from clinical practice into practical guidance for families and software teams.
Corporate Wellness & Policy
Supporting employees’ families with intentional digital design and effective workplace policies.
Product Development & Beta Testing
Hands-on consultation to integrate child development insights into apps, platforms, and features.
Engagement Formats
Tailored sessions to meet the needs of your team, school, or community.
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Keynotes: Engaging talks for corporate, school, or professional audiences. Highlight actionable insights from digital parenting and child development.
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Workshops: Interactive sessions for product teams, HR, educators, or parent groups. Customizable to your organization’s goals.
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Webinars: Remote sessions for distributed teams or communities. Perfect for scalable training and discussion.
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Small-Group Consultations: Short, targeted sessions with leadership, product teams, or educators to integrate child development insights into design, policy, or programming. Includes software consultation, beta testing feedback, and applied product development insights from real-world experience.
Strategic Guidance for the Digital Age
If your organization wants to design technology that parents trust and kids benefit from, let’s explore how my insights can help your team. I welcome inquiries for corporate workshops, leadership sessions, or product consultation.
I am grateful to have Dr. Pletter within our local community. As a principle-centered restaurant company, we recognize the importance of prioritizing the health and well-being of our diners and our employees. A healthy work environment is crucial for achieving success. During his initial speaking engagement with us, Dr. Pletter emphasized the critical significance of mental health, equating it to physical health, and presented practical solutions to enable our community to access a range of mental health services. Healthy employees create healthy businesses, and Dr. Pletter’s message is both foundational and paramount. He has my full endorsement as a speaker and leader, and he’s great at talking with employees and leaders alike.
During the development of our parental control learning app, we sought guidance from Dr. Adam Pletter to better understand child psychology and the motivations around behavior. Our goal was to create an app that made screen time more enriching for kids while still ensuring they had fun. Dr. Pletter’s contributions went beyond the academic. He lent both his expertise and his passion for elevating the screen time experience. He helped us form a value proposition that resonates with parents and educators while empowering kids to have agency over their digital interactions.
Dr. Pletter and his iparent101.com team serve as tremendous resources for us. Dr. Pletter works closely with kids and parents every day and his “on the ground” perspective is always insightful.
Trusted Voice & Expertise
Recent & Upcoming
May 8, 2025 Parenting Through the Noise – SGA Wealth Strategies/Divorce Solutions, Rockland County, NY (webinar)
October 8, 2024, Screen Smart Parenting– K.N.O.W. 2 Prevent, Westchester County, NY (webinar)
May 22, 2024, Screen Smart Parenting – Operation Parent, Louisville, KY (webinar)
Notable Past Speaking Events
Continuing Education Seminars for Mental Health Providers
•October 21, 2023 Keynote Speaker The Promise and Perils of Technology for Our Students WEG Conference (Webinar)
• January 5, 2022 Screen Time and Mental Health in Youth The Ross Center Washington DC (Webinar)
• February 21, 2020 iPractice 101™ Working with Families in the Digital World Alvord, Baker & Associates Rockville, Md
• November 19, 2017 iPractice 101™ Working with Families in the Digital World Association of Practicing Psychologists Silver Spring, MD
• September 23, 2016 iPractice 101™ Working with Families in the Digital Age NVCP Tysons Corner, VA
• January 27, 2020 Field of Memes: A Guide to Problematic Screen Use Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Society of Greater Washington Washington, DC
• March 20, 2018 iPractice 101™ Consultation & Treatment in the Digital World JSSA Rockville, MD
Corporate Speaking Engagements
•August 2, 2023 Farmers Restaurant Group Washington, DC
•September 3, 2020 Association Management Strategies Washington, DC (Webinar)
•September 7, 2020 Guest Speaker; CORE 105 and 106 iGen Reboot American University Washington, DC (Webinar)
•July 18, 2018 Farmers Restaurant Group Washington, DC
•October 4, 2016 The Advisory Board Company Washington, DC
Contact
Phone
info@iparent101.com
Address
Democracy Medical Center
6312 Democracy Blvd
Bethesda, MD 20817