Speaking and Workshops
One Caregiving Expert. The Entire Family Lifespan.
Most programs book one speaker for working parents and another for eldercare. Care Map Expert covers the whole lifespan with a single framework, and every talk includes a visual framework, not just storytelling.
Written for HR and employee wellness teams, conference programmers, associations and healthcare organizations.
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What this looks like
The gap on your agenda.
An audience split between employees raising children and employees supporting aging parents.
A wellness calendar full of talks that inspire and leave nobody with a next step.
Caregiving sessions that turn into personal disclosure without a structure to hold it.
Two or three separate speakers needed to cover one family lifespan.
Managers in the room who need language, not sympathy.
A session that has to work as a keynote, a webinar and a workshop.
Why information is not enough
Stories move a room. Frameworks move a decision.
A caregiving session has to leave the audience with something they can use on Monday, with the load they already have.
- One framework, every stage
- Map, match, merge, manage applies to a nanny arrangement and to a parent moving into assisted living. One session can serve both halves of a room.
- A visual, not just a narrative
- Every talk includes a visual framework the audience can redraw for their own situation afterward.
- Boundaries inside the room
- Caregiving topics open personal material. A clinically trained speaker keeps the session useful and safe without shutting people down.
- Format discipline
- A keynote, a workshop and a webinar need different structures. The content is adapted to the format, not compressed into it.
Subject areas
Eight subject areas, one speaker.
The subject areas the talks are drawn from. Select an area to read what it covers.
ParentingDevelopment, behavior, school fit and sibling dynamics.
- ParentingDevelopment, behavior, school fit and sibling dynamics.
- Working ParentsCoverage, the school calendar and the second shift after work.
- CaregivingWho carries what, and how a family divides the load on purpose.
- EldercareLevels of care, in-home support against a move, and family roles.
- BurnoutWhen caring becomes too much, and what has to change first.
- Sandwich GenerationChildren and aging parents needing you in the same week.
- Family Mental HealthStress, grief and regulation across a whole household.
- Care EconomyWhat family care costs, who pays, and who does the work.
The process
How a booking comes together.
One framework, mapped across the family lifespan.
- BriefAudience, program goal, date, format and the caregiving load already present in the room.
- MapMap the audience's caregiving stages and choose the topic and framework that fit.
- BuildBuild the session and its visual framework for the chosen format and length.
- DeliverDeliver the keynote, workshop, webinar or panel.
- ExtendExtend with follow-up sessions, manager education or a resource library where useful.
View the full diagramHer original sheet, as supplied.
What Care Map Expert does
Speaking topics.
Each topic adapts to keynote, workshop or webinar length. Open a topic to see who it is written for and what the audience leaves with.
The Caregiving Crisis Is a Workplace Crisis
Why caregiving load shows up first as an attendance, attention and retention problem.
- Written for
- Executive teams, HR leadership and benefits committees deciding where to invest.
- The audience leaves with
- The business case in plain language, and where caregiving load is already showing up in their own data.
The Sandwich Generation Survival Map
Sequencing decisions when children and aging parents need you in the same week.
- Written for
- Employees carrying care in two directions, and the managers supporting them.
- The audience leaves with
- A drawn sequence for their own household: what to decide now, what can wait, and who owns each piece.
When Your Parents Start Needing You
Recognizing the shift, opening the conversation, and mapping before acting.
- Written for
- Adult children at the beginning of an eldercare transition.
- The audience leaves with
- Language for the first conversation, and the questions to answer before any arrangement changes.
The Invisible Job After Work
Naming the second shift of family care, and building a system instead of absorbing it.
- Written for
- Working parents and caregiver employee resource groups.
- The audience leaves with
- The load written down and divided, rather than carried by whoever noticed it first.
Beyond Work-Life Balance: Family Care Systems
Replacing balance language with a care system the household can actually run.
- Written for
- Wellness programs and association audiences tired of balance talks.
- The audience leaves with
- A working household system, with owners, a review rhythm and named trade-offs.
How to Build Your Family Care Team
Who belongs on a care team, what each role owns, and how to keep it working.
- Written for
- Families coordinating siblings, caregivers, clinicians and paid help.
- The audience leaves with
- A named care team with roles, escalation and a rhythm for reviewing it.
From Childcare to Eldercare
One framework across the family lifespan, and what transfers between the two ends of it.
- Written for
- Mixed audiences split between employees raising children and employees supporting parents.
- The audience leaves with
- One framework both halves of the room can use, and the skills that carry from one end to the other.
AI and the Future of Family Care
What technology can carry in caregiving, and where human judgment has to stay.
- Written for
- Health tech teams, care platforms and forward-looking benefits leaders.
- The audience leaves with
- A clear line between the work software can hold and the decisions that need a person.
The Care Map Method: Mapping Needs Before Acting
The full framework: map the need, match the fit, merge into real life, manage over time.
- Written for
- Any audience that has to make a caregiving decision rather than read about one.
- The audience leaves with
- The four stages, and their own situation drawn against them before they leave the room.
Workshops
Corporate Caregiving Workshops.
Separate from a keynote. A workshop is a repeatable program your teams can run again, on a single caregiving decision at a time.
A keynote changes the room for an hour. A workshop gives your people a working method they can use the same week: how to find and manage childcare, how to hold children and aging parents in one calendar, how to tell when a parent needs help, how to interview and select care, and how to use AI to organize family care without handing over the judgment.
Each workshop runs on the Care Map Method, so a company that books more than one is building one system rather than collecting separate sessions. Formats run from a single working session to a repeating series for an employee resource group.
Speaker sheet
The speaker one-sheet.
The sheet event organizers ask for: formats, lifespan coverage and topic callouts on one page. View it here or take the file.
Download the speaker sheetPNG, landscape, as supplied.
What you receive
Formats available.
- Keynotes
- Corporate workshops
- Webinars
- Panels
- Association events
- Custom training
- A visual framework included with every talk
- Follow-up sessions and manager education, where scoped
Proof
Credentials and press.
Tammy Gold, MSW, LCSW, CEC. Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California (#295160), New Jersey (#44SC05528100) and Oregon (#L16530). Twenty years of experience across parenting and child development, childcare and nannies, senior and eldercare transitions, and family life transitions. Author and creator of the Care Map Method.
Consulting, advisory and training work does not create a therapist–client relationship with your organization or its employees, and is not psychotherapy.
Questions buyers ask
Before you inquire.
Yes. That is the reason the framework spans the lifespan. A single session can hold both halves of a mixed audience.
Keynotes, corporate workshops, webinars, panels, association events and custom training.
Every talk includes a visual framework. Workbooks and a resource library can be added to the engagement.
No. Speaking and workshops are education. They are not psychotherapy and do not create a therapist–client relationship.
Send your date, audience and format through the contact form and you will receive a reply on availability and fit.
Speaking and Workshops
Book one expert for the whole family lifespan, not one for each end of it.
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Related
- Corporate Caregiving
Turn one session into a standing employee program.
- Expert Content Creator and Spokesperson
On-camera, campaign and hosted media work.
- Press and Media
Where her expertise has appeared.
- About Tammy Gold
Credentials and the background behind the talks.