Gloria DeGaetano, PCI Founder and CEO

Gloria DeGaetano is the founder and CEO of The Parent Coaching Institute (PCI). The PCI is the originator of parent coaching as a profession and maintains the highest standards for parent coaching professionals, offering a comprehensive, year-long, graduate-level parent coach training program for Parent Coach Certification®. A nationally acclaimed educator, author, and speaker, Ms. DeGaetano has over 30 years experience working with children, teachers, and parents as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, district administrator, university instructor, and national consultant.

Ms. DeGaetano is a sought after favorite for keynotes at major national and regional conferences.

Ms. DeGaetano has written Screen Smarts: A Family Guide to Media Literacy (Houghton Mifflin, 1996); Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie, and Video Game Violence (with Lt. Col. Dave Grossman) (Crown Books, 1999), and manuals for educators and child advocates, including Television and the Lives of Our Children and the Media Smarts Series for Students K-5 (Jalmar Press). Her latest book, Parenting Well in a Media Age, received the 2007 i-Parenting Media Award.

A respected voice for children and parents, Gloria's ideas and articles have appeared in numerous publications including Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, McCall's Magazine, Parenting Insights, Seattle's Child, Portland Parent, Bay Area Parent, American Baby Magazine, The Boston Globe, Committee for Children Book and Newsletter, the American Academy of Pediatrics Newsletter, and Catholic Faith and Family Magazine.

An innovative leader in family support, Gloria has appeared on The Today Show and has been interviewed on many national radio shows, including NPR's Marketplace, Fresh Air, and The Tavis Smiley Show and featured in television documentaries produced by ABC and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. The Parent Coaching Institute has been featured on news programs by NBC affiliates throughout the country and in newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, La Tribune, The London Times, The Observer, Better Homes and Gardens, American Way of American Airlines, Christian Parenting Today, The Chicago Daily Herald, and Spirit Magazine of Southwest Airlines.

Vita for Gloria DeGaetano (PDF)

Contact Information

Gloria DeGaetano, Founder and CEO
The Parent Coaching Institute
1400-112th Ave. SE, Suite 100
Phone: (425) 401-1519
gloria@thepci.org