Lisa L. Lewis regularly speaks to parents, students, school staff and the larger community, tailoring presentations based on audience needs and interests.

Key themes include:

  • Restored and resilient teens: helping find balance

  • The sleep/mental health connection

  • Sleep and wellness for teens and their parents

  • Why teen sleep matters, and what parents and schools can do to help

  • Teens, tech and sleep

  • Sleep for resiliency: how sleep loss affects impulsivity and risky behaviors

  • Parenting for change: getting started, success strategies and lessons learned

  • An inside perspective on advocating for later start times

Selected upcoming and recent events

2023/2024 school year

  • Idaho Office of Drug Policy: The Power of Sleep for Teen Resilience, Health and Well-Being

  • Lake Tahoe School, Incline Village, NV

  • Learning & The Brain Conference, Boston

  • Marin Country Day School, Corte Madera, CA

  • Mulgrave School, Vancouver

  • ParentWiser speaker series, Issaquah, WA

  • The Parent Venture speaker series (repeat visit, sponsored by the Fremont Union High Schools Foundation)

    2022/2023 school year

  • Lancaster Country Day School, Lancaster, PA

  • The Parent Venture speaker series

  • Challenge Success Fall Conference, Stanford University

  • Family Action Network speaker series

  • Pediatric Sleep Medicine Conference plenary presentation

  • California State PTA Annual Convention, Ontario, CA

  • Teen sleep webinar, California State PTA

  • Teen sleep webinar, Start School Later New York

  • Northwestern University wellness webinar

  • Three-session book study webinar for “What School Could Be”

  • Persist: UC Riverside Women’s Political Engagement Conference, Riverside, CA

  • WORD Bookstore, Jersey City, NJ

  • The Avid Reader, Sacramento, CA

  • Flintridge Bookstore, La Cañada/Flintridge, CA