I’ve spent 25 years studying the subjects I now write and talk about. I know the science, have analysed the evidence and can make highly perceptive connections between neuroscience, psychology, observation and lived experience. When I write or talk, I use an engaging, warm voice that works for all ages. You’ll never find me patronising or confusing.

I might be talking to teenagers or to parents, teaching professionals or pastoral staff, education or literacy experts, fostering or adoptive parents, humans who find life a challenge and those who sail through but want to understand more. Whoever I’m writing or talking for, I do it because I care, because I understand and because I want things to be better.