Speaking Engagements
Engage and Inspire Your Audience with Ellyn Satter Institute Speakers
Are you planning a workshop, program or conference and looking for engaging, impactful speakers on the topic of feeding children or adult eating? The Ellyn Satter Institute offers expert speakers who can captivate your audience with insights on child feeding based on the Satter Division of Responsibility, including preventing and solving common child feeding concerns. Our speakers also offer practical strategies to guide adults to becoming Eating Competent using the Satter Eating Competence Model, including solving entrenched and debilitating eating issues.
We believe that adults and children can thrive at any size. Our paradigm-shifting, whole-person approach will inspire your audience to think differently about the interconnectedness of feeding, eating and well-being.
ESI Speakers represent the work of Ellyn Satter – the original child feeding expert and pioneer of Eating Competence – a food and weight neutral approach to eating, with proven wellness benefits. Our presentations help inspire and equip professionals and organizations in their conversations and interventions with adults and children around food and eating.
What if an ESI Speaker could help your audience implement the following changes right away?
- Cultivate positive eating attitudes
and behaviors - Gain eating and feeding confidence
- Understand how to solve common
feeding and eating problems - Experience joy and relaxed meals
Popular Topics
We offer a diverse range of presentations, from preventing and solving feeding issues in children, to supporting a positive relationship with food in adults. Whether you’re interested in understanding how to raise adventurous eaters, or how to combat diet culture with Eating Competence in adults, our presentations are expertly crafted to engage and inform audiences. See below for some of our popular presentation options.
Eating Competence: A Recipe for Success
Adults today frequently feel anxious and ambivalent about eating, and the more concerned they are about health, the more anxious they feel. “Eating well doesn’t have to be a chore,” says Satter in Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family. “In fact, if the joy goes out of eating, nutrition suffers.” Being Eating Competent means you take pleasure in eating, you enjoy a variety of food, and you trust your body.
Type: Keynote or expanded breakout session
Please Pass the Peas … and Cookies
Nutrition and child feeding professionals are uniquely positioned to help parents and caregivers navigate a joyful and pleasant feeding relationship. Studies show that the majority of parents and caregivers worry about their child’s eating. This worry can lead to struggles at mealtimes. Children don’t come with a feeding manual. Following Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility with Feeding can reduce struggles and restore harmony.
Help the parents and caregivers you work with learn how to take leadership with feeding and develop confidence with their feeding skills while supporting their child’s individual eating and growth.
Type: Keynote or expanded Breakout Session
Joyful Eating: A Key Ingredient for Providing Nourishing School Meals
Schools provide more than nutritious meals to students, they provide an opportunity for kids of all ages to explore new foods, learn social skills at the table and discover the joy of eating together. School personnel, today more than ever, play a key role in the wellbeing of children. This presentation encourages food service personnel to explore the essential contribution they make to kids’ wellbeing when they create an enjoyable mealtime atmosphere. The session is designed to incorporate the principals of the well-known Division of Responsibility in Feeding.
Type: Keynote or expanded breakout session
The Feeding Relationship: An Introduction to the Possibilities
An appropriate feeding relationship supports children’s developmental tasks at every age and stage of development allowing children to eat the right amount of the proper food to be healthy and grow well. This training teaches the application of the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding and problem-solving for infants through adolescence.
Type: Full-day training
Speaking With One Voice
Parents and caregivers do best with feeding their children when they hear consistent, research-based, realistic feeding messages from healthcare professionals, public health program providers, community-based health educators, child care providers, and others.The Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding represents best practices. Discover how to create a partnerships that allow for coordinated messaging.
Type: Keynote or expanded breakout session
Child and Adolescent Weight: Helping without Harming
Child growth divergence and feeding problems are closely intertwined pediatric care issues. This dynamic session is designed to introduce nutrition and health professionals to a paradigm shift for assessing child growth through the Satter Feeding Dynamics lens. This models provides both the framework for assessment and treatment with the key objective of doing no harm.
Type: Breakout session
Tailored to Your Audience
At ESI, we tailor our presentations to your audience’s unique needs and interests, delivering actionable insights and practical advice that attendees can implement immediately.
Whether your audience consists of health professionals, educators, community groups, or parents/caregivers, we handpick speakers with experience relevant to your setting. For example, if you’re organizing a session for WIC or CACFP professionals, we’ll provide a speaker with hands-on expertise in that area. If your audience are from residential eating disorder facilities, we’ll ensure the speaker has direct experience working in those settings.
We also offer flexible options, from one-hour talks to three-day workshops. Whether you’re seeking a quick burst of inspiration or a comprehensive deep dive, we’ll work with you to develop a custom experience that fits your time and budget. Designed for maximum value, our speaking engagements ensure you get the most out of every session, regardless of its length.
Presentation Options
ESI’s Learning Modules Options
We believe in delivering presentations that captivate and engage audiences in meaningful ways by finding new and interesting ways to enhance the presentation experience.
By integrating interactive elements, we ensure that every presentation not only delivers valuable information, but also leaves a lasting impact, making the learning experience more memorable and enjoyable for all participants.
For example, polls and group discussions can boost audience attention by 60% and increase satisfaction by up to 85%1.
Increase satisfaction
by incorporating
engagement pieces.
Ways We Can Engage Your Audience
Pre and post quizzes to check knowledge
Interactive polling and short answer feedback options
Feeding videos
Short articles to read
Small group case studies or mini case examples
Post workshop activities and/or assignments
Question and answer time
Proven Success
Our speakers have a proven track record of success at workshops and conferences. Here’s what past attendees have said:
JULIE E.
HEALTH PROFESSIONAL
“I feel refreshed by this presentation. You really can’t ask for more than that.”
EMILY M.
DIETITIAN
“This conference exceeded my expectations in terms of information, interesting case studies, and learning new things. Emily”
MORGAN M.
DIETITIAN
“As we come to learn the benefits of Eating Competence and the harm of weight bias I think the information in this presentation is so important, validating, and empowering. It
allows us to help kids have a healthy relationship with food from the start”
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Book Us for Your Next Event
Ready to make your next event unforgettable? Contact us to book a speaker from the Ellyn Satter Institute. We’ll work with you to ensure our presentation aligns with your event’s goals and objectives.