Instructor Profile

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's highest profile psychologists, author, broadcaster and a specialist in parenting, children, adolescents and the use of technology for mental health. Michael is the author of 14 best-selling books on parenting including Surviving Adolescents, The Princess Bitchface Syndrome 2.0, Beyond Cyberbullying and When to Really Worry. Michael has been the resident parenting expert on Channel 7's Sunrise for over a decade, as well as a social commentator on the Morning Show with Neil Mitchell on Radio 3AW and Sky News. Michael sits on the Board of The Australian Children's Television Foundation andis an Ambassador for Smiling Mind, Big Brothers Big Sister, Read the Play and Road Trauma Families Victoria and sits on the National Centre Against Bullying and the Federal Government’s Online Safety Working Group. Michael works in private practice at Corporate and Personal Consulting in Melbourne and has consulted to PWC.

Dr Carr-Gregg wrote his PhD at the University of NSW on Adolescents with Cancer and named and founded CanTeen more than 30 years ago with a group of young cancer patients. He has also worked as an academic, researcher, and political lobbyist.