Karlene Rickard is a childcare expert who has overcome paralysis in order to write an acclaimed parent’s guide to raising happy, well-adjusted children.
Karlene began her career as a science teacher and later got involved in community work and counselling. She has worked extensively as a parent facilitator, trainer and counsellor in the UK, USA, Jamaica, Grenada and Trinidad for over 15 years. Her powerful ‘Empowerment for Parents’ parenting programme is credited with changing lives and creating happier families.
She co-founded KJ Academy, a supplementary school in Leyton, East London, and a nursery/infant school in Jamaica where she worked holistically with families to develop their confidence and self-worth.

Karlene the Educator

Karlene is a qualified adult literacy and science teacher who has taught in secondary schools in Wolverhampton and London. Whilst teaching in London, she also managed a team of Secondary support teacher’s for children with English as a second language.

She has supported and guided children through their science course at exam level, as well as taught adult literacy and horticulture at Hackney Community College.

Karlene spent a year in Jamaica as part of an exchanged teaching programme that involved teaching children of all ages in Jamaica. She is the co-founder of a supplementary school in Leyton and an Infant nursery in Jamaica.