Stacey Kannenberg

Stacey Kannenberg is an author, publisher, speaker, motivator, consultant, blogger, spokesperson, and MOM. As the "Get Ready to Learn Mom", Stacey is a nationally renowned education expert and award winning author with an expertise in children’s education, and “Mom-entrepreneurship”. She is the co-author of the award winning and state approved, Let's Get Ready series with Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! and Let’s Get Ready For First Grade! Additionally, she is the Founder/CEO of two publishing companies: Cedar Valley Publishing and Stacey Kannenberg Unlimited, an imprint of Cedar Valley Publishing.

She has numerous television appearances and hundreds of radio, magazine, and newspaper stories to her credit. She is also a frequent presenter at Early Learning and Head Start Conferences, a presenter at schools where she helps parents, kids, and teachers get ready for Kindergarten, a presenter at Book Publishing Conferences with her sessions on Book Publishing 101 & Book Marketing 101, and she presents Empowering Mom 101 and Mom-entrepreneurship to mom groups, playgroups, MOPS, and book clubs. She completed a national satellite television and radio tour on spring cleaning the most dreaded area of the house: the bathroom!

Many of her blog posts have lead to television segments and her blog success was highlighted in a Milwaukee Journal story in January. An October post entitled: Tips on Getting Kids Ready for Kindergarten lead to a national segment on Better TV/Parents TV. Another October post: Let’s Get Ready For Parent Teacher Conferences lead to a Milwaukee’s Morning Blend and Fox 6 News television segments. A November post: Let’s Get Ready For Cold and Flu Season: Tips to Motivate Your Kids to Wash Those Hands, was quoted in an AP story and lead to a television segment on Milwaukee’s Morning Blend that was later syndicated and picked up by the Meredith’s National Television show, Better TV/Parents TV.

Stacey is a Principal in Mom Central Consulting where she helps brands reach moms through viral grassroots marketing and word of mouth campaigns. Some of her clients include: PBS’s Word World, Frooze, Cranium Bloom, Mamasource, Cozi, Airborne, Kellogg’s, General Mills, East Side Entrees Breakfast Breaks, Scholastic Bob Books, Imbee and Mattel Barbie, and We Believe in Girls. Stacey was the 2008 Spring Cleaning Scrubbing Bubbles National Spokesmom for SC Johnson.