Speaking

Katharine has been a speaker with Care for the Family for over twenty years; touring the country with their most popular events on parenting and marriage. Her career with the charity started as marriage manager where she developed their marriage and couple relationship work, including pioneering The National Couple Support Network, which provided marriage preparation courses through the UK Register Offices.

As an established speaker she has addressed thousands of people across the UK as well as internationally; from being a regular voice on national and local media including BBC news and feature programmes, Radio 5, Radio 4; to speaking at parenting events for businesses such as Towerbrook Capital Partners, Royal Bank Scotland, Credit Suisse Banks, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Amazon.

She is regularly invited by schools and academies across the UK to give lectures, speak to parents and deliver workshops. She has also spoken at popular book festivals: Glasgow Book Festival Aye Write, Scottish Books Long Weekend, Independent Children’s Book Festival and Qatar Book group.

Katharine is often invited to speak to churches and at third sector events, and is a popular speaker at festivals and conferences, including Keswick Convention, The Orchard, Spring Harvest, New Wine, Wildfires and New Horizons.

Internationally, she has been a keynote speaker for the International Commission on Couple and Family Relations, has attended speaking tours in South Africa and spoken at conferences in Malta and Berlin.

Whenever writing or speaking publicly Katharine demonstrates her exceptional ability to combine genuine warmth, workable wisdom and gentle wit. Passionate about distilling hard-won insights on how to ‘do’ family well yet healthily self-deprecating: she communicates superbly how to avoid being too intense about the complexities of relationships.”

DR SAMANTHA CALLAN, OBE

/ DIRECTOR, FAMILY HUBS NETWORK

Katharine brings both a wealth of experience as a parent and a deep knowledge of many relevant issues. Her writing and speaking will make you laugh and open your eyes.”

DR ROB WALLER

/ CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST MA MSc MBBCh FRCPsych

Katharine Hill is a gifted writer; a rare commodity in our internet world of abbreviations, “tech speak”, and terse, content-oriented communication. But even rarer, she is a talented and engaging speaker on a multitude of topics and interests. Having had the pleasure of hearing her speak to diverse audiences of professionals coming from a variety of fields, she stands out as one of the very few who holds everyone’s attention from beginning to end. When Katharine speaks to an audience, no one is ever looking at his watch!”

ANNE L. BERGER, J.D.

/ PAST CHAIR, INTERNATONAL COMMISSION ON COUPLES AND FAMILY RELATIONS