Breni Malpass,  is an FSI Certified Child Sleep Consultant and founder of  Seaside Sleep Consulting.

As a mother of two small children, she can relate to the feeling of being both sleep deprived and overwhelmed with the desire to get her children sleeping like they should. She helps families with children 4 months (adjusted) to 5 years of age who feel frustrated and exhausted from not being able to establish consistent bedtime/nap time routines, too many night wakings, or just need a little guidance on developing an appropriate sleep schedule for their child.

She works with each family to educate and develop a customized sleep plan in which they are most comfortable with based on their parenting style and philosophies. Breni focuses on each families unique needs and desired outcomes as a whole. It is her goal is get everyone the sleep they need and deserve.

She lives with her husband and two beautiful children in Wilmington, NC. She received a MA in Psychology. Prior to becoming a Child Sleep Consultant, she spent 20+ years in the Human Resources field. When she and her family aren’t sleeping, they love to spend time at the beach, the park or enjoy family time together.

If you would like to contact Breni please email her at breni@familysleepinstitute.com

Kim Davis is the founder of  Babes & Beyond  and Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario Canada with her husband, 2 amazing children and their crazy dog Pebbles. She personally struggled for over 2 1/2 years to get her youngest to sleep and her world was turned upside down.  She knew she could not be the only one struggling with sleep issues, so she made it her mission to learn everything she could about infant and children’s sleep.  

She became an  FSI Certified Family Sleep Institute Pediatric Sleep Consultant  in 2014 and has never looked back.   It was the best decision she had ever made!   Since 2014 she has also become a Wonder Weeks Academy Graduate,  a Certified “Happiest Baby on the Block” instructor and a CAPPA Certified Childbirth Educator. 

She is now  the Director of Mentorship and an assistant instructor with the Family Sleep Institute, a proud member of Baby’s Breath Canada, the  International Association of Child Sleep Consultants  and the National Sleep Foundation. 

Her Psychology degree in Child Development and an Executive Director’s certification from Health Care Canada has helped her tremendously in working with families.

In 2016, she joined the Safe Sleep Initiative created by the Baby Box Co.  and is a  featured Sleep Expert for their Baby Box University educational platform.  Her sleep information videos for the Baby Boxes Co can been seen on the Baby Box University site for all members to view. She has also been featured on local television/radio station including Daytime Ottawa, CTV news, The Carole Anne Meehan Show and CBC Radio. 

Katie M. Kovaleski, is founder of KatieKovaleski.com and a Certified Family Sleep Institute Child Sleep Consultant.

Katie works with families around the globe to provide education, prevention and intervention services for all of a child’s sleep needs.

As a certified life coach with Masters’ Degrees in both Mental Health and Marriage and Family Counseling, Katie’s practice offers not only sleep expertise but also provides a unique support system for the entire family.

Throughout Graduate school and Integration Life Coaching’s development Katie focused on working extensively with children. It is in this niche that she repeatedly witnessed the far reaching issues lack of sleep will create for children and their families.

To further her interest in childhood sleep issues, she began training with the Family Sleep Institute (FSI), became a certified sleep consultant in 2013 and founded KatieKovaleski.com.

Please visit our Facebook campaign page for our latest events, research and work.

If you would like to contact Katie please email her at safesleep@familysleepinstitute.com

Mary MacLeod, MSc, graduated the Medical Laboratory Science Program from the Michener Institute, earned a BSc with Distinction from Biological Sciences followed by an MSc in Health Research from the Faculty of Medicine, Community Health Sciences, at the University of Calgary where she studied chronic insomnia in older adults.

She went on to develop and pilot a successful community based non-drug insomnia program for the region. She also earned a certificate in Sleep, Neurobiology, Medicine and Society and became a certified pediatric sleep consultant through the Family Sleep Institute.

Mary has worked as a clinical and research instrumentation specialist in clinical chemistry, immunology and flow cytometry. She worked for several years in clinical labs and in basic research and as a research program coordinator in mental health and coordinator for the Southern Alberta Mental Health Task Force.

Mary continues to work as a health research consultant and as a sleep consultant and educator helping individuals and families regain their ability for natural restorative sleep. She has a passion for the health and safety benefits sleep wellness brings to the individual, family and society.

Mary is a member of the Canadian Sleep Society, the American Sleep Association and The Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Please visit our Research and Development Facebook page for our latest events, research and work.

If you would like to contact Mary please email her at research@familysleepinstitute.com

Jamie Cassoff, PhD, is a Professor in Psychology at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and co-founder of The Kids Sleep Clinic.

Her interest in sleep blossomed as she completed her PhD in Experimental Psychology at McGill University. She was especially drawn to the importance of sleep for the emotional, physical and cognitive health of children.

Throughout her PhD she published several peer-reviewed articles on pediatric sleep. For her dissertation, she designed an individualized sleep promotion program to motivate teenagers to adopt earlier bedtimes. She conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate her program and found that it was successful in improving adolescent sleep.

It was during her PhD that she learned that "one size fits all" sleep programs are less effective than more personalized approaches. In fact, the novelty of her PhD work was that she recommended using motivational interviewing- a very personalized technique, to help teenagers become motivated to go to sleep earlier. Although offering personalized plans is more effortful, she believes that it is worth it because in the long run the results are more impactful.

Following her PhD, she completed the Family Sleep Institute Child Sleep Consulting Program to further specialize in sleep in babies and young children. She brought her training and passion for 'personalization' to the sleep consulting field as she continues to consider each and every family unit to be unique.

Jamie is also committed to promoting higher education in this field by teaching Cognitive Development, Adolescent Development and other courses related to pediatric health at Concordia University in Montreal.

Susie, founder of Healthy Little Sleepers, LLC. is an applied developmental psychologist, and a certified pediatric sleep consultant and behavior specialist residing in Los Angeles, CA. She’s has worked with kids throughout her career using knowledge and research regarding human development to help solve real world problems.

When she had her son in 2012, she knew a whole lot about development, but sleep was a whole other ball game!  With all the contradicting opinions and advice from well-intentioned friends, family and books, she had no idea what was what.

So, she did what she knew best… She dove into the sleep research to understand newborn, baby, and toddler sleep. But there was a lot more she needed to learn, and that’s when she turned to the well-renowned Family Sleep Institute and became certified in pediatric sleep in 2015. With that, her knowledge, experience, and training, she helps take out all the guess work and worry away (or at least help it feel less so),and provide unparalleled support to families!

Susie has consulted for top parenting sites including What’s Up Moms, Shondoland’s Katie’s Crib, Joovy, Bump Club + Beyond, Beverly Hills Pediatrics, and Hatch Collection, to name a few, and she enjoys giving sleep talks for families, wellness seminars for corporations, and working hand-in-hand with families.

She is an active member in the Society of Research in Child Development and serves on the Medical Advisory Board for What’s Up Moms (The #1 Parenting YouTube Channel).

When not immersed in all things development and sleep, you can find her baking with her kids, sneaking in a workout, finding time to catch up with her husband, and writing her newsletter, the Healthy Little Note where parents can access useful information on the first five years of life (… and then some).

Website: www.healthylittlesleepers.com
Instagram: @healthylittlesleepers

Hannah is the founder ofGreat Lakes & Big Dreams Sleep Consulting, LLC and spent her academic career researching different aspects of child development. She has her BSc from Furman University and her Master's degree from Wake Forest University. After finishing her degrees, she worked in child development research at the University of Rochester's Mount Hope Family Center and at Northwestern University.

Knowing how important sleep is to a child's development (and the sanity of parents!), she chose to become a certified sleep consultant through FSI's scientific-focused program.

Armed with her child development background, extensive research and practical experience, and a certification from the FSI. Hannah found she could provide parents and families with excellent tools to help them become a family of Super Sleepers!

Hannah is very excited to use her research and child development experience to aid in FSI's important work on the Research and Development Team! She lives in Chicago, IL with her husband and two wonderful rescue pups 🙂

Mylee Zschech is Family Sleep Institute certified Child Sleep Consultant with Little Big Dreamers (www.littlebigdreamers.net) and a a certified Behavior Coach through The Early Years CBCP program.

Being an Australian mom living in NYC, she knows the struggle of raising kids in isolation from extended family whilst struggling with multiple sleep challenges.

After seeing the transformative effect of hiring a sleep consultant on both her child’s sleep and her own Mylee knew she wanted to do the same for other parents.

As soon as her boys were in school she joined the FSI certification program and never looked back.   She enjoys working with parents to help their children  thrive through healthy sleep - from  newborns, toddlers and beyond.

Mylee also has a BA in social work, a certificate in grief and palliative care counseling from back home in Australia.

Meredith Webb
is a certified Family Sleep Institute Child Sleep Consultant and a Little Snoozers Pediatric Sleep Consultant

She is also a certified Child Behavioral Specialist through The Early Years CBCP program.

As a mom of two young boys, Meredith knows what it is like to be overwhelmed and sleep deprived. She also has firsthand experience as to how life changing working with a sleep consultant can be. After finding herself getting great sleep and more free time in the evenings than she ever imagined, Meredith decided to become a sleep consultant to help other families get the sleep they need.

Her love for her boys and her fascination with their development led her to adding the behavioral certification.</P

Meredith has a BS in Business Administration from Elon University. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and two boys.

Katie Shell is a Certified Pediatric Sleep Specialist & Certified Child Behavior Specialist.

Katie Shell’s career has been shaped by her own babies. Being a mom to two amazing children (Lilli O’Kalani - born 7/2014 and Warner - born 6/2012) Katie has experienced firsthand the joys as well as the struggles of parenting. She has a true desire to help support families with her expert advice and her long-lasting solutions.

She is a graduate of the Family Sleep Institute as well as the Child Behavior Certification Program through Sharyn Timerman & The Early Years and she is the founder of Baby Sleep Well.

Katie modeled her business to be exactly what she needed when she was a new mom lacking experience and confidence in herself. She gives her clients the boost of confidence and faith in themselves to see what amazing parents they truly are. Children are a joy and having the right tools, techniques, and great support will allow for more of those enjoyable moments and less struggle.

Whether it be for sleep, behavior, or both areas of parenting, Katie wants to educate and support families through their toughest times and bring them to a place where they are at peace and feeling proud of themselves and their children.

Victoria is a certified sleep coach, postpartum doula, and owner of Victoria's Helping Hand. Victoria's experience as a preschool teacher led her to want to support families in a more intimate setting.

Training with DONA international gave her the ability to service families struggling with welcoming a little one into their lives. Her training as a sleep coach has also allowed her to educate postpartum families on developmentally appropriate sleep expectations, as well as encouraging healthy sleep habits and age appropriate sleep practices.

Her passion for education has allowed her to give families the confidence to sail through their parenting journey with her at their side. Currently she resides in Maryland with her husband and two dogs.

Paige Chasse has worked as a professional in the childcare industry since 2015. She earned her Newborn Care Specialist certification in 2018 and in 2020 became a Certified Child Sleep Consultant through the Family Sleep Institute.

Paige's passion and involvement in the LGBTQ+ community has always been a priority for her. She strives to help others understand and respect all differences. This passion and commitment led her to create "Fresh Start" - the first sleep consultancy that put inclusivity at the forefront and made it a priority for her business and the families she serves. She is so excited to bring all of her knowledge and passion for inclusiveness to the students and graduates at FSI and pave the way to a brighter future with more compassion and thoughtfulness for things we may not yet understand.