Our Story

For over a decade I held leadership and management positions in investment banking, marketing strategy and international development. I have a MBA from Harvard Business School and have worked and lived in numerous countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. But nothing quite prepared me for parenthood.

I wanted a roadmap for raising children. I needed a playbook for busy parents – a clever place where I could get real answers from real experts. I wanted to learn what the experts knew – on my terms. At the time, I had three children under the age of five – I was short on time and needed quick reads. No excess. Just the important stuff – tell me what to know, do and buy.

Then, I started teaching with teachers at my children’s preschool and saw how magical they were…local heroes who knew how to navigate any child in any situation because they understood the science of how children learned. I wanted to learn from them to be a better parent. So I asked them to answer my long list of questions. And that’s how Plinkit was born.

As my kids grow, I’ll have more questions. You’ll have more questions. Let’s find the answers together and learn what the experts know.

P.S. – Got questions? Send them my way.

Answers from the Brightest

Good thing I had smart teacher friends. I asked them to write answers to my questions. Then I asked them to write answers to my friends’ questions. The questions snowballed. And soon they asked their smart teacher friends to join the bandwagon.

Before we knew it, we had childhood experts from San Francisco’s leading preschools, teachers with decades of classroom experience, education professionals and learning specialists with advanced degrees. And then we found savvy user-experience designers to translate all that brilliance into something parents and teachers could practically use. Bite-size and action-oriented.

Not shy about it – it’s a rock star team. Real teachers, real practitioners, real doers.