Richard Cohen, M.A. has proudly been an early childhood professional for almost forty years.

For the last twenty five years, Richard has traveled the world as a consultant, coach and motivational speaker/instructor, facilitating fun, innovative, thought-provoking, interactive, inspiring adult learning experiences for communities of early childhood teachers, administrators, caregivers and parents. He has delivered the keynote address and sessions at over 400 international, national, regional, state and local early childhood conferences around the globe, laughing, learning, crying, singing and dancing along with his audiences.

Additionally, he curates his viral social media presence, “Zen and the Art of Early Childhood Education” on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram which reaches 1,000,000+ readers, offers a catalogue of online ECE teacher professional development courses and hosts Community Sing-a-Longs.

In recent years, Richard has fallen in love with teaching Early Care and Education at the community college level, currently at Manchester Community College in Connecticut and previously at Saint Louis Community College in Ferguson, Missouri for four years where his life was transformed by the shooting of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots that both wrought destruction on and bonded together his community.