The Bear Creek School is presenting “Parenting Under Pressure” with Dr. Rob McKenna from 7-8:30 p.m. on April 2.

McKenna will be speaking in the Performing Arts Center at the Upper School, 8525 208th Ave NE in Redmond. Tickets cost $10 and may be purchased online at www.tbcs.org.

McKenna will offer strategies for people being their best when it matters most. He will discuss how to maintain composure under pressure, at work and at home and the two sides self-awareness and how to teach their children to do the same. Attendees will learn research-based strategies to help create healthy relational systems that move beyond blame and learn their default responses to pressure and how those responses can help or hinder their relationships.

McKenna is executive director of the Center for Leadership Research and Development, chair of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Seattle Pacific University and founder of WiLD Leaders, Inc. and creator of the WiLD Toolkit.