Courtney Froehlig

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Courtney Froehlig

PhD

Product Consultant · Youth Safety & Wellbeing
Mindfulness & Attention Coach

I work with the people who build technology, and the people trying to find their footing inside it.

Child Safety Policy Safety by Design Age Assurance Mindful Tech Use

TikTok Trust & Safety

4.5 years shaping youth safety and wellbeing product policy

Tech Coalition

Consultant · Child online safety strategy

Cambridge University

PhD in Education · Dialogic pedagogy & learning sciences

UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center

Certified meditation teacher · MMTCP under Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach

General Assembly

Curriculum Consultant · Subject matter expert in product management and Python

UK Dept. for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Loneliness Evidence Group · Policy fellow

About

Courtney Froehlig

I spent 4.5 years inside
TikTok shaping what safety looks like for young people.

My time at TikTok taught me how recommendation systems, age assurance, and youth policy actually work. Now I bring that to platforms and product teams who want to build responsibly from the start, not patch problems after the fact.

Freed from the Feed is the other side of the work. A curriculum for people who want a real relationship with technology again. Not rules. Not detox. Just reconnection.

Consulting

  • Product strategy for safety by design
  • Risk assessment, mitigation, & redteaming
  • Age assurance implementation
  • Regulatory compliance & policy input
  • Mindful tech use frameworks
  • Attention reclamation & digital wellbeing
  • Leadership coaching for responsible product teams

Background

  • TikTok Trust & Safety, Youth Policy Lead
  • Tech Coalition, Consultant
  • Cambridge University, PhD in Education
  • Certified meditation teacher, UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center
  • Curriculum Consultant, General Assembly
  • Loneliness Evidence Group, UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Work

Technology reflects the people who build it.
The real leverage point is the builder.

Consulting

Child Safety Policy & Safety by Design

I've been inside a major platform. I know how recommendation systems actually work, where age assurance breaks down, and what safety policy looks like when it hits a product team. I bring that to companies trying to get it right before something goes wrong.

  • Product strategy for safety by design
  • Risk assessment & redteaming
  • Age assurance implementation
  • Regulatory input & compliance
  • Leadership coaching for responsible product teams
Curriculum

Freed from the Feed

A four-module curriculum for reclaiming your relationship with technology. Not a digital detox. Not screen time rules. A real reckoning with how platforms are designed to hold your attention, and how to take it back. Offered as a workshop now, with a course and book in development.

  • Understand how platforms shape attention
  • Audit your own patterns
  • Return to yourself
  • Sustain intentional defaults
Coaching

Mindfulness & Attention Coaching

1:1 work rooted in 20 years of Vipassana practice, MMTCP teacher training under Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and somatic work. For people who want to come back to themselves — and build a relationship with technology that actually serves them.

  • Attention reclamation
  • Somatic & contemplative practice
  • Intentional tech habits that hold
  • Individual & corporate offerings

A curriculum

Freed from the Feed

Know how it works. See your own patterns. Find your way back to yourself.

01 · Understand

How platforms shape your attention

Demystify how recommendation systems, notifications, and infinite scroll actually work. Knowledge is the first act of reclamation.

02 · Audit

See your own patterns clearly

A personal attention audit, not to judge but to witness. Where are you giving your time and awareness? What are you getting in return?

03 · Return

Come back to yourself

Somatic and contemplative practices for reconnecting with your own body, values, and attention. This is the center of the work.

04 · Sustain

Design your defaults

Practical structures: environmental, digital, relational. Make the healthier choice the easier one. Lasting change, not willpower.

A book is in development.

If you want to follow along or be notified when the workshop or course is available, get in touch.

Speaking

Keynotes, panels, &
workshops

Courtney Froehlig

Courtney Froehlig, PhD

Product Consultant in youth safety and wellbeing. Former TikTok Trust & Safety. Cambridge PhD in Education. Certified meditation teacher. I speak on child online safety, responsible product design, and mindful tech use — at conferences, corporate events, and educational convenings.

Recent Speaking Engagements

01

CA Privacy Protection Agency

California · Child safety & age assurance

Presented on platform accountability, coordination failures, and the policy landscape for age verification in California.

02

TrustCon

Trust & Safety Professionals · Conference

Industry panel on youth safety by design and the operational realities of implementing child protection frameworks at scale.

03

Tech Coalition

Child Online Safety Consortium

Advisory and facilitation work across the child online safety landscape, including AI detection infrastructure and policy implementation.

04

Dallas Crimes Against Children Conference

Dallas, TX · Panel & Workshop

Panel participant and workshop facilitator on child online safety, platform accountability, and practical frameworks for investigators and advocates working at the intersection of technology and child protection.

05

National PTA & Schools

Educator & parent audiences

Workshops on supporting intentional technology use for young people, digital wellbeing, and the Freed from the Feed curriculum.

Courtney Froehlig speaking at TrustCon
TrustCon · Tech Coalition

Assessing Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Risk in Product Development

Speaking topics

Responsible product design for young people
Safety by design & age assurance
Supporting intentional tech use
Child online safety policy
Attention & digital wellbeing
AI safety for youth

Contact

Let's find
the right fit.

Whether you're looking for a consulting conversation, a speaking engagement, or support with Freed from the Feed, reach out.

Email me directly →

Email

inquiry@courtneyfroehlig.com

Location

Santa Monica, CA

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/courtneyfroehlig

What brings you here?

Child Safety Consulting

Safety by design, risk assessment, age assurance, regulatory strategy for platforms and tech companies.

Speaking

Conference keynotes, panels, corporate events, and educational convenings.

Freed from the Feed

Workshops, the curriculum, the book in development.

Mindfulness Coaching

1:1 work for people who want to come back to themselves. Attention reclamation, somatic practice, and building a real relationship with technology that actually holds.