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Parents Who Lead

The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life
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Parents Who Lead addresses the complexities of modern parenthood, offering a leadership-based approach to help parents regain purpose and balance. Stewart D. Friedman and Alyssa F. Westring provide a method designed specifically for parents to design a future rooted in core values, engage meaningfully with children, build supportive communities, and experiment for better work-life harmony. This practical guide equips parents to create richer lives for themselves and their families.
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Format: Hardback
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Ideal for working parents, caregivers seeking work-life balance, and anyone interested in combining leadership principles with family life to foster supportive relationships and personal growth.

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Being a parent can be a disorienting experience filled with disruptive transitions, constant pushes and pulls at work, at home, and in the community, endless to-do lists, and identity crises. It's easy to lose track of who you are and what really matters most when you're balancing so much at once.

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Being a parent can be a disorienting experience filled with disruptive transitions, constant pushes and pulls at work, at home, and in the community, endless to-do lists, and identity crises. It's easy to lose track of who you are and what really matters most when you're balancing so much at once.

It doesn't have to be this way. As a parent, you can harness the power of leadership principles and discover how to thrive in all aspects of your life.

Drawing on their experience as researchers, educators, consultants, coaches, and parents, Friedman and Westring offer a robust and proven method—designed specifically for parents—that will help you gain a greater sense of purpose and control. This method includes:

  • Designing a future based on your core values
  • Engaging with your children in meaningful ways
  • Cultivating a community of caregiving and support, in all parts of your life
  • Experimenting to discover better ways to live and work

Powerful, practical, and indispensable, Parents Who Lead is the guide you need to forge a better future, foster meaningful and mutually rewarding relationships, and design sustainable solutions for creating a richer life for yourself, your children, and your world.

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Praised by experts like Daniel H. Pink and industry leaders, Parents Who Lead is recognised as an insightful and compassionate resource for overwhelmed parents. Reviewers highlight its real solutions for working parents striving to be values-driven leaders and commend its potential to inspire meaningful personal and professional change.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633696501

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 March 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Stewart D. Friedman is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School, where he has been since 1984. He founded Wharton's Leadership Program and its Work/Life Integration Project. Bestselling author, award-winning teacher, former head of Ford's leadership development center, consultant, policy advocate, radio show host, and in-demand speaker, Friedman is widely recognized for his impact in the fields of leadership, work/life integration, and talent.

Alyssa F. Westring is Associate Professor of Management at the Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University. In addition, she is Director of Research at Total Leadership. An award-winning educator, Westring shares her expertise on work/life integration and women's careers in leading academic and popular outlets, and is a frequent speaker at Fortune 500 companies.

You can find authors at:
Stewart Friedman: twitter.com/stewfriedman?lang=en and totalleadership.org/
Alyssa Westring: linkedin.com/in/alyssawestring/ and twitter.com/alyssawestring

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