Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life Hardcover - 2020

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Work-life guru Stew Friedman and organizational psychologist Alyssa Westring use a framework from Friedman's popular Wharton course to help moms and dads use the principles of leadership to live a more purposeful and richer life.

• Based on the wildly popular Wharton course and Total Leadership books (which have collectively sold almost 100,000 units).
Offers readers a fresh perspective and proven system for meeting the challenges of parenting while committed to their career(s).
• Based on two decades worth of teaching, research, and practice.
Packed with exercises to do both alone and together with those who are partners in child-rearing.
• Shows how to design, with your spouse and other stakeholders, innovative experiments and how to engage those partners in the pursuit of what's important to you, your family, and your career.

Audience:

• Working parents of all kinds and ages looking for workable, innovative solutions to meeting the challenges of child-rearing and advancing a career.
HR, talent management, and leadership development professionals looking for resources to help those--especially new parents in the organization--struggling in their roles at work.
• New and former Total Leadership students; participants in the Total Leadership for Parents. workshops; followers and recipients of Stew's newsletter (100K+); and the "Stew" network of groupies worldwide.
Extended family members, and anyone helping support a working parent in any capacity such as childcare providers, teachers, and psychologists.

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