Dr. Amy Beacom is the founder and CEO of the Center for Parental Leave Leadership and the author of The Parental Leave Playbook: Ten Touchpoints to Transition Smoothly, Strengthen Your Family, and Continue Growing Your Career. Stew talks with Amy about her evidence-based and very practical model for how to manage parental leave -- preparing for leave, during leave, and returning to work…[Click for more]
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Scott Behson is a professor of management and Silberman Global Faculty Fellow at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is the author of The Working Dad’s Survival Guide and most recently The Whole-Person Workplace: Building Better Workplaces Through Work-Life, Wellness and Employee Support. Stew talks with Scott about insights for action from his new book on how to garner employer support for all employees, and for working parents in particular, in the new world created by the pandemic’s jolt…[Click for more]
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Daisy Dowling is Founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm, and author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids. Stew talks with Daisy about the useful tips she gathered from speaking to a variety of working parents across different stages of the parenting life cycle…[Click for more]
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Jordan Shapiro is the author of Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad.; senior fellow for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop; Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution; and his previous book is The New Childhood: Raising Kids To Thrive in a Connected World. Stew talks with Jordan about fatherhood in the modern world, dilemmas, stigmas…[Click for more]
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Joann Lublin was management news editor for The Wall Street Journal until she retired in April 2018, and she is still a regular Journal contributor. She shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for stories about corporate scandals and was awarded the 2018 Lifetime Achievement from the Loeb Awards, the highest accolade in business journalism. Stew and Joann discuss her new book -- Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life -- which explores the emotional and professional challenges women face as they try to move forward in their careers while raising a family…[Click for more]
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Darby Saxbe is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California’s David and Dana Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Stew talks with Darby about her research on what happens to men and women when they become parents and how the pandemic has affected parents…[Click for more]
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Julie Kashen is the director for women’s economic justice and a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a progressive independent think tank that fights for economic, racial, and gender equity in education, health care, and work. She served in federal and state government, including as Labor Policy Advisor to the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy and as Deputy Policy Director for former New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine. Stew talks with Julie about the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan, also known as the American Rescue Plan, and its implications for strengthening our nation’s care infrastructure…[Click for more]
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Dr. Kristen Shockley is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia studying how companies adapted during the pandemic, or how they haven’t adjusted, to meet the needs of worker productivity and well-being. Stew’ and Kristen discuss how couples forced to handle childcare, housework, and their day jobs have divided the responsibilities, managed zoom fatigue…[Click for more]
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Eve Rodsky is the author of Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live). Stew and Eve talk about her practical solution to the ubiquitous problem of inequality in our home lives…[Click for more]
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Jessica Calarco is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington whose research examines inequalities in education and family life. She’s the author of two books, A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum and Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in Schools, which received a 2019 Scholarly Achievement Award for Best Book by the North Central Sociological Association. Stew and Jessica talk about her latest research, which is about how the pandemic and its impact on childcare arrangements and schooling is having a disparate impact on mothers, compared to fathers…[Click for more]
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Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Law, Hastings Foundation Chair, and Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law. Joan is one of the 10 most cited scholars in her field and has written 11 books, including What Works for Women at Work and White Working Class. Her Harvard Business Review article, “What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class” has been read over 3.7 million times and is now the most read article in HBR’s 90-plus year history. Stew and Joan talk about how class, in addition to race and gender, produces dividing lines that result in polarization and alienation; evidence-based method for interrupting biases; and prospects for change in the upcoming Biden-Harris administration…[Click for more]
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Larry Hagner is the founder of the Good Dad Project and the author of The Dad's Edge: 9 Simple Ways to Have: Unlimited Patience, Improved Relationships, and Positive Lasting Memories.. Stew and Larry talk about men’s roles in their families; the obstacles they face at home, at work, and in society that conspire against them being the dads they want to be for their children; the changes occurring in men’s and fathers’ roles; how the pandemic is having an impact on dads at home and at work…[Click for more]
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Michelle Travis is a law professor at the University of San Francisco’s School of Law, where she serves as a Director of USF’s Labor and Employment Law Program. Stew and Michelle discuss her new book, Dads For Daughters: How Fathers Can Give their Daughters a Better, Brighter, Fairer Future, and the ways by which men can help empower women…[Click for more]
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Stew Friedman’s new book, Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life, co-authored with Alyssa Westring, an Amazon #1 Bestseller in Work Life and i nominee for Dan Pink, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Malcolm Gladwell’s Next Big Idea Club. This episode features four working parents who talk about their experience with this evidence-based guide for action to improve their family and personal lives and their performance at work…[Click for more]
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Amy Westervelt is the author of Forget Having it All: How America Messed up Motherhood and How to Fix It; the founder of the Critical Frequency podcast network, the host of the podcast, Drilled; and an award-winning print and audio journalist. In this episode Stew and Amy talk about the historical roots of the conditions that have made life difficult for mothers in America…[Click for more]
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Jennifer Petriglieri is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and the author of Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive In Love and Work. Jennifer’s award-winning research and teaching focus on identity, leadership, and career development. She is particularly interested in how people’s close relationships shape who they become professionally and personally, and how moments of uncertainty and crisis make us who we are. Stew and Jennifer discuss the three key choice points that couples face, moments that challenge them to combine their parallel lives and form a joint life…[Click for more]
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Madonna Harrington Meyer is a professor of sociology and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence at the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research and faculty affiliate at the Aging Studies Institute at Syracuse University. Madonna is the author of Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs and co-editor of Grandparenting in the United States . Stew and Madonna discuss the indescribable joys of grandparenting as well as some of the new underbelly for grandparents who provide care for their grandchildren…[Cick for more]
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Emily Oster is Professor of Economics at Brown University and a mom of two. She has written two parent's guides to the chaos and frequent misinformation that often occurs in the early years of parenthood -- Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool and Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know. Stew and Emily discuss how a one-size-fits-all recommendations may not be accurate or useful for individual children, parents, and families….[Click for more]
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Scott Behson is a professor of management at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he specializes in family issues. He is author of The Working Dad’s Survival Guide: How to Succeed at Work and at Home. Stew and Scott discuss the stigmas, the work and life conflicts, and the unique challenges fathers face in the workplace… [Click for more]
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Jamie Ladge and Danna Greenberg are co-authors of Maternal Optimism: Forging Positive Paths through Work and Motherhood. Ladge is a Professor of Management and Organizational Development at Northeastern University. Greenberg is a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Babson College. She studies work/life transitions. Stew talks with them about their findings, including the ways in which the transition to motherhood (and fatherhood) can, despite popular notions, have a salutary effect on your work life…[Click for more]
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