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5 Lessons About Change From Thanksgiving
This is our second Thanksgiving spent at an inn in northeast Florida, and there are some lessons in it for adapting to change more broadly…
Read moreBrian Sullivan
When Brian Sullivan, our Lead Dad of the Week, took on management roles at Mastercard and later Charter Communications he had a go-to…
Read more5 Reasons Why Schools Need Dad Events
Here’s a story about a working parent’s journey from awareness to frustration to complaint (with a detour into unproductive grumbling) and…
Read moreSaurab Bhargava
Saurab Bhargava was instinctive as a Lead Dad at work.A chief digital officer when his first daughter was born in 2012, Saurab took the…
Read moreHow To End OOO In Work Calendars – and Why It Matters
If there’s one thing I’d like to see removed from shared work calendars. it’s OOO – the ubiquitous calendar filler that stands for Out of…
Read more8 Phrases That Will Make You A Better Work Colleague
Language matters in the workplace.Too often managers and colleagues fall back on tired phrases. Those phrases perpetuate outdated beliefs…
Read moreBlair Wheeler
Blair Wheeler a father of two and a dog in Wilmington, N.C., is our Lead Dad of the Week.By day, Blair is an account manager for a…
Read more4 Honest Ways To Juggle Parenting and Working
If you’re on my calendar, you can be certain that we’re going to talk then. My kids are older so unless they’re really sick, they’re at…
Read moreSkip Cherryholmes: Month 6 Of Lead Dad Life
Welcome to Month 6 of the Lead Dad Diaries with Skip Cherryholmes. We’re almost halfway through, and neither of us can believe it. Skip…
Read moreJason Abrams
Jason Abrams, husband to a family attorney, and father of two in New Jersey, is the Lead Dad of the Week!A senior PR manager at Amtrak…
Read moreWho Does Silence Around Parental Discrimination Hurt?
“Congratulations on your retirement.” Two years later this comment still sticks with me. When I wrote a final column about why I was…
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