DAISY DOWLING, SERIES EDITOR, is the founder and CEO of Workparent, the executive coaching and training firm, and the author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021). She is a full-time working parent to two young children. She can be reached at www.workparent.com.
TIM ALLEN, CEO of Care.com, oversees the company’s strategic direction, leadership, and growth, all centered on one mission: to transform how families care for all they love. A 15-year veteran of media and technology company IAC, Tim has played pivotal roles shaping IAC brands like Vimeo and Ask.com, and he founded and ran IAC’s Mosaic Group. A father to young twin boys, Tim relates to the challenges faced by working parents everywhere. He and his family reside in Austin, Texas.
SCOTT BEHSON is a professor of management and a Silberman Global Faculty Fellow at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and the author of The Working Dad’s Survival Guide and The Whole-Person Workplace. He writes and consults on work-life policies and was a featured speaker at the White House and the United Nations. His most important roles are as husband and father, and he can be seen most often grading papers and writing articles in the car during his teen son’s sports practices.
SUZANNE BROWN is a work-life balance speaker, consultant, and author of the award-winning books Mom-powerment: Insights from Successful Professional Part-Time Working Moms Who Balance Career and Family and The Mompowerment Guide to Work-Life Balance. She helps companies become more balance-friendly and working moms create greater work-life balance. Find more practical tips to shift your mindset about balance and take action on www.mompowerment.com. In her downtime, you can find her on a nearby hiking trail or far-off adventure with her husband and their two young boys.
JACKIE COLEMAN is a former marriage counselor and most recently worked on education programs for the state of Georgia.
JOHN COLEMAN is a coauthor of the book Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders. Follow him on Twitter @johnwcoleman. Jackie and John have four sweet, mischievous kids ranging from newborn to seven years old. They keep life crazy, full, and fulfilling.
BRUCE FEILER is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers, including Life Is in the Transitions, The Secrets of Happy Families, and The Council of Dads, which inspired the hit NBC drama series. He’s also the host of two prime-time series on PBS, and his two TED Talks on family and fatherhood have been viewed more than 2 million times. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their identical twin daughters, Eden and Tybee. For more information, please visit brucefeiler. com.
STEWART D. FRIEDMAN, an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School, is author of three Harvard Business Review Press books—Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life; Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life; and Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life. He founded the Wharton Leadership Program, the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project, and Total Leadership, a management consulting and training company. His three grown children work in education. He hopes his two grandchildren will help us all heal our broken world.
BRAD HARRINGTON is the executive director of the Boston College Center for Work & Family and a research professor in the Carroll School of Management. Prior to his arrival at Boston College in 2000, Harrington was an executive with Hewlett-Packard Company for 20 years. He served in a wide range of global and business unit leadership roles in the United States and Europe. His research and teaching focus on career management and work-life integration, the changing role of fathers, and contemporary workforce management strategies. He is married to Dr. Annie Soisson, director of the Tufts University Center on Learning and Teaching, and is the father of three millennials.
ROGER JOHNSON is an associate professor of biology and biochemistry at Southern Virginia University, where he serves as the Division Chair of the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Division. During his time as a lead parent, he didn’t persuade his children to become biologists, but he did teach his youngest how to become a chemist (i.e., cook).
W. BRAD JOHNSON is a professor of psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at the United States Naval Academy and a faculty associate in the Graduate School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. He is the coauthor of Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace; Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women; The Elements of Mentoring; and other books on mentorship. Now that his three adult sons are out making the world more inclusive, he is busy coaching a new aspiring male ally, his 1-year-old grandson.
WHITNEY JOHNSON is the CEO of human capital consultancy WLJ Advisors, an Inc. 5000 2020 fastest-growing private company in America. One of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world (#14) as named by Thinkers50, Whitney and her team are expert at helping high-growth organizations develop high-growth individuals. She is the wife of one, and mother of two wonderful truth tellers (aka college-age children).
REBECCA KNIGHT is a freelance journalist in Boston whose work has been published in the New York Times, USA Today, and the Financial Times. She is the mom of two tweenage daughters.
HAN-SON LEE is the founder of DaddiLife, a platform and community for modern-day fatherhood, and a campaigner for change around dads at work. He is dad to one boisterous boy who’s always keeping him on his toes.
DAVID M. MAYER is the John H. Mitchell Professor of Business Ethics in the Management and Organizations Area at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business. His research sits at the intersection of leadership, ethics, and diversity. He is also the proud father of Avery and Caleb and enjoys tormenting them with dad jokes. Follow him on Twitter @ DaveMMayer.
MARK MCCARTNEY is a leadership coach and a member of Oxford University’s Saїd Business School coaching community. He coaches working dads in leadership positions wanting to thrive at work and home by implementing a new set of recovery practices. He is dad to two boys, 7 and 11, and husband to a wife who runs her own business. Find more information at www.tofocus.co.uk.
SABINA NAWAZ is a global CEO coach, leadership keynote speaker, and writer working in over 26 countries. She advises C-level executives in Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic organizations. Sabina has spoken at hundreds of seminars, events, and conferences, including TEDx, and has written for FastCompany.com, Inc.com, and Forbes.com. She is lucky to have the support of her stay-at-home husband. She counts as successful any meeting that’s free of interruption by her two teenage sons or two dogs. A successful day is one spent with them. Follow her on Twitter @sabinanawaz.
DAN PALLOTTA is an expert in nonprofit-sector innovation and a pioneering social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Pallotta TeamWorks, which invented the multiday AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days. He is the president of Advertising for Humanity and the author of Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up for Itself and Really Change the World.
EVE RODSKY is a lawyer and the founder of the Philanthropy Advisory Group, which advises high-net-worth families and charitable foundations on best practices for harmonious operations, governance, and disposition of funds. She is the author of Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live). Eve and her husband Seth are raising their two sons and daughter to be gender justice advocates who pride themselves on knowing that taking out the garbage isn’t complete until a fresh bag goes back in the bin.
DAVID G. SMITH is a professor of sociology in the College of Leadership and Ethics at the United States Naval War College. He is the coauthor, with W. Brad Johnson, of Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace and Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women. He is grateful for his two grown kids, who are an epidemiologist and video production director and continue to teach him important life lessons.
AMY JEN SU is a cofounder and managing partner of Paravis Partners, a premier executive coaching and leadership development firm. For the past two decades, she has coached CEOs, executives, and rising stars in organizations. She is the author of the Harvard Business Review Press book The Leader You Want to Be and coauthor of Own the Room with Muriel Maignan Wilkins. Amy is also a full-time working parent with a teenage son who is currently in high school.
JAMES SUDAKOW is the author of Out of the Blur: A Delirious Dad’s Search for the Holy Grail of Work-Life Balance (2018), which tells his story of building and running a small business while raising a family.
HALEY SWENSON is an expert on work, gender, and inequality and the deputy director of the Better Life Lab, a work-life justice policy program based at the nonpartisan think tank New America. She is the author of the recent report “Engaged Dads and the Opportunities for and Barriers to Equal Parenting in the United States.” Haley and her wife Alieza live and work in Utah, where they strive to be equal partners in caring for their large extended family and their two cats, Bertie and Shoshana.
ALYSSA F. WESTRING is the Vincent de Paul Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business. She is the coauthor of Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020). She is an award-winning educator and the director of research at Total Leadership. She has two school-age children and lives in Chicago.
HUGH WILSON is a writer for DaddiLife, and as an editor and journalist also writes across a wide variety of topics around modern-day family. He is father to two wonderful children whom he homeschools.