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.
ALISON BEARD is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review, cohost of the Dear HBR: and HBR IdeaCast podcasts, and a grateful mom to two fabulous children, Jack and Ella, and a funny cat, Pickle, who are the lights of her life.
PETER BREGMAN, CEO of Bregman Partners, is recognized as the number-one executive coach in the world by Leading Global Coaches. Author and contributor to 18 books, his most recent book is Leading with Emotional Courage: How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, and Inspire Action on Your Most Important Work. He is also the host of the Bregman Leadership Podcast. But his most important roles—and the ones that push him to learn the most—are as husband and father of three kids, all of who see right through him!
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL is a former executive editor at Harvard Business Review. Follow her on Twitter @skgreen.
TIFFANY DUFU is founder and CEO of The Cru, a peer-coaching network that matches circles of women who collaborate to meet their personal and professional goals. She’s also the author of the bestselling book Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less. She’s the mother of two tweens who are currently being parented by Fortnite and YouTube in true #droptheball fashion.
BRUCE FEILER is the author of seven consecutive New York Times bestsellers, including Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me, which inspired the NBC television series, and The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Tell Your Family History, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More. His latest book is Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their identical twin daughters, Eden and Tybee.
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.
AMY GALLO is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review and the author of the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict at Work (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017). She writes and speaks about workplace dynamics. As the parent of a teenager, she spends a lot of time trying to figure out how to apply her own advice on difficult conversations at home. Follow her on Twitter @amyegallo.
HEIDI GRANT is a social psychologist who researches, writes, and speaks about the science of motivation. She is the director of research and development, EY Americas Learning, and serves as associate director of Columbia’s Motivation Science Center. She received her doctorate in social psychology from Columbia University. Her most recent book is Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You (Harvard Review Press, 2018). She is also the author of Nine Things Successful People Do Differently (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012) and No One Understands You and What to Do About It (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015).
WHITNEY JOHNSON is an executive coach, speaker, and innovation thinker recently named one of the most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. She is the author of Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve from Harvard Business Press and the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself: Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve. She is the wife of one, and mother of two wonderful truth tellers (aka college-age children).
MARY (MOLLY) C. KERN is an organizational psychologist and associate professor of management at Baruch College at the City University of New York. Her research and teaching focus on negotiation processes and team dynamics aimed toward maximizing performance and bounded ethicality to support ethical learners. Although a negotiation scholar, she gets a lot of real-world practice translating the science into more of an art with her two teenagers.
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 tween daughters.
TERRI R. KURTZBERG is an associate professor of management at Rutgers Business School. She is the author of four books, and her research on e-communication and negotiations is frequently quoted in the media. She is the recipient of multiple teaching and research awards. She was especially grateful for her PhD in negotiations when she started raising two kids who were born negotiators, although on any given day it’s anyone’s guess who has the edge!
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.
CURT NICKISCH is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review where he makes podcasts and cohosts HBR Idea-Cast. He earned an MBA from Boston University and previously reported for NPR, Marketplace, WBUR, and Fast Company. He speaks ausgezeichnet German and binges history podcasts. Find him on Twitter @CurtNickisch.
ELIZABETH GRACE SAUNDERS is a time management coach and the founder of Real Life E Time Coaching & Speaking. She is author of How to Invest Your Time Like Money and Divine Time Management: The Joy of Trusting God’s Loving Plans for You. Find out more at www.RealLifeE.com.
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: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day and coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence with Muriel Maignan Wilkins. Amy is also a full-time working parent with a teenage son who is currently in high school.
NICOLE TORRES is a former senior editor at Harvard Business Review.
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.