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WORK PAUSE THRIVE
How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career
We worry putting our family first means we’ll be forced to abandon our careers. We’re afraid if we pause our careers, we’ll be forever off-track. This thinking is outdated—forget what you’ve heard about how pauses are career limiting, about how those who pause lack ambition, or that if you do pause you won’t be able to re-enter the paid workforce. That’s a flawed reality, one that doesn’t reflect the truth of the careers of some of the most successful women in this country.
Author Lisen Stromberg knows this success firsthand. After the birth of her second child, she did something she never imagined she would do: she opted out to focus on her family. But her career didn’t end there. Lisen paused then pivoted to become first a social entrepreneur and then an award-winning journalist writing about women, work, and life in Silicon Valley. Along the way, she learned she wasn’t alone. Lisen met many highly successful women who told her they never “opted out” but who had, in fact, temporarily downshifted or paused their careers. Their hidden journeys revealed alternative nonlinear paths to the top that enabled them to achieve their personal and professional goals.
InWORK PAUSE THRIVE, Lisen shares their stories. Deeply rooted in social science research, cutting-edge data collected from nearly 1,500 women, and through 186 first-person interviews, this book reveals how trailblazing women have disrupted the traditional career paradigm. WORK PAUSE THRIVEalso reveals new and exciting trends in the workplace and offers targeted solutions for companies to help ensure they have cultures that will enable you to lead the life you want, a life in which you can build both a career and a family, and ultimately your own version of a life well lived.
Years ago, the author traded in a career as a Silicon Valley executive to spend more time with her children, momentarily pausing her career while she was reborn as a speaker and writer. Since then she’s written for The New York Times,Newsweek, Forbes, Salon, and Fortune Magazine (where she is a contributing editor).She is a board member of The Journalism & Women Symposium and Women’s Evolutionary Leadership Forum, a 500-person-strong network of influential women in Silicon Valley, and is connected with BlogHer, Moms 2.0, TEDxWomen, the Women’s Conference, the Work/Life Conference, the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, and the list goes on.
InWORK PAUSE THRIVE, Lisen shares their stories. Deeply rooted in social science research, cutting-edge data collected from nearly 1,500 women, and through 186 first-person interviews, this book reveals how trailblazing women have disrupted the traditional career paradigm. WORK PAUSE THRIVEalso reveals new and exciting trends in the workplace and offers targeted solutions for companies to help ensure they have cultures that will enable you to lead the life you want, a life in which you can build both a career and a family, and ultimately your own version of a life well lived.
Years ago, the author traded in a career as a Silicon Valley executive to spend more time with her children, momentarily pausing her career while she was reborn as a speaker and writer. Since then she’s written for The New York Times,Newsweek, Forbes, Salon, and Fortune Magazine (where she is a contributing editor).She is a board member of The Journalism & Women Symposium and Women’s Evolutionary Leadership Forum, a 500-person-strong network of influential women in Silicon Valley, and is connected with BlogHer, Moms 2.0, TEDxWomen, the Women’s Conference, the Work/Life Conference, the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, and the list goes on.
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Published 2017-01-31 by BenBella Books |
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Published 2017-01-31 by BenBella Books |