Stromberg - Work pause thrive: how to pause for parenthood without killing your career

Praise for Work PAUSE Thrive

Ask yourself two questions: Do you want women to make as much impact as they can on society? Do you want men to fully engage as fathers? If your answer is yes to either or both questions, then read this book. And buy a copy for your daughters and your sons.

Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist of Canva
and former chief evangelist of Apple

Lisen Stromberg takes the prevailing cultural narrative that anything other than working all out, all the time in our punishing American work culture is a career killer, particularly for women and mothers, and turns it soundly on its head. With illuminating original survey data, the compelling stories of hundreds of women, and research-backed practical advice, Work PAUSE Thrive is essential reading for all people, not just women, who want full lives at work and at home, and for the policymakers and business leaders who have the power to make that happen. Stromberg makes a powerful case for why we all stand to benefit as a result.

Brigid Schulte, award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling
author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play When No One Has the
Time, and director of The Better Life Lab at New America

A secret treasure map for the next generation that wants children as well as careers. Lisen Stromberg mines jewels of advice from hundreds of working parents who, despite a cultural bias to overwork, insisted on having great family lives as well as great careers. Take heart, somewhere in these pages is a brave example that will work for YOUas well as a call to arms to change employment policies that will strengthen the American economy by helping all kinds of American families.

Lisa Stone, start-up advisor and cofounder of BlogHer

For millions of women looking to pause their careers without sacrificing long-term professional success, Work PAUSE Thrive is essential. Combining a powerful personal story, new research, and a journalistic commitment to accuracy, Lisen Stromberg captures the great challenges and offers pragmatic steps forward. She also understands that todays fathersare and must be a critical part of the solution as we all work together to build worklife structures that allow a level playing field.

Josh Levs, author of All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads,
Families, and BusinessesAnd How We Can Fix It Together

Work PAUSE Thrive is a landmark. Its the must-read manual for working women who dont want to look back with regret on either career or family choices. Beyond the passionate rallying cry to blow up the male, straight up the ladder career model in favor of a better journey featuring guilt-free pauses, Work PAUSE Thrive offers blueprints for how to do it. Filled with insights and ideas built on rock-solid data and inspiring examples from women from a wide spectrum of the working world, this is the book Im putting on my daughters shelfand wish Id had myself. Stromberg reaches out generously and thoughtfully to empower every woman torn by seemingly impossible choices, and in turn, challenges the newly enlightened reader to pay it forward. Count me in.

Nancy Vonk, cofounder of Swim and author of Darling You
Cant Do Both (And Other Noise to Ignore on Your Way Up)

Work PAUSE Thrive represents! It details how inflexible workplace structures, public policy failures, and cultural stigmas against parents in the workplace hold women AND men back from living lives of authenticity and meaning. This is a must read!

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, founder and
CEO of The Representation Project

Forget climbing some corporate ladder, you want a career with twists and turns and adventure, but how? In Work PAUSE Thrive, author Lisen Stromberg shows how trailblazing women have crafted a big life on their terms and how you can too.

Ann Shoket, author of The Big Life and
former editor-in-chief of Seventeen

Our lives are not straight lines, so not surprisingly neither are our careers. Yet when they inevitably take an unexpected turn we worry that we have fallen off the career track. Lisen Stromberg, in Work PAUSE Thrive,is here to tell you that there is no track, there is just the path you and your family create for your own fulfilling lives.

Lisa Heffernan, New York Times bestselling author of
Goldman Sachs and the Culture of Success
and cofounder of the Grown and Flown blog

Work PAUSE Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career doesnt just offer tactical solutions for integrating kids with careers, it also is a call to action so individual companies and our country as a whole will finally focus on providing meaningful solutions for all parents.

Joan Blades, cofounder of MoveOn.org and MomsRising.org

Former advertising exec and veteran journalist Lisen Stromberg offers stats, anecdotes, and advice in her deep analysis on how to navigate the career journey that includes a pause. Learn from her wise and thoughtful approach to managing the nontraditional career path.

Carol Fishman Cohen, CEO of iRelaunch

Lisen Stromberg explodes the false dichotomy faced by generations of career-minded womeneither be an engaged mother or stay on track in a career. Work PAUSE Thrive delivers a fresh alternative that millennial women (and men) are craving in their quest to thrive as parents with careers; for many women, the zig-zagging career path is the perfect fit! This is a must-read for women in every profession, for the partners and mentors who care about them, and for any leader serious about talent management!

W. Brad Johnson, PhD and David Smith, PhD, authors of
Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women

A refreshing new take on the worklife conversation! Work PAUSE Thrive disrupts the all-in model of career success and maps innovative paths to professional and personal fulfillment. A must-read for next generation employees and the companies that hire them!

Samantha Walravens, editor of TORN: True Stories of Kids,
Career & the Conflict of Modern Motherhood and coauthor of
Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech

Lisen Stromberg isnt just an authorshes a whistleblower. The alarm shes sounding is music to my ears: that the obstacle course of working motherhood is doable. With stats and stories, Stromberg reveals an alternate path for working parents all while urging society to step up to better meet the needs of American families.

Kat Gordon, CEO and founder of The 3% Movement

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