Stewart D. Friedman - Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life

Praise from Thought Leaders for Parents Who Lead

The intersection of working and becoming a parent can be daunting. Although what life-changing event is more magical than being a parent? In Parents Who Lead, Friedman and Westring offer wonderful stories, wisdom, and actionable advice about applying leadership principles at home. An inspiring read for working parents.

ARON AIN, CEO, Kronos; author, WorkInspired

Ive been a champion of Total Leadership for over a decade, and its principles have been instrumental in my continued career success. Parents Who Lead applies these principles to the absolute toughest jobbeing a productive parent and role modeland it does not disappoint! Read this book, put it to practice, and see the results.

SAMUEL ALLEN, SVP and COO, Marketing, Salesforce

Parents Who Lead contains precious new knowledge for working parents. Its an engaging, science-based, essential guide to upgrading your life, financially supporting your family, and being a stellar parent. Friedman and Westring share an easy-to-follow, proven method to reduce your stress, succeed at work, and inspire your children to live healthy, meaningful lives.

DAVE ASPREY, founder and CEO, Bulletproof; New York Times bestselling author, Super Human

Parents Who Lead helps us prioritize, strategize, and take conscious action so we can lead more well-rounded, successful lives. Friedman and Westring share advice that is at once practical and inspirational. They are going to help a LOT of parents!

SCOTT BEHSON, Professor of Management, Fairleigh Dickinson University; author, The Working Dads Survival Guide

As a parent, a son, and a co-CEO, my main priority is to be present forand create impact acrossall the important relationships in my life. I know I share that goal with others living in a fast-paced digital world. Parents Who Lead makes that goal feel not only attainable but realistic.

NEIL BLUMENTHAL, cofounder and co-CEO, Warby Parker

Parents Who Lead encourages working mothers and fathers to take a crucial step back from their challenging day-to-day responsibilities to home in on the values that can transform their families. The enjoyable exercises are worth the time, as they can lead to more fulfilling relationships and careers and to happier children with brighter futures.

MEREDITH BODGAS, Editor in Chief, Working Mother

Every parent is a leader. Every parent experiences the challenge of having too much to do in precious and finite time. Parents Who Lead articulates a sustainable, manageable path forward through this often stress-inducing gauntlet to help us toward the realization of a well-lived and well-shared life.

SAM CALAGIONE, founder and Brewer, Dogfish Head

Parenting is the only 24/7 job that is legally allowed, and its the most important job we ever do. Yet there is no training for it. Parents Who Lead is the ultimate guide that fills this void. A must-read for any parent!

ZARJA CIBEJ, CEO, myTamarin

At last, an inspiring and informative book on one of the most challenging leadership issues of our timeparenting. Parents Who Lead is full of lessons on how to handle demands on your time and resourcesat work, at home, and in relationshipswhile raising the next generation. Want to put everything in context and feel positive? Read this!

MICHAEL DOWLING, President and CEO, Northwell Health

Parents Who Lead is a systematic, practical, and inspiring guide for parents who want to succeed in their careers and make the world better for their children. Its a crucial resource for organizations committed to attracting and retaining the best people who also happen to be parents.

ANNE ERNI, Chief People Officer, Audible

Parents Who Lead provides data-driven tools and pragmatic direction to those of us choosing to be exceptional leaders, both inside and outside our homes. This book is a must-read if you are a busy executive who wants to attain the highest possible ROI on the greatest investment of your life: your children.

JENNA FISHER, Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates

With Parents Who Lead, Friedman and Westring inspired me to go deeper with my wife, my children, and my community. If youre looking to strengthen the bonds with the people who matter most in your life, I highly recommend reading this book. It is well researched and heartwarming.

GREG FITZSIMMONS, comedian and author

Stew was one of my favorite Wharton professors, and his lessons have resonated with me as my wife and I raised our three boys and I built my health and wellness company into a five-hundred-person operation. This well-written, compelling book distills evidence-based wisdom into actionable, outcome-focused tasks destined to improve not just the parenting, but the lives of all who read it.

SHAUN FRANCIS, Chair and CEO, Medcan; author, Eat, Move, Think

Stew Friedman and Alyssa Westring have applied their thoughtful, reflective, experiential approach to help us lead the lives we want in our families, careers, communities, and in staying healthy. If your life feels out of sync with what you wantand whose doesntthis gift of a book is for you!

ELLEN GALINSKY, President, Families and Work Institute; author, Mind in the Making

Parents Who Lead provides a formula for helping parents bring the principles of success from the workplace into their families, where leadership skills are often needed most. Its a wonderful blueprint for integrating work and the rest of life, a hallmark for defining success that sets the example for future generations.

ROBERT GLAZER, CEO, Acceleration Partners; bestselling author, Elevate and Performance Partnerships

The skills that define great leaders at work are surprisingly relevant to becoming a great parent at home. This book wont just help you identify those skillsits a step-by-step guide for putting them into practice.

ADAM GRANT,New York Times bestselling author, Originals and Give and Take

In Parents Who Lead, Friedman and Westring bring together concepts too often separatedwork and family, leadership and parentingto the detriment of all. They integrate research with practical tools to help readers learn many enriching ways to improve their lives by focusing on the wholetheir lives, careers, families, and communities.

BRAD HARRINGTON, Executive Director, Boston College Center for Work and Family

If struggling to meet work, family, and social demands means you feel too busy to read this book, then you really need to read it! It will help you unlock creative steps to live a more grounded, spacious, and fulfilling life. Parents Who Lead is a resource to draw on as your family and your career evolve.

GRACE HO, Regional Lead, Womens Recruiting and Development (Asia), McKinsey & Company

Working parents often feel doomed to do neither work nor parenting well. Friedman and Westring harness their experience as both leadership educators and parents to provide fresh insights for overcoming this common quandary. Read this book and learn how to lead your way into a new, more fulfilling, and successful way of parenting.

HERMINIA IBARRA, Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior, London Business School

People increasingly feel that theres no point in succeeding at work only to fail at home. But what if they apply proven organizational leadership tools to their families? Parents Who Lead is a lively self-help book with a creative twist.