LEAD DAD 101

Dad Jokes for The Busy Executive Dad

Mike Malloy is a dad, adjunct professor at Georgetown & founder of Malloy Industries. He is also a connoisseur of Dad Jokes. Let’s laugh.

Sometimes Chances Pay Off – Dave Palmer

Sometimes taking a chance for you wife pays off for everyone. That’s a part of Dave Palmer’s story. Today he has a robust social media following for the chef-like meals he creates for his four children. Healthy, tasty and easy to copy. But that Dave, our Lead Dad of the Week from Paxton, Fla., is […]

How The Paper Test Can Improve Life At Home

Do you know what your spouse does around the house? Does he or she know what you do? How much do your work schedules influence what you can do? A lot of couples don’t know, and not knowing has never been a recipe for marital bliss – or professional success. (How can you focus at […]

If You Have Flexibility, Lean Into It

As working parents, we want our kids to be flexible. We also don’t want them to fall into traps, particularly the stereotypical and avoidable ones. It’s not always easy to model either, let alone both. But that’s what Jeff Cummins, a professor of political science at Fresno State and our Lead Dads of the Week, […]

How Lead Dads Have Fun – And Help Their Families

A senior female executive who I admire deeply asked me an honest, almost earnest question that made me feel deeply awkward: “Do Lead Dads[…]

Dogs, a Daughter and Decades of Devotion

Chris Jones put his hand up to be a full-time Lead Dad after his first daughter was born. His wife’s career was taking off. He wanted to support her. Plus he figured he’d return to the tech world after the 2000 downturn passed. But one year turned into two decades and he never looked back. […]

Soccer Is Really Life – Scott Vanderwall

“In any team sport to be successful you have different people doing different things,” said Scott Vanderwall, our Lead Dad of the Week…

When Moving Is Your Job, You Value Being Still – Michael Maberry Jr

International mobility has been Michael Maberry Jr’s career, and he’s enjoyed moving executives and their families from one locale to another. A reward has been finding ways to make their families feel comfortable when they settle in the new city. It was on a trip he took himself last year that caused Michael, our Lead […]

What Does A Taylor Swift Video, NBC Sports and Raleigh Real Estate Have in Common? Clayton Collins

Sometimes the career fits the moment in life. Or so it’s been for Clayton Collins, our Lead Dad of the Week from Raleigh, N.C. A few years ago, he and his wife Danielle decided to move to North Carolina. Her job working for Prosek, a top communications and marketing firm, and his move into commercial […]

Uncross Your Arrows and Fly Together

I read an illustrated Op-Ed in The New York Times this weekend that had the provocative title “I Quit the Patriarchy and Rescued My Marriage.” Its solution was spot on. I end many talks with the call to OH! It stands for Openness and Honesty. At home, at work, with your spouse, with your manager, […]

How To Start a Company and Fatherhood At The Same Time : Andy Ogburn

If not now, when? That was Andy Ogburn’s philosophy when, shortly after his son Felix was born, he left his inhouse creative job to launch his own media production company, Party Practice. Crazy? Like a fox. His wife has a job she loves working for a recycling company and tapping into her passion for building […]

How To Make a Tough Choice: Say It Aloud

Do I support my wife and her business at her work dinner? Or do I go to an event to talk to a group of senior female executives about how to get their husbands to be more supportive? Once I put it that way the decision was obvious. But it started off as one of […]

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