Lead Dad 101
Why This Is The Best Round of My Golf Year
If you’re going to succeed – and ultimately be happy – as a Lead Dad, you get one hobby. Event Dads can master more and dabble in many, from racquet sports and golf, to skiing and boating, to running or cycling with some occasional hunting and a fishing trips thrown in here or there. As […]
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Scottie Scheffler: What The Son of A Lead Dad Knows
Scottie Scheffler, the best golfer in the world, said something ahead of this week’s British Open that made headlines in the sports world: he’d rather be a great father than a great golfer, and if being a father ever interfered with playing golf, he’d chose his family over the sport. Now he said he loved […]
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How To Do Relax and Do It Well
“How did you live like that?” This was my eight-year-old’s response when I told her that I grew up in a place, at a time, when Starbucks wasn’t ubiquitous in towns like ours. She and I had walked alone into town to get a smoothie bowl – also something I’d never heard of, if it […]
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Teach Your Kids The Randomness Of Life
Trips with kids are meant to expand their minds, to show them something different. We took our three daughters to Paris where we stayed at a friend’s apartment. It was also their first time to Europe. That alone would have been mind expanding. But we had three random encounters that got them thinking about how […]
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Why Should You Be Proud to be a Lead Dad?
What does it mean to be a Lead Dad—and why is it time to proudly claim that role? On the Hello Monday podcast with Jessi Hempel, I break down why Lead Dads matter, what companies can do to support them (and working moms), and how rethinking gender roles at work drives retention and results.
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What I Actually Want For Father’s Day
As all mothers know, and most children have to be reminded, Father’s Day is celebrated every year on the third Sunday of June. To be clear, I think Father’s Day is a great idea. But I’ve got a few issues with this holiday that I’d like to be entered into the record. First of all, […]
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A Dad Fighting The Good Fight – To Be Called First By School
When the phone rang from my daughter’s elementary school, with just two days left to the year, I scrambled to answer it. By some iPhone quirk it went to voicemail after just a ring. I wasn’t overly worried. I figured there was a 90 percent chance that the school nurse was calling with a reminder […]
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What You Want To Hear When You Say You’re Taking Parental Leave
I was in a room of ringers yesterday. And I should have known how they would answer my questions. I looked at a woman in the audience and said I wanted her honest response. She nodded. “I’m a woman in your organization,” I said. “I’m pregnant.” Without missing a beat, she said: “Congratulations.” “Right answer,” […]
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Why Lead Dads in the C-Suite Matter
Lead Dads can be in the C-suite. I say that to clear up the misconception that Lead Dads are stay-at-home dads. In fact, only 8 percent of Lead Dads devote all their time to their families. The rest are working while being a super-involved father at home and parenting advocate in the office. A recent […]
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How To Be Clutch As A Dad
I was talking to a high school athletics director this week from Trussville, Alabama. He had reached out to discuss a book I’d written 15 years ago. It’s about pressure and why some people excel under it and others don’t. There are five things that people who are good under pressure do, and each one […]
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How Parental Uncertainty Can Help In Uncertain Times
Uncertainty abounds – in the economy, with trade, around jobs. It’s something working parents are acutely aware of. Uncertainty is never a good state to exist in. When you know for sure that something is going to happen – good or bad – you can make a plan and work toward executing it. When one […]
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When There’s No Reason To Say No, Don’t Say It
There’s no get-better-at-work message here. It’s more about listening. And more precisely talking ourselves into listening before we answer when work and parenting calls at the same time. This week my youngest daughter had three days of out-of-school testing. I’m taking her because my schedule is easier to shuffle around, and as long as I […]
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