LEAD DAD 101

Spending Time With Lead Dad One: The Key Man in Our Story

The Lead Dad of the Week is my favorite feature on The Company of Dads. It highlights the incredible diversity of Lead Dads – men who are…

Nick Morton is our Lead Dad of the Week. And he’s been at the role with gusto since his daughter was born 15 years ago. (His son…

How often do men put “Taking child to pediatrician” or “Lunch with daughter” on their work calendar? We put parental milestones – middle…

Chip Kelly is our LeadDad of the Week – and no he’s not that Chip Kelly, the football coach (though this Chip Kelly has a story about…

A plea from Working Parents to all the planners of the world. Look at my calendar and you might think my wife and I were playing a game of…

Introducing our Lead Dad of the Week, Shaun Emerson, president of the board of MenLiving, a Chicago nonprofit that helps men forge…

My wife and I – working parents with three daughters, three dogs and two remote desk set-ups at home – went away for 5 days this week. It…

Aloha to our Lead Dad of the Week, Rage Day, an all-around positive, happy husband and father who has settled in Honolulu, Hawaii – after…

So began a conference on the future of work, hosted by CharterWorks, a new media company focused on transforming the workplace and driving…

Introducing Diego Matamoros, the first Lead Dad of the Week identified in action during a family vacation! Diego is a former opera singer…

A year ago, my final column ran in The New York Times after an unimaginably great 13-year run. On the one-year anniversary, I was sitting…

We’re introducing Mike Warren as our Lead Dad of the Week.Mike and his wife Kim, a senior executive at Apple, moved from Westport…