LEAD DAD 101

A Plea From Working Parents to the World’s Planners

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…

Men’s mental health is much talked about except by the people struggling with it the most: men.I’m seeing it in The Company of Dads’…

This week’s Lead Dad of the Week is Brent Surratt, father of four athlete kids and husband to a hospice nurse. He has some lessons for…

Brian Page, a financial literacy expert, is the founder of Modern Husbands. He joined me on this week’s podcast where we talked about the…

Matt, a chef by training, is a Lead Dad who devotes all of his time to his kids. He has two – Lily, 8, and Patrick, 5. His wife Angela is…