Jennifer McClanahan-Flint is a Family and Career Strategist. Through her Leverage to Lead Programs, she helps high-achieving working women build careers that are flexible, fulfilling and financially rewarding.  → Read More

Friendships can develop in many ways. Some friendships take you by surprise, which is how it happened with Ginny and me. While we’d never so much as gone out for coffee in all the time we’d known each other, we shared many a chat in my foyer when she stopped by—her newborn sleeping in the car at times.  → Read More

Josh Bersin founded Bersin in 2001 to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning. He is responsible for Bersin by Deloitte’s long term strategy and market eminence.  → Read More

The Shriver Report was published and all roads led to the White House. My story from The Shriver Report caught the attention of many people, including the First Lady and members of her staff. I had previously written that I felt that I was right where I was supposed to be…this totally validated this statement.  → Read More

By Riane Eisler and Kimberly Otis, Center for Partnership Studies
Women do most of the care work in families; they care for children, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, women devote more than 110 million hours a year to unpaid interactive child care, more than double men’s less than 55 million hours. This care work is socially and economically essential. But unless we change our current national and state policies, the fact that women do far more of this work than men will continue to be a major reason for women’s disproportionate poverty.  → Read More

Vice President, Editorial, Center for American Progress
Lauren Vicary is the Vice President for Editorial at the Center for American Progress, where she manages the Art, Video, and Editorial teams producing both print and web content for American Progress. A 20-year veteran of political journalism, Lauren launched numerous digital properties for several news organizations.  → Read More

Peggy Drexler, Ph.D. is a research psychologist, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Weill Medical College, Cornell University, former gender scholar at Stanford University and author of two books about modern families and the children they produce.  → Read More

Whenever I think about the word negotiation, I think about the often difficult and awkward discussions had with bosses, usually hashing out the details of a contract, salary or job. Even if the outcome of the discussion is exciting, the back-and-forth can lead to a knot in my stomach and endless worry. But how do we begin to embrace this skill? How do we get better at it? And how in the world do you get started?  → Read More