If you read Part 1 , you already know that mom-leaders are building real, elite communication skills every single day. In the delivery room. At the 3am feeding. In the pediatrician's office. In the standoff with your mother-in-law at Thanksgiving. So why does it feel like you leave all of that at the door the moment you walk into a conference room? It is not because the skills are not there. It is because three very specific things are working against you. None of them are yo

Before I became a mom, I coached people on communication, leadership, and team dynamics. I had a doctorate. I had a framework. I had the credentials to back it up. I was also one of a million other consultants saying the exact same thing. What I was missing, and didn't know it yet, was the thing that would make all of that knowledge actually mean something. It wasn't until I became a mother that I understood what it really means to lead and communicate. Because suddenly, th

Back in 2018, I was leading a course on Business Communication at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. One of the assignments of the course was to present a persuasive presentation on the benefits of working from home. At the time, remote working was something that sounded foreign to many of the students and myself. Little did we know that in just two years, the COVID pandemic would force the majority of white-collar workers into that form of work.