The document discusses seven strategies employed by executive mothers to balance their careers and family life, emphasizing the importance of flexible schedules, delegation, and community engagement. It highlights how these women prioritize effective communication and independence among their children, paralleling their leadership skills in the workplace. Ultimately, it showcases how women at the top are restructuring corporate policies to create a more family-friendly work environment.

1. E X E C U T I V E
M O M S S H O W
Y O U 7 WAY S
T H E Y M A N A G E
C A R E E R A N D
FA M I LY
C R E AT E D B Y S U S I E A L M A N E I H

2. • There is no question that in our busy world, it is challenging to find time,
resources and willingness to engage deeply with our families and our
professions.
• Despite all the headway women have made, the traditional mom role
often seems at odds with a high level career.

3. • However, women who have
made it all the way to the top
discover that there is more
space up there.
• Raising a family and running a
company have some obvious
and not-so-obvious parallels.
• Surprisingly, these women
have the flexibility to raise
large families successfully so
it is worth examining the way
that career-oriented women
have organized their time and
developed their parenting
philosophy.

4. C H O O S E
Y O U R O W N
C L O C K
• You make your own schedule and that doesn’t have to correspond with everyone else’s.
• So some moms took calls or meetings from 5am-7 with international partners so they
could enjoy breakfast with their kids.
• Some bosses also schedule in a “flex” day so that anything unforeseen can get pushed
to that space and if not then it’s room for some spontaneity with family.
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5. V E N T U R E O U T O F T H E C U B I C L E
• With so many people working
remotely, there are actually
whole ventures like Power to
Fly built on a mom-centric
need for women to work from
home, work part –time, or
work on a contract basis.
• Collaboration is an important
component and these moms
utilize the latest technology
to maintain ongoing
communication with their
team.
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6. C O N C E N T R AT E ;
F O R G E T M U LT I -
TA S K I N G
• Short, steady bursts of
uninterrupted
concentration on the task
at hand seemed to be the
key for most exec moms.
• They were highly
productive, mindful and
philosophically elastic
when it came to
prioritizing, setting goals
and meeting them.
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7. K N O W H O W T O D E L E G AT E
• When you are running a company, you hopefully have a team of experts
around you to attend to secondary tasks.
• This can come in the form of a personal chef, an au pair, a grocery
delivery service or a cleaning service.
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8. C O M M U N I C AT E
W I T H T H E
C O M M U N I T Y
• Networking goes hand in hand with running a company, so for many of these
women, applying their communication skills to their community is natural.
• Hooking up with local families is a big contributor to your family’s happiness.
• So planning a weekly activity at alternate households is automated and
exponentially helps out each family.
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9. E V E RY O N E
H E L P S
• The big kids help the
little kids and the
grown ups supervise,
(see Delegating).
• A common theme
among these working
moms was fostering
early independence
and group effort.
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10. E N J O Y I T !
• This is the part we are most likely to forget– the reflective part that
makes all our activities worth doing.
• Tuning our awareness to what is in front of us, whether it is our
children or our board meeting is the key to meaningful experience.
• For both moms and the people around them.
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11. • When it comes to
parenting, these
moms are pretty
hands-off in regard
to social growth.
• They advise letting
kids work out their
own power dynamic
and try to foster
independence and
interdependence at
an early age.

12. • In communicating with
their children, they
emphasize problem-
solving and active
listening.
• These are invaluable
tools at the board
meeting too.

13. • Women are making the
workforce stronger all over
the world, and a more
self-governing approach
to work is part of the exec
mom program.
• Because it is women at the
top who are implementing
these new policies, many
of these big companies
are very attractive to
women.

14. • Women are both natural
leaders and collaborators, since
those skills originate with family.
• These attributes are innate in
the sense that we’ve always
been doing it.

15. • And now, thanks to these
women’s strides, we are
starting to see how family,
community and business can
be more intrinsically and
philosophically linked into a
healthy and prosperous circle.