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In today's work-first culture, career women with children are told they have two options: lean in or opt out. Pouring all your energy into work can mean compromising your commitment to your family. Leaving your job can mean sacrificing the career you've spent years cultivating.Work Pause Thrive presents a third way - one that some of the most successful, and most fulfilled, women have been taking, quietly, for years: a brief pause, or pulling back, from the arc of your career so you can embrace all aspects of life.Through first-person interviews along with cutting-edge research collected from nearly 1,500 women, journalist, former advertising executive, and successful "pauser" Lisen Stromberg reveals five different blueprints for stepping back from your professional life without sacrificing your ambitions.
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After a successful career in marketing and advertising, Lisen Stromberg, left the business world frustrated by the lack of support for mothers in the workplace. She pivoted to become an award-winning journalist whose work can be found in the New York Times, Fortune, Newsweek, Salon, and other high profile media outlets. Now Lisen is back to her business roots as CEO and Founder of PrismWork, a culture innovation consultancy. She and her team partner with companies, leaders, and advocates, to innovate the workplace so the next generation isn't forced to choose between work and family. A sought after speaker and moderator, Lisen has inspired thousands with her talks on work life integration, corporate talent innovation, disrupting the traditional career paradigm, and empowering women in the workplace. She has been seen on stage at SXSW, TEDx, The 3% Conference, and more. Her book, Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career is deeply reported with extensive social science research, cutting edge data collected from nearly 1,500 women, and through 186 first-person interviews. In it, she reveals how trailblazing women have disrupted the traditional career paradigm to achieve their personal and professional goals and provides readers with a blueprint for how they, too, can integrate kids with their career. Lisen lives with her family in San Francisco.
