Working Parent Equation
Balancing small humans and big careers

By (author) Georgie Rudd

ISBN13: 9781788608725

Imprint: Practical Inspiration Publishing

Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing

Format: Hardback

Published: 24/03/2026

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Description
Rock and a hard place? Feeling the crush of project delivery, commercial development, people leadership and caring for your kids? We get it: loving both your career and your children can feel like a collision course to burn-out. Georgie Rudd, an ICF accredited executive coach, has coached hundreds of brilliant leaders who have the equally demanding job of parenting. In this warm and authentic guide she brings the power of executive coaching to anyone who needs it: practical, easy-to-use diagnostic tools deep, pragmatic understanding of the real world of corporate work honest case studies highlighting what everyone finds hard and what to do about it. The Working Parent Equation enables working parents to get clear on what success looks like for their personal equation and how to take action to achieve it, sustainably. Whether you're making the pivotal return to work or your challenging teen is making you doubt yourself, whether you're talking yourself out of a promotion you really want to pursue or you're trying to protect your non-negotiables at home, this book has your back.
Foreword Preface Introduction PART 1: Redefining Success CHAPTER 1: A new era: BC to AC CHAPTER 2: Why bother? CHAPTER 3: You are the instrument of your success CHAPTER 4: Guilt, the mental load and letting go PART 2: Prioritisation: Giant Jenga For Professionals CHAPTER 5: Balancing priorities CHAPTER 6: ‘Yes’ and ‘No’: two sides of the same coin CHAPTER 7: Non-negotiables PART 3: Choosing Who To Listen To CHAPTER 8: Noisy voices: the myth of perfection CHAPTER 9: Thinking traps and how to climb out of them CHAPTER 10: The inner critic: friend not foe CHAPTER 11: Sticky systems: sorting out what you need to leave behind PART 4: Resourcing for Success….your way CHAPTER 12: A historian, a scientist and a journalist: liberation through evidence testing CHAPTER 13: Map it out: 3D maps to get you moving CHAPTER 14: All the feelings: integrating emotion to serve you well CHAPTER 15: Career smarts: recruiting your own Career Board CHAPTER 16: Resourcing yourself: running the long race Acknowledgements About the Author Bibliography Index
  • Advice on parenting
  • Advice on careers & achieving success
  • General (US: Trade)
Height:216
Width:140
Spine:20
Weight:0.00
List Price: £24.99