26: Moms in Corporate Impact

Parents At Work

Today’s guests, Abby Davisson and Anne Wintroub, are both mothers in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR, or corporate impact). Abby, Senior Director at the Gap Foundation, launched and currently leads the employee network group for working parents at Gap Inc. She shares what her experience as a working parent at Gap Inc. has been, what her hiring and leave process looked like, as well as what inspired her to launch the employee network group. Anne, leader of social innovation at AT&T, discusses the many benefits of being a working parent in social impact and how her position has given her a new perspective on parenting and empowering kids with respect to media and technology..

Join Tom Spiggle and co-host Lori Mihalich-Levin in these captivating interviews to learn more about the shifts that are happening in corporate impact, how these shifts are affecting working parents, and raising socially conscious children, along with great tips for new parents.

Show Highlights:

• Abby’s working parent story and how she made her career shift during pregnancy
• Abby’s experience being a mom in a corporate social impact position and how managers can improve unconscious bias towards pregnancy leave
• What is corporate impact and how the field has shifted over the years
• Support systems that made transitioning back to work easier
• Systems that would improve the working parent experience
• What inspired Abby to launch the employee network group for working parents
• Changes that are currently happening in corporate impact and how it’s impacting working parents
• Implementing the 10/10/10 model for making decisions
• Resources Abby utilizes as a working parent
• Anne’s working parent story and how her leave experience varied with each child
• Workplace supports that improved Anne’s experience returning from work
• Supports that would improve working parents’ experiences
• How paying attention to positive digital culture and digital toxicity is changing the working parent experience
• What is digital toxicity and encouraging young people to find their voice technology and media
• Letting go of expectations as a parent and being light with yourself
• Resources that Anne utilizes as a working parent

Links:

Contact Lori:

https://www.mindfulreturn.com

[e-mail]

Contact Tom:

https://www.spigglelaw.com/podcasts/parents-at-work/

For a copy of “You’re pregnant, You’re fired”- [e-mail]

Resources:

The Opposite of Spoiled by Ron Leiber

https://www.babyconnect.com

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