by Jackie Acho | Aug 1, 2016 | Empathy, Leading with a Conscience, Motherhood
There is so much vis a vis empathy we could discuss in this campaign season. We don’t want to bore you with all of it and don’t even like wading into politics. But this past weekend, something fascinating happened, which has people talking about empathy...
by Jackie Acho | May 25, 2016 | Early childhood, Fathers, Motherhood, Mothers, Parental Leave, Parenting, Uncategorized
Mayor Trevor Elkins of Newburgh Heights, Ohio (a small suburb of Cleveland) inspired the most progressive parental leave policy in the country: six-months paid leave for all of the village’s full-time employees, women and men, biological parents and adoptive....
by Jackie Acho | Feb 24, 2015 | Motherhood, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Yes, she did. Patricia Arquette talked about the motherhood gap at the Oscars: “To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It is our time to have wage equality once and for all, and...
by Jackie Acho | Jul 5, 2014 | CEO, Changemaker, Empathy, Feminist revolution, Innovation with a soul, Motherhood, Mothers, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Thank you Indra Nooyi, President and CEO of PepsiCo, for your refreshingly brutal honesty about the tradeoffs between business leadership and parenting. “You know, you have to cope, because you die with guilt. You just die with guilt. My observation is that the...
by Jackie Acho | Jun 14, 2014 | Changemaker, Feminist revolution, Motherhood, Motherly love, Mothers, Rape culture, Women in Leadership
Have you seen the movie? Have you heard the buzz? Maleficent is the dark fairy who casts a spell on Sleeping Beauty. Through this Wicked-like prequel brought to us by Angelina Jolie and Disney, we come to understand the story differently. It’s not a movie for...
by Jackie Acho | May 17, 2014 | Early childhood, Intrapreneurship, Motherhood, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Barbara Walters is using her megaphone to tell us something important. Can we hear her? Is she breaking through our armor of modern culture and personal regret to pierce our hearts? Does she fully realize how important it is and why now is the right time to...
