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 | Apr 10, 2016 | Early childhood, Education, Empathy, Grit, Parenting, Resilience, Uncategorized
Did you catch Diane Rehm’s program on NPR last Thursday? Come spring, a group of schools in California will begin testing students on their social emotional skills. The debate among researchers and educators on the show was heated. What is the best way to assess...
by Jackie Acho | Nov 10, 2014 | Creative disruption, Empathy, Parenting, Silicon Valley, Social media, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership
Facebook and Apple recently announced plans to pay for their female employees to freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons. It sounds so friendly to women, doesn’t it? – a triumph of technology over biology, relieving us from the pressure of child bearing...
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 | Jan 23, 2014 | Addiction, Empathy, Parenting, Social media, Technology
By Jennifer Lehner and Jackie Acho This digital bonanza is freaking us out. What kind of humans are we becoming when our faces are smashed into screens? Will technology make us a more or less empathetic society? Can computers feel love? The time for hand wringing...
