Career Strategy for Ambitious Parents – Event
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Career Strategy for Ambitious Parents
It’s shocking how quickly your career trajectory can change when you become a parent.
Once upon a time, you were a successful career woman climbing the ladder, and then all of a sudden everything shifts. Your boss stops giving you juicy projects. Happy hour team building is a distant memory. Your ‘just throw a few hours of overtime at it’ strategy for creating promotion-worthy results is…frankly laughable at this point.
So how are you supposed to maintain an ambitious career with all of that going on? And what does career strategy even look like in this era of your life?
Talk Outline:
This talk will focus on how to build a career strategy that works when you’re a parent. We’ll cover:
- Key conversations to have so you don’t get taken off the career ladder
- How career strategy changes over time as your children age
- How the ‘default parent’ assumption hurts women’s careers (& how to deal with it!)
- When to negotiate flexibility at work – and when not to
The goal of this talk is to give you the tools you need to build an ambitious career as a parent.
About Our Speakers
Zeba Khan
Senior Technology Leader,
Founder of Motherhood by Design
Zeba is a senior technology leader whose journey in tech has been deeply shaped by becoming a mother. While building and leading complex platforms, she experienced firsthand the tension many women feel between ambition and caregiving—and the lack of spaces that truly support both. This inspired her to create Motherhood by Design, an initiative rooted in the belief that motherhood doesn’t pause leadership, it reshapes it. Zeba brings an honest, compassionate voice to conversations about identity, purpose, and designing careers that evolve with our lives.
Samantha Wallace
Work-Life Harmony Facilitator for Working Mothers
Sam Wallace is the Founder of re-mom, an organization that helps working mothers find work-life harmony through dismantling default parenting. A bold ambition led by a bold woman, re-mom achieves this by coaching mothers and couples directly, and by educating and supporting organizations in creating work environment structures that best support working mothers.
Sam believes that every working mother deserves to live flexible, comfortable and satisfying lives. Sam leverages her background in Maternity Coaching, Psychology, and the Science of Change to produce shifts in attitude and approach in mothers and organizations alike, with a goal of changing the narrative around what working motherhood should look like, to what it could look like.
Mindset, values alignment, and strategic approaches to change are just a few of the principles Sam leans on to drive the reinvention of working motherhood.
Jennie Yang
Executive Coach
Founder, Chief Mama Officer
Jennie Yang is Founder of Chief Mama Officer, a community for executive moms of young children and moms-to-be. As an executive coach, former tech executive, and mom of two little ones, Jennie is passionate about helping executive moms thrive.
Jennie started her coaching practice in 2017 after becoming a certified master practitioner of transformational neuro-linguistic programming, also known as NLP. She blends NLP with mindfulness, emotional intelligence and conscious leadership in her coaching approach.
Jennie has also spent her entire career as a strategic operator at tech startups, scaleups, and Fortune 500 companies. Before founding Chief Mama Officer, Jennie led HR and Customer Success at 15Five (a performance management platform) and created Business Operations at TigerConnect (a healthcare communications platform). She also supported building Customer Success at TigerConnect and Data.ai, and started her career as a management consultant at The Advisory Board Company and Deloitte.
Holly Burton - Panel Moderator
Executive Coach for Women in Male-dominated Industries
Holly is an executive coach for women in male-dominated industries. She works one-on-one with ambitious women to help them lead, get promoted, and create the careers they actually want in industries they love.
As a mining engineer for the first ten years of her career, Holly was exposed to one of the most male-dominated spaces -- just 17% female. She uses the unique perspective she gained as a woman in mining, alongside her obsessive nerdiness for all things feminism, leadership, and career to help women create the working world they deserve while they wait for the rest of society to catch up.
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