41. Amy Henderson: Building a better future for working parents

Sue Stockdale talks to Amy Henderson, one of the USA’s leading voices on the critical role that parenting and caregiving has in developing the future of work. Amy talks about her own experiences as a working parent, the challenges she faced, and some of the research and data from neuroscience that explains how showing up for parenthood significantly enhances your capacity for emotional intelligence, courage, efficiency, productivity, purpose, and collaboration.Amy is the founding CEO of TendLab, where she is creating a movement to change the game for working parents. With only 14% of American parents having access to paid parental leave, Amy talks about the challenges she faced as a working parent, and what motivated her to create TendLab as a way of addressing how working parents are valued in the workplace.Through TendLab, Amy has worked with companies and their parents' groups at places like Salesforce, Accenture, Cloudflare, and many more. As cited in Forbes for her "truly collaborative nature," Amy also started and co-leads the Fam Tech Founders Collaborative, a network of over 130 founders who are solving for the needs of caregivers. A regular speaker and author advocating on behalf of parents at work, Amy has written for, or been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, Slate, InStyle, and others. Her book ‘Tending: Parenthood and the Future of Work’ is published by Nationbuilder books.For more information about Amy Henderson on social media: Instagram www.instagram.com/amytendlabTwitter www.twitter.com/AmyTendLabFacebook www.facebook.com/AmyHendersonAuthoror via the website www.TendLab.com.For transcriptions of all our podcasts go to www.accesstoinspiration.org Connect with us on social media - www.Twitter.com/accessinspirat1www.Instagram.com/accesstoinspirationwww.Facebook.com/accesstoinspirationLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/access-to-inspiration/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/access-to-inspiration--4156820/support.