Intentional Parenting: Lessons from Parenting Can Make You A Better Leader

What if one of the most powerful sources of leadership development, purpose, and personal growth isn’t found in a course or a promotion, but in being a working parent? In this conversation, leadership coach and parent advocate Claudia Timmermans explores how intentional parenting, alignment, and shared responsibility build the very skills that create stronger leaders, more engaged teams, and create more impact at work and at home.Whether you’re a working parent, people leader, or coach, this conversation reframes parenting as a powerful source of personal growth, emotional intelligence, inclusive leadership, and intentional leadership. Claudia challenges outdated narratives and shows how everyday life, especially parenthood, can reveal strengths you didn’t know you had.Rather than focusing on policies, productivity hacks, or “doing more,” this episode explores why gender equity, engagement, emotional intelligence, and leadership effectiveness start at home. When expectations, time, and responsibility are shared intentionally, people show up differently—not just as parents, but as leaders, partners, and humans creating impact in the world.If you’re a working parent, people leader, or coach who has ever questioned your potential, struggled to balance roles, or wondered whether you’re truly living your purpose, this episode offers a meaningful reframe. Parenthood isn’t something to survive, it’s an experience that can shape stronger leadership and a more fulfilling life when approached with intention.Subscribe to What Do You Know To Be True? for more conversations that help you discover your superpower, unlock your potential, and create your impact so you can lead with greater purpose at work, at home, and beyond.In this episode, Claudia answers the following questions:➡️ What is gender equity?➡️ What is intentional parenting?➡️ What are ways the workplace can be more supportive to parents?➡️ Why does gender equity start at home?My favorite quote from the episode: “Gender equity begins at home.”Powerful, simple, logical. Resources mentioned in the episode:➡️ Claudia's company Oletta Consulting➡️ Book: "Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey Toward Equity" by Claudia Goldin ➡️ Book: "Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)" by Eve Rodsky Music by Ian Kastner."What Do You Know To Be True?" is an invitation to be inspired to discover your superpower, unlock your potential, and create your impact in the world. This podcast is for people leaders, coaches, org development practitioners and anyone who is working on their leadership capabilities and personal growth, through coaching or not, in their pursuit of unlocking and living into their possibilities.For more information about the podcast or to check out more episodes, go to: https://whatdoyouknowtobetrue.com/ "What Do You Know To Be True?" is hosted by Roger Kastner, is a production of Three Blue Pens, and is recorded on the ancestral lands of the Duwamish and Suquamish people. To discover the ancestral lands of the indigenous people whose land you may be on, go to: https://native-land.ca/ Keyword#intentionalparenting #intentionalleadership #Workingparents #personalgrowth #purpose #alignment #genderequality #parenting #inclusiveleadership #emotionalintelligence #equalparenting #parentingtips #momlife #discoveryoursuperpower #unlockyourpotential #CreateYourImpact