What if parenthood wasn't seen as a professional pause-but as a leadership accelerator?
The Parenthood Advantage challenges long-standing workplace assumptions, revealing how becoming a parent sharpens the very skills modern companies need most: resilience, empathy, focus, crisis management, and a long-view perspective.
Through powerful stories, real-world research, and actionable insights, this book invites leaders to reimagine working parents not as a liability-but as an untapped competitive edge. Written for executives, managers, and changemakers, The Parenthood Advantage explores how companies can build cultures that value the lived experience of parenthood-and thrive because of it.
"Donovan and Kaplan make an authoritative case for why parents make effective leaders."
- BookLife by Publishers Weekly
The authors are working parents themselves, and bring decades of expertise in employee engagement, wellness, and workplace inclusion. As thought leaders and advisors to Fortune 1000 companies, they've helped organizations reframe talent development for a modern workforce-one that recognizes the lived experience of parenthood as a professional asset, not a detour.
Mason Donovan and Mark Kaplan are Managing Partners of The Dagoba Group, a global consulting firm advancing inclusive leadership, employee well-being, and organizational culture, and Founders of The Parenthood Advantage, a consultancy that helps organizations build cultures where working parents are valued as leaders and contributors. They are also the authors of The Inclusion Dividend, a perennial best-seller leveraged in corporate and academic classrooms worldwide, as well as SET for Inclusion and The Golden Apple. Their work has been featured by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company. Their work has been featured by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company.
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Mason Donovan is the co-author of The Parenthood Advantage and a founding partner of The Parenthood Advantage consultancy. A certified wellness coach and seasoned leadership consultant, Mason has spent over two decades helping organizations build inclusive, resilient, and parent-supportive workplace cultures. His work focuses on aligning business strategy with the real-life experiences of employees-especially working parents. Mason is also the co-author of The Inclusion Dividend, SET for Inclusion, and the author of The Golden Apple, widely used in corporate and academic settings. He lives with his family in New England, where his personal and professional passions often intersect.