Joann S. Lublin

Pulitzer-winning journalist. Author. Speaker.

Newest book coming in February:

Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life

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About Joann S. Lublin

Joann is the author of two books about female business leaders. Her latest, Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life, will be published in February 2021.

Her first popular leadership book, Earning It: Hard-Won lessons from Trailblazing Women at the top of the Business World, offers insights from 52 high-level executive women about obstacles they overcame.

Joann is the former Management News Editor of The Wall Street Journal. She created its first career advice column, which she wrote until May 2020. Joann shared the Journal's 2003 Pulitzer Prize for stories about corporate scandals. In 2018, she won the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest accolade in business journalism.

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Media/Press

CSPAN Book TV

WABC radio, New York

KXAN TV, Austin, TX

Interviews & Mentions

"All Things Considered" on National Public Radio

Bloomberg TV

CNBC TV "Squawk Box"

Cosmopolitan

Financial Times

Forbes

Fortune

Fox 5 TV New York City

TheStreet.com video

The Wall Street Journal (excerpted Earning It )

Speaking

Corner Office at Home: What executive moms have learned about working remotely.
What’s Work-Life Sway? And why it works better than work-life balance at restoring sanity to our crazy lives.
Pass the Roles: Smart ways that employed parents can jointly raise children and pursue careers.
Dump the Guilt: New remedies for working mother guilt.
Power Over Pain: How a health crisis can be transformational in your professional growth.
Boss Mom: Great moms make great bosses. How to use parenting skills for career advancement.
Pregnant Pause: Career strategies when trying to get pregnant, are expecting, and resume work as a new mom.
Workplaces that Work for Parents: How businesses can more successfully retain employees with kids.

Topics Joann can discuss from Power Moms

Some of Joann's Appearances:

at Major Companies

Adobe American Express

Accenture Best Buy

BlackRock Boston Consulting

Campbell Soup Cisco

Coca Cola Delta Air Lines

Hewlet-Packard Enterprise Home Depot

IBM Int'l Flavors & Fragrances

J.P. Morgan Chase Johnson & Johnson

McKesson Olgivy & Mather PricewaterhouseCoopers Sidley Austin

SYPartners State Street Global Advisors

Target Vanguard Group

at top Business Schools

Harvard Business School

MIT’s Sloan School of Management

Northwestern’s Kellogg School

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

University of Toronto’s Rotman School

University Of Pennsylvania's Wharton School

Yale School of Management

at Major Organizations

Global Institute for Women Corporate Directors

Chicago Executive Club

Conference Board Women's Leadership Summit

Concordia Summit annual global affairs forum

Rockefeller Foundation

United Nations book store

At Bay-area nonprofit Watermark

New York State Writers Institute

U of Toronto Rotman School of Management

Her Books

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Power Moms -- coming February 2021

About Power Moms

More mothers than ever lead big U.S. companies. Yet despite their gains, these Power Moms still struggle to combine managerial duties and career goals with parenthood.

Joann compares baby boom and GenX executives, showing how far working mothers have come—and how much further they'll need to go in a post-pandemic world. She offers insights from her own career and those of 86 executive moms such as Hershey Chief Executive Michele Buck and WW International CEO Mindy Grossman. In addition, she documents how 25 grown daughters reacted to their mothers’ demanding careers.

Power Moms also looks at ways that younger executives---in their 30s and 40s—handle motherhood differently despite leading stressful lives. They include former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Rent the Runway CEO Jenn Hyman.

The book guides companies through this rugged terrain as well. It blames the paucity of family-friendly policies such as paid parental leave for the painful tradeoffs mothers often make between work and family. Power Moms spells out what more employers must do to make working parenthood work.

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Earning It -- published in October 2016

About Earning It

Among the first female reporters of the Wall Street Journal, Joann faced a number of uphill battles in her career. She and dozens of other women who successfully navidgated the corporate battlefield share their stories and valuable leadership lessons.

Joann combines her own fascinating story with insightful tales from more than 50 women who reached the pinnacle of corporate leadership--women like Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, and Ginni Rometty, former CEO of IBM. The choices they made and the battles they won and lost seeking to make their mark.

The trailblazers you meet in Earning It provide a compelling career compass that will help aspiring women executives reach their highest potential.