Are you a Lead Dad aka the go-to parent? I'm Paul Sullivan and I created The Company of Dads to bring together dads like me across the country. It’s a role I know well. While I was a New York Times columnist for the 13 years, I also had a second job that I loved but kept secret: I was the Lead Dad for our three daughters – but don’t call me Mr. Mom. Earlier this year, I launched The Company of Dads to bring together Lead Dads whether they worked full time, part time or devoted all of their times to their family. I also wanted to show working moms that there could be help and create awareness within companies to change their parenting policies. Join our community today to connect with other Dad's like us & learn more about how to make the most out of your role. https://lnkd.in/eUEmy5jj
The Company of Dads
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New York, NY 2,493 followers
The first community for #LeadDads
About us
The Company of Dads brings together #fathers who raise children, support their partner, balance work goals, and somehow keep it all together. Join us!
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https://thecompanyofdads.com
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- Social Networking Platforms
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- 1 employee
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- New York, NY
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- Self-Owned
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- 2021
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New York, NY 10021, US
Employees at The Company of Dads
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Terry Brenan
MBA | Consumer/B2B Marketing | Brand Monetization | Customer Acquisition/Retention
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Paul Sullivan
Founder, The Company of Dads | Creating a Community of Lead Dads | Supporting Fathers at Work and Home | Leading with Equity and Inclusion | Keynote…
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Jeffrey Stewart
CEO @ INVCBL Sports Marketing // CEO @ CCG Digital Agency
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Chase Kishler
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Marc Hoffman - founder of the Hoffman Educational Group and Strong Start Early Care & Education - has taken the learning struggles and misunderstandings from his early years in education, and uses them to help others with similar learning challenges. Check out this amazing episode now: https://lnkd.in/esi2ja-W #LeadDad #adhd #dyslexia #Education
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Happy Labor Day! Today, we celebrate and thank all of our amazing employees for their hard work and dedication. An exceptional shoutout to the incredible moms and Lead Dads who go above and beyond, balancing work and family with such grace and commitment. We appreciate everything you do! #LaborDay #companyofdads
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Question: Has a parenting-related emergency ever coincided with an important work responsibility? Skip Cherryholmes discusses the key components for handeling the inevitable and then unplannable. Check out more Full Disclosure topics on our website! https://lnkd.in/g6XKpVWi #LeadDad #FullDisclosure #Parenting #Emergency
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“Can I do this? What’s the responsibility? Is it going to change my life?” Those were questions that Donnie Desanti, our Lead Dad of the Week from Hoboken, N.J., asked himself before his first son was born. But they are as universal as any set of questions a working dad might ponder. Bringing that honesty to parenthood and marriage has been crucial for Donnie, founder of Project Healthy Dad, which helps busy fathers get in better shape. He’s been married for a decade and has sons age 8 and 5. While his own father was a great model – what he calls “a straight edge Italian dad, always there, supporting us, always at our games, but we never went much deeper” – he wanted to go deeper as a dad. “I wanted to be open with my kids and have those deeper discussions,” he said. “I wanted to figure out those hard things in life. I always wanted to be there with my kids.” He's made health a central part of his life and works to inspire other dads to join him. (His father died before his first son was born.) “We focus on three pillars,” he said. “Nutrition and food habits, exercise and movement and stress and mindset.” His wife Katie works more traditional hours, so Donnie said it made sense for him to step into the Lead Dad role. It was an inauspicious start. “My wife was off maternity leave, and it was my first real day home with my son,” he remembered. “He was crying. There was just no flow to the day.” It was a lesson he now shares with other dads in his Slim Down Challenge. “You’ve got to be able to control what you can control,” he said. “Some days you’ve got it. Some times you’re off balance. The big thing is just being present, staying in the now and just focus on right now.” It’s good advice for any parent. Welcome, Donnie, to The Company of Dads. #LeadDad #HealthyDad #Fatherhood
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“The amount of influence you have over your children can be ethically manipulated based on the amount of time you share with your child and the amount of time you don’t share with your child.” Neal Conlon talks about very real challenges he has experienced with his children, and reflecting on the "why" for other dads. Catch up on the latest episode of the podcast now! https://lnkd.in/ezZj6Kg8 Omnis Rising #LeadDad #Parenting #SpendingTimeTogether
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Question: How do you create work-from-home boundaries without completely shutting your family out? Skip Cherryholmes discusses the struggle of working from home and helping your family understand that you need your work space and time. See the Full Disclosure Library on our website for more great topics! https://lnkd.in/g6XKpVWi #LeadDad #fulldisclosure #RemoteWork #WorkFromHome
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Representing Lead Dad in the White House? Here are a few points from Paul about Doug Emhoff and the great Lead Dad qualities he brings to the forefront!
Founder, The Company of Dads | Creating a Community of Lead Dads | Supporting Fathers at Work and Home | Leading with Equity and Inclusion | Keynote Speaker
Doug Emhoff’s speech at the Democratic National Convention wasn’t just another way to show his wife Kamala Harris as a three-dimensional person. It was a master class to show other men the qualities that make someone a Lead Dad. Emhoff was married for 16 years to a successful film producer. When they got divorced, he became part of the 18 percent of fathers in the United States who are divorced, widowed or otherwise single. That’s a key part of the 25 million men in the U.S. who are or could be Lead Dads. Ten years ago, he and Kamala were married, and they became part of the 40 percent of families in America that are blended. He's lived a lot of the Lead Dad experience. Here are five points from Emhoff's speech that define what it means to be a Lead Dad who supports his spouse or partner in their career - whatever your politics may be. 1) A Sense of Humor: Emhoff recounted a bumbling, babbling voicemail he left for his now wife at 8:30am one morning. He quipped that he wanted to stuff the words back into his mouth but they just kept falling out. We’ve all been there. Bonus Lead Dad points for not taking himself too seriously: Kamala replays that voicemail to him every year on their anniversary. 2) Life and Work Are Fluid: Emhoff was a Los Angeles entertainment attorney who admitted to having nice lunches on a regular basis. Uncharacteristically, he was eating at his desk when Kamala returned his call. She was California’s attorney general at the time. Both super accomplished, super busy people took an hour out of their day and talked. That, he joked was their first date. 3) Be Honest About Who You Are: When they go in Emhoff’s car for their first date, he recalled telling the A.G.: "Buckle up, I’m a really bad driver." Now that’s saying something in Los Angeles! It’s also saying something to admit that to the state’s top law enforcement official (albeit one with bigger problems than bad drivers). Emhoff didn’t pretend. No macho posing. He admitted a weakness. 4) Compromise. He spoke of Kamala going to services for the high Jewish holidays and of him going to Easter services with her. What he didn’t say was he quit his partnership at a prestigious law firm to avoid any ethical conflicts when they moved to Washington for her to be vice president and Emhoff to take up his role as the first-ever Second Gentleman. 5) Love. His son Cole introduced him. But it was his daughter Ella, on which the camera kept returning, who caught my heart as a girl dad. She was beaming with pride as her father spoke. And that’s the biggest lesson of all for Lead Dads: if we want our kids to do the right thing, we need to do the right thing. They watch what we do far more than they listen to what we say. The Company of Dads
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We are so excited to see Paul Sullivan joining everyone with The Care Gap (by Mother Honestly) LinkedIn Live tomorrow! You won’t want to miss it! Event Details: * Date and Time: August 22nd, 12:30 pm (EST) Duration: 30-60 minutes * Platform: LinkedIn Live (The Care Gap (by Mother Honestly) * Please see the Link: https://lnkd.in/gpAqpZ9s Instructions: * Please join the Live 10 minutes before the scheduled time. * The Link has been shared above * Ensure you have a stable internet connection and are in a quiet, well-lit location.
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Dads carrying a flower-printed messenger bag filled with diapers, bottles, towels, blankets and a pacifier or two? We’ve all been there. Adam Harr, a father of two boys and a girl, was fed up with poorly designed, ridiculous looking diaper bags, so he said no more. He didn’t walk away from his parental responsibilities of, literally, shouldering part of the load. Instead, he created a line of diaper bags (and more) for men who want to be involved but comfortable dads. Adam, our Lead Dad of the Week from Seattle, created Fifty Fifty Gear with two friends after he was laid off from a startup in 2021. The idea was to create bags that dads would be excited for. “It started with the idea that dads were doing more.” He drew on knowledge running Amazon’s baby registry division when he was a new dad in 2015. “I was very frustrated that there were not products out there, specifically a bag that I would be excited to buy and use every day,” Adam said. “If it was out there, it was on Amazon, and I saw it. I bought this dude dad bag and it was terrible. I felt like wearing a giant military backpack was a bit much. I would have totally bought a great diaper bag built for dads.” He recently started working as a senior product director at Capital One (What’s in your wallet, er, diaper bag???) He remains 100 percent committed to 50/50 – both the bags and his role as a Lead Dad. His wife is a clinical psychotherapist who can’t cancel appointments when a child gets sick. “I have leaned into the fact that my wife’s career is not flexible, so I need to be more flexible,” he said. “What I’ve come to accept is that it’s going to create a period of time when I have to do work during the day and at night or in some ways it can be professionally limiting. This phase is fleeting. So, I’ve come to terms with that tradeoff.” And a cool 50/50 bag doesn’t hurt. “No one would notice if you were rocking this bag on the train,” he said. “It’s also a great hiking bag. And it’s a great diaper bag. I had to rock a zebra printed bag with gold zippers for years. It wasn’t very comfortable. It had bad straps. And it showed that overall parenting products don’t consider the role dads play.” Welcome, Adam, to The Company of Dads – and thanks for offering a 15 percent discount to any Lead Dads buying some gear. Just enter code “leaddad15” at checkout. https://lnkd.in/e7snqrce
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