The Working Parent Equation: Balancing small humans and big careers

by Georgie Rudd

Overview

Rock and a hard place? Feeling the crush of project delivery, commercial development, people leadership and caring for your kids? We get it: loving both your career and your children can feel like a collision course to burn-out.

Georgie Rudd, an ICF accredited executive coach, has coached hundreds of brilliant leaders who have the equally demanding job of parenting. In this warm and authentic guide she brings the power of executive coaching to anyone who needs it:

• practical, easy-to-use diagnostic tools
• deep, pragmatic understanding of the real world of corporate work
• honest case studies highlighting what everyone finds hard and what to do about it.

The Working Parent Equation enables working parents to get clear on what success looks like for their personal equation and how to take action to achieve it, sustainably.

Whether you're making the pivotal return to work or your challenging teen is making you doubt yourself, whether you're talking yourself out of a promotion you really want to pursue or you're trying to protect your non-negotiables at home, this book has your back.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788608749
Publisher:	Practical Inspiration Publishing
Publication date:	04/27/2026
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232

About the Author

Georgie Rudd is an ICF-accredited Executive Coach with 20+ years’ leadership experience in Financial Services and Management Consulting. She is Director of her own coaching practice, co-founder of Listening Lab and a trusted leadership coach to clients including Baringa Partners, Mercedes Formula 1, Kingfisher, Rothschild and Inigo. She’s also a parent who loves both her work AND her children.

Georgie Rudd is an ICF-accredited Executive Coach with over 20 years’ real-world corporate leadership experience.

After an early career as an HR Business Partner to Banking leaders, Georgie held leadership positions in Learning and Executive Education at Lloyds Banking Group and as Head of Learning and Development for Baringa Partners, a global multi-award-winning Best Place to Work firm. She is founder of Rudd Coaching Ltd and co-founder of Listening Lab. Georgie is a trusted coaching partner to clients including Baringa Partners, Mercedes Formula 1, Kingfisher, Rothschild and Inigo.

Georgie coaches 100s of professionals on leadership effectiveness, confidence, return to work and career progression, helping working parents run the long race.

Georgie is CIPD qualified, holds an MA from Durham University, is an alumna of Henley Business School and is a certified practitioner in psychometrics and research-based coaching approaches. Above all, she is a dedicated parent to two miraculous small humans who remind her daily that the work-parent equilibrium is a prize to be prioritised.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

PART 1: Redefining Success

CHAPTER 1: A new era: BC to AC

CHAPTER 2: Why bother?

CHAPTER 3: You are the instrument of your success

CHAPTER 4: Guilt, the mental load and letting go

PART 2: Prioritisation: Giant Jenga For Professionals

CHAPTER 5: Balancing priorities

CHAPTER 6: ‘Yes’ and ‘No’: two sides of the same coin

CHAPTER 7: Non-negotiables

PART 3: Choosing Who To Listen To

CHAPTER 8: Noisy voices: the myth of perfection

CHAPTER 9: Thinking traps and how to climb out of them

CHAPTER 10: The inner critic: friend not foe

CHAPTER 11: Sticky systems: sorting out what you need to leave behind

PART 4: Resourcing for Success….your way

CHAPTER 12: A historian, a scientist and a journalist: liberation through evidence testing

CHAPTER 13: Map it out: 3D maps to get you moving

CHAPTER 14: All the feelings: integrating emotion to serve you well

CHAPTER 15: Career smarts: recruiting your own Career Board

CHAPTER 16: Resourcing yourself: running the long race

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Bibliography

Index