Parenthood in the modern workplace
with alyssa dowdalls
How are today's workplaces adapting to support working parents? Alyssa Dowdalls, a Brand Communications Strategist at BPM, shares her experience with balancing her role as a mother with remote work, providing valuable insights into the accommodations working parents need to excel. She discusses the reality of mom guilt, her decision to choose a supportive culture post-maternity leave, and how her current firm leads with women in key positions. We also talk about incentivizing mental health care for employees, challenging the traditional office-bound work culture, and why video is a powerful medium for empathy and emotional connection in the workplace.
In this episode:
The unique balance that remote work offers modern parents
Flexibility is the key to peak performance
The impact of women in leadership fostering a family-friendly culture
Why video is a key tool in creating emotional connection and empathy
Incentivizing mental health and ensuring that you have time to do so
Alyssa Dowdalls
Brand Communications Strategist at BPM
Alyssa Dowdalls is a Brand Communications Strategist at BPM, one of the 35 largest public accounting and advisory firms in the U.S. She's worked on Marketing teams within a tech start-up, a Fortune 1,000 public company and as a crime journalist at a Top 30 newspaper. Today, when she's not creating impactful communications campaigns, she's working at her hardest job to date - motherhood.
