Amy Beacom
Founder and CEO of the Center for Parental Leave Leadership
Ed.D.

Beacom began building the field of parental leave coaching and consulting in 2006 while at Columbia University where she received her master’s and doctorate degrees. Beacom has more than 25 years of experience in executive leadership development and coaching to work with organizations, leadership and working parents in the roughly year of transition surrounding parental leave - from policy development to improving practice, programming and the employee experience. She is the author of The Parental Leave Playbook (Wiley 2021).

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Beacom began building the field of parental leave coaching and consulting in 2006 while at Columbia University where she received her master’s and doctorate degrees. Beacom has more than 25 years of experience in executive leadership development and coaching to work with organizations, leadership and working parents in the roughly year of transition surrounding parental leave - from policy development to improving practice, programming and the employee experience. She is the author of The Parental Leave Playbook (Wiley 2021).