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Building a career in STEM while raising a family often happens in the margins between meetings, school pickup, and late nights. STEM Moms was written for those moments.
This Kindle edition offers practical career guidance for moms working in science, technology, engineering, and math who want to make thoughtful decisions about work, growth, and priorities without overhauling their entire lives. The focus is on the careers and experiences of moms working in science, technology, engineering, and math, rather than on guiding children into STEM fields.
Cassie Leonard combines real experiences with structured reflection prompts and career tools you can return to again and again, whether you are questioning your next role, navigating burnout, or reassessing what success looks like now.
Inside, you’ll find:
Short, focused sections you can read in one sittingCareer growth tools tailored to STEM professionals and working parentsPractical guidance for managing expectations, boundaries, and energyReflections on mentorship, resilience, and long-term career sustainability
Whether you are early in your career or deep into mid-career decisions, this digital edition is designed to meet you where you are. No pressure to read cover to cover. No expectation to have all the answers.
This is a resource to keep close as you design a career and life that actually works for you.
From the Publisher
Meet the Author
Cassie Leonard is an executive, engineer, and a working parent. Motivated by her passion to support mothers in STEM, she is sharing the tools that have aided her on her own quest for a balanced and fulfilling life.
Cassie has 16 years of engineering and leadership experience in the Aerospace industry. She has learned how to balance work and family through mentoring partnership, research and study, and a few hard knocks.
Aerospace Engineer Experienced Leader Mother of Two Certified Executive Coach
Balance Work, Family, and Your Passion for Your Career
STEM Moms is part workbook, part celebration of working parents, part rallying cry for allies and advocates to join us to promote diversity in science and engineering.
Together we’ll identify your superpowers and define your goals and values. Build a Venn Diagram of your amazing skills, practice prioritizing with a set of balloons. We will have fun as we go deep into defining what you want success to look like for you!
What you’ll learn in STEM Moms?
Tools to embrace your trifecta of technical, leadership, and life skills. Strategies to articulate exactly what you want out of work. Prioritize skills to create space in your day. The value of owning what “balance” means to you. Strategies to celebrate diversity in STEM.
Over 3 Million Women and LGBTQIA+ People Work in STEM Fields
By sharing our stories, we can build momentum to grow our community.
A look at key concepts inside…
Choosing the next best step.
Every job transition, be it an inline promotion or a jump to a new industry, means new learning.
We’ll get into the details about when expanding your technical scope and leadership responsibilities can both be great moves. And we’ll look at how to set yourself up for success when a new job requires both at once.
How to create change.
Everyone can be an ally!
Throughout STEM Moms, we review the latest research to identify actionable steps for anyone and everyone who wants to advocate for diversity.
Awareness of the natural biases in cover letters, or the value of offering flexible working conditions, will allow you to create change right where you are.
Knowing where to focus.
As working parents, we almost always have too much on our plates.
We’ll playfully explore the value of prioritization, looking at where we need to focus, and what we can let float away.
Once we can identify the ‘heaviest balloons,’ we can take practical steps toward achieving success.
Trusting your gut.
As scientists, we like facts and data. But sometimes, that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach is the only datapoint you need.
We’ll spend time designing audacious permutations of our future, then pause and reflect to gain valuable insights on where we truly want to go. No more doing what we “should do.” Let’s get proactive!
ASIN : B0CDJHVS63
Publisher : ELMM Press
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : August 2, 2023
Language : English
File size : 1.6 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 158 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8988720515
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #3,639,068 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #2,720 in Mechanical Engineering (Kindle Store) #3,726 in Women & Business (Kindle Store) #3,792 in Women & Business (Books)
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