Joann S. Lublin
Pulitzer-winning journalist. Author. Speaker.
Published February 16, 2021:
Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life
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Praise after Joann's virtual Fireside Chat with Mastercard women
“Not only did you have so many practical take-aways for our (Women's Leadership Network) members, but you have such a real and authentic way of delivering them … Our members were extremely engaged ... Not only would I highly recommend you to others, but all of our 68 survey respondents would recommend the session as well.”
-- Georgette Lookstein, director of product management
About Joann S. Lublin
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Joann is the author of two books about female business leaders. Her latest is Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life, published in February 2021.
Her first popular leadership book, Earning It: Hard-Won lessons from Trailblazing Women at the top of the Business World, offers insights from 52 high-level executive women about obstacles they overcame.
Joann is the former Management News Editor of The Wall Street Journal. She created its first career advice column, which she wrote until May 2020. Joann shared the Journal's 2003 Pulitzer Prize for stories about corporate scandals. In 2018, she won the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest accolade in business journalism.
Dean Rotbart, host of the Monday Morning Radio podcast, calls Joann "...arguably the nation's top authority on careers and management."
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To learn more how Journal colleagues described her accomplishments after she won the Loeb Award
View a short video about Joann's WSJ career by clicking on the arrow in the middle of the frame.
Februrary 2024: Power Moms virtual program sponsored by the Harvard Business School Women's Association. Joann appears with Andrea Jung, former Avon CEO.
(about 60 minutes)
Speaking
Past appearances:
at Major Companies
Adobe American Express
Accenture Best Buy
BlackRock Campbell Soup
Cisco Coca Cola
Conagra Brands Delta Air Lines
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Home Depot
IBM Int'l Flavors & Fragrances
J.P. Morgan Chase Johnson & Johnson
Mastercard McKesson
Ogilvy & Mather PricewaterhouseCoopers
Sidley Austin State Street Global Advisors
Target Vanguard Group
at top Business Schools
Harvard Business School
MIT’s Sloan School of Management
Northwestern’s Kellogg School
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
University of Toronto’s Rotman School
University Of Pennsylvania's Wharton School
Yale School of Management
at Major Organizations
Global Institute for Women Corporate Directors
Chicago Executive Club
Conference Board Women's Leadership Summit
Concordia Summit annual global affairs forum
Rockefeller Foundation
United Nations book store
Institute for Corporate Productivity
podcast May 2025
Leadership Freak blog
Podcast for Women in Entertainment 2023
University Toronto Rotman School
Her Books
Power Moms -- published in February 2021
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Ranked among Working Mother Media's best 2021 books for working moms.
About Power Moms
More mothers than ever lead big U.S. companies. Yet despite their gains, these Power Moms still struggle to combine managerial duties and career goals with parenthood.
Joann compares baby boom and GenX executives, showing how far working mothers have come—and how much further they'll need to go in a post-pandemic world. She offers insights from her own career and those of 86 executive moms such as Hershey Chief Executive Michele Buck and WW International then-CEO Mindy Grossman. In addition, she documents how 27 grown daughters reacted to their mothers’ demanding careers.
Power Moms also looks at ways that younger executives---in their 30s and 40s—handle motherhood differently despite leading stressful lives. They include former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Rent the Runway CEO Jenn Hyman.
The book guides companies through this rugged terrain as well. It blames the paucity of family-friendly policies such as paid parental leave for the painful tradeoffs mothers often make between work and family. Power Moms spells out what more employers must do to make working parenthood work.
Earning It -- published in October 2016
About Earning It
Among the first female reporters of the Wall Street Journal, Joann faced a number of uphill battles in her career. She and dozens of other women who successfully navidgated the corporate battlefield share their stories and valuable leadership lessons.
Joann combines her own fascinating story with insightful tales from more than 50 women who reached the pinnacle of corporate leadership--women like Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, and Ginni Rometty, former CEO of IBM. The choices they made and the battles they won and lost seeking to make their mark.
The trailblazers you meet in Earning It provide a compelling career compass that will help aspiring women executives reach their highest potential.
CNBC 2021
Media/Press
"To The Contrary on PBS" 2021
"All Things Considered" on National Public Radio.
Bloomberg TV
CNBC TV "Squawk Box"
Cosmopolitan
DLA Piper lawfirm "Beyond The Curve" podcast.
The Economist
Financial Times
Forbes
Fortune
Fox 5 TV New York City
NBC "Today Show"
Parentaly's 2024 podcast "The False Tradeoff"
The Wall Street Journal (excerpted both books)
"To the Contrary" on PBS
Joann can speak on these topics:
Dump the Guilt: New remedies for working mother guilt.
Work-Life Sway, and why it works better than work-life balance at restoring sanity to our crazy lives.
Pass the Roles: Smart ways that employed parents can jointly raise children and pursue careers.
The Corner Office at Home: What executive moms have learned about working remotely.
Power Over Pain: How a health crisis can be transformational in your professional growth.
Boss Mom: Great moms make great bosses.
How to use parenting skills for career advancement.
Pregnant Pause: Career strategies when trying to get pregnant, expecting, and resuming work.
Workplaces that Work for Parents: How businesses can more successfully retain employees with kids.
Feedback after Joann's virtual program for S&P Global:
"Thank you so much for joining us, Joann, and for sharing Power Moms pearls of wisdom with S&P Global. We had an exceptionally strong turnout for our event, which speaks to the way these insights resonate with all of our colleagues as we look to support working parents." (The program was attended virtually by about 850 employees worldwide.)
-- Tara Powers, Lead, Corporate Responsibility & Executive Communications
Interviews & Mentions