MASON DONOVAN and MARK KAPLAN are Managing Partners of The Dagoba Group, a global consulting firm advancing inclusive leadership, employee well-being, and organizational culture. They are also the authors of The Inclusion Dividend, a perennial best-seller leveraged in corporate and academic classrooms worldwide, as well as SET for Inclusion and The Golden Apple. Their work has been featured by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company.

Mason and Mark working parents themselves, bring decades of expertise in employee engagement, wellness, and workplace inclusion. As thought-leaders and advisors to Fortune 1000 companies, they’ve helped organizations reframe talent development for a modern workforce—one that recognizes the lived experience of parenthood as a professional asset, not a detour. Today we talked about their new book The Parenthood Advantage: Building Corporate Cultures That Value Working Parents.

Today we walk with Mark and Mason in conversation, exploring how organizations can reimagine the workplace to recognize working parents as assets- and as stronger leaders shaped by the profound experience of parenthood.