12: Leading While Caring for a Parent with Spotify’s Nivia Henry

When caring for a parent becomes basically a full time job, embracing humanity as a leader becomes absolutely essential, for both the leader and the team around them.

Engineering Director at Spotify, Nivia Henry, leads her team through innovation of the highest level, but with a mother in care she’s elegantly balancing these two worlds.

Join us on Leaders Unscripted as we share how you can manage the demands of leadership alongside the needs of aging family members, and look after yourself in the process...

This episode covers:

• Coming to terms with parents’ mortality
• Recontextualising your worldview and applying it to your leadership style
• Creating space for your emotions away from your team’s
• Being present with self-care and dignity
• Advice for leaders caring for parents when they can’t shift down a gear at work

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