Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

The Mom Skills Every Corporate Leader Needs

2 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Cameron Herold argues that motherhood provides essential training for corporate leaders in making decisions about what to say yes to and what to say no to. She illustrates this by sharing personal experiences, including raising a 2‑year‑old, a 4‑year‑old, and a 15‑year‑old while producing a Netflix documentary series on the militarization of the developing world during her third trimester. Her story highlights the balance between being present for bedtime stories and committing to work that improves the world for future generations. She emphasizes that modeling this balance for children teaches them civic responsibility, even though the trade‑offs may not always be immediately clear to them.

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How do you decide as a leader to say yes and what to say no to? I will say that the best preparation for that is being a mom. I have a, as I said before, a 2-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a 15-year-old. And I have worked on things that I believe in throughout my time being, being a mom. In fact, I made a Netflix series about the militarization of the developing world under the guise of the war on drugs. And we filmed all through Colombia and Kenya and northern Myanmar and in conflict zones and embedded with the Colombian military and helicopters and so on. And I filmed all 6 episodes of that in the third trimester of my second pregnancy. My kids have grown up seeing the balance between a parent who is there to read them a bedtime story and a parent who is devoted to making sure that the world they inherit when they grow up is a better place than it is now. I think that's a really important thing to model as a parent. It is not always easy. You know, that trade-off may not always make sense to them in the moment, but the one drives the other.