Jules Pieri Advice For Fathers of Daughters
At the Authors and Innovators event, the last panel included a discussion about diversity, with a particular focus on gender diversity. The actual segment was titled Success through Strategic Innovation but it was awesome to watch it evolve into a gender diversity conversation.
One of the panelists was Jules Pieri, who is the founder/CEO of The Grommet. Iâve known Jules for a while and loved her book How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products That Build Successful Businesses. As she usually is, she was great on the panel and when it shifted to Q&A, I asked the second question.
âLots of men in the audience, like me, try to be helpful around gender diversity, especially now that there is a good understanding of the value of being a âmale allyâ and how to do it. Can you give us one actional thing we can do right now?â
Jules responded immediately with something close to:
âWhile I feel a little uncomfortable referring to something I wrote, go read my post For Fathers of Daughters. It has easy, medium, and hard level of efforts of things you can do.â
I took a note to read the post and just read it. Jules is 100% right â go read the post For Fathers of Daughters right now. If you have a daughter, go read it. But also go read it if you donât have a daughter.
There are some real gems in it including several things Iâm going to add to my personal list of things to do, even though I donât have kids.