AVAILABLE NOW!
HOMEWORK
by DEENA CHOCHINOV
We tend to think of our lives as being split between the professional and the personal—believing that in order to lead successfully, we must separate our roles at work and at home. But managing two divided identities exhausts us. It derails our ability to be effective, skillful leaders in all the spheres we inhabit. This book identifies the many “crossovers,” and how you can integrate your professional and personal selves to show up whole…in both places.
BOOK LAUNCH VIDEO!
On May 12, Deena celebrated the launch of her book HomeWork: How to be a Leader in the Boardroom and the Living Room with a full-house of friends, colleagues, and livestream guests. Here is the program recording, featuring an introduction from her publisher, Jesse Finkelstein of Page Two Books, and Deena’s conversation with Prem Gill, CEO of Creative BC.
Thank you to everyone who came out!
To see a gallery of photos of the event, click here!
ABOUT THE BOOK
I am pleased to announce that my new book, HomeWork: How to Be a Leader in the Boardroom and the Living Room, is now available! Here’s a bit about my journey writing it:
I’ve been lucky enough to work as a therapist, management consultant, and family enterprise advisor for a while now (okay, 30 years…yes, I’m quite “seasoned"!) and I want to share what I’ve learned. Using a systemic approach, I’ve written a roadmap for leaders. Incorporating client and patient case studies, practical frameworks and techniques, HomeWork explores the essential qualities and lessons of whole and integrated leadership, and how to develop and apply them for greater impact and psychological well-being. Whether you’re leading an organization, managing a team, working with family members, or parenting children, this book offers you a guide, a toolkit and a repeatable way to thrive in your social system.
I wrote this book because I needed to. It’s my way of helping to shift the paradigm from the “either/or” of feeling split between home and work, to the “both/and” of holistic leadership in both of these domains. I want to help you experience not just the joys of psychological congruence and stability, but also the fuller integration of your undivided, messy, textured, complex, and beautifully appointed selves. My key message is that leadership isn’t just about what you do—it’s about how you show up. You can have success at work and harmony at home…being the exact same person.
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PRAISE FOR HOMEWORK
“Leadership is messy, complicated, and difficult. And that’s on the good days. This helpful book shines interdisciplinary wisdom onto the building blocks of leadership.”
—Michael Bungay Stanier
Bestselling author of The Coaching Habit and How to Begin
“In her remarkably accessible book HomeWork, Deena Chochinov provides both a vision and a roadmap for the pivots and processes of systemic change through clear, step-by-step, practical applications. The book doesn’t just hold the prescription, but rather supports the leader’s intrinsic ability to learn and grow. It’s possible to like the company you keep.”
—JAY LAPPIN, MSW, LCSW,
Minuchin Center for the Family
“This book is so insightful and relevant that I felt Deena Chochinov knew just what leadership guidance I needed. She intuits what it takes to be a great leader, and a great human. I love this book. Every entrepreneur should run to buy this book and absorb its powerful lessons.”
—SHERRY DEUTSCHMANN
Founder and CEO, BrainTrust
“This thoughtful, practical book uniquely illuminates the ways our professional skills can also support a more harmonious home life—and vice versa. I can’t wait to put its tools to work on both fronts.”
—ALEXANDRA SAMUEL
Co-author of Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at Work . . .Wherever You Are
"A user’s guide to leadership, presented at a time when all the boundaries between office and home have evaporated. HomeWork gives us the opportunity to show up in both places as the same person—ourselves."
—AYSE BIRSEL
Industrial Designer and Author of Design the Life You Love
“Deena Chochinov has written a unique, practical, and ground-breaking book that draws on her multiple roles and expertise—as a family therapist, systems consultant to organizations, and a family business advisor. The book shows how these three lenses can work together to help complex family enterprises. It is rich and full of stories that highlight how a family can work through a dilemma. She begins with a view of leadership and expands this to show how leadership takes on special complexity in business fam- ilies, and how leadership must focus on the whole systems of business, family, and individual working in harmony.”
— Dennis Jaffe
Senior Research Fellow, Banyan Global Family Business Advisors
“HomeWork is an essential read! Deena Chochinov’s expertise is very much evident through her clear, concise, accessible, and actionable approach. This book is incredibly timely, and highly recommended for any organization struggling to understand what matters most these days. I loved her emphasis on systems thinking versus hoping for a single ‘magic bean’ to make everything better. The inclusion of eight interpersonal/interactive qualities will truly add value to any organization!”
—JAN JOHNSON
VP Workplace Strategy, Allsteel
“Deena Chochinov writes in service of her reader, balancing wisdom with application. She successfully bridges the why with the how, supported by research and animated by relatable stories. Few leadership books wed ‘being’ and ‘doing’ so beautifully. Whether you are a leader of your family, a leader of an organization, or navigating the complexity of leadership in your family enterprise, you’ll want to develop the traits and implement the practices here so you can grow and flourish in both your home and work domains.”
—Ruth E. Steverlynck, LLB (Hons), FEA,
Family Firm Institute Fellow