Raven Solomon

Young professionals entering the workforce today need to be prepared to lead not just their peers, but cross-generational teams consisting of everyone from Gen Zers to Baby Boomers. And the reality is college doesn’t teach the soft skills necessary to do it.

This book does.

In Leading Your Parents, Raven Solomon, an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and former executive manager who has dedicated her life to building and leading diverse teams, addresses those Millennial and Gen Z professionals and arms them with the leadership skills they need to hit the ground running.

Raven decodes complex workforce communication techniques, leadership styles, and management practices and breaks them down into 25 simple rules every young leader should follow.

Each chapter focuses on requisite soft skills, including emotional intelligence, personal accountability, performance management, and presence, and gives readers specific, actionable next steps to make them better leaders now and in the future.

She speaks honestly to her readers, meeting them where they are and sharing the highs, lows, and learnings of her near-decade career as a star leader (and one of the youngest-ever executive-level managers) of a Fortune 50 company.

Each rule in Leading Your Parents is grounded in Raven’s real-life experience of a difference-making habit between those who get promoted and those who don’t.

Email management, team building, personal branding, establishing accountability—Raven covers every aspect of the professional responsibility set.

She combines motivational advice with practical guidelines and draws on industry statistics, published research, and case studies to illustrate her rules for effective multigenerational leadership.

Her stories will resonate with readers and help them see that they, too, can overcome the obstacles they will face in a multigenerational environment and thrive as young leaders.

Leading Your Parents: 25 Rules to Effective Multigenerational Leadership for Millennials and Gen Z is the must-have guide for today’s young leader looking to make an impact in an ever-more-diverse environment that demands not just IQ and dedication, but EQ and understanding.

As a professional Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Speaker, Author, Researcher & Strategist, Raven Solomon is on a mission to help companies, associations and institutions get future-ready by understanding generations, racial equity, and their intersection.

Through her research, speaking programs, and trainings, Raven takes complex topics like generational differences, systemic racism, and inclusive leadership and breaks them down into ideas, concepts and tools that are easy to understand, apply and leverage for improved results.

Raven is also recognized as a thought-leader in the early talent development space, founding the Center for Next Generational Leadership and Professional Development and authoring THE book on multigenerational leadership for young professionals—Leading Your Parents, 25 Rules to Effective Multigenerational Leadership for Millennials and Gen Z.

In her book, Raven shares proven strategies and lessons learned from her experience leading diverse multigenerational, multiethnic teams as a sales executive at the major Fortune 50 company with which she spent nearly a decade.

The Center for Next Generational Leadership and Professional Development offers instruction on improving communication, emotional intelligence, and strategic thinking capabilities of young professionals, enabling them to successfully assume leadership roles or become value-adding citizens.

The Center also partners with industry-leading clients to define strategies for attracting, developing, retaining, and empowering talent from these younger generations.

In all roles, Raven has proven that her approach yields results. She has been invited to speak and train at industry-leading companies like The Gap, Office Depot, Advance Auto Parts, Ingersoll Rand, and Metlife, and top institutions like Stanford, Penn State and NC State.

If you are interested in booking Raven for speaking engagements, trainings, strategy sessions or press, email Raven at info@ravensolomon.com.