Lauren Smith Brody is the founder of The Fifth Trimester movement and consulting, which helps parents and businesses collaborate to retain women and foster a family-friendly workplace culture. Her book, “The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Success After Baby” (Doubleday/Anchor), was a simultaneous best seller in the Amazon categories of motherhood, women and business, and cultural anthropology. “The Fifth Trimester” has been featured in The New York Times, on “Good Morning America,” CNN.com and dozens more outlets, and Brody has been a featured speaker at companies and organizations including Facebook, Fried Frank, The New York Times, Google, American Express, The Wing, GLG, Rackspace, Liberty Mutual, PwC, Fisher Phillips, The Wharton Women’s Summit and more. As an entrepreneur who can’t quit journalism, Brody writes about the intersection of business and motherhood for, among others, The New York Times, Slate, Bloomberg Businessweek and Elle.

Current ongoing engagements include:
• a monthly motherhood column for Harper’s Bazaar, launched spring 2019;
• An eight-city pilot work/balance coaching program for the law firm Baker Hostetler;

A longtime leader in the women’s magazine industry, Brody was previously the executive editor of Glamour magazine, where she ran the editorial staff and produced the magazine’s annual Women of the Year awards, honoring luminaries like Dr. Maya Angelou and Hillary Clinton. Raised in Ohio, Texas and Georgia, she now lives in New York City with her husband and two young sons.