The Book
The Business ofParenting.
By Kori Bloom
The same skills that build great companies build great families. This is the playbook for leaders who refuse to be one person at work and someone different at home.
Why this book exists
You're the same person at the conference table and the kitchen table. So why do we keep pretending you’re not?
Most leadership books stop at the office door. Most parenting books act like work doesn’t exist. The Business of Parenting is the book that finally says the quiet part out loud: the human skills that make you a great leader at work are the exact same ones that make you a great parent at home.
Kori spent thirteen years building a parenting curriculum and a decade in sales leadership before she realized she was teaching the same things in both rooms — just with different vocabulary. This book is the bridge.
It’s for the executive who’s tired of being a different person at home. The parent who suspects they have more leadership skills than they’re using. And the leader-parent who knows the way they show up under pressure is the most important thing they’ll ever pass on.
Who this is for
Two roles. The same human skills.
If you lead a team…
- You’re tired of leadership books that hand you principles without practice
- You want communication tools you can use in the next hard conversation
- You’ve noticed the people who lead best at work are also the ones with the strongest personal lives
- You’re ready to stop compartmentalizing and start leading as one whole person
If you’re raising kids…
- You’ve heard yourself say things you swore you’d never say
- You’re done with parenting philosophies that ignore real-life pressure
- You want scripts and tools, not theory and shame
- You suspect what your kids need most isn’t a perfect parent — it’s a parent who can lead themselves
And if you do both — lead at work and at home — this book is your handbook.
What you’ll learn
The six threads of whole-person leadership
Each chapter unpacks one thread of the THREADs framework — the same model Kori teaches Fortune 500 leaders and parents in her live workshops.
Values & Alignment
Stop reacting to other people’s priorities. Define the values that hold under pressure — in the quarterly review and in the hard parenting moment.
Mindset (Better, Not Perfect)
Replace the perfectionism that’s making you reactive with a progress-focused mindset that gives you (and the people around you) permission to learn.
Attention (Conscious, Not Crazy)
Build the self-awareness skill that separates leaders who respond from leaders who just react. The work that has to come before everything else.
Communication
Scripts for the conversations you’ve been avoiding — with your team, your spouse, and your kids. Boundaries that build connection instead of breaking it.
Action & Accountability
How to follow through without becoming a tyrant. Discipline through structure, not shame — and how that shows up at work and at home.
Growth & Resilience
Build the bounce-back muscle in yourself — and watch it become the most important thing you teach the people you lead.
from inside the book
Your kids aren’t going to remember the speech you gave them. They’re going to remember who you were under pressure. The same is true for the people on your team.
About the author
Meet Kori Bloom
Kori is a keynote speaker, leadership coach, and the founder of Conscious Not Crazy — a framework she’s used to teach thousands of leaders and parents how to show up as one whole person, in every room.
Before writing this book, she spent more than a decade in sales leadership and another thirteen years building a parenting curriculum that’s now sold out across the Midwest. Her work has been featured on Fox 4, in City Lifestyle magazine, and on the Conscious Not Crazy by Kori podcast.
Years teaching parents
Years in sales leadership
Podcast episodes
Want Kori in person?
Bring The Business of Parentingto your team or community.
Kori delivers the ideas in this book as a 60–90 minute keynote, an interactive workshop, or a multi-session leadership series — for corporate teams, conferences, schools, and parent communities.
Every audience leaves with scripts, frameworks, and a copy of the book signed for them.
