Lauren Smith BrodySpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Lauren Smith Brody is an author, journalist, keynote speaker, and staunch advocate for working mothers and gender equality in the workplace. She is the founder and CEO of The Fifth Trimester, a movement and consultancy that supports new parents and employers in creating family-friendly policies during the critical “fifth trimester”, an often-overlooked return-to-work period after maternity leave. Her 2017 bestselling book, “The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby”, draws on research and real experiences to guide mothers through this transition. She co-founded the Chamber of Mothers, a nonpartisan organization advocating for policy changes to support families. Before her maternal rights advocacy, Brody spent 16 years in magazine publishing, rising to Executive Editor at Glamour, where she produced the Women of the Year awards. A frequent media commentator, she has appeared in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Good Morning America.