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“Being a mother has helped me to become a better professional. I’m far more efficient and much more comfortable with uncertainty. I have become much more aware of my teams’ and clients’ needs, feelings, and unstated thoughts. Motherhood has opened my mind and heart.”

Valentina Ibarra, McKinsey partner, on being a working mother in “Parent, employee, all of the above? Eight working mothers on the realities of post-pandemic life”