We are pleased to announce that Kate Taylor has signed with us for her parenting playbook, The Double Shift: How to apply professional excellence to your Five-to-Nine… without losing your mind. At the office, high-performing corporate professionals manage multi-million-pound budgets, navigate complex restructures, and keep demanding stakeholders perfectly aligned. At home, however, they are being outgunned by a three-year-old who refuses to wear trousers. In The Double Shift, Kate Taylor reveals that your executive toolkit isn’t just for your 9-to-5 – it is the missing piece to your 5-to-9 domestic chaos. Drawing on over a decade spent coaching executives alongside stress-testing models in the toddler trenches, Kate demonstrates how sophisticated business frameworks can be seamlessly adapted to shift the domestic mental load, handle emotional crises, and build a resilient team at home.
Kate Taylor is a leadership development specialist, EdTech co-founder, and mother of three living in Dublin, Ireland. Constantly navigating the friction between her high-achieving executive persona and domestic reality, Kate brings authentic humour, proven corporate frameworks, and lived experience from the “toddler trenches” to her book.
In Kate’s words: “The more I read about parenting and listened to family podcasts at home, and the more I taught adult learning theory at work, the more glaring the overlaps became. The core mechanics of building trust, setting boundaries, and coaching human growth are identical whether you’re dealing with a direct report or a toddler. When I researched, I realised no one had actually stitched those two worlds together. I wrote The Double Shift to build that bridge – so working parents can stop leaving their best strategic tools at the office and start bringing them home where they matter most.”
If you’re a parent trying to juggle it all, keep an eye out for The Double Shift, coming in 2027 – your new guide to navigating the demands of work and family life without losing your mind.
