Leen Kawas on Modern Motherhood in the C-Suite: Why Companies Should View Caregiving as a Leadership Accelerator

Here’s a statistic that might surprise you: women make up about half of the biotechnology workforce, but they hold only 30 percent of executive positions. For working mothers? The numbers get even more discouraging.

Leen Kawas knows this reality firsthand. As Managing General Partner at Propel Bio Partners, she’s building a biotech-focused venture capital fund while raising three young children in Los Angeles with her husband. Her path to the C-suite wasn’t typical—she came to the U.S. from Jordan in 2008, and became one of just 22 women founders in the U.S. to take their company public.

But what strikes you when you hear Leen Kawas talk about leadership isn’t just her impressive resume. It’s her perspective on how caregiving shapes the very skills that make great executives.

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