Add speakerRemove speakerSpeaker added

Eve Rodsky

New York Times-bestselling author and creative leadership expert

Eve Rodsky: “Fair Play” | Talks at Google
  • About Eve Rodsky

    Eve Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn’t enough: she needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it. Armed with data, research,  her Harvard Law School training and years of organizational management experience, Rodsky set out to a system for domestic labor that mirrored systems in the most efficient corporate organizations. Her Fair Play system creates delineated roles, specific assignments, and explicitly defined expectations that empower both partners to take the lead, stay in their own lane and ultimately—support sustainable relationships that thrive.

    Fair Play was instantly recognized for its life-changing strategy by influential taste-makers and time management experts alike, with Ariana Huffington calling it a “game-changing guide” and Reese Witherspoon declaring, “I’m so impressed with the Fair Play handbook.”

    Rodsky walks through her solutions to these friction points and discusses how an equal measurement of time in the home can organically benefit a company’s culture. For organizations seeking to become more adaptive, innovative, and fair, every domestic task, both visible and invisible, physical and mental, must be recognized as having a quantifiable time component to prevent inefficiency, inequality, and burnout.

    In her follow-up book, Find Your Unicorn Space, Eve Rodsky realized that even when the domestic workload becomes more balanced, people still report something missing in their lives—that is, unless they create and prioritize time for activities that not only fill their calendars but also unleash their creativity.  She helps others to embrace all the unlikely, surprising, and delightful places where their own Unicorn Space may be found.

    Eve Rodsky attended the University of Michigan as an undergraduate and earned a law degree from Harvard Law School. She worked in foundation management at J.P. Morgan before founding the Philanthropy Advisory Group to advise high-net-worth families and charitable foundations on best practices for harmonious operations, governance, and disposition of funds. After over a decade of working with hundreds of families, she realized that her expertise in family mediation, strategy, and organizational management could be applied to a problem closer to home.

    Rodsky was born and raised by a single mom in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children.

    Contact us for more information about booking Eve Rodsky for your next event. 

     

  • Speaking Topics

    Prioritizing Creativity: The Antidote to Burnout

    While doing research for her new book, Find Your Unicorn Space, Eve Rodsky discovered that when businesses prioritize creativity and give their employees time and room for creative ideation, productivity, performance, and retention increase. Join bestselling author and organizational development expert Eve Rodsky to learn more about how intentional creativity can help employees avoid burnout and why organizations benefit from making creativity a must-have, and not an optional skill relegated to the bottom of to do lists.

    Return to Work: Help Employees Get Their Mojo Back

    Many employees have spent the past two years in home office set ups. And while studies show that short term productivity has not suffered, and in fact even gone up, creativity and collaboration have taken a hit. In this highly interactive workshop, Eve Rodsky will help participants shed their languish and reignite collaborative creativity and teamwork. Working together and in small breakout groups, Rodsky will guide participants through exercises to rediscover creativity for themselves, in order to then better innovate and ideate in project teams. This workshop includes: pre-event questionnaire, pre-workshop reflection prompts and exercises, post-event creativity tips and resources.

    Gender Equality and Company Culture

    In this data-driven presentation, Eve Rodsky arms HR and corporate culture leaders with practical tools for creating a more equitable and empowering workplace environment. Using her Harvard Law School training and years of organizational development experience, Eve Rodsky has created a time-management system to help working parents rebalance family responsibilities and “invisible work.” Through personal anecdotes and statistics, Rodsky shows organizations across all industries how to better support working parents and why a company culture based on gender equality helps attract and retain top talent.

  • Video

  • Praise for Eve Rodsky

    Eve was fantastic! She is a true pro and the session was a perfect mix of info and inspiration.

    Pinterest

    Praise for Find Your Unicorn Space

    In a world that is telling us to do it all and be it all, Eve proposes a radical answer—bring forth more of you. In Find Your Unicorn Space, Eve brilliantly shares with us the toolbox for how to do just that, and, along the way, gives us permission to breathe life back into ourselves.

    Dr. Pooja Lakshmin MD, psychiatrist & author, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine

    Eve Rodsky urges women to give themselves ‘permission to be unavailable’ to pursue passions, goals, and dreams outside of work, family and other obligations. Backed by science and full of personal insights, Rodsky shows us how to create important time and space for ourselves so that we can truly thrive in all aspects of our lives.

    Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

    If you want to avoid burning out–physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually–read this gem of a book from the one and only Eve Rodsky. You are as unique as a unicorn, and you need the space to express that.

    Greg McKeown, author of Effortless and Essentialism and the host of the What’s Essential podcast

    Whatever pursuit you choose, Rodsky argues that Unicorn Space is crucial to decreasing the chance of burnout in your career. Your well-being and wallet depend on it.

    Real Simple

    Overburdened women are issued a ‘permission slip’ to explore their creativity in this energizing invitation by Rodsky (Fair Play) to pursue passion projects…Whimsical design details and plentiful stories round out an attractive package. It would make for a welcome gift passed around the late-night PTA crowd.

    Publishers Weekly

    Rodsky’s friendly tone is encouraging and reassuring to readers trying to relocate their life’s spark and the time to pursue it.

    Booklist

    Raise your hand if your creativity has been put on the back burner during the pandemic?! *Slowly raises hand.* Eve Rodsky’s Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World couldn’t be more relevant as the Fair Play author helps readers channel their most creative selves while living within a seemingly endless hustle culture—even during a pandemic.

    Marie Claire

    Eve Rodsky has given us an important ritual for safe-guarding our finite time so that we can nurture our most important relationship—the one with ourselves. And it starts with giving ourselves permission to be authentic and real and to pursue the things in our lives that make us feel most like ourselves.

    Erica Keswin, Workplace Strategist and author of Bring Your Human to Work and Rituals Roadmap

    Praise for Fair Play

    A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with. I’m so impressed with the Fair Play handbook. Not only did Eve break down every task that a couple is responsible for, but she managed to create a system where dividing those tasks is fun, insightful and gratifying. Her approach is filled with love, humor, wisdom and the idea that if we can work together and acknowledge each other’s strengths and weaknesses, we can build better, stronger, and longer lasting relationships.

    Reese Witherspoon

    A hands-on strategy to divide tasks and achieve household harmony.

    Real Simple

    Rodsky’s system, which uses task cards divided between partners, is potentially revolutionary and [Fair Play] offers the right combination of venting and commiserating balanced by practical solutions and manageable approaches to tough conversations…poised to become a book-club favorite.

    Booklist

    Fair Play is a game-changing guide to reclaiming more time in our lives by dividing domestic work in a deceptively simple new way. As Eve Rodsky explains, the key is for each partner to take on the entirety of each task on their to-do list—from conception to planning to execution—to avoid the mental load falling on women and the conflicts that typically arise in a relationship. The Fair Play system of dealing virtual ‘cards’ to share the work it takes to run a household is revolutionary and can help you succeed and truly thrive in all aspects of your life!

    Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

    There are three ‘people’ in every busy relationship: Person A, Person B, and the system that governs them. When things feel overwhelming, most people point at themselves or their partner to explain it, but more often than not the system itself is the problem. This is brilliantly illustrated in Fair Play, where Eve Rodsky makes the existing system visible and provides a clear path to build a new one that enables readers to focus on what their family values most.

    Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism

    If your family is struggling to achieve a happy division of household labor, read this book. Fair Play offers practical tools for maximizing peace and minimizing resentment—while freeing up all parties to pursue their best lives.

    Laura Vanderkam, author of I Know How She Does It and Juliet’s School of Possibilities

    Eve Rodsky has created a new language and fresh conversation around the topic of doing it all, stressing out and losing ourselves and relationships in the process. Every page of this book has a take-away, a new idea of approaching a topic that has plagued parents for decades and has needed a plan.

    Sheryl Ziegler, MD, author of Mommy Burnout

    I just want to thank Eve Rodsky, brave woman, for taking on the mental load…of solving the mental load. Fair Play isn’t just a great idea…it’s going to change cultural norms so that women can have equity at home and equality in the workplace. Yes, better division of laundry can help solve the pay gap!

    Lauren Brody, author of The Fifth Trimester
  • Books by Eve Rodsky

  • Media About Eve Rodsky

Request Fees
and Availability

  • 212 572-2013
  • Eve Rodsky travels from Los Angeles, CA

Similar Speakers

Laura Vanderkam

Productivity expert and author of 168 Hours, I Know How She Does It, and Tranquility by Tuesday

Lauren Smith Brody

Founder of The Fifth Trimester movement and Co-Founder of the Chamber of Mothers

Dave Evans

Co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life
Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau