She decided to become a single mom. Then she became a CEO
CNN Business
Like many working mothers, Eileen McDonnell tries to limit business trips and after-hours events,and she feels guilty when she has to miss an event at her daughter’s school.
Unlike most working mothers, however, McDonnell is the CEO of a Fortune 1000 company,insurance firm Penn Mutual. And she came to the job as a single parent, having chosen in her mid-40s to adopt her daughter, Claire, from Russia.
McDonnell didn’t decide on single parenthood lightly. She first seriously mulled over the idea when she was president of New England Financial, then a subsidiary of MetLife. “I’d done a lot of soul searching about how I would acclimate as a mother,” she said.
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