Linda Mason is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Bright Horizons. Bright Horizons provides high quality childcare at the work site as a benefit for employees. She founded the company in 1986 with her husband, Roger Brown, and a small team of committed parents in Cambridge, MA. Prior to founding Bright Horizons, Linda Mason managed large-scale relief operations overseas. She served as co-director of Save the Children's emergency program in Sudan, serving 400,000 famine and war victims, and directed a large feeding program for children in Cambodian refugee camps along the Thai border. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Management, Cornell University and the Sorbonne University in Paris, France.
Particularly child care is a very invisible and undervalued profession, and has always suffered from having a stigma being a babysitting service, and we're not a babysitting service, we're an educational service. So we have worked very hard to create a culture internally that respects and celebrat...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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