Setting Boundaries as a Leader in the Age of AI
The pace of tech is undoubtedly accelerating. Companies are adopting AI tools, cutting headcount, and raising expectations for those who remain. The unspoken standard from leadership is clear: faster output, more availability, fewer excuses.
And as a parent, you're absorbing all of it at the exact moment your life got more complex than it's ever been.
You're one of the only women, maybe the only mom, in your leadership circle. Your peers at work don't have kids. Your friends with kids don't have jobs like yours. There's no one to talk to about what it actually costs to stay in the room where real strategy gets set while also keeping a small human alive.
So you go all in. You take the late calls during bedtime. You respond to Slack and email on weekends. You go into the office five days a week for the extra facetime. Not because you have to, but because you're afraid of what it signals if you don't.
And deep down, the question isn't whether you want the next level. It's whether you can sustain this version of getting there.
The part no one talks about: the way most ambitious women set boundaries actually undermines them. It's not the boundary itself that's the problem. It's the framing. And in an AI-accelerated workplace where "committed" now looks like "always available," the framing matters more than ever.
The women who advance in this era aren't the ones who never set limits. They're the ones who learned how to communicate boundaries in a way that builds trust with leadership instead of quietly eroding it.
In this workshop, you'll learn the three principles that separate women who burn out from women who set boundaries and advance:
The framing formula that turns a boundary request into a commitment statement your leadership actually respects
How to identify your true non-negotiables (there are fewer than you think) so you can be genuinely flexible on the things that don't matter, without handing over your entire schedule
The 3-step negotiation process for when your manager or skip-level pushes back, so you get alignment without having to justify your life outside of work
We'll cover why the AI-era expectation of "faster, more, always available" is not a standard you have to absorb, and how to reset it before it costs you the promotion you've been building toward.
You'll leave with your actual boundary language, not just ideas. Seats are limited to keep it interactive.
This workshop is for you if:
You're a manager, director, or VP in product, engineering, design, sales, marketing, or strategy at a high-performance tech company
You have at least one child under three and you're navigating demands that would be brutal even without kids
You're one of the only women, or the only mom, at your level and you're tired of having no one who gets what this actually costs
You're done white-knuckling through every week and ready to lead this chapter on your own terms
This free workshop is Thursday, March 19th at 12pm PT. Grab your spot.
Tamara Hinckley is the founder and CEO of Momentum Rising, where she coaches ambitious women leaders navigating high-powered careers in early motherhood.
A former Director of Product at Pinterest, she spent nearly a decade leading high-impact teams in fast-paced tech environments. Today, she helps senior leaders at companies like Anthropic, DoorDash, Superhuman, and Stripe make clear-eyed, intentional decisions about their careers and their lives so they can keep advancing without losing themselves in the process.
Through her flagship program, Return with Momentum, she's helped women step into positions of greater power and influence while being fully and unapologetically both: successful leaders and present parents. Learn more and apply here.
She is also the author of Half Moon Hustle, a newsletter on motherhood, ambition, and intentional leadership.