Linda Mason is an American charity executive and chairwoman and co-founder of Bright Horizons Family Solutions.

The company employs approximately 33,350 people globally and operates about 1,100 child care centers in the United States, Canada, UK, Netherlands, and India.

Publishers Weekly in its review noted that Mason "draws on her strong background in employer-based work-site childcare as well personal experience to outline steps working mothers can take to make their lives easier.

"[4] Mason has written and spoken in such venues as NPR,[5] the MIT Sloan School of Management Leadership Series,[6] and the Harvard Business Review,[7] on early education and the issues of corporate work/life policies and challenges, including participating on White House work/life panels and initiatives during the Clinton administration.

[11] Mason also directed a feeding program for malnourished children in Cambodian refugee camps along the Thai border after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia of 1979.