Supporting employees
Helping your employees navigate one of life’s most defining professional & personal transitions.
Parental leave isn’t one single experience.
It’s a series of maternity, paternity and adoption experiences, transitions, challenges, shifts, decisions and recalibrations that can’t be predicted in advance.
And the way someone experiences those moments can shape their sense of self, engagement and future career, as well as their wellbeing.
At the same time, organisations are balancing business needs, team dynamics the desire to retain talented people. It’s easy to think it’s about more and more entitlement.
But supporting employees well isn’t simply about providing enhanced entitlement. It’s not even about offering support that smooths the transitions.
It’s about helping them to understand themselves in these moments, continue to grow, stay connected and return feeling valuable and valued, confident and intentional for what’s next.
From career into leave, and beyond.
That’s why we don’t believe in fixed programmes or one size fits all pathways. Instead, we offer thoughtful. responsive support that adapts to each employee’s experience, meeting them where they’re at before, during and beyond leave. When organisations get this right, everyone benefits.
Support that evolves with each journey
No two experiences of maternity, paternity or adoption leave are the same. Rather than asking employees to fit a pre-defined programme, we adapt support to what’s happening in their lives, minds and careers at that point in time. Sometimes that’s a single conversation at exactly the right moment. Sometimes its ongoing support over many months. Whatever it looks like, we’re there to help employees navigate with greater clarity, self awareness, self belief and intention. We also provide thoughtful, tailored support for employees navigating fertility treatment, early pregnancy, loss and other significant family transitions.
Preparing for leave
Helping employees think about their assumptions, expectations, communication, career confidence and ambition, the identity shift, practical planning for work and home, and how they want to experience this pre-chapter of working parenthood.
Preparing for return
Helping employees explore the myriad of conflicting emotions, questions and choices as their minds turn to work. Judgement free and objective support that gets it and helps people to return with greater clarity, intention and self belief.
During leave
Helping employees as they grow through leave’s period of enormous growth, changing priorities and shifting identities. Space when it’s needed to reflect, navigate challenges and maintain healthy connections with work where appropriate, all without taking away from the experience of leave itself.
Return & beyond
The transitions and the growth don’t end on someone’s first day back. As employees adjust to working parent life, we’re there to help them navigate and reflect on changing ambitions, career progression, sustainable performance and the realities of balancing work and family.
Coaching that flexes with your culture & people
Because every employee and every organisation is different, support is always tailored to individual needs and organisational culture and context.
For some companies that might look like having coach support available as and when it’s needed. For some, it might be a joined-up plan for retention and progression. And for others, it could be any combination of coach-led initiatives that we offer including:
One to one coaching
Group coaching
Facilitated workshops
Practical resources
Parent group events
Working alongside your organisation
The best outcomes don’t happen in isolation. Where appropriate, we work alongside HR teams, parent networks, managers and wider organisational initiatives to create joined-up support that feels consistent, thoughtful and genuinely useful.
Whether we’re complimenting your existing provision or helping you build something new, our aim is always to help employees feel supported as they grow through leave while strengthening your organisation from the inside out.
Everything we do is designed around that.
“The sessions with Lynn were invaluable in helping me re-frame my thinking and approach after returning from my second mat leave felt much harder than I had anticipated. Despite being with the firm so long, I felt very unsettled initially. Now, I can see a real shift in my confidence and approach that I believe will serve me far beyond this transition. I am very grateful the firm offers these sessions ”
“Lynn’s energy and support have been unwavering. She very quickly helped me see what makes me tick as an individual and tailored our sessions effectively. Her ability to take a complicated chain of thoughts and fears and help provide not only clarity but new perspectives has taught me so much about myself and my potential. ”
“I didn’t have the best of starts to my maternity leave and having seen so many peers struggle, it gave me the fear but you have helped me feel calmer about all the uncertainty. I actually feel like I can manage whatever the next year brings, both at work and at home. Thanks for being there, even when we weren’t scheduled to catch up”
Let’s start with a conversation
Every partnership starts with us taking time to understand your people, your organisation and where support could make the biggest difference.