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Parental Transition Coaching for Expecting Parents

One-on-one personalized support and a structured process to successfully navigate this major life, work, and identity transition to becoming a working parent

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Concerned about diving into this new chapter without enough support?

  • Dreading making your pregnancy announcement at work?
  • Confused about your company's parental leave policies and benefits?
  • Unclear how to offboard your work responsibilities when you're out?
  • Concerned about an out-of-touch manager?
  • Don't know what you don't know?
  • Lacking a trusted thought partner to work through possibilities?
  • Worried about how to manage it all?
  • Unconfident asking for what you need at work or home?
  • Concerned about baby feeding and childcare when you return to work?
  • Unclear about your career in this next stage of life?

Most expecting parents are. Even if it's not their first child.

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Employees rank parental leave as the most important, challenging, and vulnerable moment in their employee lifecycle.

Yet it’s the time when they feel the least supported (second to offboarding).*

*Enboarder Parental Leave Survey

Parental transition coaching helps you confidently prepare for parental leave, spend time with your newborn, and return to your career

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Thrive personally and professionally in your role as working parent, both as worker and as parent

The three-phase parental transition coaching program provides support before, during, and after parental leave, with 12 one-on-one coaching sessions

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Preparing for Leave
  • Establish coaching relationship
  • Take assessment and review strengths and liabilities
  • Announce the news 
  • Create a leave and return-to-work plan 
  • Craft and share communication strategies for during leave
  • Prepare for the parenting journey ahead
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During Leave
  • Announce the baby’s arrival
  • Receive postpartum support
  • Implement leave and communication plans
  • Test out support structure
  • Prepare for the return to work
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Returning to Work
  • Support welcome back and work reintegration
  • Problem-solve any issues that may arise
  • Re-establish confidence
  • Maintain clear boundaries and expectations
  • Check in on career development and goals

The coaching program includes an array of resources to support you along your journey

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A step-by-step guided process with tools, activities, and resources

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Personalized 1:1 coaching based on individual needs and circumstances

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The evidence-based Parental Leave Transition Assessment (PLTA)™ to identify focus areas

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A clear, shareable, actionable plan for leave including offboarding and reintegration

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A straightforward communication strategy to establish guidelines during leave

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Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD) screenings 

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Best practices for navigating leave

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Built-in flexibility to adapt to the unexpected

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An accompanying online learning experience 

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Feel seen, heard, and supported throughout this monumental transition with:

  • A thoughtful, individualized 1:1 coaching experience
  • Confidential, safe space to share with an unbiased third-party thought partner
  • An integrated focus across all aspects of work, life, and wellbeing
  • The sense of being valued, appreciated, and respected
  • Expert guidance in uncharted territory and a sense of clarity in the unknown
  • Inclusive support for any type of expecting parent/family

Develop trust and self-assurance in owning your new integrated identity

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Reduced stress, overwhelm, and guilt

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A renewed look at values, goals, and priorities

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Fresh perspective on strengths, skills (old and new), and inherent worth

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Improved communication at home and work

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Increased resilience and self-care

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Less feeling of isolation and more comfort in asking for help

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Self-advocacy and definition of boundaries

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Improved parent-child bonding and child outcomes

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Revisited career goals and progression path

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Want to learn more about setting yourself up for success in your working parent transition?

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