Working Parents and Caregivers

Lack of flexibility and support for employees to balance family responsibilities and work demands leads to companies losing talent – and people being blocked from reaching their full potential within the organization.

It’s a fact that if you help working parents and caregivers navigate complex life-stages and offer support with work-life integration, you will attract and retain top talent, sustain productivity, enhance performance and growth, and reduce business disruptions, too.

Talking Talent is a pioneer in working parent and caregiver coaching. We have unparalleled experience designing and facilitating programs that address the unique challenges of employees with families – from planning a family to balancing career advancement and raising children. Our inclusive, all-parent approach serves every parent: adoptive parents, foster parents, surrogates, caregivers of elders or children with disabilities, LGBTQ+ parents, co-parents, single parents, and more.

By coaching teams, individuals, managers, and senior leaders, we provide solutions that help make workplaces more flexible, inclusive, and family-friendly.

What We Offer

Parental Transition Coaching

Parental Transition Coaching is one-to-one coaching that addresses some of the primary challenges affecting today’s working parents on their journey from becoming new parents to managing the realities of the empty nest. Our coaches proactively ensure that whether it is pre-leave, during leave, or returning from leave, or wherever they are in their parenting journey, that parents have a safe space and sounding board to create the strategies they need for strengthening their boundaries, resilience, and emotional wellbeing.

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Benefits for Your People

We help employees with families find fulfilling integration between their work life and their home life as parents or caregivers, from setting boundaries to regaining confidence. With our Working Parents and Caregivers coaching programs, your people can:

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Thrive

Gain new skills, behaviors, and mindsets

02

Progress

Enhance career confidence and progression

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Balance

Manage the integration between life and career

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Protect

Protect wellbeing and build resilience

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Perform

Perform better, be more productive, and engage more

38%

increase in retention in year one

$1.75m

in savings in year one

72%

of parents feel more supported by their company

77%

of parents retained or improved performance after parental leave

94%

Working mothers returning after leave rose from 80% to 94%

Testimonials

“I’m able to better understand what I want, what I need, what works best for me, and what doesn't work for me. I set the boundaries that I need to set. I just feel like I own my career more.”

Senior Executive, Global Accounting Firm

“We know that by offering programs such as these from Talking Talent, we build trust between the firm and our professionals, and that trust increases engagement. The more engaged our people are, the more fulfilled they are, the more efficiently they work, and the more dedicated they are to the firm, their clients, and their colleagues."

Katie Schuhow

Financial Services Partner, RSM US

“One day I want to be in the boardroom of a company. That's one of my goals. But I struggled to write it down because it seemed like too big of a goal, and I’m not sure how to get there. But my coach made me write it down and write a path to it. That really helped me. It gave me the confidence to talk about it and actively work toward it.”

Senior Director, International Biopharma Company

Case studies

Offering inclusive, accessible support with Spirax Sarco

Spirax Sarco wanted to enhance its support for working parents and carers, with a focus on providing an inclusive, accessible offer. Find out how we gave its working parents access to round-the-clock, high-quality coaching.

Read about our partnership with Spirax Sarco