Leadership & Team Workshops
Who Is This For?
Managers, HR teams, ERGs, and leadership groups responsible for supporting working parents and retaining female talent.
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What Participants Walk Away With
Practical frameworks for return-to-work, workload, flexibility, and career development conversations
Greater awareness of maternal wall bias and assumptions around ambition, commitment, and capability
Tools for managers to support employees without overstepping or avoiding important conversations
Clearer team norms around communication, support, and sustainable performance
Specific actions managers can apply in 1:1s, re-entry plans, and team planning
How This Supports Your People Strategy
Builds manager capability at the point where employee experience is often shaped
Reduces reliance on policy alone by improving day-to-day support
Helps managers make fewer assumptions and ask better questions
Supports more consistent employee experiences before, during, and after parental leave
How This Supports Your People Strategy
Builds manager capability at the point where employee experience is often shaped
Reduces reliance on policy alone by improving day-to-day support
Helps managers make fewer assumptions and ask better questions
Supports more consistent employee experiences before, during, and after parental leave
Navigating the Transition to Motherhood: Matrescence in the Workplace
Client: Swire Properties, Hong Kong
As part of Swire’s commitment to employee wellbeing and supporting working parents, I was invited by the Employee Resource Group, Working Parents Connect, to facilitate a 60-minute workshop exploring matrescence, the developmental transition into motherhood.
While organizations have made significant progress in supporting parental leave and flexible working arrangements, many women still return to work without language or frameworks to understand the profound identity shifts that often accompany becoming a mother. This session was designed to bridge that gap.
Drawing on research from psychology, neuroscience, leadership development, and coaching, the workshop explored the physical, emotional, and identity changes that occur during the transition to motherhood. Participants reflected on common experiences including the tension between ambition and guilt, the invisible mental load of parenting, shifting priorities, and the challenge of redefining success at home and at work.
Alongside practical tools focused on values, boundaries, capacity, and support systems, the session encouraged participants to view motherhood through a strengths-based lens, recognizing the resilience, adaptability, prioritization, and leadership skills that often emerge through the experience.
Key themes explored:
• Understanding matrescence as a major life transition
• The neuroscience behind the maternal brain
• The tension between being career driven, high-functioning and the guilt that many corporate working mothers experience
• Building sustainable support systems at work and home
• How motherhood strengthens skills that are highly valuable in the workplace, including prioritization, adaptability, empathy, and decision-making
The session concluded with a discussion on workplace resources, community support, and practical ways organizations can create environments where parents can thrive both professionally and personally.
