So...how are things going?

If you're a professional mother or business leader, perhaps not so well.

Professional mothers are facing a seismic shift in their lives intensified by the pandemic. The work/life integration challenges, both chronic and crisis, are happening in their families, careers, and workplaces and with their children and caregiving needs unlike anything experienced before.

While these work and family issues and conflicts have been present for many years, they're now front and center for all parents. And the impact on all areas of their lives including mental health/mental wellness cannot be overstated.

Professional mothers are making it clear...flexible work options, hybrid/remote work, caregiving supports and services, and targeted, robust benefits are their priorities. And where employers are either not recognizing
it or are refusing to do so, they're speaking with their feet.

Companies and organizations are facing significant hiring and retention issues as the number of women in the workforce is at its lowest level since 1988. Progress for working mothers has been lost. And the talent drain is significant.

So while the numbers may change, the realities do not.

Your options.

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Nearly 3 million women have left the workforce

since the start of

the pandemic

CBS News

A turnover "tsunami"

is expected

in 2021

SHRM

1 in 4 women are considering leaving the workforce or downsizing their careers

McKinsey/LeanIn.org

For professional mothers and business leaders,
the status quo is no longer.
You know the challenges.

Let's talk solutions

About Me

For more than 25 years, my focus has been work/life integration. As a working mother, consultant, advisor, coach, strategist and speaker. And with a parallel sub-specialty, advising and providing advocacy support to executives, entrepreneurs, senior leaders and working parents who have children with special education needs.

I understand the difficult choices working mothers face because I faced them myself. My job or my child. My career or

motherhood. The impact of this decision was far-reaching and continues to today. I've been there.

I understand the challenges facing business and human resource leaders too, having served as Founder & Managing Partner of Work/Family Management, a work/life consulting firm and its division, Professional Mothers, a job-matching service focusing on flexible work options, as Founder/CEO of Education Navigation, a nationally-recognized employee benefits firm providing specialized caregiving services and programs for working parents with children in K-college, and as an HR Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The issues facing professional working mothers and the companies that employ them have never been more complex and intertwined. Making the puzzle pieces fit means asking employees what's working and what's not and providing leaders and managers with strategies and support to adjust and adapt to changing workforce needs.

I can help.

I'll pull up a chair and listen. Then we'll get to work.

My Story