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Are you NAVIGATING aspects of your reproductive life and parenting journey within your professional context? Have you felt both the INVISIBILITY and HYPER-VISIBILITY of being pregnant, post-partum, or a parent of young children in the workplace? Have you felt ISOLATED, uncertain, or overwhelmed as you BALANCE your personal and professional identities during this complex season of life?
Mothers are working women, both inside and outside of the home. However, the experience of parenthood in professional and leadership spaces continues to be a fraught reality, one that many women navigate in silence. Experiences around pregnancy, reproduction, and motherhood are deeply personal and can have a significant impact on one's professional experience, particularly for women in forward-facing and care-giving leadership roles. Women face conflicting generational narratives and engrained gender expectations in both family systems and workplace culture, which can become heightened as we enter different phases of our parenting lives. Amid these relational and societal dynamics, many of us are in search of safe spaces in which we can reconstitute our sense of self during this season of life.
MY PERSONAL COMMITMENT
As a passionate advocate for women's reproductive choices, I have developed legislative policy expanding access to reproductive healthcare, counseled survivors of sexual abuse and domestic violence, and supported homeless mothers in their paths of self-determination and economic independence. My current work in the field of gender and leadership emphasizes workplace psychological safety for empathetic women leaders as we navigate personal and professional change.
Within my own journey as a mother of four, I've experienced each stage of my parenting journey in a different professional context - as a manager and public face of two institutions, as a doctoral researcher recovering from a toxic work environment, and as a leadership coach and business owner adjusting to a surprise pregnancy in my 40’s. While navigating my identity as a mother in each of these professional spaces, I’ve experienced both challenges and opportunities, strengths and vulnerabilities, which have been echoed by countless women across a variety of family constellations and workplace environments.
Within my own journey as a mother of four, I've experienced each stage of my parenting journey in a different professional context - as a manager and public face of two institutions, as a doctoral researcher recovering from a toxic work environment, and as a leadership coach and business owner adjusting to a surprise pregnancy in my 40’s. While navigating my identity as a mother in each of these professional spaces, I’ve experienced both challenges and opportunities, strengths and vulnerabilities, which have been echoed by countless women across a variety of family constellations and workplace environments.
PROGRAM PILLARS
- ACKNOWLEDGE the tension between the INVISIBILITY and HYPER-VISIBILITY of parenthood within family system and workplace culture.
- IDENTIFY shifting priorities, energy levels, and approaches to leadership and their impact on professional identity and overall job expectations.
- IMPLEMENT intentional interpersonal boundaries that foster SELF-PRESERVATION and PYSCHOLOGICAL SAFETY while also addressing potential push-back from those who resist healthy expressions of SELF-DIFFERENTIATION.
- Build EMBODIED practices of SELF-COMPASSION that counteract societal narratives of shame, guilt, and judgement imposed on women’s reproductive lives.
- ENGAGE in a holistic approach that honors both the STRENGTHS and VULNERABILITIES of this season in life.
- CULTIVATE sustainable and authentic understandings of self that RESIST HARMFUL EXPECTATIONS of the self-sacrificial woman.
- RESPOND to feelings of fear, grief, anxiety, regret, anger, and despair, in ways that foster SELF-TRUST and AUTHENTICITY.
- RECLAIM a sense of agency and voice that COUNTERACTS SYSTEMIC SILENCING around our journeys of motherhood.
INDIVIDUALIZED & HOLISTIC APPORACH
Coaching sessions are tailored to the unique needs and perspectives of each client, with participants in various stages of their parenting and reproductive journeys:
IMPORTANT NOTE: For women who have experienced or are experiencing acute and/or long-term reproductive loss, infertility, or post-partum depression, a specialized mental health professional is also recommended.
- Preparing for pregnancy
- Experiencing pregnancy loss
- Currently pregnant (planned or unplanned)
- Post-partum (birth to three years)
- Re-entering a professional role
- Discerning a career shift
- Pushed to leave vs. Power pause
- Workplace discrimination
IMPORTANT NOTE: For women who have experienced or are experiencing acute and/or long-term reproductive loss, infertility, or post-partum depression, a specialized mental health professional is also recommended.
LEVERAGING LEADERSHIP STRENGTHS
Transfer highly evolved skillsets to CURRENT or NEW
career and leadership opportunities
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🌿 HIGH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Accurately translate non-verbal cues and assess underlying system needs in ways that foster inclusive culture and collective psychological safety.
🌿 ADAPTABILITY & RESILIENCE: Reframe obstacles and shape emotional landscapes in ways that foster honest communication and collective growth. 🌿 ADDRESSING COST OF SELF-SACRIFICE: Conscious of harmful expectations and generational trauma around female self-sacrifice and developing alternatives that value healthy boundaries and more equitable division of labor. 🌿 TIME MANAGEMENT & PRIORITIZATION: Assess collective needs in ways that mitigate system anxiety, promote emotional balance, and maintain sustainable routines. 🌿 NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION: Develop strategies to respond to stress, crisis, and chaos in ways that do not simply absorb others’ emotional needs at the cost of self. 🌿 VISION & INNOVATION: Cultivate long-term strategic nurturing in ways that build trust and meaningful connection in the present. 🌿 CONFLICT RESOLUTION & NEGOTIATION: Navigate different personalities, temperaments, developmental stages, and emotional needs through grounding conversations and consistent modeling. 🌿 COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT: Applying a holistic, system-thinking approach that promotes value-aligned decision-making and acknowledges the interconnected elements of family life. |
PRACTICAL & THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
Multi-Disciplinary
Family Systems Theory and Self-Differentiation
Polyvagal Theory and Embodied Safety
Trauma-Informed Leadership
Cross-Cultural Sensitivity
Gender-Conscious
Expansive Gender Narratives
Boundaries and Psychological Safety
Reproductive Rights and Choices
Mother-Daughter Wound
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