Build a career. Raise a family. Design how the two work together.
Practical frameworks, tools and mentoring to help working parents navigate career and family decisions with confidence.
Build an arrangement that reflects your ambitions, priorities and circumstances — and learn how to adapt it as life changes.
Not someone else's formula for working parenthood. A way to find what works for you.
For mothers, fathers and partners in every family structure.
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There's no universal formula for combining careers and family life. The important thing is to find an arrangement that reflects your own priorities and circumstances.
- You do not want parenthood to be the end of your ambition — and you want both partners to have space for careers and family life
- You are considering a promotion, career change, business or qualification
- You want to protect family time without becoming professionally invisible
- You want practical systems rather than motivational slogans
You don't have to choose someone else's version of working parenthood.
Working parents are often surrounded by expectations about what a successful career or a good family life should look like.
And those expectations don't always fit together.
Family first, career later
- Professional ambitions are expected to wait until the children are older.
- Career opportunities are ruled out before exploring whether they could work.
- One partner's career becomes the default priority.
- Taking a step back professionally is treated as the only realistic option.
Career first, family around the edges
- Constant availability is treated as proof of professional commitment.
- Family routines are expected to accommodate work without question.
- Personal time and recovery are sacrificed to keep everything running.
- The impact of career decisions on the household is overlooked.
There is more than one way to build a family and a career.
The goal isn't to find the arrangement that looks right to everyone else. It's to understand your options and build one that reflects your priorities, ambitions and circumstances.
Your family. Your career. Your call.
Resources to make parenthood work for you
E-books
Practical guides and downloadable tools to help you make decisions about your family, career and time.
Mentoring
Personal, structured support for navigating the career and family decisions that matter to you.
Articles
Personal stories, practical ideas and fresh perspectives on the challenges of working parenthood.
Recommended Reading & Real-Life Experiences
Recommended reading and real-life examples to help you discover approaches worth borrowing for your own circumstances.
Three practical guides. Three important parts of working parenthood.
Each guide brings structured thinking and practical tools to a different part of life: how your family operates, how you develop your careers and how you allocate your time.
Explore the challenge that's most relevant to you today.
The Family Framework
Make family life work better for everyone involved.
Understand how your household operates, make responsibilities visible and build practical arrangements for managing two careers, childcare and everyday family life.
Explore the Family Framework
The Career Framework
Build your career without losing sight of your family.
Define your professional direction, evaluate opportunities and develop a career strategy that considers both your ambitions and your family's circumstances.
Explore the Career Framework
The Time Framework
Make more deliberate decisions about your time.
Use a practical guide and Excel time diary to understand how you spend your week, identify patterns and make room for what matters to you.
Explore the Time Framework