Retain your talent and support working mothers
Ascending Motherhood can support your employees and retain your talent.
Supporting the employee well-being of mothers returning to work is vital for fostering a productive, engaged and inclusive workplace. Ascending Motherhood offers customised services to businesses to ensure they are fully prepared to support mothers returning to work.
Why supporting female talent helps everyone.
The need to support female high-performers:
Women want to be back feeling confident and enthusiastic about work, not stressed or anxious. They want to deploy their new-found strengths, be equipped with strategies to manage competing life demands and be fully supported by understanding and well-equipped managers.
High-performing women are an asset to a business ensuring diverse workforces build upon strengths for industry success. Supporting the individual and building robust supportive processes will harness talent and foster growth in the person, team and business.
The importance of retention:
Ensuring individual employees are supported and managers are trained to ease the transition back to work helps women reintegrate quickly.
Support and education prevents recruitment and training costs when staff leave due to poor transitions back to work and prevents workload strain when a member of staff departs.
The impact is felt across organisations with a loss of skills, knowledge, and experience from a team and a less diverse workforce.
High performance; getting the best out of your talent
Having spent 15 years in elite sport culminating in eight years with the Great Britain Cycling Team supporting the world’s best athletes and senior leaders, Arabella knows the value that high-performing people bring to success. Supporting individuals to deliver their skill, knowledge and expertise at their best is what builds the foundations to exceptional sustained performance, world-class teamwork, and collective resilience.
Arabella works with high-performing women, educated, talented and skilful employees who are an asset to business. Losing these people leads to talent loss and increased costs for businesses.
Women and businesses want their female high performers to return confident, and able to deliver against the demands of their role.
Corporate Services for Organisations
Coaching, training and bespoke services for business to support and develop their female high-performers.
Employee Individual Coaching
Support and retain staff after maternity leave
Training for Managers
Equip managers with the essential skills and tools
Bespoke KIT day sessions and corporate services
Tailed sessions to support your employee and industry challenges
Wellness Webinars
Support and educate your employees with knowledge and strategies
Keep reading for more information on each of our services.
Employee coaching
Overview
Coaching provides mothers with a confidential space to make sense of their emotions, reassess expectations, manage competing demands, and set boundaries.
Mothers rebuild their confidence through identifying newfound strengths, and skills and are supported in navigating this identity change.
Experience
ILM level 7 executive coach Arabella provides exceptional and insightful questioning from years of experience working with high achievers from athletes to leaders in elite sport, now empowering mothers to flourish in this transition. Her unique background as an academic and practitioner ensures her coaching is evidence-informed in combination with honed skills to provide perspective and support with compassion.
Delivery
Four one-hour online sessions providing tailored support for returning mothers and those recently back at work.
Training for managers
Overview
Managers need to understand the experiences of mothers and how best to support them through this transition back to work to help retain talent in teams.
Managers come away equipped with:
knowledge about the returning experience.
skills of effective listening and questioning.
able to identify the challenges they face.
and solutions to overcome the difficulties. they experience with supporting mothers returning.
Two training packages ensure managers are equipped with the essentials needed through to in-depth support via resources and on-going coaching support.
Experience
Arabella has a longstanding background in knowledge dissemination and session facilitation developing the understanding and skills of others. Her ability to hear what others don’t and tease out meaningful detail allows attendees to achieve growth and development in sessions.
Arabella’s extensive experience in creating content communicating complex information in an understandable and useful way to a broad range of audiences means resources are impactful and attendees maximise their learning.
Delivery
Packages with workshops, resources and on-going support where content:
raises awareness amongst managers of the emotions and experiences of returning mothers.
equips managers with coaching skills and a toolbox of questions to properly support mothers.
helps managers develop an understanding of the unique challenges faced by the business and create solutions and plans to overcome challenges and provide excellent future support to staff.
expert facilitation ensures attendees are supported with a rounded approach to reintegrating returners.
resources provided help the management process providing guidance and reassurance.
on-going coaching support ensures managers can build their skills and/or be supported as their help reintegrate a member of staff.
Bespoke KIT day sessions and corporate services
Overview
Tailoring a KIT day session can address the unique concerns of those in your organisation and profession. It provides guidance and valuable information as well as the opportunity to discuss challenges in an open and supportive environment.
Bespoke work can be involve drawing upon the expertise of Dr Arabella Ashfield and co-creating resources, processes and bespoke content and delivery for your workforce.
Experience
With over a decade of experience in elite sport as a content creator, communicator and deliverer of athlete psychological well-being research and applied techniques for practitioners working across GB Olympic and Paralympic sport and to a broad range of audiences, Arabella is exceptional at converting complex information into understandable and relatable insight in a interesting and dynamic way.
She will expertly collaborate with you to understand your needs and design and create useful and useable information.
Delivery
Arabella will expertly collaborate with you to understand your needs and design and create useful and useable information.
Bespoke packages which are tailored and constructed with you can include:
resources
insight pieces
research translation
group coaching and facilitation
workshop delivery
Wellness Webinar Series
Overview
Support your employees with wellness webinars. The series hosts a variety of topics to choose from to support the parent journey and psychological well-being of your employees.
The webinars allow employees to gain knowledge, engage with self-reflection and deploy strategies to manage competing demands and be more productive.
Topics include:
Preventing Parental Burn Out - what is it and how can it be prevented?
Supporting the Returner’s Journey - how to support your direct reports and colleagues through the return to work after maternity leave.
Improving Psychological Well-Being - understanding well-being and how strengths-based working can lead to a happier, healthier and more productive life.
Supporting Children’s Well-Being and Development - learn what’s needed in the modern world and how to support your child’s development.
Experience
As a well-established communicator having presented at large corporate events in-person and online Arabella brings academic insight with a fantastic ability to translate this to the real world. Her previous work has included presenting at the Health and Well-being at Work Show, and delivering sessions for the Football Premier League, Dance Mama members, and sports medics, in addition to many academic international conferences.
Delivery
A one-hour webinar with questions and answer section, providing information, research insights, guidance, advice, and signposting with a supplementary infographic.
Next steps and information
Get in contact by email or book a call to discuss the corporate services you are interested in.
Request the Employer Ascending Motherhood Back-to-Work Mother brochure.
View the Returned to Work Info for Mothers and share with women who have already returned and who may be interested in receiving coaching.
View the General Coaching Summary Overview Leaflet for brief details on all four coaching programmes.
Dr Arabella Ashfield
Ascending Motherhood Director
PhD, ILM, BSC
Alternatively, drop me an email:
To enquire about corporate services send me an email using the form or the email address below:
Email: arabella@ascendingmotherhood.com
Recent Clients
Testimonials
Individual coaching testimony:
“As there were a number of new mums, either expectant or recently returned from maternity leave, within the organisation, I offered the opportunity for them to undertake coaching through Ascending Motherhood in order to support them in their changing family and job roles.
The coaching was clearly impactful, providing invaluable, independent support which was practical and appreciated. It offers exceptional value for money and means women will have appropriate and meaningful guidance which will help them thrive rather than just survive and re-discover themselves and who they are.
I have no hesitation in recommending Arabella and her programmes; in fact, I already have!”
Emma Sutherland,
Head of People.
Training and webinar testimony:
“We worked with Ascending Motherhood to deliver Supporting Returners to work training and Parental Burn Out Webinar, which were both so positively received. We had brilliant feedback from colleagues, valuing the practical application of different tools and techniques. In addition to providing a safe space for colleagues to reflect and prompt further conversations. Arabella was able to tailor our presentation and she met with us to discuss this in detail, which was greatly appreciated. The slides were informative and engaging, we had excellent feedback regarding the interactive elements within both presentations. We would highly recommend Ascending Motherhood, thank you”
The Gender Equality Group Chairs at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Individual coaching testimony:
“We have wanted for some time to make the return to work after maternity leave easier and less stressful. The sessions Arabella ran for one of our staff before and after her return to work were incredibly helpful. The feedback from our returning colleague was extremely positive and her teammates have seen her thrive. We have been so happy with Arabella's coaching that we are making it part of ongoing support for anyone returning from parental leave!”