How To Make Parental Leave a Strategic Advantage for Your Career
Allison Whalen is the Co-founder and CEO of Parentaly. When Allison became pregnant with her first child, she realized firsthand the huge gap in how companies support working parents before, during, and after parental leave without impacting their career trajectory. Parentaly offers the tools and services employers everywhere truly want to support working parents in the most critical, wonderful, and vulnerable moments of their lives. Parentaly turns parental leave into a competitive advantage for new parents and their employers.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
The biggest misconceptions regarding parental leave
How new mothers returning to work after parental leave are often unfairly judged in their commitment to their careers
Allison Whalen discusses how Parentaly helps businesses navigate offering parental leave and how to set up workers to succeed upon their return
Effective methods for negotiating parental leave with your employer
The reality of the push-pull between working dads and companies
Offering parental leave can be in a business’ best interest for not only attracting but retaining talent
How parental leave can hold a mirror up to your routine and become an ideal time for career acceleration
Allison offers her top tips for women to be as successful as possible when returning from parental leave
In this episode…
Are you an expecting parent who wants to take leave and return to the workforce but is unsure of how it will impact your career? Or maybe you are with a company that isn’t sure if offering parental leave is a good idea or what value it would offer?
Having access to paid parental leave is an excellent opportunity. However, returning to work without much support can leave mothers feeling lost and behind in their careers. Parentaly offers the tools and services employers truly want to support working parents in the most critical, wonderful, and vulnerable moment of their lives. There are many benefits to the parent and the company that offers parental leave.
In this episode, Jess Galica invites Allison Whalen, CEO and Co-Founder of Parentaly, to the show to discuss parental leave. Allison reflects on her experience with parental leave and returning to the workforce and speaks about how parental leave can serve as a time for career acceleration. Becoming a parent is a time of dramatic change, and Allison discusses the best ways businesses can support parents in their return to the workplace and how offering it is good for business.
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