Bringing Light to Parental Leave
Welcome to Talent On Leave
Are you the go-to person for managing maternity and parental leave and return? Building the employee experience and belonging around the transitions? Are you tasked with retaining and progressing valued talent?
I’m Lynn White, founder of Talent On Leave and the approach that underpins it. And I get it.
If you have a good people strategy and you’ve optimised your policies and processes as much as possible, it’s frustrating that so much still feels sticky.
- Crossing your fingers that valued talent will want to return to their role and stay on the progression track.
- The delicacy of reintegration and balancing the need to support employees with the operational demands of the role and business.
- Key talent moving to a competitor even though you did everything you could, and what they’re going to doesn’t seem that much better for them.
That’s where the Talent On Leave Approach comes in.
One big purpose
Maternity/parental leave is a huge opportunity for talent development and progression. Seriously. The only other time that a human brain is specialising those leadership skills so intensely is in adolescence.
So if we assume that the basics of adequate leave, pay and childcare are in place, why is all that growth not translating into more parent talent progressing?
Two big reasons
Expectant and new parents have to realise it’s happening and work with it, so that it doesn’t feel so disorienting and so pre-determined.
Employers need to facilitate that realisation and support it, without crossing any lines between the personal and the professional.
Three effective services
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There are some questions about maternity and parental leave experiences that you, as an HR or People Leader, just can't answer, and delicate topics that feel impossible to approach without crossing a line.
Talent concerns about how they’ll balance their career, what impact leave will have, or how they’ll manage the return—those nuanced, deeply personal worries.
That's where Talent On Leave adds huge value. We don't just equip employees with the roadmap for managing these transitions—we challenge conditioning and transform their mindset.
Through our sessions, we shift them from anxiety and uncertainty to a collaborative, problem-solving approach.
They leave feeling empowered to continue growing, to communicate openly, plan proactively, and tackle challenges with confidence.
Session options include:
Online Group Prep for Leave Session £125pp Min5-Max10 employees.
Online Group Prep for Return Session £150pp min5-max10 employees.
In-Person Collective KIT Session £175pp min 10 employees - max 20 employees
Online Group Welcome Back & Adjust Session £125pp min 3 employees - max 6 employees
Every session is evidence-based, coach-led, holistically informed and tailored to your company's culture, policies and people. Promo content, onboarding and evaluation is all included as part of the fee.
You can check if our sessions are right for your business by answering a few quick questions here.
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Senior professional females are often extremely hard on themselves.
Having been accustomed to being in control and always achieving within their career, the conditioning and the unpredictable experiences of birth and early parenthood can often derail even the most confident and ambitious of women.
Because of Lynn's professional and personal background, coaching experience and numerous perinatal trainings, her approach to 1:1 coaching transforms how high achievers' experience leave and return. It's a shift from anxiety and struggle, to one of confident growth and intention.
Coaching Options include:
1:1 Prep for Leave £350pm for min 3 months
1:1 On Leave Add-On Pack (poa)
1:1 Prep for Return & Adjust Pack £450pm for minimum of 4 months
One-of Support Session (as a pack of hours within one company) £175-£300
You can check if Lynn is the right coach for your people by answering a few quick questions here.
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Sometimes an outside perspective from a specialist who is living and breathing maternity and parental leave experiences can help you move ideas and initiatives from good to game-changing.
Exploring the best value approach for maternity/parental leave in your business.
Reviewing/refining your policies to provide an empowering roadmap for talent and managers.
Building your employer culture and muscle around leave and return leadership.
Supporting specific concerns around maternity/parental leave HR.
To access any of these services, just get in touch.
Ten brilliant outcomes
Employee Wellbeing, Belonging & Engagement
Expectant and new parent talent who have the insights and support to protect their wellbeing to thrive not just survive the massive transitions of early parenthood.
Protecting talent confidence and ambition.
Demonstrating tailored and timely support that improves ROI on existing policy investment.
Reduced risk of negative workplace experiences, unconscious bias and unintended discrimination.
More effective employee/manager conversations without just reading between the lines.
Talent Retention, Performance & Progression
Improved expectant/working parent talent uptake on progression opportunities.
More effective employee/manager conversations.
Reduced risk of talent moving to a competitor with all the attrition, recruitment and continuity gap costs that brings.
A culture around leave that paves the way for win-win experiences and outcomes, attracting even more of the best talent in your sector.
Demonstrates commitment to DEI and gender equity.
Ready to show your employees their potential as working parents?
You’ve got all these amazing maternity and parental leave policies. On paper, they’re gold. But policies alone? They’re not enough. A platform with generic content? Not enough.
Here’s the thing, conditioning and what happens before and during leave, and that tricky phase of coming back, is everything. And that's where Talent on Leave steps in.
It’s not just nice-to-have fluff. It’s cost-effective and it transforms experiences from being awkward and risky, to something altogether more empowering and transformative .
It’s the difference between 3-4x someone’s gross monthly salary/ leadership potential, and harnessing the opportunities for the whole business.
The Talent On Leave Story
Talent On Leave is an approach that makes a point of setting people up properly for their maternity/parental leave, that nurtures their growth and talent throughout it and that creates more confident and energised returns so that talent actually want to return and progress.
The approach was born along with my third son in 2015, and by 2018, it was ready to start setting professional women and their employers up to thrive across leave and return experiences.
Brilliant, forward-thinking corporate clients and people focused SMEs soon jumped on board and over the last few years, we’ve refined what works, when, how and why.
When you work with me and leverage the Talent On Leave Approach, you are also tapping into a rich network of specialists, associates and ideas that will consistently challenge what you think maternity and parental leave can do for your business.
What Talent On Leave Clients Say
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