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Welcome to Parents At Work
Parents at Work is a world leading provider of education and coaching services
for workplaces, parents, carers and leaders.
Welcome to Parents At Work
For over a decade, we have been providing expertise, advocacy and education programs to inform and empower parents, carers and their employers, to successfully balance the ongoing and interdependent demands of career, family and personal wellbeing.
We're on a mission to improve the lives of parents and carers by creating family friendly workplaces.
We collaborate with employers, policy makers and industry professionals to improve gender equality outcomes at work and at home by;
- creating and delivering best practice gender balanced parental leave, return to work programs
- supporting and advocating for working families
- promoting family-friendly workplaces which support work-life balance and flexible working
We are a membership based organisation, together, working in partnership with progressive employers, we have provided over 100,000 families with access to vital parental leave and return to work transition programs, work life balance support, career management and other care services.
Our membership is made up of global and local organisations and we've been recognised by the Human Rights Commission for our work.
Emma Walsh | Founder CEO
Become a family friendly employer of choice
With family, equality, wellbeing and productivity top of mind, our strategies and programs
help employers and families rethink how work and family life is integrated.
Employer Membership
Parents At Work Membership gives organisations and their employees an opportunity to participate in a range of targeted Career, Family and Wellbeing services.
We provide online, on demand access to learning courses, coaching, unique events, a concierge service and access to an interactive working parent education platform full of tips, tools and other helpful content.
These services actively support managers, working parents and carers at different life stages to successfully plan for and balance their career, family and wellness.
We work with employers to support them to be a family friendly employer of choice.
For Individuals
Parents, carers and leaders, you'll have access to individual and group support via online and face to face learning tools and career wellbeing coaching.
- Parental Leave and Return to Work transition planning
- Explore and create flexible work options
- On demand online career and parenting classes
- Face to face Career, Balance and Wellbeing workshops
- Access Executive Career & Wellbeing Coaching
- Ask an expert via the Parents At Work concierge team
- Online resource centre for care, career and family services
- Working Dads connect group for fathers
- Special events
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Our Clients, Supporters & Awards
Human Rights
Deloitte
KPMG
Lendlease
HCF
Karitane
HSBC
Gilbert & Tobin
PWC
CBA
Westpac
Scentre Group
Norton Rose
HESTA
Macquarie
Genea
Page Group
Genworth
Challenger
Gidget
Dexus
LION
Optus
Sydney Uni
Frasers
APRA
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Baker & McKenzie
Membership Features
Customise a membership program to suit your employees and your organisation.
We have standard, professional individual membership levels or enterprise wide level to choose from.
The membership is designed to support both parents, carers and their leaders with:
Parental leave transition, Return to work, Flexible Working, Balance and Wellbeing,
Child care or Aged Care, Parenting and Career Management
Education platform
Working parents, their mangers and their partners have access to our on demand educational platform. Ask us about a customised platform for your organisation
Open Learning Courses
Access to online and face to face courses on topics covering career, parenting, care and wellbeing.
Toolkits & Guides
Access activities, guides and tools to navigate career family and wellbeing. Share with your family members
Working Dads Program
This is a unique program for working dads to access support with career and fatherhood.
Executive coaching
Working parents have access to executive coaching to support them with career, or wellbeing.
Concierge
Access to a concierge team to answer questions and direct enquiries.
Child & Aged Care
Access activities, guides and tools to navigate career family and wellbeing. Share with your family members. .
Educational podcasts
We have a wide range of educational podcasts on topics like career, parenting and wellbeing.
Manager Training
We have toolkits and learning programs for leaders so they can help employees transition or manage work and family demands
Consulting & Specialised Services
Membership Benefits
Open Learning Courses & Coaching
Testimonials
This is an outstanding service that working parents should take advantage of when returning to work after a break. This will help you get perspective & work through any challenges that are unique to you. My Coach was wonderful - patient, caring and practical
I had been back at work after having my first baby for seven months when I realised I needed some additional support and engaged Parents At Work for three coaching sessions. These were brilliant; my Coach provided a different perspective and challenged my existing thinking in how I approached my career, work, family and self.
We have received extremely strong feedback about the Parents at Lendlease program delivered by Parents at Work for both our female and male employees. The one on one coaching has been extremely successful offering our employees a personalised service to focus on their career and juggling the challenges of family and work.
I was given some great tools and guidance for getting over these "hurdles". I can't recommend this coaching program enough for new, or seasoned parents, or parents to be.
I wanted to share my feedback following the seminar yesterday. Even though I have been on maternity leave once before, I found it very helpful. The facilitators were great – they both speak from experience (personally and professionally) and it was helpful to be able to have a mini coaching group session with one of them at the end of the morning. It was also great to be able to walk away with a toolkit booklet
Thank you for the awesome program. It helped me realise other mums have the same challenges, helped me lift the constraints I have been placing on myself & gave me tools to make it happen such as using positive language when negotiating flexibility, getting mentors, taking action and networking. Thanks for the kick start.
Thanks for the Seminar. It was fantastic, the presenters were so professional, yet down to earth and I really felt I could open up about some of the issues I was facing. It was great to leave knowing that I can have greater confidence in my ability as a mum and a professional to get things working really well and that I can go after what I really want.