Webinar: Retaining & engaging working parents in the modern workplace

Aims

The workshop provides an overview of the most recent Leaders Plus report, ‘Career Progression Gaps - The Next Frontier’ (which can be accessed here). Our research raised concerning statistics such as: 

• 86% of working parents wanted to progress their careers but only 30% felt this possible with their current employer
• 44% of working parents would not recommend their current employer  
• 1/4 working parents have changed employers because of their caring responsibilities

Attendees will walk away with an understanding of how to stand out as an employer to working parents, how to retain them and help them continue to progress their careers, avoiding the financial burden of recruitment and most importantly, contribute towards gender equality in their companies by enabling working mothers to continue to progress to senior leadership.  

Audience

The event is aimed at employers who want to retain and attract working parents to reach their full potential. 

Objectives

• Understand what will make working parents choose to stay with you as an employer
• Understand why too many working mothers' stall in their careers, what the impact is on gender equality in senior leadership and how to support them to continue to progress. 
• For each attendee to walk away with one idea that they can implement in their own organisation to support working parents

There will be time at the end of the session for a Q+A, a fantastic opportunity to put questions forward to an expert in this field.

Speaker: Verena Hefti MBE, CEO and Founder of Leaders Plus

Verena Hefti MBE is the CEO and Founder of the award-winning Social Enterprise Leaders Plus. She set up Leaders Plus in order to support leaders with young children to continue to progress their careers. She is an expert in career progression for parents and carers with more than 60% of parents supported by Leaders Plus getting promoted or getting more senior responsibilities at the end of their work with Leaders Plus. Verena has won several awards for her work with Leaders Plus including the Prime Minister’s Points of Light Award. She was also awarded an MBE for services to equality. She has delivered programmes for employees of organisations such as HSBC, the BBC, The Royal College of Emergency Medicine and BT amongst others. 

About Leaders Plus

At Leaders Plus, we work with those who believe in equality and want to drive change. The Leaders Plus Fellowship is an award-winning career development programme helping businesses engage and retain talented parents by becoming a top employer. By supporting employees to continue advancing their senior careers with a healthy and productive work-life balance, the fellowship is open to anyone with caregiving responsibilities and maintains their ambitious professional goals. 

We know 82% of women in the UK have children by the time they are 45 and unfortunately, are disproportionately affected when starting a family. The Leaders Plus Fellowship programme is a significant positive step towards addressing the gender gap in senior leadership and positioning companies on the right side of this much needed change.

Further info

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