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"The Executive Coaching Consultancy provides us with a maternity coaching programme for women from all areas of the firm. The coaches help individuals to manage the pressures and responsibilities that can arise during an important period of change which not only affects their career but also their personal life. This is an invaluable service which helps us to retain talent in an increasingly competitive market and to support women working in a high pressure environment."

Caroline Harding - Director of Learning and Development, Herbert Smith LLP

Maternity News archive

Have the Lost Talent Returned?
We review our new Returning Talent programme which was designed for Bank of America Merrill Lynch and hear how many of the talented women on career breaks have now found new roles and renewed confidence.

03.12.2012

Don’t call your child clever
Most parents think they are doing the right thing by telling their child they are ‘clever’ or ‘good’ but parenting experts at the Parent Practice share research which explains how this can actually be damaging, and, what to do instead.

30.11.2012

Top 10 tips for conscious co-parenting
Having a baby is a life-changing experience, but too often women take on much of the responsibility of childcare, with potentially career-suffering results. Here, Geraldine Gallacher looks at some top tips to make co-parenting work for you.

16.11.2012

Lost Talent returns
A Returning Talent programme looks set to help women and men transform their lives by offering advice on returning to work following a career break to have children. Executive Coaching has teamed up with Bank of America Merrill Lynch to offer this valuable opportunity.

19.06.2012

Power politics - has equal opportunity had its day?
How best to achieving gender equality has long been hotly debated. We thought it was time to re-evaluate whether equality should be the goal, or a realisation of the value to be gained from diversity in the different working practices of women and men. We ran a lively roundtable discussion to find out.

19.06.2012

Parity v/s Diversity: Parallel lives – equal rights shouldn’t mean a one-size-fits-all approach to business
Why I believe it is time for us to focus on the real value to be found in our gender differences in today’s highly networked economy, rather than striving for parity in the workplace.

01.03.2012

Balancing the Boardroom
Geraldine Gallacher sets out why London businesses cannot afford to ignore the lack of women on their boards.

26.01.2012

Goldman Sachs Returnships
In our quest for new ways to build the female pipeline we were really interested to discover a new initiative called ‘Returnship Program’ to re-start the careers of those who have had period of extended absence, and so we asked Goldman Sachs to tell us more.

26.10.2011

Guilty of an Unconscious Bias?
Explore what is meant by unconscious bias and how this impacts women at work and how organisations need to ensure that performance management systems root out unconscious bias so as to retain high performing women

19.06.2011

What if the World Were Led by Women?
Suzanne Jacobs of Working Families explores the negative impact of not having ‘sufficient’ female representation in leadership positions and highlights research which shows why a balanced leadership team is more successful.

18.06.2011

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