Keeping carers in corporate careers
Keep your experienced people. Support the people who care.
Practical workplace support for organisations that want to retain talented employees balancing demanding careers with caring responsibilities, through manager training, carer coaching, ERG support and workplace strategy.
For all working carers, with particular expertise in parent carers and SEND.
Every firm employs carers. Few know who they are, until they leave.
The people you’re most at risk of losing may be the ones you don’t know are struggling.
Sources: Carers UK, Balancing Work and Unpaid Care: A Critical Issue (September 2025); Carers UK, State of Caring 2025.
The cost isn’t just absence. It’s lost experience, stalled progression and people quietly reducing their commitment before eventually leaving.
Caring rarely announces itself. People cut back, turn down the stretch role, stop putting themselves forward, and by the time anyone notices, they have already decided to go.
I help organisations intervene earlier: spotting the signs, equipping managers to respond well, and giving carers a reason to stay and progress.
Four ways I can help
1
Build awareness
For your whole organisation
- Keynotes and speaking
- Lunch and learns
- Awareness week and campaign sessions
- Sessions for parent-carer and neurodiversity ERGs
2
Equip your managers
For the people supporting carers day to day
- Manager workshops
- Confident, supportive conversations
- Flexible working that works
- Performance and progression without penalising caring
- Practical adjustments
3
Retain and develop your carers
For employees already navigating the juggle
- Group coaching that builds a carer community
- 1:1 career coaching through promotion, return, pivot or reset
- Q&A clinic: navigating SEND, from diagnosis to EHCP
4
Build a carer-inclusive workplace
For HR, People and ERG leaders
- Listening sessions
- Policy review
- ERG and carer network strategy
- Retention strategy and a practical action plan
- Working towards a best-practice charter
Why it matters
Retention
Keep experienced people you have already invested in, rather than replacing them.
Progression
Stop caring from quietly stalling careers and thinning your future leadership pipeline.
Wellbeing
Reduce the isolation and strain that carers so often carry alone.
Inclusion
Make carers visible in your inclusion strategy, not an afterthought to it.
Why organisations work with me
You don’t need another generic workplace speaker. I bring a combination that is difficult to replicate.
Corporate experience
Former City solicitor, trained at DLA Piper, with first-hand understanding of demanding professional environments.
Coaching expertise
ICF ACC accredited coach, supporting people through career, confidence and leadership challenges.
Recruitment insight
Experience as a headhunter means understanding what makes people stay, progress or leave.
Lived experience
Eight years navigating diagnosis, an EHCP and a specialist school place for my son, while continuing to build a career. School governor specialising in SEND.
How it works
Understand
I listen to what you’re seeing in your organisation and who it affects.
Design
Together we shape the right mix of sessions, training, coaching or consultancy.
Deliver
Practical, engaging sessions and coaching, in person or online.
Measure
Feedback, engagement and outcomes, so you can see what has changed.
Let’s talk about your working-carer strategy.
Book a 30-minute conversation. We’ll talk about what you’re seeing in your organisation and work out where you could make the biggest difference. No preparation needed, and no obligation.