For HR & Employers

Parental leave is your company’s most overlooked talent strategy.

RETAIN Coaching helps your employees and managers navigate parental leave as a leadership and team development opportunity, so they come back ready to stay.

Most organizations have a parental leave policy. That’s not the same as having a parental leave program.

The gap between what’s written and what employees actually experience is where talent quietly disappears. It starts before leave, when parents don’t know what to expect and managers don’t know what to say. It continues during leave, when coverage is informal and connection fades. And it accelerates in the months after return when the organization has moved on, but the employee hasn’t yet found their footing. That gap has a cost.

65%

of mothers who leave their employer do so within the first year after returning to work

68%

of returning parents say their manager had the biggest impact—positive or negative—on their return experience

~1 in 2

new parents have already switched jobs for more family-friendly employment, often for less pay

Up to 2×

cost of an employee’s annual salary to replace them

When good talent leaves, they’re rarely leaving the workforce.

They’re leaving for a competitor. And the reason is almost never a single thing.

No single fix holds if the rest of the system stays broken. That’s why we address all stakeholders at once.

How RETAIN Coaching Helps

Support for the whole picture, not just one person at a time

Most parental leave support focuses on one person at a time: a guide for the parent, maybe a checklist for the manager. RETAIN Coaching is built differently. It supports:

All grounded in the same evidence-based methodology, all working from the same framework, all moving through the same three phases together.

When everyone has the same language and the same roadmap, the transition works better for all of them.

The Center for Parental Leave Leadership (CPLL) brings that methodology to organizations at scale, depending on what your organization needs.

Scalable RETAIN Coaching Hub

Individual Coaching

Hands-on Consulting

In-house Certification & Training

What happens Next

Three Ways to Bring RETAIN Coaching to Your Organization

At CPLLeadership.com, you’ll find the right path for where your organization is right now. Designed to get you to where you want to be.

Most Scalable

The RETAIN Coaching Hub™

A scalable employee benefit that gives every parent and manager access to the full program, the tools, and the peer community they need to navigate this transition well. Add 1:1 RETAIN Coaching to provide customized support and mitigate risk.

Most Lasting

Certification & Training

To build parental leave expertise inside your own team, so you’re not dependent on outside support indefinitely.

Most Tailored

Strategic Consulting & Research

For organizations ready to close the gap between policy and practice, with expert guidance built around your specific workforce and culture.

Most organizations start with a free Leave Leadership Advisory Call to figure out which path fits.

Ready to make parental leave your competitive advantage?

The organizations winning the talent war aren’t just offering paid parental leave. They’re supporting it. Let’s talk about what that looks like for you.