The only validated parental leave transition assessments in existence.
The Parental Leave Transition Assessment (PLTA)™ and it's manager questionnaire companion, the PLTA-MQ™, show you exactly where to focus, before you spend a single hour guessing.
Every parental leave transition is unique. Most people navigate it blind.
The PLTA is a 30-minute research-backed self-assessment tool that identifies your unique assets and liabilities across the 6-S System for Transition Success—six areas that have an outsized effect on how smoothly you navigate your leave and how successfully you return to your career.
Your results show you exactly where you’re strong, where you’re vulnerable, and where to focus your limited time and energy, instead of guessing, or spreading yourself thin across everything at once.
Choose the report that fits where you are right now
Every Hub member has access to the PLTA. What report you get back depends on the level of support you want.
Essential PLTA Report
The Essential PLTA Report gives you a meaningful, personalized starting point that summarizes your unique assets, liabilities, and where to focus—powered by AI and available immediately upon completion. No coach required. No waiting. Just a clear summary picture of where you stand and some areas to leverage or address to get you started when you are ready.
See the PLTA-MQ™ for the manager version.
Enhanced PLTA Report
The Enhanced PLTA Report goes much deeper. Available only through a certified RETAIN Coach, it includes your full personalized PLTA Report, your transition Risk Score, asset, liability, and pivot point analysis, and a guided 1:1 review session where your RETAIN Coach helps you interpret your results and build your next steps together. This is the premium, human-guided path for the parent who wants the full picture and a real thinking partner to help make sense of it.
See the PLTA-MQ™ for the manager version.
Insight and self-awareness in ways you didn’t know you needed.
Your PLTA results give you a clear picture of your unique transition profile. Including where your natural strengths are, where your vulnerabilities lie, and where to focus your limited energy across the three phases of your leave.
This isn’t a personality quiz. It’s a validated instrument built specifically for this transition, grounded in the same research framework behind every RETAIN Coaching session.
Think of it like Gallup’s Clifton StrengthsFinder™ or DiSC® type assessment tool, but focused on helping you understand yourself and what is happening around you at work, at home, and within, during this monumental, life changing, transition.
The manager-facing companion to the PLTA.
The PLTA-MQ™ gives managers their own version of the assessment, so both sides of the transition are assessed and aligned before leave even begins. When everyone works from the same language and expectations going in, the whole transition goes better for all involved.
Your results become a plan, not just a report.
Once you have your PLTA results, the next step is, appropriately named, your Next Steps: Action Plan™. A structured, three-phase planning and communication template and tool that your PLTA Report results can help inform. You can use it on your own, but we recommend you co-create parts of it with your manager and coverage team so everyone is working from the same roadmap before leave begins.
Your PLTA Report helps you clearly take stock and see where you stand. Your Next Steps: Action Plan helps you define what you want to do about it.
Ready to find out where you actually stand?
Stop guessing. Start with a clear picture of your unique transition strengths and challenges so you can build your leave and return plan with clarity.