Executive Parental Coaching
Specialist 1:1 coaching for parents and their managers,
with Altitude AI coaching for the moments in between.
Becoming a parent is a major life transition. In demanding professional environments, it can also be a critical career transition – affecting confidence, relationships, visibility, progression and ultimately retention.
Soaring Birds helps organisations support talented people through that transition without losing sight of ambition or career trajectory.
Our specialist approach combines executive coaching, doctoral research into parental transitions in high-performance careers and deep understanding of the commercial realities of financial and professional services.
One integrated coaching experience: human-first, with specialist AI coaching available in the moments that matter.
Our programmes combine specialist 1:1 parental transition coaching with unlimited access to Altitude, our AI coach, throughout the transition.
Human coaching provides the depth, challenge and connection for important career conversations. Altitude extends that support beyond the coaching room, giving clients unlimited access to specialist coaching throughout their programme.
Whether preparing for a manager conversation, rebuilding confidence, navigating changed responsibilities or thinking through a boundary before an important meeting, clients can access support when the issue is live – not simply at their next scheduled session.
Support across the transitions
Coaching flexes as the individual’s needs change – from preparing well before leave, through maintaining the relationship with work during leave, to returning with confidence and rebuilding longer-term career momentum.
The focus goes beyond the practicalities of leave and return. We work on the factors that shape careers in high-performance organisations: performance, relationships, sponsorship, visibility, confidence and access to opportunity.
The aim is not simply a successful return. It is to help talented people continue to perform, progress and thrive as parents.
Altitude Coach
Altitude is our specialist AI parental transition coach, built from doctoral research, specialist coaching practice and proprietary coaching frameworks.
It is not a generic AI tool or a replacement for human coaching. It gives clients unlimited, confidential support between sessions: structured reflection, conversation preparation and specialist coaching through the challenges that arise across leave and return.
The result is a more continuous and accessible model of coaching – while keeping human expertise at its heart.
Supporting the manager
Managers have a significant influence on parental transitions, from handover and contact during leave to handback, opportunity and progression.
Programmes therefore support both sides of the conversation, combining coaching for the parent with line manager coaching and a dedicated Altitude manager pathway.
Managers receive practical guidance and confidential space to navigate their own questions, challenge assumptions and make thoughtful decisions – supporting the individual without inadvertently narrowing their choices or career trajectory.
For organisations
Programmes can include:
- 1:1 specialist parental transition coaching
- Unlimited Altitude access throughout the programme
- Line manager coaching and dedicated Altitude support
- Additional coaching where longer-term support is needed
Support is tailored to the individual, organisation and route to parenthood, including maternity, paternity, shared parental leave, adoption and surrogacy.
A more continuous model of parental transition coaching – designed to help organisations retain and progress talented people through one of the most significant transitions in their careers.