Parental Talent Consultancy
Uncover what helps parental talent return, progress and stay,
and where your organisation can make the greatest difference.
Policies are only part of the story. Soaring Birds in-house consultancy uncovers the structural, cultural and performance dynamics that shape whether parents in your organisation return, progress and stay – and where talented people are quietly falling out of the leadership pipeline.
Drawing on specialist coaching experience and qualitative research expertise, we work with organisations to get beneath headline retention figures and stated policies to understand how parental leave is actually experienced.
The result is an unfiltered, evidence-led diagnosis of your organisation’s parental talent landscape, alongside a pragmatic blueprint for targeted change.
Start with the question
You do not need to know what the solution is before we begin. Every organisation is different, so the work begins with the question that matters most to you. Our work typically explores themes such as:
- Retention and progression – What makes talented parents stay, progress or ultimately leave?
- The lived experience of parental leave – What is really happening before, during and after leave, and how does this differ across your organisation?
- Career ambition and opportunity – What do returners want from their careers, and where are assumptions about ambition, availability or commitment shaping their opportunities?
- The role of managers – What are managers doing that enables successful transitions – and where might management practice be creating unintended barriers?
- Policy versus practice – Are your parental policies translating into the employee experience and outcomes you intended?
- Where to intervene – Which changes would make the greatest difference to retention, progression and your future leadership pipeline?
The aim is not to prove that there is a problem. It is to understand the reality of your organisation well enough to identify where change will genuinely make a difference.
If you have a question about parental talent in your organisation – whether that is retention, progression, gender balance, manager capability or the experience of returning from leave – we can start by working out what you most need to understand.