Human Centered. Business Specific.

You’ve worked hard to develop an enduring company culture.

We’re here to learn it so we can tailor coaching services to your specific business values, goals, and objectives.

“43% of highly-skilled women leave the workforce after becoming mothers.”

The Mom Project

Our partnership approach alleviates demands on in-house leadership and HR professionals so you can keep and empower your top talent.

When caregiver support is introduced, the benefits ripple through the organization, positively impacting people at every level.

We’ll give your employees the tools they need to thrive personally and professionally so you can focus on moving the business forward.

  • For Managers of Working Parents

    ➞ Understand the emotional baggage your working parent team members are constantly carrying.

    ➞ Validate and address individual needs without crossing boundaries.

    ➞ Learn how to optimize the effectiveness and wellbeing of your team by being a strong, empathetic leader.

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  • For HR Professionals

    ➞ Develop a companywide strategy to offer and communicate support for working parents.

    ➞ Pinpoint areas of immediate focus that address employees’ biggest concerns.

    ➞ Implement 1:1 and group support services to best meet departmental needs without requiring your time to plan or execute new programs.

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“We see people thrive in cultures where caregiving is openly discussed. This is about transparency, but also expressing empathy and interest—and a tremendous amount of this starts at the top.”

Harvard Business School

  • Beyond the obvious reasons an organization cares for their staff, there’s a real business case (aka the bottom line) for building an integrated workplace that’s inclusive of parents. Sounds incredibly basic, right?

  • However, when parents themselves have trouble navigating the transitions that life presents them, how should a business handle them? Knowing that parenting lasts, at minimum, 18 years, we know families cope with transitions long after the parental leave & sleepless nights.

  • Where there is no roadmap, Cara Pollard Coaching (CPC) works to create a new path—helping to shift parents away from less successful, repeating behaviors and generational patterns, to creating authentic relationships with their children.

  • In the workplace, we assume that parents of younger children need the most support. However, as children age, the later-stage parenting demands have unique challenges that need to be considered to allow a mother or father to cope effectively.

  • Andrew Romero | CADCA

    “Coaching with Cara has been one of the most (if not the most!) valuable resources that I've had access to since becoming a parent.“

  • Parents of a Newborn

    “We needed Cara more than we thought! We are new parents and started our session with Cara a couple of weeks before delivering and continued after as well.

    Being first time parents is tough but having Cara to talk to brought us such joy, gratitude and comfort. She was very genuine, wise, great communicator, supportive and left us positive at the end of each session.

    She made us reflect on how great we’re doing that we aren’t alone. She also gave great perspective. Honestly, without Cara I’m not sure if we would have survived. We appreciated our sessions more than words can describe.”

  • Mother of Two Pre-Teens

    “I learned new techniques and self-management skills to help me be a better parent, worker, and friend. Coaching with Cara positively impacted my relationship with my family and friends. I feel I understand my locus of control now and how to self-advocate.”

  • Parents of a Newborn

    “Coaching helped us better understand each other’s needs, how we might go about meeting those needs, and how we can work together to do so. It also gave us the words to express things that we didn’t know how to before.

    Being able to discuss concepts like minimum standard of care is huge for us in getting to where we want to be as a parenting team. Coaching helped us with reframing negative thoughts and celebrating wins of all different sizes. We remind ourselves of the values we discussed guiding our family dynamic all of the time.”

We empower working parents with a greater sense of accomplishment and belief in their own abilities. 

The way organizations understand and nourish their people can be the difference between success and failure.