Speaking Rachel Morris

Executive Coach

Author

Give a voice to the working parents in your organisation – book Rachel to speak at your next event, conference or team function.

Many people want to work AND have children; and workplaces want to retain talent. But both workplaces and parents are losing out as the juggle proves too hard.

Rachel combines warmth and approachability to share insights based on her decades of experience coaching working parents, so that your organisation can understand what working parents really need, is inspired to stop working parents disappearing and instead create an approach and a culture that’s a win/win for everyone.

Speaking with insight and energy about the lost population of women who suffer when home and work life collide, Rachel provides strong, focused calls-to-action on what we can all do to be part of the solution.

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Keynote topics

What the New Working Parents in Your Ranks Really Need

How you can best support the working parents in your organisations

Having listened to hundreds of stories, and working with many varied people, Rachel has gained valuable insight into the needs of individuals when they transition from being people who work, to people with children who work.

Rachel shares with her audience the Parental Transition Coaching Model developed to illustrate her findings, which highlights her insight about the needs people have across the three significant transition phases:

1 – The phase before a child arrives in their lives 

2 – The period directly after the arrival of a child

3 – The phase when they re-enter to the workplace as a ‘working parent’

As a coaching practitioner Rachel has observed, identified and clarified how best to support people through these phases. She’s monitored the emotions people typically bring to the coaching room, the needs that arise and importantly – she’s identified the best responses we can offer to help them find answers and solutions.

In this talk, Rachel will share this privileged insight, alongside a series of strategies she developed in response. She will offer her audience ideas and tips on how they as employers, line managers, colleagues, friends and family members can best support the working parents around them. 

How to stop the Working Mothers in your organisations from disappearing

The urgent action needed to engage and retain female talent

With problems in talent pipelines, the underrepresentation of women in leadership roles, attrition rates for women around childrearing age, and serious problems with the gender pay gap (resulting in significant poverty concerns for women in later life), the challenge we are facing is painful, complex and…urgent. So, face it we must.

In this talk, Rachel shares what she understands to be the most fundamental of ways in which leaders, managers and colleagues can support their female talent at the point in which they become working mothers. To stop them from simply disappearing from sight.

Rachel draws on over a decade of practise and research into the experiences of working mothers, sharing her views of the challenges working mothers themselves have told her they face.

In response she shares strategies with her audience to help them to support the working mothers in their places of work. And Rachel calls on everyone to take responsibility for tackling the challenges head on.

She offers ideas for macro level solutions – from influences on legislation through to a range of business initiatives. And also raises a call to action for each and every listener to take their own personal responsibility for also being part of the solution.

By the end of this talk, everyone will be clear about something they can do to positive create change.

Recent Speaking Events

  • yoUnity - Journey to Equity Presentation

    Rachel addressed leaders, line managers and wellbeing professionals wanting to know more about how they can support the working women in their ranks who also happen to be ‘working mothers’.

  • City Lit Mental Wealth Festival Keynote

    Rachel shared her insight about the needs people have before a child arrives in their lives, after the arrival of a child and the phase when they re-enter to the workplace as a ‘working parent’.

  • Global DEI Conference Speaker

    Rachel addressed an international audience of DE&I and HR professionals, sharing the benefits and impact of Parental Transition Coaching for progressive organisations.

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What Rachel will bring

Rachel listens for a living. She’s listened deeply to professionals in our workplaces for over two decades. And through listening in a confidential profession, she has gained incredible, privileged insight into the needs of people at work.

She’s learned how best to respond to these human needs and knows arming and educating others with this information is part of creating positive systemic workplace change.  Rachel aims to generously share her insight with those it might help through all aspects of her work.

As a speaker Rachel combines warmth and approachability with strong, clear and focussed calls to action, which are all driven by her desire to create positive impact in her area of expertise.

How your audience will benefit

If you take the opportunity to book Rachel for your event, your audience will gain the benefit of:

  • Access to rare professional insight into the core human needs of the people in our workplaces

  • Expert knowledge on how best to respond to the needs of the people within our workplaces

  • Practical, relatable tools to use to support oneself and others in the workplace

  • A fresh, energising perspective and a call to action for everyone to play their part in creating widescale systemic change

Rachel Morris is a professional accredited business coach and bestselling author with nearly 20 years of coaching experience working with a wide range of leading industry professionals. 

Rachel began her career specialising in working with business leaders and today still practises as an Executive Coach. She is the co-founder of two businesses, Motion Learning, a professional business coaching company established in 2004, and Coach Community, a not for profit entity, dedicated to supporting communities by making coaching accessible to individuals who may not otherwise access it, and to developing coaches through building their confidence, expertise and professional standing.

Over the last 10 years, Rachel has also focused on how coaching impacts the parental transition, working with hundreds of working parents as they juggle the arrival of a child, and the looming prospect of these two worlds – work and family – colliding. 

About Rachel

To add to her professional insight, Rachel has hard-earned personal experience of the transition working parents experience, being the mother of two boys. 

Rachel knows that workplaces want to retain talent, and many people want to work AND have children. Too often both workplaces and parents lose out as the juggle proves too hard. Rachel is committed to supporting and empowering this ‘lost population’ – people who have spent years focusing on their profession before having a family and who still want to have a career after having one – through every aspect of her work.

Rachel is the bestselling author of ‘Working Mother: Simple Coaching Strategies for Success at Work and at Home’.