ABOUT US

We’re the Specialty coaching, education and community-building company

That helps working parents lead more successful, satisfying lives.

We’re launching a gentle rebellion against the either/or thinking that has dominated the conversation – and feelings – around working parenthood to date. We believe that working parents can be terrific at raising children and be successful on the job – and feel proud of doing so, too. We coined the term Workparent to describe anyone who’s working while raising a child. One person, two roles: No contradictions – and no apologies.

We believe that all working parents deserve the same voice, support, and level of respect. We are mothers, fathers and guardians, gay and straight, biological and adoptive, in all professions, from all backgrounds, of all beliefs, in all kinds of families, and parenting children of all ages.

We think that the best solutions for working parents come from working parents – and that our entire community benefits when we put our insights and voices together.

We do what works. We help working parents succeed on the job while fulfilling – and enjoying – responsibilities at home by sharing perpspectives and practical tools that can be used immediately. We teach leaders and organizations how to support and retain working parents in a way that’s realistic, feasible, and good for your organization.

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The Workparent Difference

WORKPARENT IS CHANGING THE CONVERSATION AROUND WORKING PARENTHOOD – AROUND WHO WE ARE AND HOW WE CAN SUCCEED.

WE BELIEVE THAT WORKING PARENTS DESERVE TO BE PROUD of building the future, while raising it.

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WE’RE INCLUSIVE. We believe that all working parents – mothers and fathers, gay and straight, biological and adoptive, in all professions, from all backgrounds, of all beliefs, in all kinds of family structures, parenting children of all ages – deserve the same voice, support, set of solutions, and level of respect.

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WE UNDERSTAND THAT WORKING PARENTHOOD IS A LONG JOURNEY – of 18 years or more. At Workparent, we know that the challenges of managing children and career don’t stop when the diapers do.

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WE FOCUS ON PRACTICAL ADVICE THAT CAN IMPROVE LIVES AND CAREERS TODAY. Whether it’s on how to talk about your latest project with your boss’s boss, handle a parent-teacher conference during a work emergency, or stay connected with your kids while away on business: We’re here for you with specific recommendations that will leave you confident, content, and in control.

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WE WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS, WITH LEADERS, AND WITH ORGANIZATIONS. Our three-tier approach lets us find and build solutions that work at all levels and for the long term.

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WE BELIEVE IN DOING WHAT WORKS. We find the working parents, leaders and organizations who have “been there and done that” successfully, listen for their best advice and approaches, and bring the best of those solutions straight to you. Then you decide what will be most powerful – for yourself, for your family, and for your organization.

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In the Press

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Indicative Clients

Our Founder

Daisy Dowling is an executive coach and leading expert on working parenthood. She is the Founder & CEO of Workparent, the coaching, education, and community-building firm for working parents and the organizations that employ them, and author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021). Daisy’s work is rooted in a simple, bold vision: that all working parents can succeed on the job and remain true to themselves while raising terrific kids.

Daisy has coached and advised working mothers and fathers throughout the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Her clients include diverse organizations such as KKR, Paul Weiss, Omnicom Media Group, Disney, Cornell University, Big Lots!, National Health of Scotland and the United States Air Force. In addition to her advisory work, Daisy launched the Harvard Business Review’s first column on working parenthood and serves as Series Editor for the HBR Working Parent Collection of books.

Her writing on careers, personal development and work/life balance has appeared in the Washington Post, Fast Company, MarketWatch, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, the European Business Review, Dallas Morning News and Elle magazine. To date, she has published 16 articles in the Harvard Business Review magazine and authored dedicated chapters in the HBR Guide to Coaching Employees, the Harvard Business Review on Managing Yourself and the HBR Guide to Work-Life Balance. She and her work have also been featured in the New York Times, Bloomberg, Business Insider, the Sunday Times (UK), Wall Street Journal, LA Times, and on NPR and CNN.com. Before launching Workparent in 2016, Daisy led global leadership-development efforts at four Fortune-500 organizations, most recently as Managing Director and global head of talent development at Blackstone, an asset management firm.

A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Business School, Daisy lives in New York City with her husband – a proud working father – and their two young children.