Program Topics

• Designing the Future of Work for Caregiving Employees

  By the most conservative estimate, 45% of employees are caregivers in their personal lives, responsible for their children, their aging parents, and often, both. In this talk, Brody lays out how to retain stressed-out, talented working parents through the Great Resignation—and how to innovate alongside them toward a Great Reimagining of work. Sharing the strategies she’s developed for her consulting clients in tech, big law, finance, and the service industry, Brody defines the benefits, opportunities, and culture that prevent discrimination and keep women and parents in the pipeline to —all endorsed by evidence-backed research on the return on investment for caregiver support.

• The Reset Button: How Caregivers and Business Leaders Can Recover from Crisis and Thrive in Our New Normal

  By the most conservative estimate, 45% of employees are caregivers in their personal lives, responsible for their children, their aging parents, and often, both. In this talk, Brody lays out how to retain stressed-out, talented working parents through the Great Resignation—and how to innovate alongside them toward a Great Reimagining of work. Sharing the strategies she’s developed for her consulting clients in tech, big law, finance, and the service industry, Brody defines the benefits, opportunities, and culture that prevent discrimination and keep women and parents in the pipeline to leadership—all endorsed by evidence-backed research on the return on investment for caregiver support.

• How to Attract and Retain Working Parents

  In talks specially geared to managers looking to better support the needs of working parents, Lauren Smith Brody shares what she learned from 800+ new working moms and 100+ studies and experts for her bestselling book The Fifth Trimester, as well as the thousands of moms and dads she worked with throughout the pandemic. Brody makes the case for investing in parents through the tricky transitions of working parenthood, which keeps women in the pipeline to leadership, fosters gender equity (lifting profits, and preventing discrimination), and has long term ripple effects on the division of labor at home, too. Brody covers her most-recommended best practices in talks customizable to your organization’s needs.

• Why Moms Make the Best Employees

  Many organizations are aware of the challenges that mothers face at work, but aren’t sure how to remedy them. Here, Lauren Smith Brody takes audiences through ways to welcome moms and meet their needs, all while explaining how the challenges faced by working mothers prime them for success at work.

• Beyond the Lactation Room: How to Prevent the Motherhood Penalty in Your Workplace

  Concrete data shows that 80% of the gender wage gap can be attributed to motherhood, and  women’s earnings and status in the workplace drop with each child—in spite of research that confirms what Lauren Smith Brody found in the 800+ working moms she interviewed: Mothers are more efficient, better jugglers, and more creative, and more valuable than ever.  When you keep mothers in the pipeline to leadership, they increase everything from your profits to your stock value. In this talk, Brody explains how to protect your company’s biggest asset and lead this long-overdue correction for women in the workplace.