Workplace Support for New Parents with Debi Yadegari

Returning to work after having a baby can be challenging for all Moms, Dads and partners.  Debi Yadegari is the Founder and CEO of MommaWork, a management consulting firm that is helping transform the dynamic between working parents and corporate leadership across the country.  Her company has been named an industry disruptor by Forbes Magazine and is Working Mother Magazine’s go-to resource for lactation accommodation law questions.  

Highlights from today's episode:

• Challenges parents face when returning to the workplace
• Preparing to go out on maternity leave and planning your return to work
• Navigating your breastfeeding rights in the workplace
• Changing identity when you become a parent
• Maximizing work-life balance
• New parent transitions when returning to work

MommaWork  strategically partners with companies to provide invaluable working parent support.  On the employee side, MommaWork offers corporate lactation support services and a new parent transition and family coaching program, while on the employer side, MommaWork offers legal compliance oversight, human resources support and manager sensitivity training.  

As an attorney, a certified lactation consultant, and mother of five children (ages 14, 12, 11, 8 and 2), Debi is a sought after expert and frequent speaker on the issues plaguing working parenthood, including the increasingly complex and quickly-shifting area of lactation accommodation law.  Her eye-opening presentations have been a national wake-up call for companies to get real about their employees’ needs, and the bottom line. 

Debi started MommaWork with a mission -- to offer the types of support working parents need most so they may achieve BOTH their families’ personal goals and professional success.  To date, MommaWork has helped countless families and Debi could not be more proud!

Visit www.mommawork.com and connect with Debi and her company:
Instagram @momma_work
Facebook @mommawork
LinkedIn MommaWork


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