Supporting families and companies during parental leave, for a smoother return-to-work transition.
RTWell Corporate Program
Chapter 1
Postnatal Planning
We guide parents through the intricacies of planning their departure from work, preparing mentally and physically for life after child birth to navigate the postnatal period with confidence.
Chapter 2
Postnatal Care
We ensure continuity of care for your employees navigating the profound physical, psychological and emotional transformations women undergo after giving birth through guided sessions.
Chapter 3
Self Care
Through tailored consults, we empower parents with the confidence and support needed to focus on self-care and personal growth by redefining their goals and embrace newfound strengths.
Chapter 4
Back To Work
Our experts will support with return to work planning and balancing responsibilities from home and work to ultimately ease employees back into the workforce and ensure their successful return to work.
Our vision is to become the bridge between going on parental leave and returning to work, to improve employees’ engagement during this challenging and transformative stage of their career.
Did You Know?
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It can cost up to 1.5 times an employee’s annual salary to replace them if they do not return from parental leave.
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Less than a third (29%) of women work full-time after having children (0 to 4yo).
46%
46% of companies with less than 250 employees do not offer Paid Parental Leave (PPL) to their employees.
42%
42% of parents have difficulties looking after their own physical and mental health and balance competing work and family pressures.
Our mission is to support the 42% of parents struggling to balance work and family, ensuring their wellbeing is prioritised so they feel valued and supported, and can thrive both at home and at work.
Drive organisational change, improve employee engagement and achieve better business outcome.
By encouraging self-growth and self-discovery during parental leave, parents can nurture their newfound strengths, rediscover talents and transition back to work fully prepared and engaged.
Our program runs between 3 and 12 months and is designed to help parents understand and navigate the changes after childbirth by providing knowledge and resources about Matrescence and working parenthood.
By supporting both partners, we promote better support and mutual understanding, enabling them to manage this period effectively together. Additionally, our program assists parents in planning their return to work, ensuring a smoother and successful transition for the entire family.
1:1 Expert Tailored Services
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Personalised guidance and support to parents before and after parental leave as they navigate their career progression and return to the workforce with confidence. Our experts provide strategies for achieving work-life balance, exploring flexible work options and developing skills to thrive professionally while addressing personal and family needs.
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Strategies to support parents in improving their financial confidence to manage money and build wealth in life. Through a personalised financial session and online courses, we help parents navigate the financial implications of parental leave, plan for their return to work and build long-term wealth and security for themselves and their families.
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Counselling and Psychotherapy supports and allows for individuals to be heard and feelings to be validated. It assists people to live fully, to discover potential, to face fears and to be adventurous. Our experts will help face couples’ challenges, relationships difficulties with friends or other individuals, and better deal with life transitions such as child birth, parental leave and return to work.
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Personalised support to navigate the physical, mental, emotional, and social transitions of becoming mothers. Our experts offer education, encouragement, and resources to help parents embrace the profound changes of matrescence, fostering self-awareness, confidence, and well-being during the postnatal period and beyond. They offer guidance and support to women before and after parental leave as they make career plans and prepare to return to the workforce with confidence. They provide strategies for achieving balance, exploring flexible work options and developing skills to thrive professionally while attending to their personal and family needs.
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Wholistic approach to health, by recognising the interconnectedness of lifestyle, diet, past history, and overall well-being. Focusing on supporting the whole person, not just alleviating symptoms, our experts will explore key aspects of your life, such as sleep, work, mental health, and medical history. They will create a personalised plan to address both acute and chronic issues, ensuring it is sustainable and tailored to improve your symptoms and enhance long-term health. By addressing root causes, naturopathy helps restore balance and achieve optimal well-being.
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Practical and emotional support to mothers and families during the postpartum period. Our experts assist with newborn care, new mother care and emotional reassurance, empowering mothers to recover from childbirth and navigate the challenges of early parenthood with confidence and ease.
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Specialised guidance and support to parents seeking to establish healthy sleep habits and routines for their babies. Our experts provide advice, strategies, and resources to address sleep challenges and promote optimal sleep patterns for infants, fostering better rest for both babies and parents.
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Expert guidance, education, and support regarding breastfeeding, infant feeding and return to work. From planning, discussing options and setting goals pre-birth to assisting with latch, positioning, troubleshooting breastfeeding problems post-birth, we promote successful infant feeding and support parents when transitioning back to work adapting feeding method.
Meet the Experts
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Dr Annie Stewart
Career and Transition Coach
Annie is a Career and Transition coach specialising in helping clients with best practice strategies, planning, tools and mindset techniques. With over 30 years of corporate coaching experience, Annie understands organisational systems and culture and how best to plan and implement a successful return to work within the context of each workplace.
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Julia Scott
Wealth Management Specialist
Julia has been a Chartered Accountant, Tax Advisor, Wealth Management Specialist for over 20 years and is certified in Money Mindset and Feng Shui. Her passion for financial empowerment led her to fill a gap in the market. Julia helps clear money blocks, set up money management systems, and become confident building wealth in all aspects of life.
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Katherine Howard
Psychotherapist and Relationships Counsellor
Katherine is a Mental Health Occupational Therapist with post graduate qualifications in Psychotherapy and more than 40 years of experience as a therapist in various organisations. Her expertise is in supporting couples to sustain healthy relationships during life’s major transitions, enhancing their emotional well-being.
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Elise Clement
Psychotherapist and Matrescence Coach
Elise weaves together psychotherapy and Matrescence coaching to support women in feeling empowered while they navigate the competing demands of work and mothering. The radical transformation that occurs when a woman becomes a mother paves the way for new values, strengths, and needs that have the potential to completely redefine a woman’s identity.
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Annie Littlehales
Integrative Sleep Consultant
Annie is a Certified Holistic Sleep Coach (OCN Level 6) through the Holistic Sleep Coaching Program founded by Lyndsey Hookway in the UK. Through evidence-based knowledge, expertise in understanding sleep's interconnected factors and a passion for supporting parents, Annie helps gain clarity and confidence by understanding and supporting sleep without sleep training.
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Ysaline Godet
Holistic Life Coach and Doula
As a Holistic Life Coach and Doula, Ysaline combines her deep passion for motherhood with a unique approach to support women on their journey. By utilizing life coaching techniques and the soothing effect of rebozos, she offers tailored guidance that empowers mothers at every stage. Her mission is to instill confidence and cultivate a community where every mother feels truly valued.
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Natalie Spencer
Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)
Natalie is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), a graduate diploma of midwifery and is a mother of two boys. Natalie is passionate about helping families feel empowered through evidence-based education, to make the most appropriate decisions for themselves when it comes to feeding their babies.
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Anna-Maria Boelskov
Nutritionist, Herbalist, Doula
Anna-Maria is a nutritionist, herbalist, doula and lactation counsellor with over 10 years of experience supporting women through pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. Focusing on optimal health, she provides personalised care, including pathology assessments and tailored supplementation and combines evidence-based knowledge to help families make informed choices throughout motherhood.
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Personalised Care Plan
During the onboarding process, the RTWell program manager will do a wellbeing assessment of your employee and create the RTWellbeing personalised plan (postnatal care and return to work plan).
How It Works
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Parental Leave Bridge
The program manager will customise each chapter based on the unique needs of your employee, manage the 1:1 consultations and measure progress of your employee’s wellbeing and engagement during parental leave.
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Successful RTW
Through continuing wellbeing assessment, planning and progress tracking, we will ensure your employee is emotionally ready to resume her/his career and has found a new balance between home and work responsibilities.
Structured, Yet Customisable
Every employee will be paired with a dedicated program manager responsible for orchestrating their onboarding, introduction, regular check-ins, and assessment consultations at every stage of the program.
We offer “continuity of care” post-birth and we know how unique every pregnancy, birth, mother or baby is, so our program is also 100% unique, tailored to each person.
In Person And Remote Sessions
Our experts are equipped to deliver your consultations in their clinics in Sydney, at your home or via video call so you can comfortably partake from the comfort of your home.
Invest In Your Team
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ESSENTIAL PLAN
8 x Group Sessions (Group Only / No 1:1)
This plan includes 8 Online Group support sessions with our wellbeing experts across all RTWell specialties. Your employees will have access for 12 months to our online sessions, including career coaching, naturopathy, mental health support, infant feeding and more.
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NURTURE PLAN
10 x Support Sessions (1:1 Only / No Group)
This plan includes 8 one-on-one online support sessions with wellbeing experts and 2 one-on-one sessions with a RTWell program manager. Our experts support your employees through 1:1 consultations across all RTWell specialties, including career coaching, infant sleep and more.
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EMPOWER PLAN
18 x Support Sessions (1:1, Group and On-Demand)
This plan includes 8 one-on-one online support sessions with wellbeing experts, 2 one-on-one sessions with a RTWell program manager and 8 group sessions of choice. Our experts support your employees through a mix of 1:1 consultations, group sessions and online modules for on-demand support.
Founder of Blackant Consulting & RTWell, Melissa Farah
“Returning to work after parental leave has been the biggest challenge of my career. Torn between advancing my career and being a full-time mum, I constantly felt guilt and conflict about my roles at home and work.
I realised that most women struggle to return to work after becoming mothers. To address this, we spent two years designing the ideal corporate program every working parent needs when embarking in the transformative journey of parental leave and working parenthood.
Our goal is that RTWell empowers future working parents to take parental leave with confidence, feeling supported by their employer, knowing their return-to-work journey will be expertly managed at no additional cost to them.”
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