I want to change the way women experience maternity leave

Because for most of us it's overwhelming, confusing and genuinely nerve wracking, and I think it deserves to feel structured, supported and properly thought through instead.

My goal is simple. I want you to have the clarity and the tools you need so you're not left figuring it all out on your own, the way I was.

I didn't learn this from a textbook

Maternity leave isn't something I read about. It's something I lived through and not in the way I expected to.

When I was pregnant with my second son, I developed antenatal depression. Preparing for that leave while dealing with it was one of the hardest periods of my life: emotionally, mentally and physically exhausting in a way I hadn't experienced before, to the point that there were days I couldn't look after my eldest son the way I wanted to.

I took nine months off and eventually returned to work. Nine months after that, I left the job altogether. I couldn't manage all of it at once, the kids, the work, the overwhelm, the complete lack of support. Something had to give.

The person behind
The Maternity Plan

“That period changed the direction of my life in ways I never expected.”

I wrote my book, Don't Judge Me. Not long after, I met Lisa Hammond, and together we co-founded More Than A Tick Box a campaign focused on improving how antenatal and postnatal depression actually get diagnosed. I know first hand how easy it is to fall through the gaps in that process.

It was a few years before I returned to corporate work, and when I did, I brought all of that with me, as a consultant, working with organisations on people strategy and workplace transitions, helping them genuinely improve how they support people through change.

I'm CIPD qualified and trained as a Train the Trainer in neurodiversity. Through that work I could see exactly how maternity leave gets handled from the employer's side too, the policies, the processes, and where they quietly fail the women living through it.

I'VE STOOD ON BOTH SIDES

On one side, I had lived the reality of it myself, more than once, in ways that nearly broke me. On the other, I understood exactly how organisations worked and where the gaps were.

I couldn't unsee either of them. That contrast never left me.

The Maternity Plan is what I kept coming back to. I created it from both of those sides, because women are left to navigate one of the biggest transitions of their lives with no real guidance and no real structure and I believe you deserve better than that.

You deserve a plan that works for your actual life and your actual career, built by someone who has genuinely stood on both sides of it.

That's what I'm here to help you build.

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Supporting working mums through every stage of maternity leave - clear, practical guidance that actually works in real life.