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Why transitions matter

Careers stall at predictable moments

Ambition rarely disappears at a life transition. What shifts is confidence, visibility and the sense of what's possible inside the organisation. The biggest of these moments is parental leave.

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The age at which women's representation in management starts to fall, while their share of non-manager roles holds steady.

 

WGEA Ages & Wages, 2024 

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The share of management roles in Australia that are part-time, just as women's part-time work peaks at ages 35–39.

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55%

The fall in women's earnings in the five years after becoming a parent. The gap is still there ten years on.

Treasury, 2023

The Sticky Floor

The point where part-time work and management progression collide. It widens the gender pay gap, slows progression and raises retention risk, and it discourages men from taking leave. That's why parental leave coaching sits at the centre of what we do, and why we coach the managers too.

Transition coaching

The career transitions we coach

Every program starts from where the person actually is. Offer coaching for one transition, or across all of them.

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Returning to work and designing flexibility

Coming back after parental leave, carer's leave, illness or a long break, and shaping hours, part-time work or a job share that suit the person, the team and the role. They leave with a return plan and a flexibility proposal to take to their manager.

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Carers

Caring responsibilities

Keeping a career moving while caring for a child with additional needs, an ageing parent, a partner or another family member. For carers of every gender and every kind of care. They leave with a plan for work and care, and the language to ask for what they need.

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Midlife changes

Midlife, menopause and what's next

A point of real choice for people of all genders: renewed ambition, a change of pace, or navigating perimenopause and menopause at work. They leave with a professional vision for the next decade of their career.

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New leader

Stepping into a new manager role

Moving into management with a clear leadership style, set expectations and the capability to support people through their own transitions. This is the first promotion, where gaps in progression open up. They leave with a leadership vision and a sponsorship strategy.

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Career change

Redundancy

Making sense of a role ending, holding on to what they've built and defining what comes next, inside or outside the organisation. They leave with clarity on their strengths and direction, and a plan for the next conversation.

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Legacy and vision

Transition to retirement

Shaping the next stage on their own terms: phased hours, passing on knowledge and deciding what work, and life after it, looks like. They leave with a transition plan and a legacy their team keeps.

Every program starts from where the person actually is. Offer coaching for one transition, or across all of them.

The Grace Way

How our coaching works

Every program is built around creating agency, the cornerstone of our empowerment model. Ambition is already there. Coaching restores the belief and the capability to act on it.

Anchoring clarity

People reconnect with their values, strengths and achievements before deciding what comes next. Confidence often erodes at a transition; this is where it's rebuilt.

 

 

Defining direction

The question moves from “what's possible given my constraints?” to “what can I influence, and how?” The result is a Professional Vision people take into 1:1s, flexibility requests, pay and promotion conversations.

 

Enabling agency

An independent coach asks the questions people can't ask themselves, and helps them work with how decisions are actually made in their organisation.

 

 

Independent by design

Our coaches sit outside your organisation and every conversation is confidential. That independence is what makes honest reflection, and real decisions, possible.

 

Get in touch with our team today →

Impact

What happens when people have agency

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Report real-world impact
Coaching participants (surveys)

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NPS score on coaching
Coaching participants (surveys)

90%

More confident starting a career conversation
Coaching participants (surveys)

10,000+

People Empowered
Since 2014

Retention follows agency

People who get clear on what they want, and feel equipped to ask for it, choose to stay and change something.

Representation moves

When coaching is easy to access and managers are equipped, progression data shifts. Policy sets the conditions; coaching changes behaviour.

 

Progress you can report

Participation, engagement, before-and-after survey shifts and anonymised themes from coaching, mapped to your WGEA targets.
For the first time in 23 years I was able to ask myself: what do I want to do next? I'd never really had the space to ask that question before. Senior Manager - 20+ years tenure -Rethinking direction
I was starting to really battle, thinking I'm going to have to give something up to be a good dad. Working with my coach, I came to the realisation that I can have it all. Manager - Retail - Parental leave
My career was and is still really important to me, but there were some layers revealed that needed to be managed… I went through some wonderful coaching putting together my Professional Vision. Senior Partner - Professional Services - Returning to work
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The impact of Grace Papers​

"My career was and is still really important to me, but there was some layers revealed that needed to be managed. I really dived into this with my coaching with Grace Papers and I went through some wonderful coaching of putting together my Professional Vision and what I wanted to achieve now that I was back at work and after having 3 kids". 

Lizzie Barca, Senior Advisor - Diversity, Inclusion, Wellbeing, Hall & Wilcox

Awards and Partners

Case Study

Big 4 firm increases parental leave uptake for men and women’s promotion to partnership​

Find out how parental leave transition coaching prevents bias and discrimination, closes the gender pay gap, improves leadership literacy on inclusion and improves gender balanced retention and promotion of talent.

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