Workbook
The Working Parent's Professional Identity
Who You Are at Work When Who You Are at Home Changed Everything
You are not less serious about your work because you are also serious about your family.
For the working parent who returned from leave and found the professional self had shifted — and wants to name who they are professionally now that their life includes a child.
The Name It First Experience
The child arrived and the professional self shifted. You are still capable at your work but the person doing it is different now — and no one at work asked who came back. This workbook maps the professional identity that exists after parenthood: not the old one restored, but the new one named. The output is not a work-life balance plan. It is Your Working Parent Charter — a signed declaration of who you are professionally now that your life includes a child.
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Sample questions
- What has becoming a parent done to your professional identity — and what do you notice about how you think about your work now compared to before?
- What professional ambitions or parts of your work identity are you holding differently now — not given up, but changed?
- What does a working-parent career that actually reflects your values and your ambitions look like — and how do you build it?
Research basis
Williams and Segal on the maternal wall and professional identity after children / Schlossberg on transition theory applied to parental leave return / Ibarra on working identity in role transitions.
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