She came back.
But is she really back?
Returning from maternity leave is one of the most disorienting professional transitions a woman faces. Companies invest in onboarding, in leadership development, in retention — yet the return from maternity is left almost entirely unaddressed. The cost of getting it wrong is significant. The cost of getting it right is not.
The cost of ignoring it.
women consider leaving their job within the first year of returning from maternity leave
of annual salary — the average cost of replacing a mid-senior female employee
of returning mothers say they felt unsupported by their company during the transition back
Her Next Chapter Live
A structured, retreat-like programme — designed to help returning women reconnect with their professional identity, gain clarity on what they need to perform at their best, and build a lasting community with other women navigating the same transition.
What you’ll explore
From professional identity to direction
- ·Who am I now — the identity shift after maternity
- ·What has truly changed, and what hasn’t
- ·Values and non-negotiables: what matters now
- ·What they need from the company to perform at their best
What they walk away with
Concrete results, not theory
- ·Clarity on their professional identity on returning
- ·A personal toolkit to navigate the transition
- ·The voice and confidence to ask for what they need
- ·A community of peers going through the same phase
An anonymised insight report — real signal on what your returning women need to perform at their best, straight from the source.
Workshops
When Her Next Chapter Live is more than you need — or you want to bring this work to a team in a single intervention.
Matrescence & return to work
For women returning from maternity leave. The identity shift, what has actually changed, what they need from the company to perform at their best.
Professional identity & transitions
Broader — for any woman navigating a career or life transition. Who am I now, what do I want next, and how do I move forward on my own terms.
A quote built around your group.
The corporate programme is quoted per engagement: it depends on the number of participants, the format you choose and the language. Send us two lines of context and you get a proposal with cost and dates.
We define it together — from a small pilot group to a programme running across several cohorts.
The report to the company is anonymised and aggregated: no session can be traced back to an individual.
90 minutes, half a day or the full programme. On site or online, in Italian, English or Dutch.
Let’s talk about your returning women.
Her Next Chapter — our 1:1 coaching programme — is available for individual women who want to continue the work after the group experience.
Let's talk it through on a first call.
Book 30 minutes with Maaike to explore how Her Next Chapter Live could work inside your company.