Corporate Speaking and Events

Educate, empower and support your employees with one of the UK's leading voices on working parenthood.

Nearly one-third (29%) of UK working parents report experiencing high or extreme levels of stress, significantly impacting their ability to concentrate at work.
Source: Workplace Journal, March 2025

Supporting working parents isn’t niche—it’s essential to retaining and engaging a huge portion of your talent base.

Motherkind, founded by Zoe Blaskey, is a leading platform supporting modern working parents to thrive.

With over a decade of experience in personal development and wellness, Zoe is a transformational coach, speaker, and host of the top-rated Motherkind podcast. She works with forward-thinking organisations to support employee wellbeing, reduce burnout, and improve retention through inspiring workshops and keynotes.

Zoe’s sessions blend science-backed tools with practical strategies, empowering parents to navigate work and family life with greater balance and resilience.

Her work has been featured in The Telegraph, Red, and Marie Claire, and trusted by brands like Google and Deloitte.

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85% of women leave the full-time workforce within three years of having children.
Source: Careers & Babies Report

Our Offering

Motherkind Parental Workshops

Sessions are open to everyone, not just working parents, but also their line managers and colleagues, creating a more inclusive and supportive culture across your organisation.

Each talk can be delivered online or in person, and is available as a 30-, 60- or 90-minute interactive session.

For speaking enquiries please email contact@motherkind.co

It has never been harder to thrive as a working parent, 82% of UK parents have demonstrated at least one of the warning signs of burnout. Our most booked workshop is a summary of all the key topics your working parents and their colleagues need to know to avoid burnout, feel supported and understood at work and learn new research backed skills to be more effective - at home and work.
Outcomes:
- Why parenthood impacts work values - and what every manager needs to know
- How and why to focus on boundaries, not balance
- How to reduce working parent guilt
- How to manage your energy with no time
- Understanding the ‘second shift’ and mental load
Superpower Skills of Being a Parent is a 90-minute interactive learning workshop designed to support working parents in recognising and elevating the unique skills they’ve developed through parenting.
More than that, it reframes these capabilities as transferable strengths, a powerful differentiator and a vital part of their professional evolution.
It has never been harder to thrive as a working parent, and 82% of UK parents have demonstrated at least one of the warning signs of burnout. Energy management is a core skill for any working parent to develop. This workshop will reveal the latest studies on how to manage energy across every aspect of your life.
Outcomes
- What energy management is and why it matters
- Burnout: know the signs and risks
- Decision fatigue in parenting
- Create your unique energy management blueprint
The return to work post parental leave is a critical milestone to ensure employees feel supported. With fewer than one in five women reporting feeling confident returning to work, this workshop will provide insights, tools and support for new parents and their managers to navigate this transition with a proven roadmap.
Outcomes:
- How to increase your confidence from day one
- How to define and set new boundaries between work and home life
- Why parenthood impacts work values - and what every manager needs to know
- Understanding the ‘second shift’ and mental load
Working parent guilt is pervasive and undermines confidence and productivity. In this workshop, learn how to reframe and reduce guilt, so your employees can feel empowered and confident in their choices at work and home.
Outcomes:
- Understand what working parent guilt is and where it comes from
- How to use the 80/20 guilt rule to reframe guilt
- The difference between guilt and tension
- How to define your unique values to reduce unnecessary guilt
Motherhood and ambition is a complex topic that needs to be approached with nuance and both the personal and organisational view. In this workshop, women will learn proven coaching tools to unlock a new clarity on the motherhood:ambition axis.
Outcomes
- How to define your unique ambition values
- How pressure, perfectionism and pleasing can hold you back
- The macro view: the invisible structures and forces that hold mothers back
- Understanding the impact of the ‘second shift’ and mental load on ambition
Work/life balance is a myth that puts working parents under pressure and stress, because the perfect balance will never be found. In this workshop, you will learn why boundaries are the new way to approach the division of your time, energy and focus between work and life.
Outcomes:
- Understand why work/life is a myth that is undermining confidence
- How to define your work/life boundaries
- How to confidently set boundaries
- How to ‘blend’ work and life: using flexibility over rigidity

"Zoe was excellent. The hour went so quickly, and she kept a great pace, kept us engaged, offered plenty of opportunity for people to participate"
Fortnum & Mason

82% of UK parents have shown at least one warning sign of burnout, with mothers and parents of preschool-aged children facing the highest risk.
Study conducted by the charity Action for Children

Testimonials

"Zoe was excellent. The hour went so quickly, and she kept a great pace, kept us engaged, offered plenty of opportunity for people to participate"

Fortnum & Mason
"I am the only employee with children out of 75 people. I found Zoe's workshop so helpful. I really felt like she was speaking directly to me and the struggles I was facing. I felt seen and less alone."

Universal Group Talk Participant
"Zoe gave me really valuable insights for managing work, family and the stress of both."

Chancery Bar Association
"I am normally a bit skeptical about these types of sessions and find them hard to engage with, but Zoe was brilliant! I got a lot out of the session. Just attending made me feel better. Thank you!"

Workshop attendee, Wilmington
"Amazing workshop, really nicely presented. And very much needed."

BJSS
"Zoe’s talk brought energy and enthusiasm along with life-enhancing tips to help our people prioritise their wellbeing. In just 30 minutes, Zoe taught us a valuable lesson on how to reconnect with our intuition."

Participant from The Croc
“A brilliant and relatable talk that left parents feeling reassured and inspired. The practical advice resonated with everyone, including dads and new parents, creating a truly special atmosphere for open and honest conversations.”

The Study Wimbledon
Zoe delivered a clear and helpful session that offered valuable support for both working parents and their managers, with positive initial feedback highlighting how it helped parents feel less alone.

Claire, Wellbeing Lead, Knight Frank
"Zoe brought warmth, insight, and practical tools to our families talk on Ambition and Presence. She created a space where people felt seen and inspired, striking a perfect balance between personal and professional growth. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive—highly recommended for any family network looking to spark meaningful conversations and real impact."

Focus Group Leader, USA - Beazley
Zoe was brilliant! Our team really felt she was 'with it' with her science to back up her points (we are an academic audience) and that she was really sensible about the complexity of the parenting.

Dr Palin, Imperial College London (90 min Thriving as a working parent workshop)

Corporate Speaking and Events

Nearly one-third (29%) of UK working parents report experiencing high or extreme levels of stress, significantly impacting their ability to concentrate at work.

Supporting working parents isn’t niche—it’s essential to retaining and engaging a huge portion of your talent base.

85% of women leave the full-time workforce within three years of having children.

Our Offering

Motherkind Parental Workshops

Thriving as a Working Parent: The 5 Essential Tools

Superpower Skills of Being a Parent

Wellbeing for working parents: how to manage your energy to perform at work and at home

Returning to work: how to navigate work post maternity/paternity

Working parent guilt: How to reduce and reframe

The motherhood ambition axis: How to find your clarity and confidence

Boundaries: the tool every working parent needs

"Zoe was excellent. The hour went so quickly, and she kept a great pace, kept us engaged, offered plenty of opportunity for people to participate"

82% of UK parents have shown at least one warning sign of burnout, with mothers and parents of preschool-aged children facing the highest risk.

"Zoe was excellent. The hour went so quickly, and she kept a great pace, kept us engaged, offered plenty of opportunity for people to participate"

"I am the only employee with children out of 75 people. I found Zoe's workshop so helpful. I really felt like she was speaking directly to me and the struggles I was facing. I felt seen and less alone."

"Zoe gave me really valuable insights for managing work, family and the stress of both."

"I am normally a bit skeptical about these types of sessions and find them hard to engage with, but Zoe was brilliant! I got a lot out of the session. Just attending made me feel better. Thank you!"

"Amazing workshop, really nicely presented. And very much needed."

"Zoe’s talk brought energy and enthusiasm along with life-enhancing tips to help our people prioritise their wellbeing. In just 30 minutes, Zoe taught us a valuable lesson on how to reconnect with our intuition."

“A brilliant and relatable talk that left parents feeling reassured and inspired. The practical advice resonated with everyone, including dads and new parents, creating a truly special atmosphere for open and honest conversations.”

Zoe delivered a clear and helpful session that offered valuable support for both working parents and their managers, with positive initial feedback highlighting how it helped parents feel less alone.

Zoe was brilliant! Our team really felt she was 'with it' with her science to back up her points (we are an academic audience) and that she was really sensible about the complexity of the parenting.