Returning to Work: The Identity Gap

​Why returning to work is an identity challenge and what to do about it

​You are not the same person who went on leave. And work hasn't caught up yet.

​That gap, between who you are now and the role you're returning to, is not a confidence or a competence problem. It's an identity problem. And that's actually good news, because identity is something that we have the power to change.

​This is a 90-minute online session for parents who are either about to return to work in the next few months, or already back and finding it harder than they expected.

​This is a structured conversation with coaching exercises built in, it's not a webinar. I've designed it to leave you with both a framework that makes sense of what you're experiencing, and one concrete thing you can do differently.

​You will leave with:

• ​Language that fully makes sense of what you're feeling

• ​A clear map of where you are in the transition and what comes next

• ​One concrete thing to do differently this week

​About Ella

​Ella is a transformational coach, ethnographer and Work Culturalist based in Lisbon. She works at the intersection of coaching and social science, and has spent years understanding what actually happens to people's sense of self when work changes. The Identity Gap is the framework she uses with every returning parent she works with.