Based in Sydney, we have a reputation for knowing what parents need as our consultants are working parents too. We offer simple and practical advice regardless of your profession or the time you've spent away from the workforce and work with employers to develop flexible work solutions.
Meet our founders, passionate advocates of parents having work/family choice:
Emma is a HR & Careers Practitioner who founded her HR Consulting Firm, Changing Places HR Services in 2004 and subsequently Mums@Work in 2007 to support mums returning to the workforce and to help progressive employers implement family friendly practices. Emma has specialised in HR, Recruitment and Career-Mentoring for over 10 years with companies such as KPMG, Zurich Financial Services, JP Morgan in Australia and the UK. Emma is the mother of twin boys under 2 and has first hand experience of the ups and downs of returning to the workforce. Emma is committee member of the Australian Association of Career Counsellors (NSW Division).
Janene started her working life as an assistant accountant for 7 years
before re-evaluating her aspirations. She chose to make a career
‘seachange’ and returned to study HR. Janene has now been in HR for the past 6 years, during this time she was able to take maternity leave twice with the same employer and successfully negotiated flexible job share arrangements on returning to work. Now a consultant with mums@work, Janene divides her time between work and raising her 4 year old daughter and 2 year old son.
Rebecca is a qualified high school teacher turned HR professional with extensive training and facilitation experience. She is now a career coach and is passionate about supporting women in their return to work. Rebecca also consults to industry on a private basis, designing and implementing HR programs, delivering workshops and presentations, and coaching managers one-on-one to improve effectiveness. Rebecca is a graduate of the Behavioural Coaching Institute and is a qualified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Practitioner.
Amanda is a Business Psychologist and HR professional who has over 10 years experience working in Career Development, Coaching, Management Training and outplacement. She began her career working in Mental Health and has made a couple of successful career transitions since. The most recent being into parenthood. Amanda is now a busy mother, with another on the way,who knows first hand the challenges of juggling young children with a career.
Christina has a Bachelor of Business from UTS and started her career in chartered accounting with PriceWaterhouseCoopers before moving into private industry where I was the Director of Finance, Administration & Human Resources for a Pharmaceutical company, for 9 years. After the birth of her twins she took a break from ‘paid work’ and completed her MBA with AGSM. Christina returned to work when her twins were 18 months old and now works as Project Manager and HR Consultant.
