Expert parental leave consulting and research for organizations ready to close the gap between policy and practice.
Whether you’re starting from scratch, building on what’s working, or overhauling what already exists, CPLL brings 20 years of depth and rigor to help you get where you want to be.
Most organizations know their parental leave approach has gaps. Fewer know exactly where it’s breaking down or what to do about it.
The Center for Parental Leave Leadership’s consulting and research services give organizations the expert partnership, rigorous analysis, and strategic guidance to close that gap and build policies, practices, and programs that create lasting culture change that goes beyond compliance.
Lead on Leave™ Policy & Practice Audit
See where you stand. Know where to go next. At a price any size organization can afford.
The Lead on Leave™ Policy & Practice Audit is a comprehensive, expert-led review of your organization’s current parental leave policy, practice, and culture. It answers the question most organizations are quietly asking:
What’s actually happening between what we’ve written and what our employees are experiencing?
CPLL’s audit team reviews your written policies, assesses the lived employee experience, benchmarks your approach against industry best practices, and delivers a frank, prioritized picture of what to address first and why.
Developed and delivered by the Center for Parental Leave Leadership, the only consultancy devoted exclusively to parental leave.
Kickoff & Policy Review
Practice & Experience Assessment
Culture & Systems Analysis
Report & Delivery
A structured written report with findings across policy, practice, and culture, plus tiered recommendations organized by priority: what needs immediate attention, what to address in the near term, and what to plan for strategically.
Organizations that want a clear, honest, and affordable picture of where their parental leave program stands before committing to a larger engagement. For many, it is the first step toward a deeper consulting partnership.
Ready to learn where you stand?
or contact us to let us know you’re ready to get started.
For organizations ready to build, overhaul, or scale.
Strategic Consulting
For some organizations, this is the natural next step after a Lead on Leave™ Audit. Others arrive already knowing what needs to change. Either way, CPLL’s Strategic Consulting engagements meet you where you are. We don’t deliver a plan and disappear. We stay in it and do the work with you.
Depending on your goals and organizational context, a consulting engagement might include:
- Parental leave policy design and optimization
- Organizational systems guidance and implementation planning
- Change management and communications support
- Custom research and program evaluation
- Benchmarking studies and outcome measurement
- On-demand advisory support
Organizations with complex needs, strategic goals, or systemic challenges around parental leave policy and culture, and the appetite for real, lasting improvement.
Research Services
CPLL’s research team—led by organizational psychologists with PhD-level expertise—conducts custom research programs, aggregate data analysis, program evaluation, and outcomes measurement. Research engagements can be standalone or bundled with strategic consulting.
Either way, the goal is the same:
Generate the evidence that helps you make better decisions and drive stronger results.
Organizations that want data-driven insight into their parental leave program and employee experience to measure outcomes, make the internal business case, or generate the evidence that drives better decisions.
All consulting and research engagements begin with a free Leave Leadership Advisory Call.
The fastest way to find out if we’re the right fit is a conversation.
A complimentary, no-obligation call with a CPLL parental leave specialist—designed around you.
You fill out a brief questionnaire ahead of time so our specialist arrives prepared with a point of view on what strong parental leave could look like for an organization like yours. Then the hour is yours: explore what’s possible, pressure-test your current approach, get answers to questions you haven’t had the right expert to ask.
No report. No deliverable. No obligation. Just a focused conversation with the team with 20+ years experience.
Not ready for a call? Contact us and we’ll find the right next step together.