Zoe Blaskey
Podcast host and speaker on modern motherhood
*Fees are a guide only. Exact cost will be dependent on requirements and are subject to change.
About Zoe Blaskey
Zoe Blaskey is one of the UK’s leading voices on working parenthood, helping organisations create environments where parents and carers can thrive without compromising performance, ambition or wellbeing.
Since launching her chart-topping podcast Motherkind in 2018, Zoe has helped shape the national conversation around modern motherhood. The podcast has surpassed five million downloads and features conversations with world-renowned experts including Dr Gabor Maté and Glennon Doyle. Her acclaimed book, Motherkind: Become the Happiest, Most Confident Mum, became a Sunday Times bestseller, and her insights have been featured in The Times and Goop.
A trusted speaker and workplace expert, Zoe has partnered with global organisations including Meta, Dove, Knight Frank and Fortnum & Mason, equipping working parents with practical, evidence-based strategies to manage the realities of family life while maintaining energy, focus and confidence at work.
Drawing on the latest research into parenting, burnout and the mental load, Zoe delivers engaging, actionable keynotes that help organisations better support their parent employees. She explores topics such as returning to work after parental leave, balancing the “second shift”, reducing guilt without lowering standards, sustaining ambition through parenthood, and navigating the identity shifts that come with raising a family.
Warm, insightful and highly relatable, Zoe leaves audiences with practical tools they can implement immediately, helping businesses improve retention, reduce post-parental leave attrition, and build workplaces where parents feel supported to perform at their best.
To book Keynote Speaker Zoe Blaskey, contact The Speakers Agency on +44(0)1332 810481 or email enquiries@thespeakersagency.com
Thriving as a Working Parent: The 5 Essential Tools
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 at 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
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.
Wellbeing for Working Parents: How to Manage Your Energy to Perform at Work and at Home
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
Returning to Work: How to Navigate Work Post Maternity/Paternity
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: How to Reduce and Reframe
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
The Motherhood Ambition Axis: How to Find Your Clarity and Confidence
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
Boundaries: The Tool Every Working Parent Needs
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
Here you can find links to books by Zoe Blaskey. For bulk book orders for your event please speak with a member of the team.
Client Feedback
"Zoe was incredible, our mothers at spotify felt so supported by the workshop and have already started making positive changes."
Spotify
"Zoe was excellent. The feedback has been incredibly positive, we'd definitely recommend her."
Fortnum & Mason
