When the return from maternity leave is unmanaged, companies lose talent, productivity, and team stability at the exact moment support matters most.
Most women say their company does not take the actions needed to support a smooth return to work after maternity leave.
In large organisations, many women fail to reintegrate into their previous role, trajectory, or level of responsibility after leave.
Even when employees return, a lack of support, flexibility, and manager guidance often leads to resignation within the first year back.
Replacing experienced employees means recruitment costs, onboarding time, lost productivity, and pressure on already stretched teams.
Built in Spain, ReStart turns a fragile transition into a structured retention process. We work with the employee, her manager, and HR before the return, during the first weeks back, and across the critical months that follow.
We identify silent-resignation signals before day one and map the organisational, managerial, and individual conditions needed for a sustainable return.
Group sessions help returning mothers rebuild confidence and help managers lead the transition without tension, ambiguity, or performance drift.
Tailored coaching supports each employee through the highest-risk period, adapting to real constraints around workload, identity, and role evolution.
We help companies create an internal circle of peers so returning mothers rebuild connection, reduce isolation, and sustain engagement over time.
Before the employee returns, we assess readiness, risks, manager context, and the support gaps most likely to trigger disengagement.
We activate workshops, align HR and managers, and put the employee on a clear return path with the right conversations from the start.
Coaching and peer support keep momentum high, surface blockers early, and protect retention during the most vulnerable 90-day window.
ReStart is currently selecting a small number of pilot companies to launch the programme. Early partners receive priority access and direct input on the final product.
ReStart is not a wellbeing add-on. It is a structured retention program with visible impact on attrition, productivity, and manager confidence.
Schedule a CallHR identifies disengagement risks before they become silent exits, giving teams time to intervene where it matters most.
Returning employees regain clarity, confidence, and effectiveness faster when the transition is structured instead of improvised.
A better return experience reduces avoidable departures and helps companies retain critical talent at a high-risk career moment.
Structured return support helps managers align expectations earlier, lead the transition with more clarity, and stabilize the team around the employee's return.
A curated set of LinkedIn posts we use to keep the ReStart conversation grounded in real leadership, workload, and cultural questions around maternity return.
Two reflections by Joana Videgain
Grouped together as a short editorial series on pace, inner pressure, and coaching clarity.
A curated library of third-party studies, reports, infographics, and employer guides on maternity return, workplace inclusion, and retaining women after parenthood transitions.
Download the ReStart dossier — programme summary, methodology, and rollout approach to share with your HR team.
ReStart was built by Joana Videgain and Anne Rambaud. We have both built careers across consulting, leadership, and coaching, and we are now both mothers of two children. ReStart exists because we know this return-to-work chapter is both a business issue and a personal turning point.
We did not design ReStart as a generic wellbeing offer. We built it from the overlap between complex organisational realities, leadership coaching, and the very concrete identity shift that often follows maternity leave. That is why our program speaks to HR, managers, and mothers at the same time.
Former consultants and operators used to solving complex people and business problems.
Certified coaches working at the intersection of performance, identity, and transition.
Two mothers of two who know that reintegration cannot be left to improvisation.
ReStart was created by two certified coaches, former consultants, corporate operators, and mothers. With 30 years of combined experience solving complex people challenges, we bring field-tested solutions to the exact moment talent loss becomes most expensive.
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