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With Harriet Waley-Cohen
With Harriet Waley-Cohen
An honest account of solo parenting and lessons learned along the way.
Our 'Real Life' series shares stories about overcoming challenges and changing mindsets to educate, motivate and inspire you. In this video we hear from Harriet Waley-Cohen on her experiences of solo parenting. Harriet is a full time solo parent to a 13 and 16 year old, who has solo-parented for over 10 years. In this video she shares the challenges, triumphs and some advice for those further down the journey.
Our 'Real Life' series shares stories about overcoming challenges and changing mindsets to educate, motivate and inspire you. In this video we hear from Harriet Waley-Cohen on her experiences of solo parenting. Harriet is a full time solo parent to a 13 and 16 year old, who has solo-parented for over 10 years. In this video she shares the challenges, triumphs and some advice for those further down the journey.
About Harriet Waley-Cohen:
Harriet Waley-Cohen ticks many diversity boxes that provide her with extensive lived experience of being ‘different’: she is a Jewish, queer, full-time single mother to one neurodivergent teenager, and another who is gender nonconforming. She has plenty of personal experience around psychological health and physical disability issues too; Harriet is over 20 years in recovery from addictions and complex trauma, overcame serious injury and a pain condition following a car accident in 2016, as well as surviving breast cancer in 2018.
As a speaker, facilitator, trainer and coach, with a background in psychology, a decade in investments and a further decade coaching senior women on confidence and leadership -she specialises in working with companies in traditionally male dominated industries including banking, financial services and tech. She supports her clients to recruit and retain the best female talent at all levels; to shift their culture to one of outstanding allyship and to get a genuine ROI on their gender-focused DEI initiatives.
She offers a range of services from one off workshops designed to start a different kind of conversation about DEI, to a series of workshops, programs and consultancy that help companies break through the diversity glass ceiling. She also runs in house confidence and leadership programs for senior and “rising star” women and takes on a handful of 1-2-1 coaching clients each year for bespoke support.
View her website here.
Harriet Waley-Cohen ticks many diversity boxes that provide her with extensive lived experience of being ‘different’: she is a Jewish, queer, full-time single mother to one neurodivergent teenager, and another who is gender nonconforming. She has plenty of personal experience around psychological health and physical disability issues too; Harriet is over 20 years in recovery from addictions and complex trauma, overcame serious injury and a pain condition following a car accident in 2016, as well as surviving breast cancer in 2018.
As a speaker, facilitator, trainer and coach, with a background in psychology, a decade in investments and a further decade coaching senior women on confidence and leadership -she specialises in working with companies in traditionally male dominated industries including banking, financial services and tech. She supports her clients to recruit and retain the best female talent at all levels; to shift their culture to one of outstanding allyship and to get a genuine ROI on their gender-focused DEI initiatives.
She offers a range of services from one off workshops designed to start a different kind of conversation about DEI, to a series of workshops, programs and consultancy that help companies break through the diversity glass ceiling. She also runs in house confidence and leadership programs for senior and “rising star” women and takes on a handful of 1-2-1 coaching clients each year for bespoke support.
View her website here.