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Zoe Blaskey

Unlock working parent performance and retention with Zoe Blaskey, the UK's leading working parent speaker. Zoe works with organisations including Meta and Dove to address mental load, parental leave transitions, and burnout, backed by five million podcast downloads and a Sunday Times bestselling book.

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Zoe Blaskey, Speaker | Empowering Parenting Expert
Zoe Blaskey

Zoe Blaskey

London, United Kingdom

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Zoe Blaskey's biography

At a glance

  • Host of the UK's top family podcast, Motherkind
  • Advocate for confidence and resilience in modern parenting
  • Expert in helping working parents to thrive
Zoe Blaskey is the UK's leading voice on working parent performance, helping organisations retain, support, and get the best from their parent employees. Since 2018, she has been shaping the national conversation through her chart-topping podcast Motherkind, which has amassed over five million downloads and features interviews with leading experts including Dr Gabor Maté and Glennon Doyle. Her book, Motherkind: Become the Happiest, Most Confident Mum, became a Sunday Times bestseller, and her work has been featured in The Times and Goop. Zoe has worked with some of the world's most forward-thinking organisations, including Meta, Dove, Knight Frank, and Fortnum & Mason, helping their parent employees navigate the realities of modern family life without sacrificing performance, focus, or wellbeing at work. Her sessions translate the evidence base on parenting, burnout, and the mental load into practical tools that teams can use immediately. She covers returning to work after parental leave, managing the second shift and mental load, energy and focus for working parents and carers, reducing guilt without abandoning standards, and the ambition and identity shifts that parenthood brings. Every session is built around what organisations need: better retention, less post-leave attrition, and parent employees who feel supported enough to do their best work. For HR teams, L&D leads, and people-first organisations looking to move beyond surface-level parent support, Zoe Blaskey is the most credible voice in the room.

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Topics, sessions and talks

5 Tools To Thrive As A Working Parent
Zoe Blaskey tackles the working parent burnout crisis head on, drawing on data showing 82% of UK parents show signs of burnout. She unpacks how parenthood reshapes work values, why boundaries matter, and how guilt, energy, and the mental load quietly erode performance. Practical, research-backed strategies give parents and the colleagues who support them tools to feel more effective at home and at work, replacing overwhelm with a clear sense of what actually helps.
Wellbeing For Working Parents
Zoe Blaskey makes the case for energy management as the vital, overlooked skill of balancing work and home life. She shows working parents how to recognise the early signs of burnout, explains decision fatigue and why it hits so hard during parenting, and walks through building a personalised energy management blueprint. The result is a practical framework parents can apply immediately to protect their wellbeing and performance across every part of life.
Returning To Work Post Parental Leave
Returning to work after parental leave is where many new parents lose confidence fastest, with only 20% of women feeling confident through the transition. Zoe Blaskey gives parents and their managers a shared language for what actually helps: rebuilding confidence from day one, setting boundaries between work and home, and understanding how parenthood shifts work values. She also names the 'second shift' and mental load candidly, so nobody has to navigate them unspoken.
How To Reduce And Reframe Working Parent Guilt
Working parent guilt is pervasive, and Zoe Blaskey argues it quietly undermines both confidence and productivity long before anyone names it. She traces where that guilt actually comes from, introduces the 80/20 rule for reframing it, and draws a clear line between guilt and ordinary tension. By helping parents define their own values, Zoe shows how to strip away guilt that serves no one, leaving room to balance work and home on their own terms.
The Motherhood Ambition Axis
Motherhood and ambition are too often treated as opposing forces, and Zoe Blaskey unpacks why. Using coaching tools drawn from her own practice, she helps women get clarity on what ambition actually means to them, cutting through the pressure, perfectionism, and societal expectation that get in the way. Zoe also names the invisible structures working mothers navigate daily, showing how the 'second shift' and mental load shape ambition in ways rarely discussed openly.

Why we recommend booking Zoe

Zoe is the UK's leading expert on working-parent performance, a Sunday Times bestselling author and host of the Motherkind podcast (5M+ downloads), who translates evidence on parenting, burnout, and the mental load into practical strategies that boost retention, reduce post-leave attrition, and improve working parents' focus and wellbeing.

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Testimonials

Zoe was excellent. The feedback has been incredibly positive, we'd definitely recommend her

HR, Fortnum & Mason

Zoe was incredible, our mothers at spotify felt so supported by the workshop and have already started making positive changes.

Willemijn Donovan

Partner Marketing Manager, Spotify

The feedback I personally received was really positive. Our parents felt so seen and motivated by Zoe's talk

Ricky Batra

Senior Workplace Strategist, TP Bennett

Featured Projects

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What is Zoe Blaskey's speaking style like?
Zoe Blaskey structures her sessions around research-backed frameworks, anchoring content in data points such as the statistic that 82% of UK parents show signs of burnout, before walking audiences through practical tools they can apply immediately, such as a personalised energy management blueprint.
What topics does Zoe Blaskey specialise in?
Zoe Blaskey speaks on working parent burnout, returning to work after parental leave, energy management, the mental load, and confidence through parenting transitions. She is the host of the Motherkind podcast, which has surpassed five million downloads, and her book of the same name reached the Sunday Times bestseller list.
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