Workshops to Support Women, Parents, and People Leaders Through Key Life Stages
At Maturn, we deliver impactful, research-informed workshops designed to support women, parents, and the leaders who champion them.
From navigating maternity leave, motherhood, and caregiving, to thriving through perimenopause, menopause, and beyond, our workshops foster inclusive workplaces where ambition and well-being can coexist. Whether you’re empowering women in leadership, equipping people leaders with tools to support their teams, or addressing the unique challenges parents face, our programs combine expertise, lived experience, and practical strategies to inspire meaningful change.
Management Training Workshops for People Leaders
Leading through Life Stages: Building a Workplace That Works for Women
This workshop can be delivered as 1 hr, 1.5 hrs, 2 hrs or 3 pre-recorded workshops.
Participants receive extensive Best Practices Manual to accompany this workshop.
Key Outcomes
- Understand the Hidden Organizational Costs of Overlooking Women’s Life Stages: Recognize how neglecting key transitions, such as maternity, caregiving, menopause, and midlife reinvention, drives burnout, disengagement, and talent loss, and limits leadership potential.
- Gain Practical Strategies to Retain and Support Women Across Their Career Arc: Learn actionable approaches leaders and organizations can take to support women through all stages of life and career, fostering ambition and well-being.
- Deepen Awareness of How Life Stages Shape Engagement and Advancement: Build insight into how women’s experiences at different stages influence psychological safety, motivation, and their ability to rise into leadership roles.
- Acquire Tools and Language to Start Shifting Culture Today: Leave with concrete tools, reframes, and inclusive language to begin transforming workplace culture into one where women can thrive without compromise.
Supporting Mothers, Advancing Equity
For organizations committed to equity and inclusion, maternity leave transitions remain one of the most overlooked opportunities to support and retain women in leadership pipelines. This live, interactive workshop equips leaders with the insight, tools, and language to better support mothers before, during, and after maternity leave, helping to dismantle maternal bias, close equity gaps, and create a culture where mothers can thrive and advance.
Through research, real-world scenarios, and facilitated reflection, leaders will deepen their understanding of the motherhood penalty, uncover unconscious bias, and learn actionable strategies to foster belonging and ambition for mothers in their teams. Participants leave with greater confidence and a practical roadmap to navigate conversations, transitions, and challenges with empathy and impact.
This workshop can be delivered as 1 hr, 1.5 hrs, 2 hrs or 3 pre-recorded workshops.
Participants receive extensive Best Practices Manual to accompany this workshop.
Key Outcomes
- Understand How Maternal Bias Fuels Inequity in the Workplace: Gain clarity on how assumptions about motherhood can undermine women’s careers and perpetuate pay and promotion gaps and learn how to recognize and interrupt bias in yourself and others.
- Learn Practical Strategies to Support Mothers Through Maternity Transitions: Discover concrete actions and conversations that foster trust, belonging, and ambition before, during, and after maternity leave.
- Master Inclusive Language and Communication Techniques: Understand the power of language in supporting (or harming) mothers and acquire inclusive ways to respond during critical moments, such as pregnancy announcements, losses, and return-to-work challenges.
- Build Confidence in Navigating Sensitive and Complex Scenarios: Practice responding to real-life workplace situations, ranging from maternal bias comments to miscarriage support, with compassion, curiosity, and professionalism.
- Commit to Advancing Equity Through Leadership Action: Leave inspired and equipped to champion systemic and cultural change that creates equitable opportunities for mothers and strengthens retention, engagement, and leadership representation.
Workshops for Women at Work
Silence Your Inner Critic and Step Into Your Power
We all have that voice — the one that questions your ideas, downplays your achievements, and convinces you that you’re not ready or not enough. Left unchecked, the inner critic can erode confidence, limit opportunities, and hold you back from leading at your full potential. But it doesn’t have to. In this workshop, Maturn helps you recognize, understand, and quiet the inner critic so you can lead with greater clarity, courage, and impact. Through practical strategies and powerful insights, you’ll learn to approach self-doubt with compassion, distinguish between fear and fact, and step boldly into your leadership with confidence and intention.
Length: 1 – 1.5 hours
Key Outcomes
- Cultivate Compassionate Awareness of Your Inner Critic: Deepen your understanding of the inner critic’s motives and learn to clearly identify its voice, empowering you to approach self-doubt with curiosity and compassion rather than fear.
- Strengthen Your Ability to Distinguish Between Self-Doubt and Realism: Gain critical insight into how to differentiate between the inner critic’s limiting narratives and realistic, constructive thinking—allowing you to make decisions grounded in confidence, not fear.
- Master Tools to Quiet Your Inner Critic and Step Into Your Full Potential: Explore a range of proven strategies to silence the inner critic, so you can fully step into your purpose, amplify your impact, and lead with greater clarity and intention.
The Shift: Leading Through Perimenopause and Menopause
Perimenopause and menopause affect roughly half the workforce, yet the conversation is rarely happening at work. This evidence-informed workshop breaks the silence, co-led by a medical practitioner and an executive coach, equipping women leaders with the knowledge and tools to navigate this transition with more confidence, clarity, and continued impact. Drawing from Maturn’s full three-month program, The Shift, this condensed workshop covers the intersection of hormonal health, cognitive performance, and leadership effectiveness, pairing medical expertise with real leadership application.
Length: 1 – 1.5 hours
Key Outcomes
- Understand What’s Actually Happening: Gain evidence-based knowledge about perimenopause and menopause, including Menopause Hormone Therapy (MHT) options, so women can make informed decisions about their health.
- Reclaim Sleep and Cognitive Performance: Learn practical strategies to manage sleep disruption and reduce the impact of brain fog on focus, memory, and leadership presence.
- Feel Less Alone: Walk away knowing that what they’re experiencing is normal, that support exists, and that this stage of life can be a source of strength, not shame.
- Create a Path Forward: Leave with a personal action plan for managing symptoms, communicating needs, and sustaining leadership momentum.
Caregiving and Career: Navigating the Season Without Losing Yourself
Caregiving takes many forms; raising children, supporting aging parents, caring for a partner, sibling, or another loved one, and it often arrives without warning or a clear end date. Whether it’s a first caregiving role or one layered on top of others already being carried, this reflective and practical workshop helps participants navigate the emotional and logistical weight of caregiving without losing themselves or their leadership momentum. Through guided reflection and honest conversation, participants will unpack the hidden expectations that come with caregiving, learn to ask for and receive support, and identify practical strategies to protect their capacity at work and at home.
Length: 1 – 1.5 hours
Key Outcomes
- Recognize the Many Faces of Caregiving: Understand how caregiving shows up across life stages and relationships, whether for children, aging parents, or other loved ones, and how it intersects with career and leadership.
- Identify What You Actually Need: Get clear on where the pressure points are, whether that’s time, energy, logistics, or emotional load, and explore practical ways to lighten them, from community and workplace resources to outsourcing options that can create breathing room.
- Protect Capacity and Sustain Leadership: Gain practical tools to manage competing demands without sacrificing wellbeing, focus, or career momentum.
- Build Community and Reduce Isolation: Leave knowing they are not alone in this season, with language and connection to carry forward.
Elevating Influence: Strengthening Executive Presence for Leaders
Executive presence isn’t just about confidence, it’s about showing up with authority, credibility, and warmth to inspire trust and influence outcomes. In this interactive workshop, Maturn helps senior leaders uncover and strengthen the habits, mindset, and communication skills that define executive presence. Together we’ll examine the invisible scripts that can hold leaders back, while building practical strategies to engage senior stakeholders, communicate with conviction, and lead with authenticity and impact.
Length: 1 – 1.5 hours
Key Outcomes
- Develop a Clearer Understanding of Executive Presence and Its Impact: Clarify what executive presence truly means—beyond just confidence—and gain insight into how others perceive your authority, warmth, and influence.
- Identify and Reframe Internal Barriers to Presence and Power: Recognize the invisible scripts, internalized beliefs, and habits that can undermine your presence, and learn to replace them with more empowering, authentic behaviors.
- Master Verbal and Non-Verbal Tools to Strengthen Influence:
Acquire practical, research-backed techniques to refine your communication, body language, and speech patterns so you can engage senior stakeholders with more credibility, clarity, and conviction.
Redefining Success & Work-Life Balance
“Work-life balance” is a myth that leaves many women feeling like they’re constantly falling short. This powerful and reflective workshop invites participants to shift the narrative, from chasing balance to cultivating alignment. Through guided reflection and interactive discussion, women will clarify their core values, release unrealistic expectations, and explore what alignment looks and feels like in their current season of life and leadership. Participants will leave with renewed clarity, practical tools, and permission to lead and live in greater harmony with what truly matters most.
Length: 1 – 1.5 hours
Key Outcomes
- Clarify your core values and how they impact the way you live + lead
- Uncover how “work-life balance” is a myth that feeds an unrealistic illusion
- Explore how to re-define your life on your terms to achieve improved life and leadership harmony
Boundaries with Intention: Protecting your Energy and Expanding your Impact
In today’s always-on world, many high-performing women find themselves stretched thin, saying yes when they mean no, and taking on more than they can sustainably hold. This interactive workshop helps participants re-evaluate their relationship with boundaries, reframing them as intentional practices that protect energy, strengthen leadership, and foster authentic connection. Through reflection, discussion, and practical tools, participants learn how to set and hold boundaries with confidence and compassion, both at work and at home.
Length: 1 – 1.5 hours
Key Outcomes
- Understand the different types of boundaries and how they show up in life and leadership
- Recognize the signs that a boundary is needed
- Reframe the myths that make boundaries feel uncomfortable or “selfish”
- Learn practical language and scripts to communicate needs clearly and hold
boundaries with confidence and care
Workshops for Parents
Co-Creating Equitable Partnership Parenting
Equity at home isn’t just about fairness, it’s a foundation for thriving careers, healthier partnerships, and better outcomes for the next generation. In this thought-provoking and practical workshop, Maturn helps you uncover the invisible dynamics that shape how parenting and household responsibilities are shared, and how those dynamics can hold you back professionally and personally. Through candid discussion, reflective exercises, and actionable strategies, you’ll learn how to break free of outdated norms, foster true partnership at home, and create the space and support you need to grow as a leader and as a parent.
Length: 1 – 1.5 hours
Key Outcomes
- Enhanced Career Progression: Learn strategies to distribute parenting responsibilities equitably, allowing both partners to pursue career opportunities with less guilt and conflict.
- Strengthened Relationships: Discover practical tools to foster communication, mutual respect, and collaboration, leading to a more supportive partnership.
- Practical Tools: Leave with actionable plans and resources tailored to your family’s unique needs, helping you implement equitable parenting practices that serve you.
- Understanding the critical importance of equitable partnership parenting for career advancement and relationship satisfaction.
Reconciling Career Ambitions and Motherhood
Motherhood transforms us, but it doesn’t erase our ambitions. In this reflective and inspiring session, Maturn invites you to explore how motherhood has reshaped your identity, your values, and your vision for leadership. Together, we’ll unpack the emotional and social transition of matrescence, examine how ambition and motherhood can coexist powerfully, and help you claim clarity on the impact you want to make, both at home and at work. Through candid conversation, peer connection, and the creation of your own Leadership + Motherhood Manifesto, you’ll leave feeling grounded, inspired, and empowered to honor your aspirations and your role as a mother.
Length: 1 – 1.5 hours
Key Outcomes
- Understand the Identity Shift of Matrescence: Gain insight into the physical, emotional, and social transformation of becoming a mother — and how it shapes your sense of self, values, and leadership.
- Explore How Motherhood Impacts Ambition and Leadership: Reflect on how your career ambitions have evolved since becoming a mother, and how societal expectations and internal narratives influence your goals.
- Create Your Own Leadership + Motherhood Manifesto: Define and articulate who you want to be, as a leader and as a mother, with clarity on your impact, intentions, and the legacy you want to leave both at home and in your career.
Lightening the Mental Load: Releasing the Pressure to Do It All
Modern mothers carry more than just tasks — they carry the invisible weight of planning, worrying, remembering, and holding it all together. This mental load can feel endless, overwhelming, and isolating, leaving little room for joy, rest, or growth. In this reflective and practical workshop, Maturn invites you to step back, reframe what it means to “do it all,” and consciously let go of unrealistic expectations. Through grounding exercises, honest dialogue, and actionable tools, you’ll uncover the stories that keep you stuck in overfunctioning, learn how to ask for and receive support, and identify what you can do, delegate, delay, or delete. Leave with clarity, self-compassion, and a renewed commitment to create space for what matters most, at work, at home, and within yourself.
Length: 1 – 1.5 hours
Key Outcomes
- Recognize and Reframe Unrealistic Expectations: Identify the internalized societal and personal expectations that contribute to overwhelm — and begin to release the pressure to “do it all.”
- Understand the Mental Load and Its Impact: Gain clarity on the invisible labour you carry, how it affects your well-being and leadership, and why sharing the load is crucial for equity and sustainability.
- Uncover the Stories That Block You From Receiving Support: Explore the narratives that prevent you from asking for help or relinquishing control, and replace them with empowering, more compassionate truths.
- Learn the 4 D’s — Do, Delegate, Delay, Delete: Apply this simple yet powerful framework to lighten your load, create space for joy and rest, and focus on what truly matters to you.
- Commit to Small, Transformative Actions: Leave with a clear personal commitment and practical next steps to reduce overwhelm, model self-compassion, and reclaim your time and energy.
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What Organizations Are Saying
Our Women in Insurance group left every session energized. Maturn’s workshops on quieting the inner critic, setting boundaries with intention, and building trust and influence gave our leaders real tools they could put into practice immediately, not just concepts to think about. The facilitation was excellent, the engagement in the room and online was some of the best we’ve seen, and the coaching-forward approach meant people walked away with clear action items, not just inspiration. We’d recommend Maturn without hesitation.
The Mental Load workshop came at exactly the right time for the FCM team. Sonja and Jen have a way of naming what so many women are carrying but rarely get to say out loud in a professional setting. The conversation helped us understand how the invisible weight women manage at home doesn’t stay at the door when they come to work, and how that directly affects their capacity, confidence, and ability to lead. It was honest, insightful, and impactful. The engagement was high and participants took so much away from it. Thank you, Maturn.
The Work Life Balance Redefined workshop was an incredibly powerful experience for our group. The session was raw, honest, and deeply insightful, and the level of engagement from participants was remarkable. It created space for authentic reflection and meaningful conversation, something our EmpowHer ERG values deeply. The content and facilitation were exceptional, and the impact was felt immediately through the positive feedback shared across our organization. This workshop was a truly valuable use of our time and an important step in supporting alignment and wellbeing at work.
Jen and Sonja led a fantastic, research‑informed workshop Leading Through Life Stages: How to Better Support Women at Work for our HR executive council at Signal49 Research (formerly Conference Board of Canada). They shared practical, evidence‑based approaches to supporting women through key career and life transitions, and facilitated the conversation in a way that was both engaging and easy for members to apply in their own contexts. We also appreciated the excellent Best Practices Manual they provided, which offers valuable take‑away guidance for our leaders.
Thank you, Maturn, for an incredible Work-Life Balance Redefined workshop. The timing could not have been better! Employees shared how valuable and thought‑provoking the content was, both personally and professionally. You created a truly safe and supportive space for women to be open, vulnerable, and connected. The impact was felt immediately, and we’re all grateful for the experience you delivered.
Your Facilitators
Jen Murtagh, Co-Founder
With over two decades of experience spanning both corporate and non-profit, heart-centred leadership has been the guiding star of Jen Murtagh’s career. An award-winning and values-based C-Suite leader, Jen has successfully led and raised millions for national campaigns on anti-bullying, vulnerable youth, and advanced gender equity through her work with a variety of women’s organizations.
As an ICF accredited leadership coach, Jen supports women to live and lead bravely through her 1:1 coaching, workshops, speaking and signature Brave Leadership for Women program. Jen is a Business in Vancouver ‘Forty Under 40’ Award Winner and Greater Vancouver Board of Trade ‘Women of Promise’.
Jen is a community champion, who has volunteered thousands of hours for countless charities and in 2017 fulfilled a lifelong dream by travelling to Africa to lead mentoring + goal-setting workshops with non-profit One Girl Can. Jen is a mother and stepmother to four children who was inspired to co-create Maturn to serve mothers in a deep and meaningful way while advancing gender equity.
Sonja Baikogli Foley, Co-Founder
Sonja holds 15+ years of diverse experience in non-profit, public and private organizations and has always been drawn towards impact-driven work that genuinely makes a difference in the lives of others. Born to Iranian refugee-status parents in Sweden, she experienced her life from the eyes of displaced parents. These early experiences and hardships shaped Sonja’s foundation and made her the person she is today.
Educated in Sweden, Canada and Spain, Sonja began her career in media working in radio and continued to create change through her career — from participating in the United Nations, to serving as a board of director on the YWCA Canada Board for five years, to being appointed to the West Vancouver Police Board by the Province of BC in 2020, and most recently led the Intergovernmental Relations & Strategic Partnerships team at the City of Vancouver.
Sonja co-founded Maturn out of a desire to support women and turn maternity leave into an intentional year. She’s a proud mother of two who is driven to build a more equitable, compassionate and inclusive world for future generations.
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