People in Progress … creative, intelligent consultancy & coaching

People in Progress offers services in the following areas:

  • Best Practice Consultancy for employers of working parents and carers.

  • Developing and supervising Parent Transition Coaches, including internal coaches, mentors and buddies within organisations.

  • Advising, speaking and writing about wider people practices including hybrid working, wellbeing at work, inclusion and culture.

PiP is led by Jennifer Liston-Smith, one of the UK’s leading advisors on engaging and retaining the talents of working parents and carers.

Jennifer has supported some of the world’s best-known employers in sectors such as banking, law, tech and others through the following roles:

  • Head of Thought Leadership, Bright Horizons Work+Family Solutions: 2019-2025

  • Director, Head of Coaching, Consultancy & Thought Leadership, My Family Care: 2010-2019

  • Co-Founder, Coaching & Research Director, Managing Maternity: 2005-2010

  • Prior to specialising in working parents & carers, Jennifer had extensive experience of consulting in wellbeing, providing leadership coaching and developing coaches as Associate Director of the Centre for Coaching, Executive Coach & Consultant at AXA ICAS, Senior Consultant at Cheviot Artus Plc, Consultant at the Centre for Stress Management and directly through People in Progress.