Working Parents Have the Highest Burnout Rates in Your Company. Here's What to Do About It | Rosina McAlpine

About this episode

Dr. Rosina McAlpine discusses the challenges faced by working parents and how organizations can better support them to reduce burnout.

Every HR leader knows the numbers. Absenteeism. Turnover. Declining performance. What most won't say out loud is who's driving them. Working parents. Not because they're less committed. Not because they can't handle pressure. But because we built the modern workplace for a reality that stopped existing decades ago — and nobody has had the courage to redesign it. Dr. Rosina McAlpine has spent over a decade working with hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of working parents on exactly this problem. As CEO of Win Win Parenting and a former university researcher in work-family integration, Dr. Rosina McAlpine doesn't deal in feel-good programs and tick-box policies. She deals in data, systems change, and the kind of practical frameworks that actually move the needle. In this conversation with Ivan Palomino, Dr. Rosina McAlpine breaks down why the "leave your personal life at the door" model is now a business liability, what a genuinely family-friendly organization looks like beyond the branding, and how HR leaders can build the business case in numbers a CFO will respect. If you're an HR professional, a people leader, or an executive who suspects your organization is…

People in this episode

Host: Ivan Palomino

Guest: Dr. Rosina McAlpine

Topics covered

• working parents
• burnout
• HR leadership
• work-family integration
• organizational change

Keywords

• burnout rates
• working parents
• HR strategies
• family-friendly workplace
• organizational performance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Win Win Parenting

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