When Home Is Hard: Practical HR Support for Working Parents | Presented by Samantha Moe

When Home Is Hard: Practical HR Support for Working Parents

Many employees walk into work carrying stress from home, especially parents navigating child anxiety, behavior struggles, or emotional overwhelm. When home is hard, it shows up in performance, engagement, and wellbeing. HR leaders don’t need to “fix” personal challenges, but understanding the human behind the job helps create conditions where parents can stay steady and productive.

In this session, Certified Parent Coach Samantha Moe translates two decades of brain-based parenting tools into practical HR skills. You’ll learn how to recognize the hidden stressors affecting working parents, respond with calm leadership, and use simple language shifts that reduce shame and open the door to collaboration. You’ll also explore what it looks like to offer resource pathways—not pressure—so parent employees feel supported rather than overwhelmed.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the common drivers beneath parent employees’ behavior—such as exhaustion, distraction, inconsistency, or burnout—stemming from stress at home.
2. Demonstrate the core emotional intelligence skill of showing up calm during sensitive conversations with parent employees, especially when they express overwhelm or frustration.
3. Apply language shifts that reduce shame and defensiveness, helping parent employees feel psychologically safe, open to collaboration, and more able to communicate their needs.
4. Describe how offering resource pathways—not pressure—supports parent employees, increases engagement, and aligns with organizational wellbeing initiatives.
5. Recognize how greater peace at home leads to better performance at work, including fewer missed hours, stronger focus, improved morale, and healthier communication patterns.

Meet Samantha Moe:

For more than two decades, Certified Parent Coach and international keynote speaker Samantha Moe, MA, SLP has equipped parents and professionals with proven tools to help children with big feelings calm, connect, and cooperate. Creator of the Mad to Glad Blueprint™, a revolutionary brain-and-nervous-system-based approach, Samantha has partnered with leading U.S. organizations, including early childhood authorities, top autism agencies like Fraser, and the MN Association for Children’s Mental Health. Her approach to positive communication works to soothe and even prevent intense kids’ most challenging behaviors, creating more peace and enjoyment for families around the world.

Samantha lives in St Paul, MN where she and her husband like to play “bad guys” and wrestle with their 4 1/2 year old son, followed by some calming techniques so everyone can get to sleep.

Cost

$20 - members
$40 - non-members

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