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

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 losing more than it realizes — this episode is your starting point.

 

In this episode:

• The 5-point framework for a workplace where working parents actually thrive
• Why equity and equality are not the same thing — and why it matters for everyone
• The real cost of working parent burnout your finance team isn't tracking
• Why no program works without leadership role modeling behind it
• Where to start when the budget is tight and the skeptics are loud

Connect with Dr. Rosina McAlpine: winwinparenting.com | drrosina.com 

 

Growth Hacking Culture is a top 5% global podcast hosted by Ivan Palomino, exploring the human side of leadership and workplace performance.