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Laura Hallam

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Director / Coach at The Parent Shift
📍 United Kingdom

Laura Hallam is a Director and Coach at The Parent Shift, where she specializes in leadership and identity psychology. She supports director-level women returning from maternity leave, leveraging her background in coaching psychology from Birkbeck, University of London, to help them maintain career momentum during this significant life transition.

Laura made a distinct career change, moving from roles like Scrum Master and Technical Program Manager in the tech industry to becoming a certified coach focused on the psychological aspects of parenthood.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Director / Coach
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
United Kingdom
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Priorities

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Parental Transitions
Her coaching practice, The Parent Shift, is dedicated to helping parents, particularly ambitious women, navigate the return to work after parental leave without losing professional momentum.
Leadership & Identity
Focuses on the complex psychological shifts and identity reorganization that leaders, especially new mothers, experience, applying principles from coaching psychology.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Director / Coach
The Parent Shift
11-2023 - 1-2026
Founder / Director
COSA Scrubs
11-2021 - 1-2024
Scrum Master
Feeld
2-2021 - 10-2021
Scrum Master
Deko
9-2018 - 8-2020
Technical Program Manager / Scrum Master
Alpha FX Group plc
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Education
2020 - 2022
Coaching Psychology
Birkbeck, University of London
2017 - 2017
Coding Bootcamp
Le Wagon
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