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Comeback Coach

Comeback Coach

By: Jessica Chivers
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Feeling shaky after maternity or another long leave from work? COMEBACK COACH is the wobbly-bottomed podcast about kickass comebacks with coaching psychologist and author, Jessica Chivers. She’s exactly what you need when you’re riding the return-to-work rollercoaster.© 2023 Comeback Coach Career Success Economics Personal Development Personal Success
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  • 121. EXPERT – Helen Beedham - Freedom at work – stay interviews - retaining your best people – why do we make brilliant individual contributors people managers?
    Feb 18 2026

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    Hello Bright Minds and welcome to the first episode of season 10 of COMEBACK COACH with the author of the brand new book, People Glue: Hold onto your best people by setting them free. If you have ever craved more freedom at work, if you are a business leader worried about losing your best people or if you are a Chief People Officer tasked with generating a new talent attraction and retention strategy, this is for you. As a coaching psychologist who works with employers to help them keep and fuel their most talented people at pivotal career moments I found Helen’s book fascinating. And as a person who’s highest value is freedom, I lapped this up.

    Links to things we talked about

    Retaining talent diagnostic for HR

    Helen’s people manager development list

    Helen’s Freedom Index

    Sigal Barsade and companionate love at work

    People Glue by Helen Beedham


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    • DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk
    • Get Jessica's FREE fortnightly note, Pivotal.
    • Watch our coaching Success Stories.
    • Take our new FREE Career Fuel diagnostic - and get a personalised free report.
    • Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers.
    • Contact us about executive coaching.
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    47 mins
  • 120. BONUS – coaching success stories – Meena Santhosh, Selina Tyler & Karina Langan (coaching commissioner) from three asset management firms on comeback coaching for maternity leave
    Dec 28 2025

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    Hello Bright Minds, this is the third of three bonus episodes of season nine where I’m lifting the lid on what the people I and my colleagues coach, actually get from coaching. I’m Jessica Chivers, a chartered coaching psychologist and executive coach of 20 years.

    I’m the founder of a boutique coaching business called The Talent Keeper Specialists, and this year we turned 13 and completely refreshed our website. We added a new page called Success Stories where you can watch short films of real coachees honestly reflecting on their experiences of executive coaching.

    You’re about to hear from three women in the world of asset management; Meena Santhosh, Selina Tyler and Karina Langan. I first worked with Meena when she was at BlackRock and we’ve had three coaching engagements – one after each of her three maternity leaves and she’s now at Robeco. And then you’ll hear from Selina Tyler who’s had fantastic career progression since we first worked together when she was at Federated Hermes. She’s now the Head of UK at Jupiter Asset Management.

    Both Meena and Selina had their coaching paid for by their employers and you can watch more success stories and read about the five professionals we coach at www.talentkeepers.co.uk.

    The third person you’ll hear from is Karina Lanagan, who is the Head of HR at TT International, another asset management client of The Talent Keeper Specialists. Karina talks about the power of comeback coaching from an employer perspective and the positive ripple on line managers.

    I hope it’s a useful listen and as ever, if you have questions or comments you can e-mail me jc@talentkeepers.co.uk or DM on Instagram using the handle @comebackcommuk.


    MORE FOR YOU

    • DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk
    • Get Jessica's FREE fortnightly note, Pivotal.
    • Watch our coaching Success Stories.
    • Take our new FREE Career Fuel diagnostic - and get a personalised free report.
    • Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers.
    • Contact us about executive coaching.
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    25 mins
  • 119. BONUS – coaching success stories – Laura Scougall (coachee) & Kirsty Duncan (coach commissioner) at ITV on the positive ripple effect of coaching
    Dec 28 2025

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    Hello Bright Minds, this is the second of three bonus episodes of season nine where I’m lifting the lid on what people really get from coaching. If you’ve listened to any COACH episode of the podcast you’ve heard coaching in action. Now’s the time to hear the impact and the positive ripple effects of coaching.

    Please enjoy the reflections of Laura Scougall, the Head of ITV Academy who was also my guest on episode 94 where we talked about redundancy risk on maternity leave, being open at work about the demands at home, having an autistic son and how to get back to sleep.

    After Laura you’ll hear from Kirsty Duncan, ITV’s Head of Learning, Development and Wellbeing with whom I’ve had the pleasure of working for 8 years.


    MORE FOR YOU

    • DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk
    • Get Jessica's FREE fortnightly note, Pivotal.
    • Watch our coaching Success Stories.
    • Take our new FREE Career Fuel diagnostic - and get a personalised free report.
    • Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers.
    • Contact us about executive coaching.
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    25 mins
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I am not a senior anything but I promise you that Jessica Chivers and the people who have joined her on this podcast will still be fantastic for you if you're wanting any sort of career coaching but can't afford it! There are so many transferable tips that can be used to help you no matter which career steps you're looking to take. Thank you Jessica!

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