TWISE

There are too few women in top leadership positions. The underlying cause, however, unfolds much earlier. Gender parity amongst new hires is quickly lost as employees enter the family planning stage and women drop out disproportionally from their career path. After that, the female talent pipeline never recovers. TWISE provides an easy fix: Using a collaborative work model, TWISE resolves the conflict between the part-time preference of mothers vs. the full-time expectation of companies when it comes to top leadership - thus preventing mothers to drop out. Specifically, TWISE finds a matching female talent from its proprietary pool to support a pregnant leader or expert. Together they form a tandem partnership using a 20/80-jobsharing variant to bridge the maternity leave as a team. Win-Win-Win: The pregnant leader takes maternity leave but remains engaged and focussed on her career. Her tandem partner successfully rejoins the workforce. Companies can plan on a robust female ta...