Dr. Rosina McAlpine - The Hidden Driver of Retention

What if your retention problem isn’t compensation, flexibility, or career growth, but a hidden strain leaders rarely measure?

In this episode of the People/AI Strategy Forum, Sam Reeve speaks with Dr. Rosina McAlpine, Workplace Wellbeing Expert and Founder of Win Win Parenting, about why supporting working parents is one of the most overlooked drivers of retention, engagement, and performance.

Many organizations invest in benefits, flexibility, and wellbeing programs. But when the realities of parenting stress go unaddressed, those efforts often fall short. Working parents experience some of the highest levels of burnout, stress, and turnover, yet most organizations lack the systems to support them effectively.

Dr. Rosina shares a practical framework for how leaders can move beyond good intentions and build real systems that support both performance and wellbeing.

If your organization is seeing burnout, disengagement, or retention challenges that don’t seem tied to compensation alone, this conversation offers a new lens to understand what’s really happening.

In this episode we discuss:

• Why working parent stress is a hidden driver of turnover and disengagement
 • The connection between parental burnout and workplace performance
 • How lack of support creates retention risk hiding in plain sight
 • The five-step framework to support working parents effectively
 • Why managers play a critical role in employee wellbeing and retention
 • How to design targeted wellbeing programs that actually work
 • The importance of building a truly family-friendly workplace culture
 • How to measure ROI and impact of wellbeing initiatives over time

Key takeaway

Retention is not just a compensation issue.

It’s a support system issue.

When organizations recognize and address the real pressures employees face outside of work, performance doesn’t decline, it strengthens.

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Guest:
 Dr. Rosina McAlpine
 Workplace Wellbeing Expert and Founder of Win Win Parenting, helping organizations reduce burnout.

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