The MoMBA™ Express

Reach your career and family life goals with the MoMBA™ Express

Mama, tell me if this feels like you:

➥ You've poured your heart and soul into your engineering, corporate, or management career, but sometimes it feels like you're hitting a wall, not reaching the heights you know you're capable of.

➥ Despite your expertise, you may still wrestle with doubts about your ability to harmonize career ambitions with motherhood responsibilities.

➥ Tired of navigating these challenges alone, you crave a supportive community of like-minded individuals who understand your journey.

➥ You're ready for more—for your career, your finances, your overall well-being—and you know it's time to take action to achieve your full potential.

The MoMBA Express™ - Empowering Mothers in STEM and Leadership - is now enrolling at a one-time only pre-sale price!

This 6-month program is for the decisive woman who knows her worth, isn't just a newbie in her career, and is empowered to make financial decisions on her own or knows that her partner will support her decision. Deep down, you know you have incredible value to offer, but you don't always know how to communicate it with confidence. Motherhood has profoundly shifted your sense of identity, and you're not sure how to square your career with family life.

Here's what you'll get inside this transformational program:

📱 Access to our Learning App: Learn on the go with convenient access to resources, exercises, and community support wherever you are. Make progress even starting at 5 to 15 minutes per day!

💬 Learning with Community Support: Our weekly classes and learning environment are complemented by a community of like-minded women who celebrate your successes and offer strategic guidance for complex professional and work/family life integration problems.

🌟 Mindset Mastery: Unlock your full potential with our exclusive mindset program, designed to elevate your confidence and resilience.

A Look Into the MoMBA™ Express

Course Description

This course is designed to build the skills required to remain employed and to advance professionally after children. In demanding and competitive fields, up to 43% of women leave full-time employment after kids. For employers, this is very costly. A senior professional, like an engineer, can cost close to a million dollars to recruit, retrain, and perform at the level of their predecessor. This course equips women with the skills to self-manage and self-lead after having children, and it recognizes that the skills needed at this mid-level stage of career are intersectional: women (and other caregivers) need to equip themselves with new skills for professional life and home life so they can optimize their performance in the professional environment.

New project management skills, negotation skills, emotional intelligence, energy and time management, vision- and values-driven leadership to persist in demanding professions are necessary. These practices are applied with parents in the Canadian Military, an institution that has recognized that career success for professionals with high-demand careers need holistic support in all areas of life to reach peak performance at work. 100% of the STEM participants in the MoMBA programs have stayed in their profession, compared to the average of 57% of the overall female STEM population. Furthermore, participants acquire skills that improve the organization's ability to mentor and retain employees with caregiving duties. The majority of employers lack the sytems, processes, documentation, and training, to adequately support employees going and returning from parental leave. After taking the course, participants acquire highly comprehensive and holistic knowledge about the skills and planning necessary to successfully transition from career performer to working caregiver.

Live, weekly, online, instructional sessions with Kinia Romanowska, BA, MA and guest speakers, when applicable. Students get a minimum of 1 hour live access to training with instructor every week. Students also get access to instructors through an online content and discussion portal, which is monitored weekly. A certificate of completion will be issued at the end of the term. Please note that there are a number of non-instruction weeks throughout the year, for holidays, integration, and program maintenance.

Participant learning is assessment using a monthly online evaluation tool that tracks goals, milestones and deliverables completed (e.g. plans and worksheets) data, habits, actions, taken and results of action taken, in each module. The participant outlines a goal in each module (for example, achieving a promotion by a certain date using the action plan outlined in the personal branding module), and then measures the actions taken and the results on a monthly basis. The participant then reviews the performance and next steps in a quarterly 1-1 session with an instructor, and in monthly group sessions for feedback and evaluation with other participants. Finally, participants are encouraged to review the application of the new skills acquired and the goals met as a result directly with their managers during their performance development planning and review meetings.

Monthly Pillars and Topics

September: Career and family life integration (work/life balance) month

Learning objectives: understand the main factors that can lead to burnout and leaving a professional career after having children, understand the main project management tools that can lead to better mental health and professional success outcomes for professionals in demanding jobs, choose the best time management tools for each season of a working professional's life (return to work, preparation for leadership, working overtime, managing self and others)

What's covered:

Topic and workbook introduction
Defining career and family life integration for each professional's personal circumstances
Create a documented, detailed, long-term vision of success to succeed in your career while raising children
Medium term (1-5 year) considerations for work/life balance
Seasons of life and career progression arcs for professionals with career interruptions (e.g. parental leave, caregiving for the elderly)
Time planning tools for working mothers (how to remain productive when kids are sick, how to plan with a partner who has a demanding career, how to manage stress in periods of accute work demands)
Short-term considerations and time planning for working mothers
Quarterly planning, productivity, and time management tools (12-week year method)
Planning and budgeting for support systems and outsourcing to continue employment while raising young children
Group progress evaluation of data entered into progress and accountability form
Review of action taken in alignment with the vision of individual success
Group commitments to next action steps and troubleshooting issues around implementation of concepts learned review of milestones achieved
- Examples of skills developed in this module: increased self-efficacy, increased productivity, increased prioritization of tasks, improved communication with managers and colleagues

October and Half of November: Financial and wealth planning for working mothers to offset work interruptions and career progression challenges

Learning objectives: understand the main drivers of wage gaps for working mothers, understand the different strategies available to offset the wage gap, understand when to plan the right discussions regarding compensation with one's employer, understand the role a specialized financial planner can play in offsetting wage gaps faced by working mothers

What's covered:

Long-term financial planning fundamentals for working mothers and workbook review
Overview of the 25-year financial plan for working mothers
Review of financial and wealth planning checklist
Review of critical financial literary topics: estate planning, investing, savings for children's education, planning cashflow and converstions with HR regarding EI and career breaks for caregiving duties
Financial planning mindset for working moms: how to avoid the million dollar wealth gap, and how to plan for career breaks due to caregiving
How to find the right financial advisor as a working mother facing career interruption, to protect her career and earning capital
How to invest as a working mother and caregiver
Group progress evaluation of data entered into progress and accountability form
Review of action taken in alignment with the vision of individual success
Group commitments to next action steps and troubleshooting issues around implementation of concepts learned and review of milestones achieved
- Examples of skills developed in this module: improved negotiation skills, optimized choice regarding length of parental leave, increased confidence due to better knowledge about wage negotiation and timing, increased planning skills, capacity to mentor other parents within the organization

Half of November and Half of December: Personal branding

Learning objectives: understand what a personal brand is and how working mothers can use it to advance their careers after kids
Personal branding best practices for working mothers
Personal branding as a leadership requirement

What's covered:

Craft a personal brand statement as a working mom
How a personal brand can protect your job
How to communicate your personal brand
Using storytelling to communicate your personal brand
Public speaking as a personal branding tool
Hot seat and Q&A with personal branding expert
Measuring success based on data entered in evaluation and tracking tool
- Examples of skills developed in this module: improved negotiation skills, improved public speaking skills, deeper understanding of business plan and which actions contribute the most to the company's business plan, improved communication skills, ability to negotiate a new position more quickly, faster advancement to management positions

January, April, & July: Mindset, values, and vision for working mom success

Learning objectives: understanding the importance of having the right mindset and knowing your values and vision for success as a working mom

What's covered:

Mindset shifts in career after family, clarity, values-driven leadership, and purpose of the working mom
Professional and personal values before and after kids
Discussing values with a partner who has a demanding career
How to address the negative aspects of perfectionism as a working mom
Setting meaningful goals as a working mom
Getting out of overwhelm and chaos as a working mom
From long-term vision of success to an actionable roadmap
Create your yearly roadmap of leadership and success
Break down your big goals into actionable steps
How to address fear of failure when setting big goals
Time-blocking fundamentals for working moms
How to stay accountable to your goals and your vision
- Examples of skills developed in this module: increased self-leadership and accountability for success, reducing costs related to unproductive time, conflict, and office gossip, increased motivation to perform due to a strong sense of mission and purpose, increased emotional agility and ability to better handle difficult emotions and contradictory information at work, increased emotional intelligence; increased organizational capacity and knowledge regarding the retention of employees with caregiving duties and career breaks

February: Family life and parenting as a working professional

Learning objectives: understand the impacts of home life organization on focus and performance at work; optimize the mindset in personal life to bring focus and productivity to office life

What's covered:

Define success at home so you can give your best at home and at work
Define success as a working parent
Values-driven leadership and self-leadership: how home and work life interact
Faith, culture, and religion: intersection of home life and work life
Knowing where we come from and how we were raised impacts our careers, leadership, and families: how to self-reflect and apply this knowledge to leadership
Group progress evaluation of data entered into progress and accountability form
Review of action taken in alignment with the vision of individual success
Group commitments to next action steps and troubleshooting issues around implementation of concepts learnedl review of milestones achieved
- Examples of skills developed in this module: increased understanding of how different cultures, religions, and values drive behaviours and motivation at work, ability to mentor other employees who have multiple obligations outside of the office, ability to contribute to DEI goals

March: Health and burnout prevention for working moms

Learning objectives: understand the biological components of burnout to prevent it; understand fundamentals of the endocrine and nervous systems to manage energy and productivity after children; understand key practices to address mental health issues in the perinatal stage, and how they can affect professional life

What's covered:

What working mothers need to know about burnout and stress prevention
Hormonal health fundamentals for working moms: overview of the endocrine system and of the nervous system, and what action women can take to better manage energy
Nutrition, exercise, and sleep fundamentals for working moms: what changes need to happen to optimize energy as a leader and professional when working and raising kids
Group progress evaluation of data entered into progress and accountability form
Review of action taken in alignment with the vision of individual success
Group commitments to next action steps and troubleshooting issues around implementation of concepts learnedl review of milestones achieved
- Examples of skills developed in this module: increased ability to manage one's physical and mental health to optimize performance; increased ability to manage energy in the face of competing priorities, increased self-awareness and resilience, increased ability to prevent or recover from burnout, increased knowledge of factors that drive mental health outcomes

May & June: Career, leadership skills, diversity and inclusion

Learning objectives: acquire a solid base and advanced leadership and self-leadership concepts and practices: advanced communication skills, advanced accountability and culture training, advanced emotional mastery techniques, DEI concepts and action choices, influencing others, negotiation, advanced personal branding, leadership on social media, and more.

What's covered:

Accountability-based leadership in self and team
Understanding the cost of workplace drama to the company's bottom line
Reducing the cost of drama in the workplace
Communicating with power and purpose as a working mom
Understanding what your voice, vocal chords, and tone, have to do with your leadership and career progression
Becoming an active ally
How diversity impacts career paths
Infuse equity and inclusion in your leadership
Mastering your emotions and effectively influencing others
Why emotions speak louder than logic
Powerful negotiating strategies for working moms
How to advance your career as a woman in a patriarchal system
Emotional mastery as a foundation to self-leadership
Future-proof your career with LinkedIn
Create a powerful personal brand using the "top 25 stories" method
Bounce back from life's biggest challenges and build resilience as a professional
Recover from burnout as a working mom
Review your goals, measure your success
Prioritize your leadership goals and actions
- Example of skills developed in this module: ability to negotiate successfully and create win-win outcomes for all parties, improved tone and pacing in public speaking and persuasion, ability to take action around DEI goals, learning faster from failure to meet business objectives, better mastery of emotions, increased accountability, ability to reduce costs related to unproductive communication and activities, ability to influence and manage others, ability to lead others, ability to handle difficult human interactions with calm

July: Time, energy, and project management for working moms

Learning objectives: become aware of advanced time management and productivity tools: macro and micro seasonality, quarterly planning and tracking, profit-producing activities, tracking and monitoring techniques, etc. Identify and apply the tools most relevant to their profession

What's covered:

Review your values and vision
How to plan your seasons of productivity and regeneration in the next fall, winter, spring and summer seasons
How to choose from the variety of time and energy management tools available to working parents.
Guest session with EFT expert Yolanda Saez Castello: working with emotions to address time management challenges working moms face
Values- and vision-based leadership in dual career couples
Review of the 12-week year, The One Thing (productivity method)
Review of the five seasons of a working year
Review or your project and energy management plan as a working mom

August: Managing two-career households and relationships for success

Learning objectives: understand the research-backed dual career models, understand risk management tools that dual career couples can apply so that both partners can remain employed after children, understand the conversation and negotiation frameworks for dual career couples, understand the concepts of mental load and emotional labour that impact career outcomes

What's covered:

Dual career planning fundamentals
What is a dual career plan (Harvard Business Review concepts)
Project management for dual career homes
Managing mental load and emotional labour in work and personal life
Conflict resolution for busy working parents and couples
What are "perpetual problems" and how to adapt to them as a professional with a demanding career
- Example of skills developed in this module: confidence in scenarios of conflict resolution, decreased absence at work, improved focus, improved ability to mentor other colleagues with caregiving responsibilities

Jazmin, Risk Management, Mom

"Thanks to Pros&Babes, my mindset has changed drastically. I have better work and family life integration, and I'm implementing the necessary support systems. I see great progress in the four years I have been part of the program. As an extremely busy professional in a dual career couple, I can attend the program because the schedule is very flexible with calls, sessions pre-planned in my calendar, and consuming content at my own pace."

Joelle, P.Eng., Manager, Mom

"For me, the gains over a lifetime with just being able to make these shifts in your mindset is huge. If it makes my relationship better with my husband, and makes that relationship better with my daughter, and makes me a better employee, and makes me less stressed out for the rest of my life… all of those gains become huge."

Our MoMBA clients have:

➥ Skyrocketed their confidence, negotiating promotions during or straight out of maternity leave, or getting Fridays off.

➥ Gotten personal development credits from my trainings to maintain their professional designation (for example, in engineering) during their maternity leave, when no other training was accessible to them during that period of life.

➥ Stopped feeling completely overwhelmed by their never-ending to-do list (which they thought was impossible before) and regained a sense of command over their emotional reactions and schedule.

➥ Spoken up with confidence as the only woman in a room full of men, and set polite and effective boundaries with “difficult” clients.

➥ Transformed their mindset around feeling like a victim of the “motherhood penalty” and became sponsors of other women and promoting them into positions of leadership.

➥ Negotiated responsibilities with their spouse or partner in a way that was fun and relaxing, leading to romance and not countless arguments about the laundry, the kids’ medical appointments and milestones, and family members popping in unexpectedly for a “surprise visit”.

Payment options

At One-Time Pre-Sale Investments Only Until September 4th, 2024.

With the MoMBA VIP Upgrade at $8750, the MoMBA Express is our way of
making career and family life success available to more women.

Six monthly payments of

$777

What's included:

Access to weekly live group training calls on Zoom (up to 8 calls per month)
Access to the online portal and app with training on the MoMBA pillars and class worksheets/tools in six pillars (see curriculum)
Accountability process to check in on your progress
Strategic career and family life integration board and values board design guidance
Support to get employer funding for full or partial tuition coverage* Subject to a refundable $100 fee credited towards your tuition upon enrolment

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Access to weekly live group training calls on Zoom (up to 8 calls per month)
Bonus 1-1 strategy session with Kinia
Access to the online portal and app with training on the MoMBA pillars and class worksheets/tools in six pillars (see curriculum)
Accountability process to check in on your progress
Strategic career and family life integration board and values board design guidance
Support to get employer funding for full or partial tuition coverage* Subject to a refundable $100 fee credited towards your tuition upon enrolment

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In this program, the information and strategies are neatly broken up into bite-size content and activities (audio, written, and visual) and monthly topics, so that you can make progress in as little as 15-30 minutes a day, whether on your daily walk, during lunch, while nursing the baby, or even listening to an audio while you’re driving, taking a shower, or putting on your makeup!

This program is designed to be incorporated into your day, not an additional task on your to-do list, leaving you empowered to take action on your dreams and not overwhelmed with “more to do.”

When you sign up for the MoMBA Express, you’ll receive:

➥ Direction on how to integrate the program so that you feel like you have MORE time (not less) because of joining the community. We get it, you’re super busy. This program was built by busy moms, for busy moms!

➥ Weekly live, group expert calls with our team that discuss how to redefine your career-minded mom identity, design a strategic personal brand and back-to-work/career plan after kids, create work-family life integration on your terms, and level up your working mom mindset, so that whatever ups and downs there are in life, finances, family, or at work, you can access a sense of inner peace, calm, and confidence that everything will be all right; and never feel alone, confused, isolated, and lost in making those decisions, because you will have a life-long community by your side.

➥ 6-month access to our online portal and social learning app on your phone where you’ll receive daily, bite-size chunks of content (podcasts, articles, quotes, polls) that will transform your mindset, help you take action, and build community with all the other mommas in the program so that you never feel alone in your struggles.

➥ Workbooks, worksheets, and trainings/resources for every pillar within the program so that you can create a well-rounded approach holistically to your life, while also focusing on the areas you need the most support in the 1:1 and group component.

All in a way that fits with YOUR busy schedule so you can easily weave in amazing results while taking care of your family and career.

See What Participants Are Saying

I TRUST MYSELF AGAIN

“Almost three years into this work, I trust myself again. I believe I can continue to thrive and have an impact in both my family life and career. I am prioritizing myself, so that I can show up for everyone else in my life. We have a financial plan that will drastically increase our potential net worth, set our children up for success, and broaden our impact in the community and our worth. I am a more patient, loving and connected parent to my children, and the relationship with my husband is stronger and more connected. As an engineer, the systems to help me get out of survival mode were most appealing. The community I found here was beyond anything I could have imagined - a supportive and loving group of women who are breaking barriers and finding solutions.”

Megan, P. Engineer

LASTING CHANGE IN MY MINDSET

“If I hadn't joined the program, I think the biggest cost of inaction would have been not stepping into my own potential and that's worth tens of thousands of dollars. Now, 3 years into my MoMBA work, I see the most lasting change in my mindset, personal brand, and support systems. I'm less afraid to ask for help to achieve my short-term goals and long-term vision. I'm using what I've learned to create social media content that gets thousands of views and to build my personal brand. When I observe other STEM moms / career moms in my circle, it seems like the Motherhood Penalty is most alive and well in work-life integration. Many struggle with how to do everything they want to do while still feeling fulfilled at work. It leaves them feeling overwhelmed.”

Kirsten, P. Engineer

I AM A SUPERMOM

"I had finally found a community of like-minded women wanting to be amazing mothers, and continue to do amazing things with our professional careers... I wanted to be a part of that community to learn from these women, to share the wisdom and grace that I have personally and have never previously given myself credit for. And to show up for myself, instead of just doing what everyone else wants me to do. I am a supermom, even though it sometimes doesn't feel like it, even though it's often a struggle to just get through the day."

Patricia, Engineer

FIT INTO MY VERY BUSY SCHEDULE

“As an electrical engineer, what appealed the most to me about the program was the holistic nature of the program - solving problems with my work life impacted my home life and vice versa; that the program was made to fit into my very busy schedule; that small consistent actions (that don't take a ton of time) result in the biggest and most impactful positive changes in how I'm able to go through my day with a sense of purpose and joy, even when things are really, really hard. If I hadn't joined the program, the biggest cost of inaction would have been my self-confidence and feeling alone in my working-motherhood journey and I strongly believe I would not have applied for a promotion.”

Amanda, P. Engineer

MEET KINIA ROMANOWSKA, PROS&BABES' FOUNDER

OUR FOUNDER & CEO

Kinia Romanowska is a well-traveled award-winning journalist turned entrepreneur, maternity leave strategist, and working mom whisperer.

A wife and mom of three passionate about making sure the next generation doesn’t experience the “motherhood penalty”, she is the founder of Pros&Babes and creator of the MoMBA, the pioneering 360-leadership and personal development program for the busy, ambitious mom in Canada.

She helps highly educated moms, who have careers in male-dominated, demanding, or competitive fields, redefine their career-minded mom identity, design a strategic personal brand and back-to-work/career plan after kids, create work-life balance, and up level their working mom mindset so that they have more time for themselves and their family – all while getting that next promotion.

Kinia is:

A featured guest on Global News, CTV, CBC, MAKE_SOMETHINGEDMONTON
A speaker with APEGA, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, Enbridge, Women Engineers Society, Foreign Affairs Canada, and more
Well traveled to over 40 countries with communication and development projects all over Europe, Guatemala, the former Yugoslavia, Turkey, Zambia, and Azerbaijan
An award-winning community builder, an award-winning investigative journalist, online magazine creator, and experienced conference and event planner, with corporate communications in the public sector
Has presented at Women in Engineering Summit, NAWO, and Women in Operations
A community-building professional that leverages her skills as an award-winning investigative journalist and communications professional to help women overcome the motherhood penalty

She has helped women from:
1. Microsoft
2. Shell
3. Suncor
4. APEGA
5. Enbridge
6. ATCO
7. Acuren
8. ATB Financial
9. Global Affairs Canada
10. OSPE
And more!