Divorce is already inside your workforce. Almost no organisation has a plan for it.
Navigating the 7Cs® of Divorce-Ready Workplaces sets out the evidence for treating divorce and separation as a measurable organisational risk — one that responds, like any other, to structure. The Workplace Divorce Coach Programme is how that structure gets built inside your organisation.
Why this belongs on the leadership agenda
Most organisations of any size have a bereavement policy, a menopause policy, a parental leave policy. Very few have anything at all for divorce or separation — despite it affecting a comparable proportion of the workforce every year, and despite the evidence that its impact on performance, absence, and retention is already showing up in data most organisations have never looked at through this lens.
The book: an evidence-based case, chapter by chapter
Navigating the 7Cs® of Divorce-Ready Workplaces applies the Navigating the 7Cs® framework to a corporate readership for the first time. Each chapter builds the case, the evidence, and a practical response — closing with a single Cost of Inaction model any organisation can apply to its own figures.
See your own number
The book’s closing chapter, Building the Business Case, brings all seven Cs together into a single figure. The interactive Cost of Inaction calculator runs that same model live, using your organisation’s own headcount, salary, and absence data — no spreadsheet software required.
The Workplace Divorce Coach Programme
DCA’s corporate offering is built around three layers of engagement. These are not sequential tiers — an organisation may draw on one, a combination, or all three, depending on its stage of readiness and the level of internal capability it wants to build.
You would not be the first
In 2023, a number of major UK employers publicly backed an industry initiative encouraging time off or flexible working for staff going through separation:
A first conversation starts with your own numbers, not a sales pitch.