Hey 🐠 , female here! wanted to know 1) if being pregnant during promo year affect anything negatively? Coz u ll immediately take maternity leave? 2) can anyone who was in maternity leave for that performance year go up for promotion and get promoted?

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I wish we live in a world where this question is not even thought about. We have a long way to go!

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Congratulations OP!

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Congrats. Enjoy pregnancy and motherhood. It shouldn’t impact your promotion or whatever. If it does, take all the maternity / parental leave you get and get out for a better offer

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I was on maternity leave from may to November. I got promoted that year and was on vacation, missed my new level trainings, forgot about the promotion till September when someone texted me wishes. No negative impacts for the following year.

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If anything it helps you if you’ve been performing at the next level before you go on leave.

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Plan it well and you’ll be fine. I know of multiple people who got promoted despite being on maternity leave. Including my counselee who I presented for promotion.

Make sure when you start the year, you set expectations with your network and line up support. And work to deliver to/beyond expectations in the time you are working. That should set you up for success.

What firm are you with OP?

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Great. All the best and congrats!

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Most firms see a legal risk in fucking over a pregnant woman ergo protected class. Don't worry about it and do the same job you'd do otherwise.

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One of my former project leads chose not to disclose her pregnancy during her promo year and got promoted. She didn’t have any repercussions after the fact. I think it’s stupid that she felt she needed to do it, but I completely understand why she did it.

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At our firm, maternity leave doesn’t affect your metrics. Eg, if your financial goal is 1 million, and maternity leave is 3 months, you would only need to hit 750k.

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Guidehouse. Not sure if that is still accurate as I left for a completely different career a few months ago.

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Congratulations OP! #1 was true for me last year - went on maternity leave in June and got the news (call from partner) of promo while on leave.
While with my first pregnancy, I tried to go for a promo on my return but didn’t happen (no travel, low client util, competing against folks who had a full year of ‘value-add’ to show) - ended up losing an year for the promo.

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My partner was promoted to MD while on maternity leave years before I joined the firm. She told us in a mentoring session.

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I knew two consultants who were pregnant: one got promoted, the other not. They said that the reason why they did not promote her is that they did not have enough time to evaluate her due to her maternaty leave (she had 3 months, the other had 6 months).
Bottom line, pregnant or not, if they want to promote you, they will.

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