Who we serve - Workplace Gender Transition
For professionals at every stage of transition
Whether you're preparing to come out at work, mid-transition and navigating complex HR dynamics, or rebuilding your professional identity, we meet you exactly where you are.
Early stage professionals (pre-disclosure)
Preparing to disclose your gender identity at work for the first time, and wanting a thoughtful, safe plan before you do.
Mid-stage employees
Already at work and managing the changing realities - HR policies, colleague dynamics or conflicts, and benefits navigation.
Late career stage or new job seekers
Established and respected employee or re-entering the job market as the 'new you' and looking for affirming employees in supportive markets - we help you identify them and assist with your authentic presentation
HR / talent teams and DEI leaders
Organizations that are building more inclusive workplaces can partner with us to develop policies, training, and support networks that benefit all employees and managers.
Real people. Real transitions. Real outcomes
Every client who comes to TPS arrives at a different point in their journey. These are some of the stories - shared with permission, and told in their own words (actual names and photographs are not used in the profiles)
Mid-career transition - Tech
A software engineer at a mid-size tech firm had come out to their immediate team with great support - but was hitting a wall with HR and a senior team member over their name change in payroll systems, badge, and benefits records. Weeks of requests were going unanswered.
"I kept being told we're working on it for three months. TPS helped me understand exactly what I was entitled to, draft a formal written request that referenced the proper policies, and set a clear and unambiguous deadline for management to follow. Everything was updated within a week. I didn't realize I'd been asking when I should have been asserting".
T.R. / Software engineer, Technology sector, Mid-Atlantic
Job seeker - Finance
A non-binary financial analyst was relocating and job searching in a new city - out in their personal life, but uncertain how to present themselves professionally and unsure which employers would genuinely be safe versus performatively inclusive.
"I 'd gotten very good at reading between the lines of company websites, but I was still walking into interviews not knowing what to expect from others. I was so stressed. Mare at TPS helped me to develop a vetting process - questions to ask, signals to look for, how to see red flags. I practiced my presentation and highlighted my values. I accepted an offer at a firm where I've been completely accepted as myself from day one. That would have been tough to do alone!".
A.K. / Financial analyst, Banking sector, East coast
Late career transition - Attorney
After 26 years as a contract attorney at the same firm, R.B. came out as a transgender woman at 52 - having spent decades suppressing her identity to protect a career she had worked extraordinarily hard to build. She came to TPS uncertain whether her professional life, her colleagues, and her clients would understand the truth of who she was.
"I spent 26 years being very good at something as someone else. I genuinely did not know if I could hold onto any of it if I told the truth. Mare was the first person who treated the fear as legitimate - not something to be talked out of, but something to be planned around".
Mare Layne worked with R.B. over six months to develop a phased disclosure strategy - beginning with the firm's managing partner, then her closest colleagues, then a carefully worded client communication. Each conversation was prepared individually, with specific language tailored to each relationship.
"The client letter was the thing I dreaded most. Mare helped me write something that was professional, dignified, and completely me. It didn't over-explain; it didn't apologize. Of the 47 clients I notified personally, I lost two. The other 45 responded with more warmth than I had ever received from them before".
R.B. / Attorney, Contract Law, Florida