CEO & Co-founder of Cocoon, an employee leave platform designed to address every type of employee leave and empower companies to better support their team members through life’s most pivotal moments.
Mahima Chawla, Lauren Dai and Amber Feng founded Cocoon in June 2020 to take the pain out of employee leave. Here, Chawla shares three lessons she's learned since then.
Every single person we spoke to — whether they were a product manager or a chief people officer — said managing leave was an absolute nightmare. This is why my co-founders Amber Feng, Lauren Dai and I were inspired to start Cocoon. After we stumbled upon the bafflingly complicated world of leave, we knew we could serve as an ally to companies, fix this and empower companies to better support their people.