Sarah is a work-life balance and flexible working expert. Since becoming a parent over thirty years ago, her working life has involved campaigning, research and practical action to make paid work more inclusive of parents and carers.  She is a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University School of Management, and an adviser, writer and commentator on flexible and hybrid working.

 

She was until 2018 the CEO of Working Families, where she commissioned the UK’s first research on the links between flexible working and performance.  She chaired and judged the Working Families annual employer best practice awards, and also chaired the Department of Work and Pensions’ Private Sector Employers Working Group on Flexible Working, which made early calls for jobs to be advertised flexibly from the off, and which advised extensively on the ACAS guidance to support the Right to Request Flexible Working.

 

Sarah is also a Senior Associate at Flexibility Works, and a trustee of Rosa (the UK Fund for Women and Girls) and of Scottish Opera.