Unleashing Your Part Time Power

​Talk Title: Unleashing Your Part-Time Power: key strategies to make part time work for individuals and organisations

​Description: Kick off learning week with an inspiring session about how part-time and progression needn’t be mutually exclusive!! In this session, Laura will share the lessons learned from her various forms of flexible working, how jobsharing changed her life and her top tips on finding the right flex for you - and making it work!

Bio: Laura Walker is the co-founder of The Jobshare Revolution and former Senior Director of Finance at Asda. Laura has broad experience of implementing flexible working policy across large teams, alongside actually doing it herself! As the Head of Internal Audit and Risk at Asda, Laura worked 3.5 days. She then lead the Finance Shared Services function, leading a team of 160 people, responsible for processes managing billions of ££s of payments, processes covering billion of £s of payments, millions of vendor income billing and data analytics and insight for one of the UKs biggest businesses - whilst working 4 days per week! Finally, she found her part-time utopia when she matched with her amazing jobshare partner, Chloe Fletcher and shared this high impact, high pressure role. Together, they went on to co-lead the Asda Finance Transformation programme at the time of the biggest retail ERP implementation in recent history. Laura is a real example of #PartTimePower - showing how creating the right flexible working structure can unlock personal ambition and deliver for the organisation as well.