- Introduction
- The Winners
- How we chose the 2009 Winners
- Judges
- About our sponsors
- 2010 Register Interest
- About Working Families
Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP
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Patricia Hewitt has been Labour MP for Leicester West since 1997. She served in Tony Blair's Government from 1998 to 2007 and was a member of his Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health from 2005 to 2007, and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Cabinet Minister for Women from 2001 to 2005. She is a non-executive director of BT Group plc and a senior adviser to Alliance Boots Ltd and Cinven Ltd. She was appointed to the Privy Council in 2001 and was made an Honorary Fellow of the London Business School in 2004. An Australian by birth, Patricia Hewitt is married and has two children.
Professor Cary L. Cooper CBE
Cary Cooper is Pro Vice Chancellor of Lancaster University and Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health. Cary's previous roles have included adviser to the UN and to the Defence Committee of the House of Commons. He is Chair of the Government think tank the Sunningdale Institute; President of the Institute of Welfare Officers and of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy; an Ambassador of The Samaritans; Patron of Anxiety UK; a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and Fellow of numerous influential societies including the British Academy of Management and The Royal Societies of Arts, Medicine and Health. Work-life balance has been a major interest of Cary's for many years, as he discovered the increasingly negative effects of the long hours culture in an increasing two-earner society. He has carried out numerous studies which have highlighted the plight of working families and the difficulties they face in juggling their personal, work and family commitments, and has written several topical books, including 'Work-Life Integration', 'The Long Hours Culture' and 'Surviving the Workplace'.
Fleur Bothwick
Fleur Bothwick is the Director of Diversity and Inclusiveness (EMEIA) at Ernst and Young. Fleur joined Ernst and Young in January 2007 in the newly created role of Director of Diversity and Inclusiveness for the UK region. In this role she was responsible for developing and driving the D&I strategy and programmes for the Firm in the UK. On the 1st July 2008 she took on the newly created role of Director of Diversity and Inclusiveness for EMEIA -an area covering 87 countries and 66,000 people.
Prior to joining Ernst and Young, Fleur had spent 18 years in the Investment Banking Sector. Latterly at Lehman Brothers for 7 years where she held various senior HR roles, moving in September 2003 to the newly created position of Director of Diversity. Prior to Lehman Brothers Fleur held HR generalist roles at Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank (formerly Morgan Grenfell).
Fleur has a Masters in HR Strategic Management and lives in South London with her husband and three young sons. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the LDA/London First Diversity Works Initiative, a Board Member of the Tamasha Theatre Company, a member or the Development Advisory Council for the Unicorn Theatre and a Working Families Trustee.
Sarah Jackson OBE
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Sarah Jackson is the Chief Executive of Working Families
Involved in work-life balance campaigning and culture change since joining Parents At Work in 1994, Sarah is an acknowledged expert in the field, and was included in Human Resources Magazine's inaugural "HR top 100 Most Influential" in 2006 and again in 2007.
Sarah led the merger between Parents At Work and New Ways to Work, which resulted in the launch of the new work-life balance charity Working Families in 2004.
Leading Working Families' policy and parliamentary work, she is the charity's key media and public spokesperson on all aspects of work-life balance. Sarah has chaired the judging panel for the Working Families Employer of the Year best practice awards since 1996 and developed the popular national Best Boss competition, which is now in its eighth year.
In 2007, Sarah was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Quality of Life Issues.
