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Christine Armstrong
Researcher, Author, Speaker,
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Christine is a writer and consultant specialising in the future of work, workplaces,
leadership, and company communication. She is the author of The Mother of All
Jobs: How to Have Children and a Career and Stay Sane(ish). She also cofounded
the communications consultancy Jericho Chambers and now leads her
own consultancy Armstrong & Partners, which helps businesses to operate in an
uncertain, disrupted world.
Christine looks at how the workplace has evolved over the last twenty years and
the pressures it has brought with it. She covers the successes and failures of
diversity and inclusion strategies, workplace culture (including the myth of flexible
hours and attitudes towards paternity leave), maintaining social networks, and
understanding the demands and stresses of being a working parent. She looks at
what employees demand from their companies, and how to respond in order to
attract and retain the best talent. With the rise in demand for a balance between
working from home and being in the office (especially in a post-Covid-19 world),
she considers the complex factors employers now have to manage, from the cost
of running an office to differing personal and professional priorities amongst
different age groups and personality types.
In her book, The Mother of All Jobs, Christine looks at the social and economic
pressures of being a working-mother, the cost of childcare and how parenting and
work compete with each other. She draws on her own experience, extensive
research, and personal accounts of women in senior executive positions. The book
debunks some of the myths around motherhood and family-work-life-balance and
reveals the culturally ingrained hostility towards mothers in the corporate world.
As well as the future of work and work-life balance, Christine also writes and speaks
about communication, and the circular economy, drawing together many aspects
of her experience to analyse key shifts in the business world. She is a contributing
editor at Management Today and has written for The Sunday Times, The Times,
The Telegraph and Grazia, and has appeared on Radio 4’s Women’s Hour.
Sessions
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17-Apr-2024HR Tech Keynote Theatre 1Welcome Address
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17-Apr-2024HR Tech Keynote Theatre 1Opening Keynote
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17-Apr-2024HR Tech Keynote Theatre 1Fireside Chat | Influencing the future of work through innovative and emerging tech
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18-Apr-2024HR Tech Keynote Theatre 1Panel | Driving a culture of wellbeing and DE&I throughout your organisation