Jo Swinson - Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats

Gina Miller - Businesswoman, transparency and rights campaigner

Laura Wright - Head of Learning and Development at Lockton

Nadia Bennouna - Director at Abeilles Virtual Executive Assistants

Vanessa Vallely OBE, CEO of WeAreTheCity

Jo Baker - Head of UK Resourcing Clyde & Co

Danusia Malina-Derben C-Suite Consultant & Founder of School for Mothers

Lauren Pau - Managing Director and Senior Managing Counsel at BNY Mellon

Dr Zoe Young - Consulting Sociologist and Author

Jane Ball - Senior Vice President, Marsh Ltd

Emily Fairhead-Keen - Group Strategy Director Wavemaker

Rachel Hoyle - Chief Operating Officer at Marsh

June Angelides - Founder of Mums in Technology

Camilla Bruggen - Joint Head Data Insight Wavemaker

Lisa Williams - Co-founder The Hotbed Collective

Katie Maycock - Client Proposition Leader at Marsh

Danielle Budd - Director of Jayworks soft furnishings

Kuo-Fang Yang-O’Connor Founder Y + O luxury consulting

Seher Khan, M D Seher Wellpower- Corporate Wellness

Dr Rhian Prichard - 6th Form College Physics Tutor

Maggie Aoussou - Parliamentary Digital Services

Motherworks

#MotherWorks is a photographic exhibition celebrating the brilliant and bizarre duality of the life of working mums, the women who hold the economy up with one hand and a baby with the other. By bringing the exhibition into the workplace we help organisations make their working mothers feel represented and recognised, essential for retaining talent and encouraging returners. A new, bright bold way to celebrate diversity and inclusion.

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#MotherWorks was exhibited in the House of Commons in the stunning Upper Waiting to celebrate International Women’s Day 2020. It was part of the Royal Photographic society’s 100 Heroines exhibition and The London Design Trail. Marsh, Lockton and Clyde & Co hosted the exhibition in their beuatiful St Botolph Building in the heart of the City of London. Other hosts, sponsors and partners include WaveMaker, Mazars and WeAreTheCity.

Press:

Hadley Freeman in The Weekend Guardian

#Motherworks in The Telegraph for International Women’s Day 2020

Today’s Working mothers are extraordinary chameleons, They do the most difficult stressful responsible job on the planet – I don’t care if you are a professional negotiator, you try getting a coat on a stroppy 3-year-old. Everyone has an opinion on how we should raise the next generation, mothers are quietly getting on with it as they always have with little praise and support. #MotherWorks celebrates these women, their achievements, their incredibly difficult, complicated and consequently sometimes hilarious lives.

“She has very cleverly both composed a shot and made it appear spontaneous. But the real genius is that each photo is part of a story – a single sentence which leaves you wondering about the rest of the paragraph. Many of them show scenes of domestic disorder which you know the mother concerned is going to have to clear up while remaining constantly vigilant about their children’s needs and behaviour. They also capture the frustrations, tolerance, chaos and above all, love, that is part of family life.” Leslie Manasseh Brixton Bugle

Jo Whiley, radio DJ, talks about breastfeeding at work – during records and sometimes while interviewing – which apparently threw Christopher Ecclestone, in her book “World in Motion”.

I was lucky enough to be able to take my sons to shoots (until they were mobile enough to dismantle my lighting rig.) They were cuddled by celebrities and CEOs and Mike Trow who was the picture editor at Vogue, and encouraged me to bring them along, was a great surrogate nanny. I was lucky to experience a lot of people willing to be flexible and encouraging about working and being a mum at the same time.

Sadly for most women, this is not possible and so begins the weird duality of the mother who works: while smartly dressed ready to head out to an important meeting, without closes being smeared and hearts being broken. The mother heading off to her shift at the supermarket to shouts of “bring us back a treat mum!”. The masterful multitasking mums who work from home, on a conference call while wiping something unspeakable off the floor. Working mothers do 2 full-time jobs. This is rarely celebrated or even taken into consideration by many employers.

I was inspired by MP Sarah Olney’s International Women’s’ Day 2017 speech in the House of Commons. “Yesterday, for example, I spent the first part of the morning trying to get my son to clean his teeth and my daughter to brush her hair. I then travelled into Westminster and challenged the Prime Minister in the Chamber about her spending priorities for education. Of the two things, the latter was more remarked upon—it was heard by Members here, recorded in Hansard and shared on Twitter—but getting my son to clean his teeth was the greater achievement in many ways. It took more ingenuity, effort and emotional commitment, but nobody noticed, cared or applauded me for it.”