Catherine Oliver

Catherine Oliver is a Diversity and Inclusion Advisor who specialises in helping organisations support working parents and achieve gender balance.

Her new amazon bestselling book ‘Working Parents-to-be’, is a step-by-step guide to parental leave and return, designed to help new or soon-to-be parents, and managers, to recognise the challenges of becoming a working parent and create a personalised plan to overcome them.

Catherine previously worked in corporates for c. 20 years, most recently at the UK broadcaster Sky, where she became a mum and subsequently founded Sky’s parenting network, Parents@Sky, and co-founded their award-winning Women in Leadership initiative alongside her ‘day job’ in the Strategy team.

Bestselling author of Working Parents-to-be, D&I adviser, facilitator

Speaking topics include:

  • Becoming a working parent - the challenges and how to overcome them

  • Supporting working parents (for managers)

  • Flexible working

  • Work life balance - practical tips for managing work and home

  • “All very useful, wish I had been able to do this before...I think this should be a must for all with line manager responsibilities.”

  • “The session opened my eyes to a lot of things I hadn’t thought about.”

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