Helen Beedham
Speaking topics include:
Re-working our time: how organisations can help people to work smarter not harder
How to deal with time pressure at work
Time-intelligence ways to manage people and work
Pressing pause: why life can feel like a race and how to slow down when we haven’t got time to
Owning your career: Networking, raising your profile, confidence, courageous conversations and positioning for progression
Award-winning author of The Future of Time, now writing People Glue, adviser, podcast host
Helen Beedham (MA Cantab) is Head of Programmes at Encompass Equality. She is an organisational expert who helps HR and business leaders to create inclusive, productive work cultures where everyone can flourish, and is a long-standing advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion in general and for gender equality and women’s careers in particular.
Helen spent 15 years in consulting at Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson) advising clients on organisational development, culture change, HR policies and employee engagement. She later helped to establish the first Women’s Network at Trinity College, Cambridge and co-steered the not-for-profit Workplace Fertility Community and was Director of the diversity organisation Cityparents (now WorkLife Central) where she brought together Heads of HR, Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing to exchange market-leading practices. Helen now enjoys a portfolio career, running her own successful consulting business alongside her role at Encompass Equality.
Author of the award-winning business book, The Future of Time: how ‘re-working time can help you boost productivity, diversity and wellbeing, Helen is regularly featured in national, business and HR press, is an active mentor to other professional women and interviews gender equality experts and champions on her podcast The Business of Being Brilliant.
She is mother/stepmother of 3, loves running, sea swimming and looking after their inquisitive hen, rescued tabby cat and a ‘prickle’ of local hedgehogs.