In this wide ranging episode, Caroline & Heather talk about their journey from initially meeting working on 24/7 Ministry of Defence projects, through to jobsharing senior roles across the Civil Service, implementing flexible working practices within the Department for Education and now blazing a trail as Chief Operations Officer of a large multi-academy trust.  In important aspect of their partnership is their why - with Heather choosing to jobshare to support her health and wellbeing, as she manages her MS alongside a challenging professional role.  Heather and Caroline also talk about the importance of coaching to set up for success and enable partnerships to thrive  To find out more about jobshare coaching from The Jobshare Revolution, visit our website  www.thejobsharerevolution.co.uk #Jobshare #JobshareCoach #PowerPartnership #CoLeadership

Rhiannon Clapperton and Lisa Watch have navigated through 3 different roles as jobshare partners - progressing through to Director of Policy & Communication at Kinship.  In this episode, they talk about jobsharing driving accountability, ambition and energy and how jobsharing enabled them to live a life without compromise - achieving their work and personal ambitions concurrently.  #JobShareJobSearch #PowerPartnership #Jobshare #CoLeadership #Ambition

In this episode of Jobshare Stories, Kate Righton & Rebecca Barnett from Haleon share how they turned a shared life stage and desire for balance into a high-performing partnership that benefits both them and their organisation. They reveal the role of coaching and intentional planning in making jobsharing a success - plus they share their top tips for making a job share work. It's a brilliant podcast full of practical hints and tips from securing a role to making the partnership thrive #Jobshare #Leadership #Balance #PowerPartnership #HighPerformancePartnerships

Jenny and Laura are the Co-Directors of People at Leeds Community Health Care Trust and the Leeds GP Confederation. Their jobshare has stood the test of time - having come together over 8 years ago and still going strong!  In this episode we talk about how jobshare enabled them to step up to Director and gave both them and the organisation increased resilience. They also talk about the importance of building your brand as a jobshare - and how coaching supported them to build their relationship, evolve their role and leverage their respective skills and strengths. A must listen for anyone who wants to be inspired by power partnership and the potential of working in a different way. #Jobshare #PowerPartTimers #PowerPartnership #Resilience #HRDirector #PeopleDirector #PeopleLeader  #FutureOf Work 

Is Co Leadership the Future of work and what impact could it have on your organisation? In today’s podcast, we’re speaking to Stefanie Junghans; certified organisational developer, coach, and co-leadership expert. Stefanie has “walked the talk”, having shared two leadership roles herself before launching her consultancy to help organisations rethink how they lead. We dive into how co-leadership can build more resilient, agile and future-ready workplaces - supporting an ageing workforce, meeting the needs of a new generation, and helping people do meaningful work without sacrificing personal goals.Stefanie shines a light on the potential of co-leadership whilst also highlighting the need to be intentional in your approach. ✔️ Support line managers to sell the case✔️ Build the culture to champion pairs✔️ Coach leaders to channel their energy into impact not admin This is a brilliant episode for those of you curious about navigating the world of co-leadership. #TheJobshareRevolution #JobshareStories #Leadership #CoLeadership #FutureOfWork #WorkplaceInnovation #AgileLeadership   Stefanie's website: www.junghans.consulting Stefanie's book: https://junghans.consulting/en-co-leadership-das-buch

At the start of the new academic year in the UK, we're highlighting the power of jobsharing to facilitate studying! We're joined on today's podcast episode by a trail blazing pair who jobshared whilst studying undergraduate and masters degrees.  Abby Murphy and Georgia Hyland talk articulately about how much jobsharing supported them and their organisation, early in their careers. Specifically, jobsharing: supported their upskilling and onboarding into a new role created effective succession  enabled them to earn and learn professionally whilst studying created a lifelong friendship This episode is a shining example of jobsharing across all life stages and a real eye opener on the power of partnership throughout your career. #TheJobshareRevolution #JobshareStories #FlexibleWorkingWorks #CreativeSolutions #PartTimePower #ProjectManagement #Innovation

Julia and Anna are an ambitious, driven jobsharing partnership who started out on their jobsharing journey 7 years ago.  After progressing as a partnership in a large German corporate, they now freelance together supporting jobsharers throughout their end to end journey.  Having active experience of jobsharing, whilst also being change and transformation experts by profession they are well placed to coach and support jobshare partnerships. In this episode, Julia and Anna talk about how thinking creatively in the way you deploy jobshares can help solve multiple challenges for an organisation and how thinking flexibly can help an organisation supercharge their performance and retain diverse talent. They also talk about the importance of investing in jobshare partnerships from outset to ensure maximum chances of success.  To find out more about the work that Julia & Anna do, check out:  Julia's business : https://staudtconsulting.de/ Pair to Share : https://www.pairtoshare.com/ Jobsharing Hub: https://www.jobsharing-hub.de/  

In this week's episode we talk to Jo Nicol - finance leader and serial jobsharer. Jo is in the somewhat unique position of having shared with 4 different jobshare partners over a period of almost 15 years. Having worked full time, part-time and as a jobshare, Jo talks about the impact of jobsharing on her life and how jobsharing enabled her to fulfil her work and home ambitions. She also talks about the transitions between jobshare partners, recruiting for jobshare partners and how to build relationships before, during and after a jobshare.    We're also joined by her current jobshare partner Kate Roberts, who shares her experience of joining Jo, having never jobshared before, and how that impacted her integration into the role and supercharged her induction!    #TheJobshareRevolution #JobshareStories #FlexibleWorkingWorks #CoLeadership #WomenInFinance #PowerPartnership  

Hannah Essex and Claire Walker are Co - CEOs of Society of London Theatre & UK Theatre. Theirs is a longstanding partnership having come together initially at Teach First before progressing to being Co-Executive Directors at the British Chambers of Commerce before moving to their current role. In this episode, they talk about their journey of progressing as a partnership, including sharing some great tips for navigating the recruitment process together.  They also talk about the power of jobsharing for increasing resilience and in particular how this helped in some of the most challenging times in history through Brexit and during the pandemic. The episode also delves into the power of co-leadership and how jobsharing enables better decision making and ultimately a better outcome for the organisation. #TheJobshareRevolution #JobshareStories #FlexibleWorkingWorks #CoLeadership #Resilience #PowerPartnership

Karen Hutchinson and Francesca Berry are Partners in the Commercial Litigation department at Stewarts.  After coming together as a pair on a trial basis over 8 years ago, they have since been promoted twice as a pair, firstly to Legal Directors and then to Partners. In this episode, they talk about the process of applying for partnership together, why their clients are overwhelmingly positive about their jobshare arrangement and how jobsharing has been a gamechanger for them both - giving them the ability to separate and prioritise their work and personal lives.

Rowan Aust and Michelle Reynolds are determined to change the TV industry. In this episode we talk about how ReelTime Media researches and creates "good work" - that pays well and contributes to worker wellbeing as well as organisational outcomes. Jobsharing is a core part of this and at ReelTime Media, they're innovating in collaboration with ScreenSkills to create jobsharing partnership to transform how work is done right across the TV industry. But this episode goes even deeper, exploring the world of work and how jobsharing can create a world of increased attentiveness and care for employees. 

Kulsoom Ali and Suzy McCormick jobshare the role of Head of Talent and Inclusion in the UK Health Security Agency.   Their partnership came together in one of the most intensive periods of recent history - the start of the Covid pandemic, as they were asked to work on the NHS Test and Trace programme. Their story shows the true benefit of jobsharing in senior, demanding, pressurised roles where you are facing unprecedented decision making and the need for really high levels of resilience.   #TheJobshareRevolution #JobshareStories #FlexibleWorkingWorks #FutureOfWork #Resilience #PowerPartnership

In this special one off episode, Laura and Chloe come together to deep dive and lift the lid on the state of play on gender equity in the UK in 2025 and try to answer the question - Do we still need International Women's Day.This brilliant episode dives into the facts of where we are today on gender equity in the UK, breaks down what the gender pay gap is and why it still matters, highlights key barriers still in play for women in today's society and most importantly talks about how we can start to fix the system and not the women! A perfect episode if you want to understand what gender equity is.  #TheJobshareRevolution #JobshareStories #IWD #Motherhoodpenalty #GenderEquity #StickyFloor   Linked Resources from the Podcast; FTSE Women’s Leader Report https://ftsewomenleaders.com/latest-reports/ Timewise : The Real Reasons behind the gender pay gap: https://timewise.co.uk/article/article-real-reasons-behind-gender-pay-gap/#:~:text=We%20explore%20the%20four%20key%20reasons%20why%20the,and%20part-time%20working%20can%20play%20in%20closing%20it. How many Britons have asked for a payrise and how many have been successful How many Britons have asked for a pay rise – and how many have been successful? | YouGov) Claudia Goldin – “Greedy Jobs” https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/goldin/files/oconnor-goldin_ft.pdf

Episode 20: Jess Heagren, CEO of Careers After Babies Jess Heagren was a highly ambitious, high achieving professional working in the insurance industry, who had a hugely succesful career prior to having her babies. In this episode, we talk about how, and why, she went from that to founding 2 companies and transforming the workplace for parents across the UK.  She talks candidly about speaking truth to power, what it takes to make your workplace work for ambitious parents and why jobsharing is part of the solution to attract, retain and progress top parenting talent. #CareersAfterBabies #FlexibleWorkingWorks #Jobshare #Progression #PowerPartnerships

Episode 19: Marie-Christine Moreels & Nathalie De Wachter: VP Global Finance Transformation, Umicore. Marie-Christine and Nathalie have been jobsharing in senior VP finance roles since 2022.  In this, our first international episode, they talk about how their partnership came together with Marie- Christine having once worked for Nathalie, and the power of coaching to form a partnership of equals.  They also discuss the importance of innovative, transformative leaders in promoting and sponsoring jobsharing, as well as covering in more detail their flexible jobsharing model where they don't work fixed days and work 5 days in total.     #TheJobshareRevolution #JobshareStories #FlexibleWorkingWorks #FutureOfWork #WomenInFinance 

Dr Sarah Dauncey is the Director of Partnership & Insight at Timewise and in this episode we talk about the power of flexible work to drive better outcomes across all roles. We explore Timewise's latest research into #FlexForAll and talk about the need for more research into the potential of jobsharing, as well as the power of jobsharing to transform how leadership is done.  #Timewise #FlexForAll #Jobshare #FlexibleWorkingWorks

Today is National Jobshare Day and we're going to be celebrating all things jobsharing! In this episode we talk about what brought us to jobsharing and why it had such a profound impact on our lives. We go back to basics with what jobsharing is, how it impacts indiviudals and organisations and share some top tips for people currently jobsharing or those thinking about a new jobshare. We also reflect on our podcast episodes so far and the stories we've shared on Jobshare Stories.  #241 #NationalJobsharingDay #JoyOfJobsharing #DiscoverJobsharing #FlexibleWorkingWorks

National Jobsharing Day is coming up on 24/1 and will celebrate the power of jobsharing to transform your workplace and your working life.  Ahead of this, Chloe and Laura talk in more detail about the events they will be running to celebrate this day. To book on these free events, please register below:Networking Breakfast for current jobshare pairs (9.30 - 10.30, 24/1/25):https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jobshare-joy-a-remote-networking-breakfast-for-jobsharers-tickets-1116563013029?aff=oddtdtcreator Jobsharing - The Future Of Work (12-1pm, 24/1/25):https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jobsharing-the-future-of-work-tickets-1113976817649?aff=oddtdtcreator #241 #NationalJobsharingDay #JoyOfJobsharing #DiscoverJobsharing #FlexibleWorkingWorks

Jobshare Stories : Hilary Mason and Sarah Rodgers - Finance Directors at Viiv Healthcare (part of GSK) Hilary and Sarah are seasoned finance professionals who have been working as a jobshare for just over a year.  In this episode, they talk to us about the process they have recently been through to successfully apply for an secure a role as Finance Director as a jobshare in an open recruitment process.  Hear about the strategies they employed to be successful in securing this role and the benefits they and the company are now experiencing as a result of the jobshare. #Jobshare #FlexibleWorking #JobshareRecruitment #TalentAttraction #FlexibleWorkingWorks #PowerPartTimers

Episode 14. Jobsharing for men: an International Mens' Day Special with Will McDonald, Will McDonald was one half of a pioneering all male jobshare at Aviva - alongside Sam White. Together they shared the role of Group Sustainability and Public Policy Director and demonstrated the power of jobsharing for all genders. Often we think jobsharing is for mums, but Sam and Will absolutely smashed this myth. in this podcast, we cover the power of their partnership, how jobsharing can enable big jobs to be done on a part-time basis and some of the challenges of working 3 days during the week and being "Dad" the other four. #Jobshare #TopShare #PowerPartnership #NotJustForMums #FlexibleWorkingWorks #JobshareRevolution