With 25 years’ experience of working on skills, economic and cultural development initiatives, Astrid has an extensive track record of delivering research, evaluations and strategic leadership. She has a particular interest in flexible and high-performance working practices. Astrid believes that working with best practice employers is key to influencing policy development and changing wider employer practice. Her recent work includes ‘Flexible working for all’, a multi-year project (working with Timewise, Wickes, Sir Robert McAlpine and the NHS) evidencing the impact of flexible working among frontline and site-based workers. She delivered a flexible working review for the South East London Integrated Care System, involving focus groups across four NHS Trusts, and evaluated an initiative to enable jobseekers to access flexible working from day one. Astrid is currently researching autonomy and work styles for The Office Group and exploring the concept of ‘unbound working’ with the Institute for Employment Studies’ HR Network.