16 Aug 2023
‘I came back from maternity leave and didn’t have a desk’ How one CEO is using her experiences to help others
Just imagine how this would feel if it happened to you: You have gone on maternity leave and you come back after seven and a bit months away. But, when you get back, you find you don’t have a desk and no one has bothered to tell the rest of your team that you have returned.
Extraordinarily, that is what happened to Gauri Talathi-Lamb. She is the chief executive of M&E consultant FHP, a £7m turnover business with six offices and nearly 80 staff stretching from Glasgow down to London. Its clients include the government, as well as real estate firm JLL and US multinational Johnson & Johnson.
