One of the Tech Women Celebration 50 - women changing the ratio of the tech workforce
Laura is an experienced and business focused CIO and Leader. She has spent the majority of her career driving forward technology professionalism in the not for profit space, both Charities and Public Sector. Her career has covered CIO in RSPB, Save the Children UK, British Council (as their Global CIO) and the LSE. She considers the transformation of these teams, some of which had been underinvested in, unloved and defensive, to be her most significant achievements.
Laura is a firm believer in technology as a profession and in all her roles has implemented a strong practice management approach to ensure all technology practitioners are following good practice and operating as a collective whole. She now runs her own consulting company (Leaderly Consulting) as well as hosting business simulations to help organisations improve their team capabilities around delivering technology and tech enabled change.
Laura is a trustee of Charity IT leaders, the premier networking group for charity technology professionals and a NED for West Herts College (with a focus on Safeguarding and EDI), LSE Cities and Impress (press regulation).
Finally, she has a passion for data and the environment and champions the return of good data housekeeping to reduce the carbon cost of data.