Director and Founder of Time4balance

Anna Kavanagh studied Business at undergraduate level, majoring in International Marketing gaining a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in  Business. She then went to Law school and obtained her Law diploma going on to qualify as a solicitor with Trowers & Hamlins; on qualification, she moved to Simmons & Simmons, a large City law firm.

Since leaving Simmons in 1998, Anna has worked as a management consultant. She specializes in advising businesses and individuals from all sectors on fwork place change, or “advanced working” i.e. the continuum of work styles that allow people and their organizations to choose where it is best for them to work to facilitate a variety of corporate, team and personal needs arising from their work and workplace. This workplace change not only improves business performance, but enables businesses to be smarter about the workforce they attract and employee and about how they can adapt to the ever-changing global workplace.

This consultancy work includes:

• Assisting organizations in assessing the appropriateness and viability of advanced working in meeting the overall aims of the business
• Objectively analyzing a variety of job roles within an organization to determine which are suited to different ways of working. These job roles could be those both within the office and externally in other locations such as other client offices, satellite offices, whilst on business trips or home working. Within the office, a range of flexible working options are analyzed and assessed e.g. compressed hours, part-time, remote working, home working etc to determine which is the “best fit” for both employer and employee.
• Advising on the legislative framework surrounding flexible working i.e. the employment legislation as well as health & safety legislation. This includes all aspects of diversity issues and legislation and corporate responsibility issues.
• Advising on different aspects of supporting advanced working e.g. maximizing the utilization of the workspace, technology requirements, change management, management skills, infrastructure requirements, policy requirements and so forth.

Anna’s management experience includes 9 years in the Territorial Army as an officer, having passed the Army training at the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst. Her roles included being an Assistant Adjutant of an Officer Training Corps, head of adventure training organizing expeditions and Public Information Officer.This Army training provided Anna with leadership training, team working, and organisational training in running expeditions to places such as the Yukon, the Atlas Mountains and the Scottish Highlands. She led a group of trainee officers on an expedition across the Yukon in the North West Territories of Canada.

Personal information:

Anna is a mother to three children: Tierney, Conall and Erin. Conall has Type 1 diabetes, involving an on-going caring responsibility on Anna’s part to manage this difficult condition and supporting Conall and his sisters in coping with the illness.

Anna is a keen sailor and skier and enjoys traveling and reading.