Expiry Date Never with Victoria Tomlinson

Victoria Tomlinson has spent her career challenging how work is done and who gets to do it. One of the few women in senior roles early in her career, she built a track record of “firsts”, from being the first female graduate trainee in a 20,000-employee engineering business to becoming one of the youngest leaders in EY’s London practice, where she led a division of 100 people and drove a major culture change programme.

She went on to found and run an award-winning communications agency while raising a family, later expanding internationally with an office in Dubai. In her 50s and 60s, Victoria reinvented again – becoming a BBC Expert Woman commentator, launching Next-Up to help the 50+ generation rethink their working lives and more recently building a tech platform piloted by a major bank to support longer, more flexible careers.

Today, as CEO of Next-Up, she works with leading professional services firms and corporates to help them unlock the value of experienced talent. Her work has created a global community of firms rethinking partner careers and later-life transitions.