Joeli Brearley is an activist, author and public speaker who founded Pregnant Then Screwed, the charity and campaign group tackling workplace discrimination and the motherhood penalty. Her campaigning helped secure the UK Government’s £5.2 billion investment in childcare and influenced legal reforms on flexible working, tribunal time limits and redundancy protections. In 2021 Joeli won a landmark case against the Government for indirect sex discrimination and organised March of the Mummies — the UK’s largest mothers’ protest — which saw 15,000 parents march across ten cities. She also founded Growth Spurt, a programme supporting working parents through pregnancy, parental leave and return to work while guiding employers to create fairer workplaces. Named one of British Vogue’s 25 Most Influential Women, ranked eighth in PR Week’s top communicators (2023) and awarded an MBE in 2024, Joeli is a leading voice on gender equality and workplace change, combining grassroots pressure with practical solutions to transform employer practice.