How to Combine a Career and Family | How To Academy

Tue, 24 June 2025

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm BST

How to Combine a Career and Family

Dolly Jones

Join leading journalist and digital strategist Dolly Jones for a funny, practical and crucial guide for thriving at work after having children.

When high-flying journalist Dolly Jones had her children, the idea of returning to work felt daunting. She struggled to find material to galvanise and reassure her, and to make her feel that anything was possible.

She set out to change all of that, gathering practical advice, life-hacks and guilt-avoidance strategies from a diverse range of women in a wide variety of industries – fashion designers, taxi drivers, journalists, actors, employment lawyers, doctors, bankers, health specialists, entrepreneurs and restaurateurs.

In this empowering talk, Dolly will act as a ‘ladder down’ to the next generation of working women from a generation who have experimented their way to making it work.

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Dolly Jones

Journalist & Creative Strategist

Dolly Jones is a journalist and creative digital consultant with over twenty years of experience. She started her career at British Vogue doing work experience in 1999, before going on to lead its digital operations for fifteen years. She has worked and written extensively across Condé Nast’s full portfolio, including publications such as Vanity Fair, GQ and Tatler. Having left Condé Nast in 2018, Dolly now works as a digital consultant, a school governor and a trustee of Advance, a charity that supports women and young people affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence. She lives in London with her husband and two children. This her first book.