Sir Charlie Mayfield

Sir Charlie Mayfield led the Keep Britain Working Review, and is now continuing to lead work alongside the Government and volunteer employers and regions to examine how employers can best recruit and retain more people with health conditions and disabled people; promote healthy and inclusive workplaces, and support more people to stay in or return to work from periods of sickness absence. Sir Charlie is also founder and chairman of Be the Business and the Productivity Leadership Group, which focus on stimulating and encouraging competitiveness and growth in businesses across the UK, and Chairman of QA Limited, a training and skills technology and IT solutions provider. Prior to this, he was appointed Chairman of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills in November 2010. Charlie became the John Lewis Partnership’s fifth Chairman in March 2007 and remained in role until 2020.