Charlotte Lockhart, MNZM

Business leader, advocate, philanthropist, adventurer, and co-founder of the global 4 Day Week movement.

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Charlotte Lockhart’s life spans business, family, travel and adventure, philanthropy, governance, and a deeply personal journey shaped by a desire to leave the world better than she found it.

4 Day Week Global

Charlotte is internationally known for co-founding 4 Day Week Global and championing initiatives that make life better for others. Living between New Zealand and the United Kingdom, she leads with purpose while living with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, which is treatable but incurable.

Her work spans workplace reform, charitable governance, fundraising, and advocacy, alongside a personal story that has transformed how she thinks about time, purpose, and belonging.

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Working on Wellbeing with Sarah Cunningham

In this episode, host Sarah Cunningham chats to Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart: co-founders of 4 Day Week Global, a not-for-profit community whose support for trials across the globe has shown the very real benefits - for employees and business alike - of reducing work time to the equivalent of four days a week.

“Understanding that I have the blessing to be able to share my experience and skills is important to me. I see opportunities to support innovation and outcomes for those who need a hand to make the most of their lives as a way of giving back and being grateful for the life I have had.”

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