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TRaD Works Forum 2016 > Agenda

Wednesday Thursday Friday
Wednesday, June 8th
*Agenda Subject to Change
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Welcome Networking Reception with Drinks and Appetizers
Courtyard & Collonnade
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Evening Bus Tour of Famous Monuments in D.C. 
Meet in Fairmont Lobby
Thursday, June 9th
*Agenda Subject to Change
6:30 - 7:15 am
Morning Workout: Either a Relaxing Yoga Session or a 3 Mile Jog
Collannade Room
7:45 - 8:15 am
Breakfast
8:15 - 8:30 am
Opening Remarks
Ballroom 1
Panelists:
Thomas
Kristin Thomas
FlexJobs
FlexJobs

About Kristin Thomas

Kristin Thomas is a passionate Flex Work Champion with more than 20 years of diverse experience in human resources. She has spent most of her career focused on talent acquisition and talent management for a wide variety of industries, including Insurance, Software, Dot Com, Hardware, Financial Services, Hospitality, and Nuclear Power. Kristin is also a leader in her community. She founded an organization to improve local parks and playgrounds, and started Malvern Community Arts Project, which has created six community-funded, public art projects in her small town. As a former Silicon Valley commuter, a mother of four, a community volunteer, and a breast cancer survivor, Kristin has a deep appreciation for flexible work, and is proud to be working as the Director of Employer Engagement for FlexJobs – a company that is centered on the value of such opportunities for both job seekers and employers.

Fell
Sara Sutton Fell
FlexJobs
FlexJobs

About Sara Sutton Fell

Sara Sutton Fell is the CEO and Founder of FlexJobs, an award-winning career website for telecommuting, flexible, freelance, and part-time jobs. Sara founded FlexJobs in 2007 while she was pregnant with her first son, after she experienced first-hand the frustrating search for professional jobs that also offered flexible work options. Having also co-founded an entry-level employment service in 1995 (JobDirect, later sold to Korn|Ferry International in 2000), she has long been passionate about helping people find jobs that make their lives better, and she is thrilled that her own experience as a working mom is now helping others who want or need work flexibility.

Sara also believes that a modern workplace should address the needs of today’s workforce, and that utilizing workplace technology to support telecommuting and flexible work will achieve societal, environmental, and economic benefits for both employees and employers. In support of that belief, Sara launched the 1 Million for Work Flexibility in 2013 and Remote.co in 2015. For her work in the employment and technology fields, she was named as a Young Global Leader (class of 2014) by the World Economic Forum. Sara is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA with her two children.

8:30 - 9:00 am
From Fear to Embrace: A Remote Work Journey
Ballroom 1
Speaker:
Brown
Elizabeth Brown
Unity Technologies
Unity Technologies

About Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth is currently the Chief People Officer at Unity Technologies, one of the most popular gaming engines. Prior to that she led the HR function at Trulia, an online real estate site. She spent several years helping grow Trulia including playing a critical role in the Zillow/Trulia acquisition integration.

Prior to joining Trulia, Elizabeth spent two years at LinkedIn leading HR for the Global Sales and Operations group and the HR International team. In this role, she was at the forefront of hyper-growth and led the team to deliver 100 percent year-over-year headcount growth and open several international LinkedIn offices. She also served as an industry thought leader on recruiting, scaling organizations, culture and leadership. Previously, she held several HR leadership positions at Microsoft Corporation and Intuit. Elizabeth received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She was recently honored one of SF’s Most Influential Business Women.

9:00 - 10:30 am
Building a Business Case for Remote Work and How to Get Buy-In from Stakeholders
Ballroom 1
Panelists:
Davidson
Jodi Davidson
Sodexo
Sodexo

About Jodi Davidson

Jodi Davidson, Sodexo’s Director of Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives, leads the organization’s vast portfolio of Diversity & Inclusion learning, development and engagement strategy to include training, mentoring, work/life – flexibility, and recognition for their North America Region. In addition, she is rolling out a comprehensive cultural agility framework to support Sodexo’s global business model. Jodi chairs a number of task forces and serves as the Program Manager for the organization’s Inclusion Council.

Prior to her current role, she served as Director of Diversity and Human Resources Director for Sodexo’s Education Market in the United States. Jodi holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Development and is certified as a Leadership Coach through Georgetown University. She is married and the proud mother of three children.

LaGraff
Karen A. LaGraff
Xerox Corporation
Xerox Corporation

About Karen A. LaGraff

Karen LaGraff is the Vice President, North American HR Operations at Xerox Corporation.

In her current role, Karen has responsibility for employee relations, labor relations, employee service centers, vendor management, operational implementation of business initiatives and HR programs, performance management, HR Policy, workforce actions, internal investigations and executive escalations across North America. She has a team of HR Professionals located throughout the US and Canada, and is responsible for off shore resources as well. Under her leadership, many HR policies were harmonized globally for the Corporation, the first of which was the Virtual Office policy implemented in 2014.

LaGraff has more than 30 years of human resource management experience. She joined Xerox Corporation in 1984 and has held a variety of assignments inside and outside of human resources. She has managed Global Compensation, Workforce Analytics, Talent Acquisition and a variety of other areas in the function, with employees located in the United States, Canada, Mexico and off shore locations. Of note, she has worked as a transition manager for several acquisitions and divestitures, including the ACS acquisition, and was directly involved in the recent separation of companies. Additionally, LaGraff has held a variety of operational positions outside of human resources in managing large call centers, as well as in key management roles in the Integrated Supply Chain and Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) organizations.

Karen is a certified Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma. She has lead a number of key projects at Xerox, including a series of efforts in the area of HR Transformation, vendor optimization and outsourcing, leading global cross functional teams and partnering with external consultants.  LaGraff has a significant amount of experience in the improvement of work processes, including leveraging HR technologies and harmonizing processes across various business segments. She has coached a number of Green Belt candidates to certification status.

LaGraff received an M.B.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology’s Executive Program in 1996 and a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resource Management from Roberts Wesleyan College in 1992. Karen has served as Committee Chair for Boy Scout Troop 183 in Irondequoit, NY and leads many fundraisers and recruiting activities for the scouting organization. She is also a member of the Xerox Women’s Alliance, and a volunteer for many community causes.

Karen lives in Rochester, NY with her husband and two sons.

Cross
Mika Cross
U.S. Dept. of Labor
U.S. Dept. of Labor

About Mika Cross

Mika is highly regarded as a thought leader for flexible and transformational workplace practices and is regularly featured as a professional speaker at industry events. On behalf of the White House, National Security Council (NSC), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) agencies have invited Mika to contribute to the “Workforce of 2020” strategy session to develop a new model for vetting current and future Federal employees.

In 2014, Mika was selected as a President’s Management Council Interagency Fellow at OPM. She worked on government-wide projects affecting culture, process change, and helped create an online Employee Engagement Community of Practice (eCOP) within OPM’s interactive dashboard (the Unlocking Federal Talent data tool at unlocktalent.gov). The eCOP is targeted for Senior Executive Management to help Federal agencies collect and use data to create a more engaged workplace.

Moderator:
Sahadi
Jeanne Sahadi
CNNMoney
CNNMoney

About Jeanne Sahadi

Jeanne Sahadi is a senior writer at CNNMoney. Among her primary beats, she reports on the workplace – including pay and benefit issues, company culture and the future of work. She also covers federal taxes, spending and debt.

With CNN since 1998, Sahadi has reported on a wide range of policy debates, including health reform, bankruptcy reform and entitlement reform. She also has covered personal finance for CNNMoney and was a columnist for Money magazine.

A graduate of Haverford College, Sahadi has been a guest on many CNN shows as well as the shows of CNN radio affiliates and outside stations, including NPR.

10:30 - 11:00 am
Morning Break
11:00 - 12:00 pm
BREAKOUTS
 
Breakout 1: How Millennials Are Shaping Work Flexibility in a Multigenerational Workforce
Roosevelt Room
Panelists:
Beh
Asha Beh
U.S. Dept. of State
U.S. Dept. of State

About Asha Beh

Asha Beh is a former journalist/multimedia producer who is currently a social media specialist and program analyst for the Virtual Student Foreign Service program at the U.S. Department of State. Her work experience at State includes helping set up and organize the first-ever, full day User Experience (UX) event for the Department, leading bureau-wide event planning for Earth Day, managing an environmental social media community of nearly three million people, and overseeing and developing the website and social media for the U.S. Consulate in Chennai, India.

Prior to joining the State Department, Ms. Beh was a multimedia content producer for NBC’s local news station in Washington, D.C., where she also acted as managing editor on weekends for the DC and Philadelphia, PA websites. Prior to that, Ms. Beh worked weekends at NBC, while working full-time as a website writer/editor for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and helping VHA launch its Facebook and Twitter pages.

She has also worked as a producer for CNBC.com, a writer for NPR.org, a production assistant at CNN, and the (ad) traffic and program coordinator for America’s Black Forum. She began her journalism career as a print reporter.

Ms. Beh has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, NY and a Master’s degree in Journalism from American University in Washington, DC. She is a member of South Asian Journalists Association, where she served as a board member and Student Scholarships chairperson. She currently serves as a board member for her neighborhood community association.

McPike
Erin McPike
1776
1776

About Erin McPike

Erin McPike is the director of communications at 1776 and a member of its senior leadership team.

Prior to this role, she spent a decade as a journalist in Washington covering national politics. She was a correspondent for CNN and covered the White House, the Boston Marathon bombings and the bridge scandal affecting New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s administration. She also provided reports on the business sector specialized for The Lead with Jake Tapper.

McPike joined CNN in 2013 from RealClearPolitics, where she covered the 2012 presidential campaign, breaking news and writing major enterprise pieces as a national political reporter. She appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, FOX News, and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. While with RealClearPolitics, she also reported on the Obama administration, and she wrote several long-form pieces about the potential closure of one of only two uranium enrichment plants in the United States. In the 2010 campaign cycle, she reported on the Capitol Hill political landscape and congressional campaigns as a political reporter for National Journal.

McPike graduated magna cum laude from American University. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and currently resides in Washington, D.C.

Yobo
Peter Yobo
PwC
PwC

About Peter Yobo

Peter is a consultant with PwC Advisory and specializes in helping organizations realize financial and operational improvement through organizational, process and technology change. He has consulted with companies in the Technology, Information, Communications and Entertainment sectors.

Specialties: For 10 years, Peter has worked on numerous consulting projects related to startups, order- to-cash improvement, process reengineering, business process management and workflow automation, platform consolidation, large-scale program management, and application and system development and integration.

Peter is very passionate about Diversity & Inclusion and the Millennial workforce and works with organizations to craft visions and establish environments to engage, equip, and empower their millennial workforce to achieve success, growth, and career fulfillment.

Moderator:
Paquette
Danielle Paquette
The Washington Post
The Washington Post

About Danielle Paquette

Danielle Paquette is a policy reporter for the Washington Post, where she writes often about lawmakers and employers working to address our changing labor force. She’s also interested in how gender impacts economic opportunity. Paquette, an Indianapolis native, previously covered crime for the Tampa Bay Times.

 
Breakout 2: What is The Global Impact of Remote Work
Panelists:
Avni
Ronit Avni
Localized
Localized

About Ronit Avni

Ronit Avni is the founder of Localized, a soon-to-launch platform for university students and young professionals in emerging markets to access career guidance, role models and expertise from top-tier professionals around the world who share language and cultural roots.

A social entrepreneur, human rights advocate and Peabody Award-winning media producer with 17 years of leadership experience, Ronit’s work has been featured in dozens of global news outlets, including The Washington Post, The BBC, NPR, The Economist and The New York Times.

Prior to Localized, she founded and led Just Vision, which creates digital media, award-winning films (Budrus, My Neighborhood, Encounter Point), news analysis and public education campaigns to raise awareness and support for Palestinian and Israeli civilians working for freedom, dignity, equality and human security. As Executive Director of Just Vision, Ms. Avni managed a diverse team based in North America and the Middle East and was a frequent speaker in think tank, community, government, international, educational and media settings.

Previously, Ronit trained human rights defenders worldwide to incorporate film and digital media into their advocacy campaigns while working for the human rights organization, WITNESS. She co-edited the book, “Video for Change – A Guide for Advocacy and Activism” with WITNESS and now sits on the WITNESS Board, chairing the Program Committee.

Ronit has been recognized with a variety of honors, including the King Hussein Leadership Prize, Search for Common Ground’s Common Ground Award, the Circles of Change Award, Auburn Seminary’s Lives of Commitment Award and the Trailblazer Award from the National Council for Research on Women. She was named a Young Global Leader (2009) through the World Economic Forum and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (2010).

As a side passion, Ronit has trained hundreds of business leaders, MBA students, nonprofit leaders and civil servants to speak persuasively to the media, on stage and in executive settings with KNP Communications.

Fell
Sara Sutton Fell
FlexJobs
FlexJobs

About Sara Sutton Fell

Sara Sutton Fell is the CEO and Founder of FlexJobs, an award-winning career website for telecommuting, flexible, freelance, and part-time jobs. Sara founded FlexJobs in 2007 while she was pregnant with her first son, after she experienced first-hand the frustrating search for professional jobs that also offered flexible work options. Having also co-founded an entry-level employment service in 1995 (JobDirect, later sold to Korn|Ferry International in 2000), she has long been passionate about helping people find jobs that make their lives better, and she is thrilled that her own experience as a working mom is now helping others who want or need work flexibility.

Sara also believes that a modern workplace should address the needs of today’s workforce, and that utilizing workplace technology to support telecommuting and flexible work will achieve societal, environmental, and economic benefits for both employees and employers. In support of that belief, Sara launched the 1 Million for Work Flexibility in 2013 and Remote.co in 2015. For her work in the employment and technology fields, she was named as a Young Global Leader (class of 2014) by the World Economic Forum. Sara is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA with her two children.

Olubunmi
Tolu Olubunmi
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum

About Tolu Olubunmi

Tolu Olubunmi is an entrepreneur and global advocate for migrants, refugees, and displaced people. An innovative thinker and determined change-maker, she has established and led numerous NGOs and campaigns focused on immigrant integration, employment, access to technology, and education.

Tolu is the founder and CEO of Lions Write, a social venture that builds and manages initiatives committed to giving voice and value to the voiceless and strengthening collaborations between corporations, governments and civil society organizations. She co-founded Immigrant Heritage Month and has helped draft and implement U.S. immigration policies.

Tolu serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Migration and co-chairs Mobile Minds – a high-skilled migration project advancing cross-border remote working as a 21st century alternative to physical migration. She also sits on the Board of Directors of USAIM for IOM (the UN Migration Agency), and was recently named to the Board of Advisors of the social impact investment platform, BRAVA Investments.  

In 2015, the World Economic Forum named her One of 15 Women Changing the World and an Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur. Tolu is often called upon to share her expertise and inspiring personal story with a variety of entities, including the United Nations, Gates Foundation, World Bank, TIME, and the White House.

Tolu holds a Chemistry-Engineering degree from Washington and Lee University.

Moderator:
Tugend
Alina Tugend
The New York Times
The New York Times

About Alina Tugend

Alina Tugend is an award-winning New York-based writer who is published frequently in the New York Times, Inc. Magazine and other national publications. She is the author of the book, “Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong.” Her work can be seen at AlinaTugend.com and she is on twitter at @atugend.

12:00 - 1:00 pm
Plated Lunch
Ballroom II
1:00 - 2:00 pm
BREAKOUTS
Executive Forum
 
Breakout 1: The Current Landscape of Remote Work and Work Flexibility - What the Numbers and Studies Show
Roosevelt Room
Panelists:
Fraone
Jennifer Sabatini Fraone
Boston College Center for Work & Family
Boston College Center for Work & Family

About Jennifer Sabatini Fraone

At the Boston College Center for Work & Family (@BCCWF), Jennifer is Associate Director, Communications and Programming. She works closely with the Boston College Workforce Roundtable, a learning and networking community for over 50 leading employers as well as the New England Work & Family Association (NEWFA). Jennifer manages all CWF marketing initiatives including the CWF website, social media, member newsletters, research reports and other publications. Jennifer also works with organizations to provide research and consultation on flexibility, work-life balance and other workforce management issues. Jennifer enjoys presenting on workplace flexibility and work-life balance; recent speaking engagements include the Future of Work Forum, WorldatWork Total Rewards, the New England HR Association and the Massachusetts Conference for Women. Jennifer was the founder of and a regular guest on the Fox 25 News Boston Work-Life Wednesday segment. She has been featured on NECN, Marketplace, NPR, in the Boston Globe, Fortune, The Huffington Post, Human Resource Executive and other publications. Jennifer received her BS in Clinical Psychology from Tufts University and her Master of Social Work and Master of Business Administration from Boston College. Jennifer and her husband John are the proud parents of two children.

Lister
Kate Lister
Global Workplace Analytics
Global Workplace Analytics

About Kate Lister

Kate is president of Global Workplace Analytics (GWA), a research-based consulting organization that helps employers and communities create and communicate the people, planet, and profit business case for strategies that involve workplace flexibility, agility, engagement and well-being.

GWA’s proprietary tools include:

  • An extensive digital library with over 4,000 research reports, case studies and news items related to workplace strategy
  • A variety of customizable web-based and mobile calculators including a Workplace Savings Calculator™ and Well-Being Savings Calculator™
  • Model business cases for a wide range of workplace strategies and stakeholders
  • Templates for collecting pre- and post-strategy measures of success
  • Customizable eLearning courses specific to agile workplace practices

Under contract with a handful of global product and service organizations, GWA provides on-call research and develops custom ROI calculators, white papers, e-books and other marketing content.

Kate is a highly regarded speaker, writer and thought leader on the future of work. She has co-authored three business books, contributed chapters to two others and written hundreds of articles for major media outlets. Her firm’s research has been cited by hundreds of publications including the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Stanley
Rose Stanley
WorldatWork
WorldatWork

About Rose Stanley

Rose Stanley is a senior practice leader and serves as a spokesperson and ambassador for WorldatWork representing the association in public forums on matters of professional knowledge/expertise, while developing and sustaining relationships with subject matter experts, other professionals and academics.

She is a subject matter expert in the disciplines of work-life, recognition and total rewards, maintaining a wide-ranging understanding of practices across the profession. She is responsible for keeping abreast of changes in the total rewards profession, watching trends and identifying the hot topics important to reward practitioners.

She helps to identify, develop, manage, and grow relationships of critical importance to the association, and as a subject matter expert, helps support WorldatWork’s products, events, and initiatives, while serving as an internal consultant and collaborative partner.

She is engaged with total rewards professionals through authoring articles, blogging, media interviews, and social media platforms, actively working with other subject matter experts to advance thought leadership, while identifying current and anticipated future issues and challenges that are important to rewards professionals.

Other responsibilities include content selection for the annual WorldatWork Total Rewards Conference and Exhibition and Future of Work Forum, as well as serving as staff liaison to the Work-Life Advisory Council.

Prior to joining WorldatWork, Stanley was employed with Circle K for more than nine years where she designed and implemented total rewards programs.

Stanley serves as a spokesperson for WorldatWork. She has been quoted extensively in numerous publications including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Inc. magazine, CNN Money, KTAR-AM, and many human resources trade publications.

Stanley is a regular blogger for WorldatWork Post and Huffington Post.

Moderator:
Shin
Laura Shin
Forbes
Forbes

About Laura Shin

I’m a freelance journalist covering career, personal finance and productivity, and a contributor to Forbes.com and Forbes magazine and the author of the Forbes ebook, “The Millennial Game Plan: Career and Money Secrets To Succeed In Today’s World.”​ I also I teach independent journalists how to master the art and business of freelance writing at Ideas Words Empires. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors from Stanford University and have a master of arts from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. To learn more about me, go to LauraShin.com.

 
Breakout 2: Curating Culture in a Remote Workforce
Roosevelt Room
Panelists:
Cochran
Carol Cochran
FlexJobs
FlexJobs

About Carol Cochran

Working for FlexJobs has given me an opportunity that I wasn’t sure I could get. I always planned to re-enter the working world once my kids were in school. Once we got to that point, I realized that a traditional job, with the commute, the set hours, days, etc. were still going to require some sacrifices from our family that I wasn’t happy about.

Working for FlexJobs allows me to be a part of something bigger. It allows me to feel important and contribute to something outside of my family. I actually find that it makes me a better wife and mother! The ability to work and help other people find a better balance in their world, while still being there for an occasional lunch date, class party, or dance class gives my family more than I could have hoped for! The team at FlexJobs is fabulous; they really care about helping people find the right company and position. I really enjoy working with them!

Asturias
Marjorie Asturias
Automattic, Inc.
Automattic, Inc.

About Marjorie Asturias

Marjorie R. Asturias is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, parent company of WordPress.com, Jetpack, Woo, and many other fine software products. Based in Dallas, Texas, Marjorie manages the company’s Google Apps reseller program. She also speaks frequently at conferences and meetups about WordPress, content marketing, and social media.

Prior to joining Automattic in 2014, Marjorie ran a small digital marketing agency that specialized in assisting small and medium-size businesses and entrepreneurs with their online initiatives. She founded the company out of her home and grew it into a six-figure business with several employees without ever compromising her commitment to creating a flexible, distributed office environment for herself and her staff. She’s a passionate advocate of remote workplaces and is thrilled to be a part of the most well-known, fully distributed company in the industry.

Marjorie is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington. One of the things she loves most about having a flexible work schedule is the opportunity it affords her to volunteer regularly with local animal rescue groups. When she’s not scooping up stray dogs and finding them forever homes, she can be found at marjorieasturias.com.

McCabe
Nicole McCabe
SAP
SAP

About Nicole McCabe

Nicole McCabe is a Senior Director of Global Diversity & Inclusion at SAP, responsible for the creation and execution of innovative programs that support gender diversity, and SAP’s overall target of 25% women in leadership by 2017. Nicole prides herself in being a connector, a strong collaborator and in her ability to deliver results to the business without having direct authority.

Nicole has had a very unconventional career that leveraged her transferable skills. This has enabled her to gain experience in many aspects of business, from technical implementations, to managing post- acquisition integration, to account management, and Marketing technical services. Through her experience she observed the challenges many women face in the workplace, and her passion to drive impact and create a culture where everyone feels they are valued was sparked. In 2012, Nicole joined the Global Diversity & Inclusion team where she has gathered expertise in Human Resources, and has established a strong of the inter-dependencies between the employees and the business strategy.

The result – Nicole’s programs have been recognized inside and outside of SAP, including an ongoing Women’s Professional Growth webinar series, focused on topics related to the development of women. This series has had over 6800 participants in 2 years, at a cost of less than 5 Euros per participants. Nicole is also the creator and manager of the Women@SAP Jam site, which serves as an online community to communicate SAP’s programs and enables women to connect. The community currently has over 8,500 members.

Moderator:
Shanklin
David Shanklin
Culture IQ
Culture IQ

About David Shanklin

David Shanklin is the Head of Culture Strategy at CultureIQ, where he specializes in helping executives build high-performance, purpose-driven cultures. Thoughtful and analytical, David excels at helping leaders achieve meaningful outcomes from data obtained through CultureIQ assessment tools.

David is passionate about helping people and organizations realize their full potential. A leader by example, David excels at coaching leaders and teams how to engage employees in meaningful interactions that foster teamwork, enhance working relationships, and stimulate growth.

Prior to joining CultureIQ, David led the Associate Consultant and Analyst team at Great Place to Work. Previously, David has managed high-potential succession processes for Deloitte, as well as serving in Deloitte’s Human Capital Consulting practice. He offers clients a wealth of experience across industries including financial services, hospitality, professional services, nonprofits, manufacturing, healthcare, and technology.

David holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO and an M.B.A. from Emory University, in Atlanta, GA. At Emory, he studied Leadership and Decision Sciences as a member of the Robert W. Woodruff Scholars and Fellows Program. David is currently completing his executive coaching certification at Columbia University in New York. He is also certified in the Hogan Assessment Suite (HPI, HDS, and MVPI) – a series of science-based organizational psychology assessments designed to enable leaders to leverage strengths and eliminate obstacles as they work towards creating a high-performance culture.

An accomplished athlete, David regularly competes in triathlons, and has completed two cross-country cycling trips in order to raise funds and awareness for people with disabilities. He also enjoys searching Manhattan for its best old fashioned and traveling with his wife, Lindsay, and their English bulldog, Tango.

2:10 - 3:10 pm
BREAKOUTS
 
Breakout 1: How Employer Branding Leaders Leverage Remote Work to Attract Top Talent
Roosevelt Room
Panelists:
Newbill
Jennifer Jones Newbill
Dell
Dell

About Jennifer Jones Newbill

Jennifer Newbill is the Director Global Employment Brand for Dell within the Global Talent Acquisition COE (Center of Excellence) leading Dell’s candidate attraction, engagement and experience. Jennifer and her team manage the global employment brand strategy including: management of the global recruiting brand campaign, social media strategy and planning, content creation and expertise (visual graphics, multimedia, blogging and social assets), candidate experience, recruiting tools and process, go-to-market recruiting strategies and employee referral program. Jennifer and her team are also heavily partnered with various Dell teams on employee advocacy and measuring employee and market sentiment.

A member of Glassdoor’s Advisory board, Jennifer was voted one of the top Talent Warriors by Glassdoor in 2014. She has published numerous online articles on Direct2Dell, LinkedIn and Slideshare.net about Employment Branding best practices.

Jennifer has been with Dell, Inc. for 13 years in various Human Resources roles including Recruiting, Leadership and Development and HR Operations project management.

Prior to Dell, she was with several Austin, TX based start-up companies including pcOrder.com (a spin-off of Trilogy), eLaw.com and Ignite! Learning in various HR roles including Recruiting and HR Generalist.

She started her career after graduating from Austin College in Sherman, TX and earning her Master’s degree in Business from the University of Dallas with executive search firm, Heidrick & Struggles where her passion for Recruiting began.

Barker
Julie Barker
Appirio
Appirio

About Julie Barker

As a Sr. Director of Talent at Appirio, Julie has overseen the Global Field HR and Recruiting functions of the organization for the past three years as the company has more than doubled in size. Appirio is a global services company that helps customers create next-generation Worker and Customer Experiences using the latest cloud technologies.  43% of global team members and 66% of US team members are based remotely from their homes within Appirio.  Julie drives her team with a laser-focus on candidate and team member experience resulting in new candidate experience surveys, a top-to-bottom revamp of the interview process, and high level business partner engagement across the business.

Julie has been a speaker and panelist at LinkedIn Talent Connect, 2014 and was the 2015 recipient of the Indiana SHRM Professional Excellence Award.  She graduated with a B.S. degree in Business Administration with concentrations in HR Management from Indiana University.

Prior to Appirio, Julie has built her tech-focused career through companies like Interactive Intelligence, Teradata, & Aprimo in roles spanning all areas of HR operations, recruiting, and talent management.  She started her career in university recruitment a ProTrans, a logistics company.

Thomas
Kristin Thomas
FlexJobs
FlexJobs

About Kristin Thomas

Kristin Thomas is a passionate Flex Work Champion with more than 20 years of diverse experience in human resources. She has spent most of her career focused on talent acquisition and talent management for a wide variety of industries, including Insurance, Software, Dot Com, Hardware, Financial Services, Hospitality, and Nuclear Power. Kristin is also a leader in her community. She founded an organization to improve local parks and playgrounds, and started Malvern Community Arts Project, which has created six community-funded, public art projects in her small town. As a former Silicon Valley commuter, a mother of four, a community volunteer, and a breast cancer survivor, Kristin has a deep appreciation for flexible work, and is proud to be working as the Director of Employer Engagement for FlexJobs – a company that is centered on the value of such opportunities for both job seekers and employers.

Moderator:
Morgan
Hannah Morgan
U.S. News
U.S. News

About Hannah Morgan

Hannah Morgan is a speaker and author on job search and social media strategies. She delivers fresh advice and serves as a guide to the treacherous terrain of today’s workplace landscape. Hannah’s experience in Human Resources, Outplacement Services, Workforce Development and Career Services equip her with a 360 degree perspective on job search topics. Recognized by media and career professionals, Hannah is an advocate who encourages job seekers to take control of their job search. Hannah is frequently quoted in local and national publications and she writes a weekly column for U.S. News & World Report.

Hannah is a life-long-learner and a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University.

Hannah is the author of “The Infographic Resume” (McGraw Hill Education, 2014) and co-author of “Social Networking for Business Success” (Learning Express, 2013). You can learn more about Hannah on CareerSherpa.net and by following her on Twitter at @careersherpa.

 
Breakout 2: Supporting Managers to Be Effective Remote Team Leaders
Panelists:
Freshman
Amy Freshman
ADP
ADP

About Amy Freshman

Amy Freshman is the Senior Director – Global Workplace Enablement at ADP. In her 20th year with ADP, Amy has had the fortunate opportunity to hold multiple roles within the same organization and grow her career. Beginning with ADP directly out of Bryant University in 1995, she spent nearly 15 years in the Sales organization with roles in direct sales, leadership, training, operations and leadership development for ADP’s small business division.

During her tenure, she achieved multiple awards and recognition including the President’s Club award both as a sales associate and in her leadership role. In 2008, she completed a one year internal coaching certification program and was certified as an ADP coach where she actively takes on coaching engagements with leaders focused on developing their skills in efforts to move their career forward.

In 2010 she transitioned into a role in a newly centralized sales operations organization assisting the US sales teams navigate workspace changes and piloting new facility programs. Amy joined the HR organization in 2012 continuing her work with the sales and our real estate partners and took on the new responsibility in leading ADP’s Global Workplace Enablement program across the enterprise. Her focus has been on our remote workers; specifically assisting with their transition from office to home, associate engagement, improved collaboration, ensuring they feel connected to the rest of the organization & working with our internal partners to provide enhanced tools & technologies for seamless connectivity and telephony. She has conducted annual reviews of data comparing office based population with our home based population including areas such as engagement, productivity, & overall performance.

In the summer of 2012, ADP launched a business resource group “Virtual Connections” where Amy has taken on an advisory role leading the core team to lend support to ADP’s virtual, remote workers & our highly dispersed teams around the world. Amy’s current scope of work is focused on shifting to a more holistic approach on workplace flexibility; in general terms: With the levels of technology available to us, we have significant opportunities to offer flexibility in where, when and how work gets done.

O'Duinn
John O'Duinn
"Distributed"

About John O'Duinn

John O’Duinn is a software developer, architect, Director and Founder who has written code and lead teams in companies ranging from four person startups to multinationals and back to a startup with no office.

In addition to technology, John loves growing a culture where humans work well together in a distributed global workplace. Almost every company in his career has been distributed in one form or another. The most extreme was a team he grew at Mozilla, with 18 people in 14 cities, in 4 non-adjacent timezones, working with Mozilla’s globally distributed open source community. John is currently writing a book on leading distributed teams for O’Reilly.

John blogs at oduinn.com, practices Aikido, loves travel and is on track to fill his passport again.

McCabe
Nicole McCabe
SAP
SAP

About Nicole McCabe

Nicole McCabe is a Senior Director of Global Diversity & Inclusion at SAP, responsible for the creation and execution of innovative programs that support gender diversity, and SAP’s overall target of 25% women in leadership by 2017. Nicole prides herself in being a connector, a strong collaborator and in her ability to deliver results to the business without having direct authority.

Nicole has had a very unconventional career that leveraged her transferable skills. This has enabled her to gain experience in many aspects of business, from technical implementations, to managing post- acquisition integration, to account management, and Marketing technical services. Through her experience she observed the challenges many women face in the workplace, and her passion to drive impact and create a culture where everyone feels they are valued was sparked. In 2012, Nicole joined the Global Diversity & Inclusion team where she has gathered expertise in Human Resources, and has established a strong of the inter-dependencies between the employees and the business strategy.

The result – Nicole’s programs have been recognized inside and outside of SAP, including an ongoing Women’s Professional Growth webinar series, focused on topics related to the development of women. This series has had over 6800 participants in 2 years, at a cost of less than 5 Euros per participants. Nicole is also the creator and manager of the Women@SAP Jam site, which serves as an online community to communicate SAP’s programs and enables women to connect. The community currently has over 8,500 members.

Moderator:
Meister
Jeanne Meister
Future Workplace
Future Workplace

About Jeanne Meister

Jeanne is Partner, Future Workplace, a firm dedicated to re-thinking, re- imagining and re-inventing the workplace. Jeanne is the receipt of the Distinguished Contribution in Workplace Learning Award, an award given by Association For Talent Development to one executive each year honoring their body of work. She is also a Contributor to Forbes Magazine. In 2015, Glassdoor named Jeanne to the top 50 Influencers in Corporate Human Resources and Recruiting. Jeanne’s latest book is, The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today. Jeanne is working on a new book on future of work to be published Fall, 2016.

Jeanne and her firm, Future Workplace launched the 2020 Workplace Network, a consortium of 55 Fortune 500 organizations who come together as a community to discuss debate and share “next” practices in people development, talent acquisition and corporate learning. A sample of the member firms in 2020 Workplace Network includes, Anthem, Disney, General Electric, Google, IBM, MasterCard and QVC.

Jeanne was previously Vice President of Market Development at Accenture.

Jeanne lives in New York City and Columbia County, New York. Jeanne invites you to speak to her after this session to share what your organization is doing to prepare for the future of work as she is researching and writing her next book now.

3:10 - 3:40 pm
Break
3:40 - 4:40 pm
Case Study - Dell's Remote Work Journey Towards ROI
Ballroom 1
Speaker:
Chahdi
Mohammed Chahdi
Dell
Dell

About Mohammed Chahdi

Mohammed is the Global Human Resources Director at Dell and leads global strategic programs within Dell’s Human Resources Organization including M&A, Transition Services Agreement, and Dell’s work flexibility programs. In his current role Mohammed also leads the function’s innovation and design thinking agenda. As the leader of Dell’s work flexibility programs, Mohammed’s focus is to further Dell’s work flexibility strategy and increase its positive impact on Dell and its Team Members.

Throughout his 14+ years at Dell, Mohammed has held a variety of leadership and program management roles in different HR domains including HR Shared Services, Training, Talent Management, Mergers and Acquisitions and Managed Services Deals. Mohammed’s background in IT and experience in Human Resources makes him continuously explore and research how technology changes how work is defined and the impact it has on the purpose and role of the HR function.

6:30 - 7:30 pm
Evening Reception with Drinks and Appetizers
Courtyard & Collonnade
7:30 - 9:00 pm
Hosted Dinner
Location tbd
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Friday, June 10th
*Agenda Subject to Change
6:30 - 7:15 am
Morning Workout: Either a Relaxing Yoga Session or a 3 Mile Jog
Collannade Room
7:45 - 8:25 am
Breakfast
Breakfast Foyer
8:25 - 8:30 am
Introduction
Ballroom 1
8:30 - 9:00 am
Keynote
Speaker:
Wallace
Kelly Wallace
CNN
CNN

About Kelly Wallace

Kelly Wallace is a digital correspondent and editor-at-large for CNN, focusing on family, career and work/life balance. An award-winning digital journalist and television correspondent, Wallace writes in-depth articles and socially sourced stories and does original web videos for CNN Digital’s Health, Wellness and Parenting section. In addition, she appears regularly on both CNN and HLN TV.

Wallace came to CNN from iVillage, where she served as chief correspondent and executive director of digital video. While there, she made headlines for scoring exclusive interviews with First Lady Michelle Obama, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Alicia Keys, Jill Biden, Dr. Oz and other newsmakers. She also appeared regularly on TODAY and MSNBC. In 2012, Wallace received a Gracie Award for Outstanding Reporter/Correspondent.

Before iVillage, Wallace worked at CBS News as a general assignment reporter, where she covered stories for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric and The Early Show.

Wallace began her CNN career as an associate producer and then became a CNN TV correspondent covering a wide range of beats for the network, including the White House, the Mideast and John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.

She graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of sciences degree in economics.

9:00 - 10:30 am
Hiring and Recruiting Remote Workers - Optimizing Productivity, Retention and Cultural Fit
Ballroom 1
Panelists:
Doi
Cynthia Barlow Doi
American Express
American Express

About Cynthia Barlow Doi

Cynthia Doi is a Director in the Global Servicing Network of American Express, where she leads teams of virtual employees in AXP’s Home-Based Servicing (“HBS”) organization. From its inception in 2012, HBS has grown from a pilot team of 55 employees to over 500, with employees located in 44 states.

Cynthia began her career at American Express as part of a two-year Global Rotation Program, where she held various management positions in New York, London, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in areas ranging from Executive Compensation to Prepaid Servicing Operations. Following the program, Cynthia assumed a project management role crafting the strategy for a Global HR Transformation. In 2013, Cynthia was promoted to her current position and relocated from New York to Salt Lake City, where she currently resides with her husband and son.

Cynthia holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.B.A. from Brigham Young University, with an emphasis in Organizational Behavior.

Petz
Janice Petz
UHG
UHG

About Janice Petz

Janice has 20 years of Talent Acquisition experience and joined UnitedHealth Group in 2007 and led the Service Operations Center Recruitment teams until a promotion to a Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner with the United Healthcare business lines in 2015.

As Senior Talent Acquisition Partner for UnitedHealth Group, Janice is responsible for providing overall relationship management and strategic direction, drive talent initiatives forward, including strategic intent and gap analysis assessment and effective workforce planning with Human Capital and Business Executives within the UnitedHealthcare businesses. In her current role a key focus area for Janice is to further evolve UnitedHealth Group virtual management environment to improve labor supply and agility through various work flexibility program initiatives.

Janice is an avid antique enthusiast and gardener. She and her husband reside on a small hobby farm west of the Minneapolis area and are the proud parents to their twin 6 year olds.

Kent
Mari Kent
Kaplan Test Prep
Kaplan Test Prep

About Mari Kent

Mari Kent is the Senior Director of Academic Operations for Kaplan Test Prep, overseeing recruitment, hiring, training and development, and other operational support for Academics positions in the Grad and PreCollege business units of the company.  She works closely with other recruiting and human resources leaders within the organization, as well as with the HRIS team, and is Workbench-certified for Kenexa 2xB. She started with Kaplan 8 years ago as an MCAT instructor, and has since served in multiple roles in management, human resources, and talent acquisition for the organization.

Mari has a certification in Leading Operational Excellence from MIT Sloan School of Management, holds a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry, and is the President of City Living NY, a NYC-based nonprofit organization.

Chouinard
Sarah Chouinard
TeleTech Holdings
TeleTech Holdings

About Sarah Chouinard

As Executive Director of Talent Acquisition, Sarah Chouinard oversees the Talent Acquisition function for TeleTech’s At Home business globally. Sarah is responsible for hiring approximately 10,000 At Home associates each year who service clients across a spectrum of industries.

Sarah has 17 years of industry experience and joined TeleTech in 2003. Before joining TeleTech she worked as an Employment Specialist/Permanent Placement Consultant at Kelly Services. Prior to that, Sarah served as Marketing & Promotions Supervisor at Casino Nova Scotia and she began her career as a Job Developer with Employment Partnership, where she assisted people with barriers to employment find meaningful work.

During her tenure at TeleTech, Sarah has held multiple roles including Talent Acquisition Manager and Senior Regional Talent Acquisition Manager before being promoted in 2007 to Director of Human Capital for North America. In 2012, she was asked to lead the Talent Acquisition function for At Home, a rapidly growing part of TeleTech’s business.  She quickly became enthralled with the uniqueness, innovation, technology, scalability and the impact that At Home has on TeleTech’s business, and has been leading the recruitment function as the Director of Talent Acquisition ever since.

Sarah holds a Strategic Human Capital Business Partner (sHCBP) designation and is a certified DDI Targeted Selection & Behavioral Interviewing Facilitator. She is also certified in Steven Covey’s “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” and is a member of the Human Resources Association of New Brunswick.  Sarah is an avid birder and nature photographer and she resides on the East Coast of Atlantic Canada, where she grew up.

Moderator:
Shin
Laura Shin
Forbes
Forbes

About Laura Shin

I’m a freelance journalist covering career, personal finance and productivity, and a contributor to Forbes.com and Forbes magazine and the author of the Forbes ebook, “The Millennial Game Plan: Career and Money Secrets To Succeed In Today’s World.”​ I also I teach independent journalists how to master the art and business of freelance writing at Ideas Words Empires. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors from Stanford University and have a master of arts from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. To learn more about me, go to LauraShin.com.

10:30 - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 - 12:00 pm
BREAKOUTS
Ballroom 1
 
Breakout 1: Communication and Collaboration Tools - How Are Teams Staying Productive?
Roosevelt
Panelists:
Konanykhin
Alex Konanykhin
Transparent Business
Transparent Business

About Alex Konanykhin

Alex Konanykhin, CEO of TransparentBusiness, designated by Citigroup as the “Top People Management Solution”.  TransparentBusiness.com platform greatly increases productivity of remote work, protects from overbilling, allows for easy monitoring and coordination of geographically distributed workforce and provides real-time information on the cost and status of all tasks and projects. TransparentBusiness is an Integrated Partner of ADP and Technology Partner of Facebook and is in use in 140 countries.  TransparentBusiness is a part of KMGi Group, an internationally acclaimed IT group, founded by Alex in 1997.

Cochran
Carol Cochran
FlexJobs
FlexJobs

About Carol Cochran

Working for FlexJobs has given me an opportunity that I wasn’t sure I could get. I always planned to re-enter the working world once my kids were in school. Once we got to that point, I realized that a traditional job, with the commute, the set hours, days, etc. were still going to require some sacrifices from our family that I wasn’t happy about.

Working for FlexJobs allows me to be a part of something bigger. It allows me to feel important and contribute to something outside of my family. I actually find that it makes me a better wife and mother! The ability to work and help other people find a better balance in their world, while still being there for an occasional lunch date, class party, or dance class gives my family more than I could have hoped for! The team at FlexJobs is fabulous; they really care about helping people find the right company and position. I really enjoy working with them!

Caplan
Greg Caplan
Remote Year
Remote Year

About Greg Caplan

Greg Caplan is the founder and CEO of Remote Year, a program of 75 professionals traveling together for a year while working remotely.  Prior to Remote Year, Greg founded oBaz.com, which was acquired by Groupon.  He went to the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

I fundamentally believe great work can be done from anywhere and people perform at their peak when they are inspired by their surroundings.  With clear goals and communication, remote workers are happier and more productive.

Rosenblatt
Richard Rosenblatt
Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis

About Richard Rosenblatt

Richard G. Rosenblatt has a diverse practice, handling wage and hour class and collective action matters, restrictive covenant and trade secrets litigation, employee benefits litigation, and a full panoply of discrimination, retaliation, contract and common law claims on behalf of employers in courts, arbitral tribunals and agencies around the US. He also represents and counsels employers on unfair labor practices, mass picketing, employment and severance agreements, and employee manuals and policies.

Rich has argued appeals at the US Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, and Sixth Circuits and in the state appellate courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He also has authored briefs filed with the US Supreme Court.

His clients operate in a wide group of industry sectors that include financial services; insurance; pharmaceuticals and healthcare; technology, information management, and telecommunications; online retailing; utilities; real estate investment trusts (REITs); chemicals; defense contracting; outsourcing; business process consulting; energy; transportation; manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics; customer care; brick-and-mortar retail; food service; food and fragrance; and personal and professional services.

Certified as a Legal Process ManagerTM, Rich has a deep interest in legal process management (LPM). Rich served as the operations partner for the firm’s labor and employment practice for eight years.

Rich also has been deeply involved in bar-related activities, including as a founding member of the Academy of New Jersey Management Attorneys for which he has served as recording secretary and, currently, treasurer.

In addition to frequently lecturing at Temple University’s undergraduate School of Business on compensation matters, Rich has been an alumni interviewer for Duke University for more than 20 years.

Khanijoun
Win Khanijoun
Cisco
Cisco

About Win Khanijoun

Win Khanijoun as a Workforce Experience Advisor at Cisco Systems drives digital transformation for leading commercial organizations.

Win advises organizations on how to achieve the true potential of technology by partnering with CRE, Facilities, HR, IT and business leaders.  He helps create agile teams and an engaging culture to change the way employees work, live, play and learn by maximizing the value of people and their work environments.

Win is passionate about the role of culture, social trends and digitization and their impact on the global business environment. Coming to the United States at an early age, he recognizes the value of freedom and it is part of the very fabric for how he approaches his work. He understands the importance of the liberty to work from anywhere and the significant opportunity for us as a community to create the workplace of the future.

Moderator:
Vrabel
Jeff Vrabel
Success Magazine
Success Magazine

About Jeff Vrabel

Jeff Vrabel is an Indianapolis-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in GQ, Men’s Health, Success, the Washington Post, Billboard, the official Bruce Springsteen and Indy 500 sites, Indianapolis Monthly, Modern Bride, South Magazine and more. A former editor-in-chief of Hilton Head Monthly magazine, he recently served as a work-from-home senior editor with Nickelodeon for four years. “My last day in an office was the day my younger son was born. I stayed home with him for his first year, and have been lucky enough to work remotely ever since. It lets me maintain a freelance career while being around for all the dad stuff.” He can be found at the cleverly named JeffVrabel.com and @JeffVrabel.

 
Breakout 2: Employee Resource Groups for Remote Workers
Panelists:
Chahdi
Mohammed Chahdi
Dell
Dell

About Mohammed Chahdi

Mohammed is the Global Human Resources Director at Dell and leads global strategic programs within Dell’s Human Resources Organization including M&A, Transition Services Agreement, and Dell’s work flexibility programs. In his current role Mohammed also leads the function’s innovation and design thinking agenda. As the leader of Dell’s work flexibility programs, Mohammed’s focus is to further Dell’s work flexibility strategy and increase its positive impact on Dell and its Team Members.

Throughout his 14+ years at Dell, Mohammed has held a variety of leadership and program management roles in different HR domains including HR Shared Services, Training, Talent Management, Mergers and Acquisitions and Managed Services Deals. Mohammed’s background in IT and experience in Human Resources makes him continuously explore and research how technology changes how work is defined and the impact it has on the purpose and role of the HR function.

Frias
Monica Frias
Anthem, Inc.
Anthem, Inc.

About Monica Frias

Monica Frias is Diversity Program Director at Anthem, Inc. In her role, Monica consults with different areas of the business to insert the diversity lens into strategic initiatives, policies and practices; drives strategy around diversity branding, communication and training, and provides oversight to Anthem’s associate resource groups (ARGs).

Monica has been a work@home associate for about six years. She is a founder and co-chair of W@VE (Working at Anthem in a Virtual Environment), one of nine associate resource groups. W@VE was launched in 2013 and has now more than 1,200 members across the enterprise. This community focuses on developing and expanding practices that allow for effective collaboration, networking and personal and professional development in a virtual setting. Before joining Anthem in 2007, Monica served roles in the Human Resources organizations of Nationwide Insurance and Abbott Laboratories.

Monica grew up in Chile and now lives in Grand Rapids, MI, with her husband and two children. She holds a Master’s in Labor and Human Resources (MLHR) from The Fisher College of Business – The Ohio State University, and a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the Catholic University of Chile.

Connor
Sacha Connor
The Clorox Company
The Clorox Company

About Sacha Connor

Sacha Connor works for The Clorox Company as the Marketing Director for Pine Sol, Liquid Plumr, Clorox Fraganzia & Green Works. She has been with the company since 2004 and has worked in a variety of roles across new product innovation, sales, and base brand marketing. Clorox is headquartered in Oakland, California, however Sacha has been working remotely from her home office in the Philadelphia suburbs for the past 5 years. To help Clorox succeed in an increasingly decentralized work environment she co-created an Employee Resource Group named ORBIT that has grown to 550 global members.

Prior to Clorox, Sacha worked in advertising account management, first for a small agency in the Philadelphia suburbs and then for Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco.

After working in Clorox Corporate Headquarters for 6 years, she and her husband moved to Berwyn, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia where they both grew up. They have a 6 year old daughter and a 4 year old son who have flourished by being in close proximity to their grandparents and extended family.

Moderator:
Chandra
Shobhana Chandra
Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News

About Shobhana Chandra

Shobhana (Sho) Chandra is an economics reporter at Bloomberg News. Based in Washington, she specializes in coverage of the U.S. economy and often writes about China and India. Prior to her current role, she was on the consumer and retail beat. She joined Bloomberg in July 1998. Media appearances include Bloomberg TV and radio; CSPAN Washington Journal’s Saturday morning show with John McArdle; and the John Batchelor Show on WABC.

Sho began her journalism career with Economic Times, the leading business newspaper in India, and later moved to Financial Express. She also was a researcher at the National Institute of Public Finance & Policy in New Delhi.

She has a master’s degree in journalism from Medill at Northwestern University in Chicago, in addition to an M.A. in economics from Delhi University, India.

12:00 - 1:00 pm
Buffet Lunch
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1:00 - 2:45 pm
Workshop: Developing a Remote Work Playbook at Your Organization
Ballroom 1
Facilitators:
Devereaux
Nikita Devereaux
Simply Virtual
Simply Virtual

About Nikita Devereaux

Nikita Devereaux, PMP is a Professional Speaker, Corporate Trainer and Lean Certified Business Productivity Consultant who inspires companies and individuals to LIVE & WORK smarter – through the application of virtual teams and technologies. Her company, SIMPLY VIRTUAL™ helps leaders and organizations leverage people and technology to streamline their business systems & processes, increase employee engagement and reduce costs.

Nikita has over 20 years of experience supporting technology initiatives at industry giants such as Ford Motor Company, Prudential Healthcare and Amerisource-Bergen. She studied Business Management at Queens University of Charlotte and has earned Lean Office Certification from The University of Michigan.

Nikita is a passionate and dynamic speaker whose unique blend of innovative ideas, practical experience and real-world examples consistently engage both left- and right- brained audiences. An award-winning training facilitator, Nikita also teaches leadership, communication and technology seminars on behalf of GreyCampus, Fred Pryor & SkillPath Seminars and Ty Boyd Communications. Regardless of the forum, she gives it to you straight – with BOLD statements, RELEVANT examples, COLORFUL stories and an enchanting style that will keep you on the edge of your seat!

An avid writer, Ms. Devereaux is the Charlotte Working Moms columnist for Examiner.com and author of 25 Smart Ideas to Grow Your Business with a Virtual Assistant. She has been featured in numerous media outlets – including, Charlotte Business Journal, The Detroit News, HR Matters Magazine, Syracuse Woman and CNN’s Comcast Newsmakers.

Nikita lives in the Carolinas, where in her spare time, she enjoys running, cycling and hiking with her fun-loving Schnauzer / Terrier mix, Scotty.

Rupert
Paul Rupert
Rupert & Company
Rupert & Company

About Paul Rupert

Paul Rupert is president of Washington, DC-based Rupert & Company. He combines thirty-five years’ general management, consulting, coaching, training and research experience with expertise in the development of online guidelines and training systems for offsite work and virtual teams. Paul started managing flexibly with his first start-up in 1972. He pioneered the development of explicitly business-based approaches and tools for creating the flexible workplace.

He has managed remotely staffed and mobile consulting organizations for two decades. In his previous work as Associate Director of New Ways to Work (San Francisco) and Flexibility Practice Leader of WFD Consulting (Boston), he directed national flexibility advocacy efforts and served a broad and distinguished client list ranging from Aetna and Amgen to Sodexo and Xerox. He provides a full range of client services from assessment and strategy through program design and implementation.

Mr. Rupert speaks widely about organizational flexibility and is considered a thought leader in the field. He is quoted regularly in the national media such as the Wall Street Journal, ABC World News, CBS News, NPR, Marketplace and Newsweek and produces a widely read newsletter, blog and articles in the business press. He is a graduate of Stanford University.

Lead Facilitator:
Matos
Ken Matos
Life Meets Work
Life Meets Work

About Ken Matos

Kenneth Matos, Ph.D., is Vice President of Research at Life Meets Work. He conducts research on a wide range of workforce and workplace issues, including diversity, mentoring, work-life alignment, wellness, engagement and workplace policies and effectiveness. Before joining Life Meets Work, Ken was the Senior Director for Research at Families and Work Institute where he identified emerging employment issues and trends, through client records, original company surveys, and national studies. Experienced in reporting data to the academic, business and media communities, Dr. Matos has been frequently quoted in a variety of media such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, theToday Show, and NPR. Ken also worked for the Department of Defense (DoD), where he developed and analyzed surveys of U.S. military members, their families and related constituencies. His research for the DoD examined issues of racial-ethnic harassment and discrimination, mentoring, and work satisfaction and was presented to Congress and various military policy offices. He completed his undergraduate work in Psychology at Amherst College, received his master’s in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and earned his Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the George Washington University.

2:45 - 3:00 pm
Closing Remarks
Grand Ballroom
Speaker:
Fell
Sara Sutton Fell
FlexJobs
FlexJobs

About Sara Sutton Fell

Sara Sutton Fell is the CEO and Founder of FlexJobs, an award-winning career website for telecommuting, flexible, freelance, and part-time jobs. Sara founded FlexJobs in 2007 while she was pregnant with her first son, after she experienced first-hand the frustrating search for professional jobs that also offered flexible work options. Having also co-founded an entry-level employment service in 1995 (JobDirect, later sold to Korn|Ferry International in 2000), she has long been passionate about helping people find jobs that make their lives better, and she is thrilled that her own experience as a working mom is now helping others who want or need work flexibility.

Sara also believes that a modern workplace should address the needs of today’s workforce, and that utilizing workplace technology to support telecommuting and flexible work will achieve societal, environmental, and economic benefits for both employees and employers. In support of that belief, Sara launched the 1 Million for Work Flexibility in 2013 and Remote.co in 2015. For her work in the employment and technology fields, she was named as a Young Global Leader (class of 2014) by the World Economic Forum. Sara is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA with her two children.

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