Working for Change: A Conversation on Workplace Flexibility Research, Business Practice, and Public Policy

Working for Change: A Conversation on

Workplace Flexibility Research,

Business Practice, and Public Policy

Please click the name of each segment to view the

corresponding webcast

9:00 a.m.

Welcoming Remarks(link above-Includes first panel into fire drill)

Kathleen Christensen, Ph.D., Program Director, Workplace, Workforce
and Working Families at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Katie Corrigan, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown Law, Co-Director,
Workplace Flexibility 2010

9:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.(returning from fire drill)
Workplace Structure and its Impact on Hourly Workers and their Families
Jennifer Swanberg, Ph.D., Executive Director, University of Kentucky Institute
for Workplace Innovation, Associate Professor, College of Social Work, University of Kentucky
Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology at the University
of Massachusetts Amherst
Arlene Johnson, Formerly Vice President of WFD Consulting
Chai Feldblum, Co-Director, Workplace Flexibility 2010

Public Policy Reaction : (Susan Hattan & Peter Reinecke)

1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Workplace Structure and its Impact on Salaried Workers and their Families

Lonnie Golden, Ph. D., Professor of Economics and Labor Studies, Penn State University

Tamar Kremer-Sadiik, Ph. D., Director of Research, UCLA Center on Everyday Life of Family
Kathleen M. Lingle, M.S., Director, Director, Alliance for Work-Life Progress, World at Work
David Fortney, Partner, Fortney Scott, LLC ; former Actinf Solicitor of Labor, US Dept. of Labor
Deven McGraw, Director, Health Privacy Project, Center for Democracy and Technology

4:20 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Military Families as a Case Study: Flexibility Needs and the Federal Response
Shelley MacDermid, Ph.D., Director, The Center for Families, Purdue University,

Director, Military Family Research Institute, Professor, Child Development and

Family Studies, Purdue University

Sharon Werner, Chief of Staff, Congressman Jason Altmire (D-PA)

Cara Welch, Director of Public Policy, World at Work

Mike Layman, Manager of Employment and Labor, Society for Human Resource Management

Friday, May 30, 2008

Roundtable I : The Next Wave of Work/Family Research

Monique Valcour, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Organization

Studies Department, Boston College

Kristin Celello, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Queens College,

City University of New York

Jennifer Romich, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Social

Work, University of Washington

Marcy Karin, J.D., Adjunct Professor, Georgetown Law,

Legislative Counsel, Workplace Flexibility 2010

Christina Matz-Costa, Research Associate, Center for Aging and Work/Workplace Flexibility; Doctoral Student, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work

Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Center for Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility, Boston College

Maureen Perry-Jenkins, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology at the University
of Massachusetts Amherst

10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Roundtable II : Implementation of Workplace Practice and Policy

Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, Boston College, Co-Director of the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility, Boston College

Sharon Daly, Former Vice President of Social Policy, Catholic Charities USA