Monday, October 1, 2007
       
6:00 - 7:30 pm    Welcome Cocktail Reception
Sponsored by Accenture, Bon Secours Richmond Health System, Credit Suisse, Schering-Plough Corp., and Wal-Mart & Sam's Club

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

7:00 - 7:00pm    Registration
Sponsored by Ford Motor Company and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of NC

7:00 - 8:45am    Continental Breakfast
Sponsored by KPMG

8:45 - 9:30 am    Signature Opening
Sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company, HP, Kraft Foods, Grant Thornton, McGraw Hill, and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

9:30 - 9:45am    Welcome Remarks
Carol Evans
CEO & Founder
Working Mother Media

9:45 - 10:15 am Opening Keynote: It's All About the Talent
Marilyn Carlson Nelson
CEO
Carlson Companies
2007 Working Mother Family Champion     

10:15 - 10:45 am Networking Break Sponsored by Pearson               

10:45 - 12:15 pm Concurrent Case Study Sessions

1. How Ya Gonna Keep 'em? Strategies to Return/Keep Women and Working Moms
(click here for presentation)
A robust sector of talent - returning-to-work-moms - should be finding it smooth  sailing to get back to work whether after one year or five. Yet many 100 Best Companies still struggle with how to meet the needs of this very important pool of talent. This session's case studies report on the challenges and rewards of addressing the needs of returning moms. Learn how top companies created and executed strategies employing worklife initiatives that meet the needs of their working mothers.

Moderator:
Lisa Martin
Founder & President
Briefcase Moms

Panel:
Cindy Gion & Marie Pierre Zoppis
Finance Directors, Hewlett-Packard Company

Shannon Ellis
Director of Human Resources
Patagonia, Inc.

2. Leveraging WorkLife as a Diversity Strategy (click here for presentation)
The integration of worklife and diversity in today's top companies recognizes the need to meet the cultural needs of a diverse range of talent. Find out how Best companies have reworked their recruitment strategies to find the best and the brightest - wherever they are. Gain insights from their creative approaches to locating black, latino, LGBT and disabled talent. Most importantly, learn how worklife initiatives provide crucial recruitment incentives to these groups.

Moderator:
Andrea Wicks Bowles
Senior Consultant
Bright Horizons Family Solution

Presenters:
Andrea Moselle
Senior Manager, Work/Life
AstraZeneca

Kelly Baker
Vice President of Corporate Diversity
General Mills 

3. What Does a Gen Y'er Want? (click here for presentation)
More and more companies are recognizing that it's a whole new type of talent out there - and it's not clear what exactly it takes to gain and keep their loyalty.  Worklife strategists are in the enviable position of offering ways their companies can apply previously learned lessons connecting WorkLife to talent recruitment. Two of our 100 Best share insights and strategies for hiring Gen Y's, including how to bring them on board, and gain a commitment to continue working for your organization.
                        
Moderator:
Jennifer Brown 
President
Jennifer Brown Consulting

Presenters:
Sharon Klun
Director - Work/Life Initiatives
Accenture

Liz Wamai
First Vice President
Merrill Lynch

4.  Global Report: What in the World is Happening with WorkLife? (click here for presentation)
How do top companies provide equitable work life programs and benefits that will help them remain competitive in the global market? What are the barriers and opportunities for success in cultures that differ greatly from our own? How do companies remain true to their values in the face of those differences? Join global work life experts from our 100 Best companies to learn what they've learned in their work life journey around the world.

Moderator:
Deepika Bajaj
President & Founder
Invincibelle, LLC

Panel:
Ron Glover 
Vice President, Global Workforce Diversity Operations
IBM Corporations

Julie Fasone Holder
Vice President Human Resources
Dow Chemical

12:30 - 2:00 pm Keynote Luncheon: Sponsored by Morgan Stanley

        Stephanie Marston    
        Author, 30 Days to Sanity
        President
        Stephanie Marston Consulting

2:15 - 3:45 pm    Concurrent Case Study Sessions

5. Where there's Wellness there's a Way: How Wellness Programs Delight Employees and Managers and Spell R-O-I (click here for presentation)
Burgeoning healthcare costs. Health conscious employees. What an opportunity! Find out how 100 Best companies have added wellness to their roster of worklife initiatives and what the payoff is in dollars and human capital.

Moderator:
Nancy McMillan
Associate Consultant, Workforce Diversity
Eli Lilly & Co.

Panel:
Elizabeth Seigerman 
Director, Global Employee Relations
Colgate-Palmolive

Dana Vandecoevering
Work/Life Program Manager
Intel

6. What's Up with Flex - Report from the Top Ten
The Top Ten Companies from the Working Mother 2006 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers list commissioned a report on flex in order to determine the benefits and limitations of flexibility on the real life work experiences of working mothers.

Our Top Ten companies called for a report on:

• The ROI of flex
• Formal vs Informal flex
• Ways flex may inhibit advancement for women
• How the Top Ten create a "culture of flex"

Listen in and learn as they discuss their responses to the study!

Moderator:
Paul Rupert, President
Rupert & Company

Top Ten Panel:

7.  What About the Women? How WorkLife Impacts Women's Advancement Among Best Companies
(click here for presentation)
Despite over 20 years of WorkLife strategists working to increase the numbers of working mothers and women in the corner office, those numbers remain disappointingly low.  But certain companies and firms have recognized that women are our nation's competitive advantage and have implemented innovative programs that are making it possible for working mothers to move smoothly up the leadership ladder. Hear from two experts what their organizations are doing, and hear their success stories, because this is not rocket science. Smart companies are re-thinking the paths to leadership, and not only their women are thriving, but also their bottom lines.

Moderator:
Betty Spence 
President
NAFE
 
Panel:
Maria Ferris
Director, Global Workforce Diversity
IBM Corporation
 
Carrie Quinn
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Joanne McDonough
Director, Office of Diversity
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP


8. After they've gone?Best Strategies for Keeping Mature Matures Engaged NOW Before They Leave the Company and Take their Experience and Knowledge Along With Them
For years companies have listened to the sirens' song about the impending mass retirement of Boomers. Statistics don't lie and we're getting closer and closer to the time a critical mass of mature workers will leave the workforce - and take their knowledge, key customer relationships and work ethic with them. Learn from companies who are ahead of the curve - or at least on it - with regard to engaging this all important workforce sector.

Moderator:
Marian Stoltz-Loike, Ph.D. 
CEO
SeniorThinking

Panel:
Leslie Marasco, Director 
Work-Life and Dependent Care Programs
Abbott
      
Maureen Corcoran
Vice President, Diversity
Prudential Financial

3:45 - 4:15pm    Networking Break
        Sponsored by New York Life Insurance Company

4:15 - 5:00pm    Update: Working Mother 100 Best Application

        Carol Evans
        Founder & CEO
        Working Mother Media

        Suzanne Riss
        Editor in Chief
        Working Mother Magazine

        Tammy Palazzo
        Vice President of Research and Women's Initiatives
        Working Mother Media

        Angela Ebron
        Special Projects Editor
        Working Mother Magazine

6:00 - 8:00 pm    Opening Cocktail Reception
Sponsored by: Children's Creative Learning Center, Ernst & Young, JC Penney, MassMutual Financial Group, MasterCard Worldwide and S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.

All Day     Silent Auction to Benefit The Women's Alliance
(7:00am-8:00 pm)


Wednesday, October 3, 2007

7:00 - 8:45 am    Continental Breakfast
Sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

8:45 - 9:00 am    Day Two Remarks
Carol Evans, CEO & Founder
Working Mother Media

9:00- 9:30 am    Keynote:    
Meagan Johnson, CSP 
Speaker, Author
ZAP the Gap!

9:30 - 10:00 am Diversity Spotlight:  Disabilities Matter
A whopping 15% of every employee population either is or has a family member who is disabled. Find out why you can't afford to miss this key population of available talent for your competitive workforce. Even more important, learn why, as a worklife professional, you MUST know how to meet the needs of differently abled workers and/or their children.

Presenters:
Nadine O. Vogel
President
Springboard Consulting, LLP

Patricia Vivado
Vice President, Global Diversity & Inclusion
Lehman Brothers

10:00 - 10:30am Networking Break Sponsored by DuPont

10:30 - 12:00pm  Concurrent Workshops: WorkLife Assistance Sampler -
What's new and different and out-of-the box that will make the worklife connection for managers in your organization? Meet trainers, consultants, and organizers who are addressing and resolving critical issues facing your workforce.

Workshop A: Work/Family Balance for Dads (click here for presentation)
How are workplaces dealing with the working father's emerging desire to be more involved in the lives of his family and still grow in his career? Based on National Fatherhood Initiative's 13 years of working with fathers from across the country, the workshop will explore the modern father's desire to be more involved in family life in light of emerging cultural trends in fatherhood. It will provide insight on how an employer can design and implement a work/family balance program that dads will feel comfortable taking advantage of, and what the benefits are to working mothers when fathers successfully balance work and family.
 
Presenters:
Roland Warren 
President
National Fatherhood Initiative
 
Kenneth Gosnell
Senior Director of Work/Family Balance Programming
National Fatherhood Initiative

Workshop B:  Moving Toward a New Career Paradigm:  The key to creating competitive advantage through recruitment and retention of critical talent throughout the life cycle. (click here for presentation)

Three significant demographic changes, the aging and retirement of Baby Boomers; the increasingly critical role of women in the workforce; and the shifting attitudes of younger workers are intensifying the competition for talent and fundamentally altering how we need to think about workforce planning for the future.  This workshop will provide participants with an understanding of how employees with different age, gender, and family profiles make career decisions throughout the career life cycle.

Three Key Learning Points: 

1.  Understand job preferences and personal goals among the different generations in the workforce: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials;
2.  Learn about Deloitte's "Next Generation" Initiative; and
3.  Explore implications and learn new approaches for developing career path alternatives based on career goals and preferences of the different generations.

Presenters:
Debbie Phillips
Vice President
WFD Consulting

Casey Carlson, Senior Manager
Next Generation Initiatives
Deloitte & Touche USA, LLP


Workshop C: Gender Identity and Workplace Fairness - Hidden Workplace Realities for Your Employees
(click here for presentation)
How people think about gender is changing. Workplace issues about gender now range from fathers who are "daddy-tracked" when they request paternity leave to employees transitioning on the job, and from effeminate men derided by male coworkers as too "flamboyant" to women who are overlooked for leadership positions. 
 
As we navigate through gendered experiences in the workplace, our children are simultaneously living parallel experiences in their schools - absorbing countless messages from educators and their peers that boys have to be one way and girls another. 
 
If gender is the new frontier, workplaces and schools are the new frontlines.  This session is an in-depth training in gender stereotypes and gender identity and expression as diversity issues. Taking a wide-angle view of gender, the workshop familiarizes participants with background, language, core concepts, and intervention and discussion techniques that help challenge gendered affronts to healthy peer interactions and self-esteem that we experience in the workplace and that our children face in school.

Presenters:
Taneika Taylor, Parenting Director
Gender Public Advocacy Coalition

Chris Crespo
LGBTA Inclusiveness Strategy Leader
Ernst & Young, LLP

Ana Duarte McCarthy
Chief Diversity Officer
Citigroup

Workshop D: Finding and Using Balance to Increase Productivity
Balance in one's life is important to everyone, especially in today's hectic environment.  Add to that parenthood, taking care of elderly parents or managing any type of relationship and individuals have very little time for themselves.  Any person when faced with these competing needs is likely to experience stress, reduced productivity, and a feeling of being out-of-balance.  The more out-of-balance, the less able they are to be effective both personally and professionally.  The answer lies in becoming aware of all aspects of their life, what is of importance, and how to recognize an out-of-balance state so that measures can be taken to right themselves. 

In this hands-on workshop you will explore the concept of a three-dimensional balanced life.  Through a series of exercises you will identify key elements and learn how to use them to create a balanced lifestyle.  Participants will leave with a modeling tool they've created, new insights and skills, and the ability to use them on a daily basis.

Presenters:

Janet Neal
Executive Director
The Professional Women's Center, Inc.

Nadine Pearce, Associate Director
Management & Organization Development
Kraft Foods Inc.

12:00- 2:00     Luncheon -  Sponsored by Abbott
Featuring Hall of Fame & Ted Childs WorkLife Excellence Awards                

and
    
Futures Panel
   
Ellen Galinsky, President
Families and Work Institute
 
Anne C. Weisberg, Senior Advisor, Women's Initiative
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP
 
Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., Director
Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility
Boston College                   
 
Lisa Bodell, CEO 
futurethink
 
Rob Keeling, Vice President of Diversity
Capital One
           
2:15- 2:45 pm    Networking Break
Sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline

3:45 - 5:15 pm    Industry WorkLife Solutions ThinkFest

Back by popular demand!! Once again, we're bringing you an opportunity to participate in small group discussions with your industry peers! Roll up your sleeves and examine the impact of critical worklife issues on your industry. You may just have the answer to everyone's most burning question!

I. Financial & Professional Services
Facilitated by:
Karol Rose, Chief Marketing Officer
FlexPaths, LLC
   
II. Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare - Sponsored by Johnson & Johnson
Facilitated by:
Wendy C. Breiterman, Director, Work/Life Programs
Office of Diversity & Inclusion
Johnson & Johnson
 
III. IT, Media, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail, Consumer Products, Food & Beverage
Facilitated by:
Cindy Carrillo
Founder & CEO
Work Options Group

6:00 - 7:00 pm    Gala Cocktail Reception
Sponsored by: Allstate, BP America, Deloitte & Touche, LLP, Goldman Sachs & Novartis Pharmaceuticals

7:00 - 10:00 pm    Gala Awards Dinner: Working Mother 100 Best Companies*

Sponsored by:
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
Booz Allen Hamilton
GE
Prudential Financial

*Black Tie Optional

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