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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

APPLICATION PANEL

4:00 – 6:00 pm                       Working Mother 100 Best Application Update

Moderator:
Carol Evans / President / Working Mother Media

100 Best Companies Team:
Jennifer Owens / Editorial Director / Working Mother magazine & Director / Working Mother Research Institute
Kristen Willoughby / Senior Manager, Editorial Research & Initiatives / Working Mother Research Institute
Michele Siegel / Senior Manager, Corporate Research / Bonnier Corporation

6:00 – 7:30 pm                       Exhibit Hall Opens

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

7:45 am – 7:00 pm                 Registration - Sponsored by Capital One

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

8:45 – 9:15                              Signature Opening - Sponsored by AEP, Grant Thornton, Procter & Gamble

9:15 – 9:35 am                       Welcome Remarks: 100 Best Executive Summary

How are the Best Companies serving their employees in the toughest economy in decades? Working Mother reveals the key trends from Working Mother 100 Best Companies.

Carol Evans / President / Working Mother Media 
Jennifer Owens / Editorial Director / Working Mother magazine & Director / Working Mother Research Institute

Download the 2011 Executive Summary

9:45 – 10:30                            Opening Keynote: Work Life 3.0—Addressing The Most Overlooked And Under-leveraged Dimension of Work Life

You’re doing all you can to increase employee engagement, yet scores are down. What are you missing? Amy Hilbrich Davis, CEO of FamilyLife Success and Author of the award winning balance MAP, shares a game-changing strategy to take your company’s engagement, productivity, and wellness to the next level.

Amy Hilbrich Davis / Founder & CEO / FamilyLife Success

10:30 – 11:45                          Editorial Panel: Staying on Top with Top Talent: The X Factor

Straight from the editorial pages of Working Mother magazine, join top recruiters from Best Companies who will discuss talent management trends and issues in and environment that continues to be rife with economic pressures.

Moderator:
Barbara Turvett / Deputy Editor / Working Mother magazine

Panel:
Stephanie Lilak / Vice President and Chief Staffing Officer / General Mills
David W. Anderson / Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Organizational Learning and Chief Compliance Officer / WellStar Health System
Eileen Raymond / Executive Director of Experienced Hire Recruiting / KPMG LLP
Jana Fallon / Vice President, Recruiting / Prudential Financial

11:45 am - 12:30 pm               Exhibit Hall Break

12:30 – 2:00 pm                     Keynote Luncheon: Bringing out the Best in Every Employee: Work Environments to Mobilize Intelligence Across the Generations - Sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton, MasterCard

Tamara J. Erickson / Award-winning Author; Expert on Organizations, the Changing Workforce, and Generations at Work

2:15 – 3:45 pm                       Thinkfest Solutions: Discussion Groups - Sponsored by American Express, Johnson & Johnson 
Facilitated learning teams discuss four critical areas of focus for work life professionals, and provide the opportunity to learn how fellow practitioners process and think about solutions. For the first time, each room will be limited to one critical area of discussion, with the chance to drill down further into key questions, challenges, opportunities and strategies.

1. Men and Work Life

What are the forces restraining men from engagment with work life and how can these be removed? How do we get men to openly and transparently join the work life conversation? This session will explore the top line results of the recent study "Men and Work Life Integration: A Global Study: and then zero in on an action discussion around forces that restrain organizational leaders from taking the reins of work life. What are innovative ways to remove key barriers? Join this session on men and work life, examine challenges and potential strategies, and find out what participants can do to open up the work life conversation for men.

Peter Linkow / President / WFD Consulting

2. Communications Strategies for Work Life

Do you ever wish that everyone in the organization knew and understood what you know about the importance of work life? This Thinkfest session is going to focus on the 3 main elements of a work life communication strategy: First, we'll challenge you to align the work life strategy with the overall mission of your organization. We know that until we speak the language of our organization it is challenging to get leadership to support the message. Second, we will work to identify the media and communication channels that will convey the message and help to strengthen the culture of work life. Finally, the Thinfest will wrap up by discussing specific tools and resources targeted to the manager, a key messenger for work life success, including employee engagement conversation starters and considerations for working with employees from diverse cultures, across time zones, and on remote work teams. We invite you to share your best practices and new ideas for integrating and delivering the work life message.

Danielle Hartmann / Director of Corporate Partnerships / BC Center for Work & Family
Kathy Kacher / President / Career/Life Alliance Services, Inc.

3. Impact of the Economy on Work Life

In the face of shrinking and stagnant budgest, HR departments have had to get creative to keep employee morale and satisfaction up, even as benefits and employee programs have been reduced or dropped in many cases. Many employers are trying to do more with less, when compared to what they were offering at the beginning of 2008. All of these factors combined are creating a concept of work intensification - where employees, on average, are being asked to do a little bit more, and take on more responsibility, for largely the same basic compensation. In this session, we will address the areas of employee communication, employee give and take, creative benefits options and making tough decisions. We'll discuss top challenges and find out how fellow HR and Work Life professionals respond and strategize for best possible answers and solutions.

Dean Debnam / CEO / Workplace Options

4. Integrating Diversity and Work Life

Whether your organization has separate work life and diversity & inclusion departments that need to work together, or you are responsible for both areas - it is increasingly important to address the structural issues that come into play. How do you work it when you're responsible for both work life and diversity & inclusion functions? What are the challenges around setting priorities, bridging responsibilities, and addressing and meeting goals of both content areas? Share ideas and strategies for effectively integrating efforts or collaborating across departments to improve business outcomes.

Wendy C. Breiterman / Director, Global Work Life Strategies, Global Office of Diversity & Inclusion / Johnson & Johnson
Marilyn Huffman Thompson / Director, Global Diversity & Inclusion for WW Pharmaceuticals & Corporate Staff / Johnson & Johnson

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

4:15 – 5:45 pm                       Concurrent Case Study Sessions - Round I

Track 1: Basics of Success
Millennials Speak: In Search of Focus, Flexibility and Feedback

Much has been written and said about the distinct workplace values and behaviors of the millenials (those born between 1977 and 1997 and just entering the workforce). In this study, we hear them defined in their own words. Rupert & Company partnered with 9 companies in a major focus group study. The overall report and feedback from two participant companies challenges myths in the area of flexibility, performance feedback and managing for results. Findings from this study will provide practical and eye-opening guidance to HR strategists and managers.

Presenters:
Paul Rupert / President / Rupert & Company
Stacey Gibson / Principal / Rupert & Company
Michelle Birnbaum / Manager, Work Life Programs / MetLife

Track 2: Metrics Matter
Flex, Productivity and Profitability

Top companies offer an inside look at successful flex programs to isolate effective strategies to implement and effectively measure productivity and bottom line impact. Identify ways to  assess and leverage ties between workplace flex and increased productivity to develop programs that support employee work life needs and deliver improved business outcomes.

Moderator:
Meryl Rosenthal / President and CEO / FlexPaths

Presenter:
Helen Tucker / Director, Global Diversity & Inclusion / Procter & Gamble
Kim Drumgo / Chief Diversity Official / BCBSNC

Track 3: Creating Culture Shift
Embedding Work Life in Corporate Culture

Successfully embracing Work Life as an intrinsic part of corporate culture involves a real sense of commitment at all levels of the company.  How have top companies moved effectively from offering policies and programs, to creating a supportive culture that promotes the use of options and fosters a healthy balance between work and personal roles, commitments, and responsibilities?

Moderator:
Rolando Balli / Principal / RRB Ventures

Presenters:
Cara Williams / Administrative Director, Human Resources / Scripps Health
Jane Hong / Director, Employee Portal / Scripps health
Amy A. Titus / Director / Deloitte Consulting LLP

Track 4: Business Futures
Strategies for Workplace Transformation

How are top companies acting on predictions and trends, and leveraging internal work life efforts to transform the workplace?  In 2010, the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College launched a research and Case Study project titled, “Age: A 21st Century Diversity Imperative” to answer basic questions about age diversity:

1. How are leading employers making decisions about age diversity?
2. What are the business drivers that are influencing their decisions?
3. What are some examples of promising practices (i.e., best practices) that are being developed by employers?

This case study session will share findings from research and multigenerational case studies with leading organizations in various industries, and reveal the transformational strategies and efforts being leveraged as a result.

Moderator:
Linda Roundtree / President / Roundtree Consulting

Presenters:
Samantha Greenfield / Employer Engagement Specialist / The Sloan Center on Aging & Work, Boston College
Betsy Kiss / Senior Director Workplace Strategies / Marriott International
Lynette Chappell-Williams / Associate Vice President, Workforce Diversity and Inclusion / Cornell University
Consuelo Rodriguez / Senior Manager, Global Diversity & Inclusion / Dell

6:00 – 8:00pm                          Welcome Cocktail Reception - Sponsored by VCU Health System, Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC

Thursday, October 20, 2011

7:45 – 8:45 am                       Continental Breakfast - Sponsored by PwC

8:45 – 9:00 am                       Day Two Remarks

Joan Sheridan / Vice President, Group Publisher / Working Mother Media

9:00 – 9:30 am                       Keynote: Changing the Way We Do Change: Transforming Work Life from the Inside Out

Most of us seek change from the outside in, trying to alter behaviors in order to improve the organization. In this keynote, Andrew Bernstein, CEO of ActivInsight Inc and author of The Myth of Stress, will show you how to also drive change from the inside out, shifting the way people think about challenges so they can take action more effectively.

Andrew Bernstein / CEO / ActivInsight Inc

9:30 – 10:30 am                     Executive Conversation: “What Moms Choose” Results, Impact, and Implications

Working Mother Research institute reveals results from its latest national survey examining the internal and external factors that determine why moms choose to stay at home, stay at work or seek a new way to live their lives. Join a lively discussion of the implications for women and their employers.

Carol Evans / President / Working Mother Media
Jennifer Owens / Editorial Director / Working Mother magazine & Director / Working Mother Research Institute
Billie Williamson / Americas Inclusiveness Officer / Ernst & Young

10:30 – 11:00                          Networking Break

11:00 – 12:30 pm                   Concurrent Case Study Sessions - Round II

Track 1: Basics of Success
Dependent Care Strategies that Work

Get a front row look at winning strategies that top companies employ to address the varying dependent care needs of their employees.  Best Practice examples highlight tactics to help work life professionals quickly take the pulse of what’s necessary and what works, build a menu of creative programs and resources, and successfully market offerings to meet the dependent care needs of a diverse employee base.

Moderator:
Fran Durekas / Vice-Chair and Founder, Knowledge Universe Work-Life Solutions; Founder and Chief Development Officer / CCLC

Presenters:
Dana Vandecoevering / Corporate Work/Life Manager / Intel
Maria Curran / Vice President, Human Resources and Community Benefit / VCU Health System
Gale Davis / Geriatric Care Manager / VCU Health System
Gaia Bruschi / Business HR Manager, Abbott Italy / Abbott Laboratories - Italy

Track 2: Metrics Matter
Employee Surveys: The Critical Baseline of Work Life Success

What role can employee surveys play in supporting top companies’ work life and business success?  Explore the effective development, implementation and assessment of this critical employee engagement tool.  Identify opportunities for employee surveys to contribute valuable metrics that can be leveraged to better position work life initiatives, policies and programs within your organization.

Moderator:
Jennifer Owens / Editorial Director / Working Mother magazine & Director / Working Mother Research Institute

Presenters:
Lillian LeBlanc / Assistant VP, HR Strategy and Culture / Baptist Health South Floria
Christine Fossaceca / Vice President, Global Work Life Director / JPMorgan Chase

Track 3: Creating Culture Shift
Move over Mentorship: Sponsorship, Women’s Advancement and Workplace Impact

Women's advancement into leadership roles has stagnated in recent years. A recent Harvard Business Review study pointed to the one possible reason: men are more liekly than women to have sponsors. Learn what role sponsorship plays in career advancement, how smart companies view the sponsor relationship, and what kind of programs they are implementing in order to create a culture that ensures women have the sponsors they need to advance. 

Moderator:
Betty Spence, Ph.D. / President / National Association for Female Executives (NAFE)

Presenters:
Jennifer Christie / Chief Diversity Officer, Global Diversity & Inclusion / American Express
Anne Lang / Chief Human Resource Officer / Grant Thornton

Track 4: Business Futures
Leveraging Gen Y Engagement & the War for Talent

Smart companies are working hard to take the pulse of the youngest generation entering the workplace – to effectively understand and harness the power for innovation and change, as well as the unique set of values and needs that will shape the workplace of the future. How are top companies responding in terms of program development and leveraging Gen Y Engagement to remain competitive in the war for talent, and current in the face of change?

Moderator:
Tiffany Westover-Kernan / Vice President of Business Development and Government Relations / Corporate Voices for Working Families

Presenters:
Maureen Jules-Perez / Senior Technical Director / AOL
Janet Wang / Senior Vice President Staffing Executive, Global Banking & Markets / Bank of America
Kevin Jordan / National Manager, Diversity and Corporate Responsibility / KPMG

12:30 – 1:45 pm                     Awards Luncheon - Sponsored by Abbott, Deloitte

Emcee:
Helen Jonsen / Director of Digital Media / Working Mother Media

●      Ted Childs Life Work Excellence Award: 
Maureen Corcoran / Vice President, Health, Life & Inclusion / Prudential Financial

Award Presented by:
Ted Childs / Principal / Ted Childs, LLC

●      Hall of Fame Awards Inductions:
Ernst & Young  and KPMG

2:00 – 3:30 pm                       Concurrent Case Study Sessions - Round III

Track 1: Basics of Success
ERG Effectiveness and the Impact on Work Life Success

What expert tactics and best practices do companies use to build a successful Employee Resource Group program?  Learn foundational and strategic steps to effectively launch, develop, and evolve ERGs within your organization, and identify opportunities to leverage these groups for employee engagement and business success.

Moderator:
Marsha Gewirtzman / Consultant

Presenters:
Lauren Scott / Diversity and Inclusion Consultant, Associate / Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
Andrea Ramsey / Associate Director, Americas Inclusiveness / Ernst & Young LLP
Peter Lease / Partner / Ernst & Young

Track 2: Metrics Matter
The Holistic Approach to Employee Support: Monitoring Employee Health, Well-being and Engagement

Demonstrating the business benefits associated with supporting the needs of employees from the perspective of overall well-being can be tricky – especially for programs and initiatives that have long-term impact but lack an immediate effect on the business bottom line.  What key indicators have companies developed to measure the future progress of employee support offerings, and how do they effectively monitor the relationship between work life practices and improvements in employee health, well-being and engagement?

Moderator:
Kelley Black / Founder and Managing Director / Balancing the Executive Life

Presenters:
Ansley Rivers / Work Life Consultant / WellStar Health System
Andrea Wicks Bowles / Senior Consultant / Bright Horizons Family Solutions

Track 3: Creating Culture Shift
Engaging Men to Strengthen Work Life

Find out what companies are doing to remove the stigma that lingers and overcome barriers to engage ALL men – employees and managers alike – to improve acceptance of family-friendly benefits and increase usage across the board in efforts to strengthen work life support and effectiveness.

Moderator:
Karol Rose / Principal, Advisory Services / FlexPaths

Presenters:
Paul Silverglate / Partner / Deloitte & Touche LLP
Steve Lerner / Operations Director - Oracle Practice / Accenture

Track 4: Business Futures
Global Work Life Strategies

The global workplace has fast become reality – and it’s brought with it a unique set of work life needs and challenges.  Chart the future for your company in the global space and keep pace with continual change and global work life needs.  Find out how top companies address and effectively plan for the impact that operations across different time zones, different locations, and different cultures present for the workplace of the future.

Moderator:
Debbie Phillips / Vice President / WFD Consulting 

Presenter:
Cindy Martinangelo / Director, Global Work Environment / Merck

3:30 – 4:00 pm                       Networking Break  - Sponsored by Kraft

4:00 – 5:30 pm                       Work Life Sampler Workshops

1. Embracing A Wellness Lifestyle
Being well is not the absence of disease. It is the flourishing of the whole being – mind, body and spirit. Do you wonder why you keep reading health books, joining gyms or diet clubs and just don’t seem to make long term progress? It isn’t enough to want health and wellness or know what to do. You must fully embrace a wellness lifestyle to truly shift your well-being. Embracing a wellness lifestyle begins with understanding your “why” – why is being well important or not important to you. Following your Why, craft your vision and set the intention. Free your space – mind, body and environments to lay the foundation for a new path of better choices. Setting out on your journey, seek out and find your tribe to support you along the way. Through this process of discovery you will get connected to your wellness, shift perspective and move into action to fully embrace a wellness lifestyle. 

Presenter:
Dr. Michelle Robin / Founder and Chief Wellness Officer / Your Wellness Connection P.A. / The Wellness Connection

2.  The Joys of Parenting Teens:  Discovering our “Best Selves”
You’re at the workplace, but your mind is constantly on the home front. Sound familiar? If you’re like many working mothers, you know that the demands of raising teens and striving in the workplace can be more than a day’s work. But fear not, this workshop can help you discover the joys of parenting on your way to discovering your best self!

Whether you are parenting in a nuclear, single or blended family, this workshop is for you.  Enhancing your listening skills increases the likelihood that meaningful communication can take place between you and your teen. This session is an opportunity to remind yourself about what you love about your teen, and her/his strengths. 

Ready to step out of the ring and end the verbal sparring and mental power struggles with your teen? We’ll explore ways you can respond effectively to your ever-changing teen. Keeping in mind that the early, middle and late adolescent years can pose distinct challenges for teens and parents, you’ll learn:

·           How to enhance the parent-teen relationship.
·           How to take care of yourself during these challenging years.
·           About workplace resources and services that are available to support you and your family.
·           How tapping into your own memories and experiences of being a teen can inform your communication with and enhance your compassion for your teen.
·           How managers who are not parents can support the development of a workplace that is parent sensitive and a place where working mothers can thrive.

Let’s turn the crisis of adolescence into the opportunity for a new relationship with your teen.

Presenters:
Lisa Whitten, Ph.D. / Associate Professor, Psychology Dept. SUNY/College at Old Westbury and Private Practitioner

Linda Anderson, Ph.D. / Chairperson and Professor / Hostos Community College, City University of New York; Consultant / Dalton School 

3.  Managing Cross Generations Workshop
This workshop is designed to review the differences between BabyBoomer, Gen-X, and Gen Y/ Millennials generations and the impact on the workplace.  Different strategies are required to attract, retain and engage employees across the various generations.  This workshop will move beyond the stereotypical assumptions about generations and move to a practical, real-world approach and proposed solutions.  As companies are driven to “do more with less,” an understanding of how to engage these different subsets of employee populations will enhance productivity, engagement and consumer loyalty.

As emerging Millennial employees become a larger component of the workforce, corporations must consider strategies for attracting this employee, transferring knowledge from the Baby Boomers, and revising the traditional work-life paradigms.  How can leaders prepare for this challenge and construct work life propositions that leverage the social networking expertise, tech-saaviness, and connectivity of this newest generation in the workforce?  The usual ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach will not prove effective with the Millennials. In a world dynamic where collaboration is central to success, the Millennials offer a true value-added component.  The corporation that considers the need for enhanced cross-generational communication will harness a true competitive advantage in the emerging global market.

Presenter:
Deborah H. Barrett / President / DH Barrett Solutions LLC

         2:30 – 5:00      4. Senior Vice President/HR Forum [by invitation only] - Sponsored by Bright Horizons

Modeled after our powerful CEO Roundtable initiative, join top HR executives from Working Mother 100 Best Companies for a high-level discussion that will address critical topics, challenge conventional thinking and identifying best possible solutions - as the Best Companies are uniquely suited to do.

Discussion Topics:
Next generation flexible work arrangements: What working moms will expect by 2015
How the advancement of women has stalled and what to do about it.

Welcome:
Carol Evans / President / Working Mother Media
Dan Henry / Chief Human Resource Officer / Bright Horizons

Moderator:
Andres Tapia / President / Diversity Best Practices

6:00 – 7:00 pm                       Gala Cocktail Reception - Sponsored by Discovery Communications, Novartis, Prudential Financial and Wellstar

7:00 – 9:30 pm                       Gala Awards Dinner: Working Mother 100 Best Companies - Sponsored by Bright Horizons, Ernst & Young, SC Johnson, Sittercity

*Agenda subject to change

Registration

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PRICING
Individual

$1,995 (Early Bird: $1,795)

Government/Non Profit

$1,395 (Early Bird: $1,195)

Gala Dinner

$650

* Early Bird by August 1st.

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811 7th Ave., 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

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