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Monday, October 8, 2012 *

3:00 pm – 6:00 pm             Registration — sponsored by American Express

4:00 pm – 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 

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm               NAFE Regional Meeting — sponsored by Prudential Financial

Are you as financially savvy as you need to be?

New research shows that women often lack the confidence, expertise or time to profitably manage their money. Join an informative session with three financial experts and learn the latest information and solutions for managing your personal and family finances.

Moderator:

Betty Spence Ph.D. / President / NAFE

Speakers:

Joan Cleveland / SVP / Prudential Life Insurance

Deborah Owens / Deborah Owens / President / Owens Media Group LLC

Jean Setzfand / VP, Financial Security / AARP

*NAFE Members and Conference Attendees welcome

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm             Exhibit Hall Opens / Reception

Work Life Congress Silent Auction
All proceeds benefit NAFE Women’s Foundation
Advancing Women Through Professional Development, Research and Economic Empowerment
 
Silent Auction Opens:
Monday, October 8
Exhibit Hall from 6:30 pm
 
Silent Auction Closes:
Tuesday, October 9
Cocktail Reception at 7 pm
Attendees will then be able to pick up prizes that evening and the next morning to give them time. Donation by check encouraged

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 *

7:30 am – 7:00 pm             Registration — sponsored by American Express

7:30 am – 8:30 am             Continental Breakfast —
sponsored by KPMG

8:30 am – 9:00 am             Signature Opening —
sponsored by Grant Thornton, Marriott International, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Procter & Gamble

Create Your Best Work Life Future, By Creating Your Best You

• Learn how to motivate anyone, including yourself, to be fit and healthy, starting with 5 minutes.
• Experience the best exercise that will not only fit into your busy life, but will make you stronger and smarter.
• Uncover nutritional secrets to achieve your ideal weight and fuel your professional and personal life.
• Conquer stress by turning frustration into motivation.

Peter K / Health Coach / Peter K Fitness

9:00 am – 9:15 am             Welcome Remarks

Joan Sheridan LeBarge / Vice President/Group Publisher, Working Mother Media / Diversity Best Practices / NAFE

9:15 am – 9:45 am           Keynote: Dare to Dream

Carol Evans / President / Working Mother Media

What’s Important Now? - Trends and Insights to Inform a Best Work Life 

As a lead-in to our ThinkFest sessions and to help inform our plans to design Best Possible Work Life Futures, a panel of consultants and academics report on trends and research findings from significant and growing segments of the workforce.  Learn findings and insights that will have important implications for companies interested in supporting their working families.

Hear from:

●      Bentley University’s Center for Women and Business about the results from their qualitative assessment of women’s opinions and their collective solutions on the major issues women are dealing with to simultaneously be successful in their careers and their lives. 

●      Bright Horizons will reveal an inside glimpse into the lives of a growing segment of the employee population –Breadwinning Moms –who are equal or primary earners in their families and  often retain the role of primary organizer and emotional fulcrum of the family as well.  Because this combination of roles does not have a substantial history in our society – breadwinning moms find themselves forging new territory.

●      WFD Consulting will share gender-related data, and other themes related to focus, technology, pace of life and work from their new study,  “The Changing Needs of American Families”   – which captures the views of diverse types of workers and families, including working parents, Latino workers, LGBT working parents, African American professionals, workers age 50+, workers caring for grandchildren,  and more!

Moderator:

Jennifer Owens / Editorial Director, Working Mother magazine; Director, Working Mother Research Institute

Panel:

Susan Adams / Senior Director, Center for Women & Business; Professor of Management / Bentley University

Lucy English / Senior Consultant / Horizons Workforce Consulting – A division of Bright Horizons

Amy Richman / Senior Consultant / WFD Consulting

10:45 am – 11:15 am         Networking Break

11:15 am – 12:30 pm ThinkFest Solutions Part I: Discovery/Dream -  Sponsored by Johnson & Johnson

Our Think Fest Sessions will incorporate the Appreciative Inquiry Method. Together we’ll work through Appreciative Inquiry’s four stages – Discovery/Dream/Design/Destiny as we roll up our sleeves and tackle four critical topics. We’ll uncover what organizations and individuals are doing well – and zero in on ways to create a Best Work Life Future in the areas of Flexibility & Mobility; Work & Family Life; Engagement & Culture; and Health & Wellbeing. Sessions will help you fill in the framework for realizing goals, develop boiler plates and action plans to support the work, and provide the momentum and drive to design a possible future. 

 Topics: 

1.     Flexibility & Mobility

Facilitator: Paul Rupert / President / Rupert & Company

2.     Work & Family Life

Facilitator: Kathy Kacher / President / Career/Life Alliance Services, Inc.

3.     Engagement & Culture

Facilitator: Debbie Phillips / President / WFD Consulting, Inc.

4.     Health & Wellbeing

Facilitator: Teresa Hopke / Principal, SVP, Client Relations / LifemeetsWork

12:30 pm – 1:45 pm               Keynote Luncheon — sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton, MasterCard Worldwide

Keynote:  Do Your Employees See Their Future in Your Future?

In order to create the best work/life future, managers at every level must be able to converse with their direct reports about their career aspirations.  The problem is how to do this in an already packed, time-starved, priority-rich environment in which we all operate.  Dr. Beverly Kaye offers an interactive keynote that will provide ways to engage in short, ongoing conversations that surface needs, passion and options. And, she’ll help you look at your own career at the same time!

Beverly Kaye / Founder/Co-CEO / Career Systems International; Co-Author: Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm                    ThinkFest Solutions Part II: Design/Delivery - Sponsored by Johnson & Johnson

Drawing from the morning's Appreciative Inquiry Process focusing on the Discovery and Dream stages, groups will capture key themes and participants will continue the work of designing possibilities for change. Attendees from all groups will select ideas around which to create strategies for change that will impact their organizations.

Topics:

1.     Flexibility & Mobility

Facilitator: Paul Rupert / President / Rupert & Company

2.     Work & Family Life

Facilitator: Kathy Kacher / President / Career/Life Alliance Services, Inc.

3.     Engagement & Culture

Facilitator: Debbie Phillips / President / WFD Consulting, Inc.

4.     Health & Wellbeing

Facilitator: Teresa Hopke / Principal, SVP, Client Relations / LifemeetsWork 

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm                Networking Break — sponsored by Kraft Foods

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm                MOMFest: Moms in Balance — sponsored by SC Johnson

The 100 Best Companies this year cultivate resilience by advancing and challenging their working mom employees while also providing the supportive programs that help make balancing work and family life possible.  Meed executive moms from the Top 10 companies and find out the stress-busting and sanity-saving strategies that help them manage busy careers while raising healthy, happy families! 

Co-Moderators:

Carol Evans / President / Working Mother Media

Kelly Semrau / Senior Vice President / SC Johnson

Panel:

Priya Misra / MD, Head of US Rates Strategy / Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Candan Erenguc / Senior Manager - Strategy and Operations / Deloitte Consulting

Meredith Friga / Senior Manager / Ernst & Young LLP

Katy Dickson / VP/ Unit Director, Meals Division / General Mills

Erica O’Malley / National Managing Partner of Women's Initiatives and Programs / Grant Thornton LLP

MyHong NguyenPhu / Director, Power Systems Program PMP®,   System & Technology Group / IBM

Rema Serafi / Managing Principal of KPMG LLP’s (U.S.) Transfer Pricing Practice / KPMG LLP

Helen Tucker / Global Diversity & Inclusion Leader / Procter & Gamble

 Lori Driscoll / Managing Director / PwC

Michelle Robinson / Vice President, Marketing, PR and Internal Communications / WellStar Health System

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm                Opening Reception — sponsored by Bank of America, VCU Health Systems

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 *

7:45 am – 8:45 am                Continental Breakfast — sponsored by PwC

8:45 am – 9:15 am                Day 2 Remarks

Carol Evans / President / Working Mother Media

9:15 am – 10:30 am               Keynote + Conversation – Unleashing Your Inner Visionary

To envision a preferred future that is deeply meaningful we must access three powers: the power to see, the power to say, and the power to do. These powers support us to follow what has heart and meaning.

Patrick O’Neill will introduce simple tools that can unleash the visionary in all of us along with true-life stories that instruct and inspire us to dream. 

Patrick O’Neill / President / Extraordinary Conversations

10:30 am – 11:00 am            Networking Break

11:00 am – 12:30 pm            Concurrent Case Study Sessions – Round I

Track 1: Business As Usual - How Best Companies Make Women’s Advancement Top Priority

Two companies discuss the implications and importance of programs that provide support, development and advancement opportunities for women – including re-entry moms looking to ramp up their career. IBM offers insights on how working mothers can function at high-performing levels while also meeting their obligations at home and solidifying their future at work, through supportive policies and programs that underscore the commitment to the advancement of women.  IBM’s Global Business Services (GBS) sector which offers a broad set of programs and resources designed to help female employees accelerate their careers and maximize potential - and the Network of Emerging Women (NEW) Leaders program that helps women build and develop their skills within a targeted community as well as helps them reach their full leadership potential.    In an increasingly competitive environment where small differences in performance differentiate performers, it can be a challenge to evaluate individuals who have worked significantly less time than their peers in a given year in a relative performance review system.  PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC outlines an important policy that helps retain and level the playing field for high potential talent who may be transitioning back to work from extended leaves, including new mothers who have chosen to take extended time at home after having a child.

Moderator:

Elizabeth Nieto / Global Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer / MetLife

Presenters:

Janis Fratamico / Director, Client Experience and Sales Integration, IBM Global Client Centers / IBM

Jennifer Allyn / Managing Director, Office of Diversity / PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Track 2: Trends in Innovation - Fresh Takes on Flex: Innovative Strategies to Secure Leader Support

Flexibility is an important factor in how employees rate satisfaction with work life fit…but what are companies doing to secure critical leadership support and prepare managers for the challenge of leading flexible and often mobile teams?  Career/Life Alliance Services, Inc. shares results from The National Workplace Flexibility Study (conducted in collaboration with Boston College Center for Work & Family and Life Meets Work Inc.) on the effects of a targeted intervention to prepare managers and the resulting impact on the success of an organization’s flexibility initiative. Johnson & Johnson outlines an innovative approach to building accountability through the introduction of Flex Ambassadors at the leadership level in their finance department.  And Deloitte Services LP introduces their recently created Workforce Analytics Center of Expertise which uses advanced analytic techniques to quantify and demonstrate the importance of worklife fit, flexibility, and other workplace factors - and therefore add weight to arguments that improvements in these areas will pay off for the business.

Moderator:

Kathy Kacher / President / Career/Life Alliance Services, Inc.

Presenters:

Suzanne Vickberg / Senior Manager, Inclusion / Deloitte Services LP

Wendy Breiterman / Director, Global Work/Life Strategies, Office of Global Diversity & Inclusion  / Johnson & Johnson

Thought Leaders:

Laura Benedetto / Controller /Johnson & Johnson

Laura Cakolli / Controller, Pharma Group Controls & Compliance / Johnson & Johnson

Track 3:  Change as Constant - Empowering Employees with Tools to Manage Change

Companies and their employees experience significant and continual change while faced with on-going pressures - and the ability to respond to change quickly and effectively is a valuable and necessary skill.  The stress of change can take a toll on organizations and employees – and supportive workplaces do everything they can to help minimize the negative impact.  Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina has developed a Change Training program that has been added to the Learning Plan of approximately 600 leaders and managers – which incorporates a model, process and toolkit that leaders and employees can use to execute change faster and more effectively, along with training for leaders, and training and tools for individuals.  What goes into a strong financial support program for employees?  American Express is among a small number of companies offering financial wellness programs, and will share details about their Smart Saving initiative, which has empowered employees with a suite of services.  

Moderator:

Aida Sabo / Vice President Diversity/Inclusion / Cardinal Health

Presenters:

Rebecca Olejar / Senior Organizational Development Consultant / Blue Cross Blue Shield NC

Barbara Kontje / Director, Global Retirement & Smart Saving / American Express

Track 4:  Moms in Balance – From Hassles to Harmony: Parenting Solutions for Morning, Noon & Night — sponsored SC Johnson

Whether it’s getting you and your kids out the door on time, figuring out what to make for dinner (again!), or battling over homework and bedtimes, a mom’s daily routine is often chock-full of chaos!  And if the stress alone weren’t bad enough, employees’ parenting challenges impact productivity and a company’s bottom line. 

If you feel like your daily routines have turned into a non-stop nag-fest, take notice! In this interactive, high-energy session, four nationally renowned experts team up to deliver concrete strategies to help your daily routines hum.  Appropriate for parents of toddlers to teens, this session will teach you specific step-by-step toolbox solutions you can use right away, including:

• Five must-have tools for nag-free morning routines you and your kids will love
• Simple solutions for easy and healthy packed lunches your kids won’t want to trade 
• Fast fixes for homework hassles and more
• Time & money-saving strategies to ditch the “What’s for dinner?” drama
• The prescription for curing the bedtime blues
• Must-have organizing systems to streamline your routines

Moderator:

Barbara Turvett / Executive Editor / Working Mother magazine

Presenters:

Aviva Goldfarb / Creator / The Six O’Clock Scramble books and online program

Kelly Lester / Author of Cooking with Trader Joes: Easy Lunchboxes and Creator of Easy Lunchboxes

Lorie Marrero /Creator /The Clutter Diet book and online program

Amy McCready / Founder, Positive Parenting Solutions and Author of If I Have to Tell You One More Time…

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm             Awards Luncheon - sponsored by Deloitte

• Ted Childs Life Work Excellence Award

• Hall of Fame Awards Inductions

• Quarter Century Awards

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

Track 1: Business As Usual Re-imagined – Getting the Word Out: How Best Companies are Rethinking Internal Communications and Collaborations

An effective communications strategy can help companies leverage employee and team stories, as well as what’s working well to instill pride, build value, and link great place to work culture to business success. Find out how WellStar has transformed their employee newsletter, in home mailer, screen savers and company intranet site into a culture transformation platform, and leveraged creative mediums to communicate about their culture in a way that is meaningful and relevant for both the business and the people. Intel continues to focus on enhancing the work environment through their Great Place to Work Initiative and enlisted their Corporate Services group to focus on making Intel one of the Coolest Places to Work – including efforts to get families more engaged, leverage programs and offerings to create excitement, enhance the work environment, and create events to highlight what’s new and what’s working!

Moderator:

Helen Tucker / Global Diversity & Inclusion Leader / Procter & Gamble

Presenters:

Michelle Projekt / Director-Americas Communications and Marketing / Ernst & Young LLP

Dana Vandecoevering / Corporate Work/Life Manager / Intel

Kim Menefee / Sr. Vice President, Public/Government Affairs / WellStar Health System

Michelle Robinson / Vice President, Marketing, PR and Internal Communications / WellStar Health System

Track 2: Trends in Innovation — Age Diversity and Flexibility in the Workplace: Transformative Strategies for a Multigenerational Workforce

In 2012, the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College released the fifth in a series of Innovative Practices – Executive Case Reports. The latest report is titled, “Flex Strategies to Attract, Retain and Engage Older Workers.”  Learn the latest research as it applies to the multigenerational workforce. Two Working Mother “100 Best Companies” – Marriott and Dell – will reveal their organization’s multigenerational transformational strategies and efforts.

Marriott will share the latest updates from their multi-phased Aging Workforce Project, as well as innovative flexibility approaches that support a multigenerational and hourly workforce. One or two associates from the New York Marriott Marquis will be invited to share their personal success stories that demonstrate flexibility in action.

Dell will share updates on their Connected Workplace initiative that is expanding globally and is more than just “telecommuting.” Dell is leveraging technology to create mobile work environments inside and outside of Dell buildings; tearing down cubicles to create collaborative work spaces; enabling team members more choices in when, when and how work gets done; and improving the overall Dell culture.

Additional innovative best practices aligned with the following flexibility drivers will also be shared with participants.

●      Recruit, retain, and engage older workers

●      Retain experienced staff and circumvent massive retirements

●      “Re-career” older workers instead of losing them to external opportunities

●      Help older workers continue to be effective on the job

●      Engage retirees and tap into their knowledge and skills

Co-Moderators:

Linda Roundtree / President / Roundtree Consulting

Samantha Greenfield / Employer Engagement Specialist / The Sloan Center on Aging & Work Boston College

Presenters:

Betsy Kiss / Senior Director Workplace Strategies / Marriott International

Raynelle Bull / Senior Human Resources Manager / New York Marriott Marquis

Consuelo Rodriguez / Global Diversity and Inclusion Strategist / Dell

Track 3: Change as Constant — Driving Wellness and Engagement by Empowering Working Parents to be More Successful in Family Life

Working parents are a large and valuable segment of the workforce, representing about two in three US employees at the “key leader age” of 35 to 44 years-old. Yet, data shows that only one in three parents, whether working or staying at home, feels successful in raising a family.  This uncertainty and lack of confidence leads to guilt, stress, and anxiety, all of which can result in physical and mental absenteeism. Morgan Stanley will share the results of a program that has resulted in dramatic improvements in the wellness and productivity of its employees who are working parents. Participants reported an eight-fold increase in commitment to their wellness and 96 percent stated that success and happiness in their family life allows them to be more productive at work. FamilyLife Success will share some proprietary research on working parents and Morgan Stanley will share how:

• Helping parents be more successful in their family life has a measurable business impact in the areas of productivity and engagement.
• This approach complements existing work-life efforts and provides an effective solution to optimize existing wellness programs.
• Working parents have time and energy barriers that can limit the effectiveness of any wellness efforts unless strategies to balance personal and family needs are addressed.
• Working parents are eager for help to achieve greater success in family life.

Presenters:

Amy Hilbrich Davis / CEO / FamilyLife Success

Cheryl Geremia / Managing Director / Morgan Stanley

Track 4: Moms in Balance — Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids: Conversations that Count with Tweens and Teens — sponsored by SC Johnson

What are the vital issues that children face growing up and what tools and materials can help parents open the lines of communication and talk about difficult topics with their kids?  Parents are begging for information, tips and strategies to raise resilient kids, and supportive organizations recognize the value of family communication in reducing presenteeism and increasing productivity. Jeanne Blake, the Creator of Words Can Work, will present a multimedia workshop about raising emotionally healthy kids in a stressful world – through effective communication and creating nurturing connections. And Bradley Snyder, author of The 5 Simple Truths of Raising Kids, and consultant to governments and Fortune 500 companies on the behaviors of children and adolescents, applies these truths along with concrete parenting qualities to modern problems that children face, and shares techniques to promote healthy behaviors with respect to computers, television, videogames, texting, and bullying.

Moderator:

Barbara Turvett / Executive Editor / Working Mother magazine

Presenters:

Jeanne Blake / Creator, Words Can Work® / Communications Consultant / President, Blake Works Inc.

R. Bradley Snyder / Author, The 5 Simple Truths of Raising Kids / Senior Research Scientist, New Amsterdam Consulting, Inc.

2:30 pm – 5:00 pm             SVP/HR FORUM (by invitation only)
— sponsored by Bright Horizons 

Next Generation Work Life: Employee Wellness & Wellbeing   

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 identify best possible solutions –as the Best Companies are uniquely suited to do.

Our focus this year is Next Generation Work Life: Employee Wellness & Wellbeing.  Looking at Health and Wellness through the well-being lens acknowledges the fact that many of the primary factors influencing employee success exist outside of the workplace.

Bright Horizons will share data from a national study of working adults as well as case studies from organizations who have adopted a well-being approach to support employee resilience, sustained high performance, and success both at work and at home.  From Working Mother Media, learn some of the rising wellness related statistics from the 100Best Companies, and what Best Companies are doing to cultivate resilience, maximize employee contribution, and support overall employee success.

What contributes to an effective well-being approach?  Learn and discuss how the next generation of work/life and overall people practices can positively impact employee health and well-being and enhance recruitment, retention and employer of choice status, sustain productivity, and serve as a catalyst for engagement, creativity, and innovation?

Moderator:

Andrés Tapia / President / Diversity Best Practices

Presenters:

Carol Evans / President / Working Mother Media

Danroy “Dan” T. Henry / Chief Human Resources Officer / Bright Horizons

Lucy English / Senior Consultant / Horizons Workforce Consulting – A division of Bright Horizons

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm             Gala Cocktail Reception
— sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Prudential Financial, WellStar Health System

7:00 pm – 9:30 pm             Gala Awards Dinner: Working Mother 100 Best Companies —
sponsored by Bright Horizons, Ernst & Young, Capital One Financial, SelectPlus (formerly SitterCity)

9:30 pm                               The After Party — sponsored by SelectPlus (formerly Sittercity)

Location:

R Lounge at Two Times Square
Renaissance New York Hotel
714 Seventh Avenue at W. 48^th Street
(less than 2 blocks from the hotel)

*Agenda subject to change

Registration

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Attendee Prices

• Individual Conference Registration

(includes Dinner Ticket): $2,095 (Early Bird: $1,895)

• Dinner Table only: $6,000

• Individual Conference Registration Government/nonprofit

(includes Dinner Ticket) - $1,495 (Early Bird: $1,295)

• Dinner ticket only: $650

• Dinner ticket for sponsors or purchasers of corporate packages: $600

* Early Bird by August 23, 2012

**No refunds after October 2, 2012

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1-212-398-1900

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