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Monday, October 21

12:30 pm - 6:00 pm            Registration

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm              Breast Cancer Risk Factors: Just Knowing Your Family History is Not Enough

Learn about other critical risk factors in developing breast cancer and what you should be asking your doctor today!

Did you know that breast density, implants and scarring, as well as family history and culture, are all critical factors in your risk for breast cancer? Learn more about how these play a role and what technologies are available to physicians today to help screen and diagnose this deadly disease.

4:30 - 6:00 pm                   Working Mother 100 Best Application Update

This is your chance to weigh in on the 2014 Best Companies application and also to find out more about how the editors select the winning companies each year. Whether your company has been on and wants to stay on the list, or would like to figure out how to "crack the code" and get on, you'll want to be here!

Join this favorite annual review of "What's Next" for the Working Mother 100 Best Companies application process. Each year our editors comb through the application to add, subtract and revise its questions, based on their own research and your input.

Tuesday, October 22

7:30 am – 7:00 pm             Registration

7:30 – 9:30 am                   Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:00 am                   Signature Opening

9:00 – 9:15 am                   Welcome Remarks

Carol Evans / President / Working Mother Media

9:15 – 9:45 am                   Opening Keynote: Time for the Real Work-Life Revolution to Begin

You can promote a full range of work-life initiatives, but ultimately, the promise of engagement, profit and growth depends upon a partnership that, in most workplaces, doesn't exist.  Each person needs to meet their employer halfway.  They must capture the work flexibility and supports offered, and create a work+life fit that sustains their best performance, on and off the job, day-to-day and at major life transitions.   But most have no idea what that means or where to start. Internationally-recognized work-life flexibility strategist and author Cali Williams Yost will challenge us to expand the traditional employer-focused approach to work-life to include each individual as an equal and valuable partner.  Drawing on nearly two decades of experience and research, Yost will explain why knowing how to "tweak and reset" our work+life fit is not only a modern skill set we all -- employers and employees -- need to succeed, but also it's where the success of the work life revolution begins.

Cali Williams Yost / CEO & Founder, Flex+Strategy Group / Work+Life Fit, Inc.

9:45 – 10:45 am                 Research Panel: Just the Facts: Informing the Work Life Revolution

Fresh research results revealed that will engage attendees in targeted discussion around the impact on approaches to Work Life and future work practices. 

Moderator:

Jennifer Owens / Director / Working Mother Research Institute

Panel:

Katie Lamkin/Principal National HR Leader/McGladrey, LLP

Michael W. Morris/ Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership Management/ Columbia Business School

10:45 – 11:15 am               Networking Break

11:15 am – 12:45 pm         ThinkFest Round I: Viewpoints from an Increasingly Flexible and Inter-Generational Workplace

In this new format - featuring ThinkTalks and action planning discussions - join work life leaders, subject matter experts, and forward thinking innovators from our best companies as they present snapshots of innovative approaches, strategy and thinking related to some of work life’s most pressing issues.  Following ThinkTalks, join facilitated small-group conversations to explore issue-focused action planning.

Stage A: Flex and Mobility ThinkTalks

Stage B: Generational ThinkTalks

12:45 – 2:00 pm                 Keynote Luncheon

2:00 – 3:30 pm                   ThinkFest: Round II – Perspectives on Women’s Leadership and a Healthy Work Life Future

In this new format - featuring ThinkTalks and action planning discussions - join work life leaders, subject matter experts, and forward thinking innovators from our best companies as they present snapshots of innovative approaches, strategy and thinking related to some of work life’s most pressing issues.  Following ThinkTalks, join facilitated small-group conversations to explore issue-focused action planning.

Stage A: Women's Leadership ThinkTalks

Stage B: Health and Wellbeing ThinkTalks

3:30 – 4:00 pm                   Networking Break

4:00 – 5:30 pm                   Moms in Balance

Our Moms in Balance track returns this year with another informative session; Stay tuned to find out how we’ll kick off this year’s round of programming for working parents, who rely on a variety of supportive programs and resources to help make balancing work and family life possible.

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm            Reception

Wednesday, October 23

7:30 am – 12:30 pm           Registration

7:45 – 9:45 am                   Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30 am                   Welcome Remarks: 100 Best Executive Summary

Working Mother reveals the key trends from Working Mother 100 Best Companies.

9:30 – 10:30 am                 Keynote & Conversation

10:30 – 11:00 am               Networking Break

11:00 – 12:30 Concurrent Sessions: Round I — A. Two-for-One Case Studies: It takes a Village – Work Life from the Team Perspective

Two of our best companies roll up their sleeves and take a deep dive into cutting edge work life development with a rare look into the internal workings across departments.  In this comprehensive session, teams from two companies tackle the nuts and bolts of implementation, sustainability, delivery, customization, communications, and more.  Executives, leaders and practitioners join together to elaborate on their roles, approaches and successes related to key work life concepts.  Hear about ROI at its best, learn from pitfalls and challenges across departments, and learn more about effective strategies that best companies employ in the work life world.

B.  Moms in Balance: Work Life Workshop

Our Moms in Balance workshop offerings address some of the most pressing concerns of today’s working parents.  Facilitators lead attendees through activities and materials designed to give participants a taste of practical stress-busting and sanity-saving strategies to help them manage busy careers while raising healthy, happy families.  Watch this space for program updates.

12:30 – 2:00 pm                 Awards Luncheon

• Ted Childs Life Work Excellence Award

• Hall of Fame Awards Inductions

• Quarter Century Award Inductions

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

A. Case Studies: Economic Realities of a Revolution – What it Takes to Reboot, Retool, and Rework

Despite an expected economic upturn, top companies are still working within tight budgets.  They must meet the needs of a leaner workforce, tasked with greater expectations, pressures and challenges.  They have to find a way to recruit top talent, while retaining all talent.  Possible work life practices may include:

• Doing more with less (creativity/innovation)
• Investment strategies/decision-making
• Determining ROI/the business case for work life

Registration

 • Individual Conference Registration (includes Dinner Ticket): $2,095

• Dinner Table only: $6,000

• Individual Conference Registration Government/Nonprofit (includes Dinner Ticket) - $1,495

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Hotel & Travel

New York Marriott Marquis
1535 Broadway
New York, NY  10036
Tel: 877-303-0104

A discounted room rate of $299 is available and expires Oct. 4, 2013. Please call the hotel directly and mention Working Mother's Work Life Congress conference.