Amy Richman, Senior Consultant at WFD Consulting, has consulted and conducted research on work-life and work environment issues in business and academic settings for more than twenty-five years.

Amy develops new research measurement tools and innovative products for linking human resource and work-life initiatives to business objectives including the drivers of employee engagement TEP, a team-based solution to reduce unnecessary work and enhance team productivity, and FlexMetrix, a measurement system that helps companies quantify the need and impact of flexible work practices.

In addition to working with many leading organizations in North America on workforce issues of engagement, flexibility, workload, resilience, woman’s advancement and dependent care Ms. Richman’s global work includes projects in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Amy is the co-author of Business Impacts of Flexibility: An Imperative for Expansion, senior researcher and author of Innovative Workplace Flexibility Options for Hourly Workers, an investigation of flexibility best practices and outcomes for lower wage workers; Guide for Implementing Flexibility with an Hourly and Nonexempt Workforce and author of several scholarly publications.

Prior to joining WFD, Amy was a research associate at Harvard University where she managed cross-cultural studies of women's education, parenting and child development in several countries. Dr. Richman received her A.B. degree from Brandeis, and her master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, in the field of Measurement and Evaluation.