Paul Rupert is the President of Washington, D.C.-based Rupert & Company. He combines thirty-five years’ general management, consulting, training and research experience with expertise in the development of flexible and respectful leadership skills and online systems.

Paul started managing flexibly with his first start-up in 1972. He pioneered the development of explicitly business-based approaches and tools for creating the flexible workplace. As Associate Director of New Ways to Work and Flexibility Practice Leader of WFD Consulting, he directed national flexibility advocacy efforts and served a broad and distinguished client list of more than a hundred companies ranging from Aetna and AOL to Wal-Mart and Xerox.

Mr. Rupert speaks widely about organizational flexibility and is quoted regularly in media such as the Wall Street Journal, ABC World News, CBS News, NPR, Marketplace and Newsweek. His firm publishes the twice-monthly FlexBulletin, an advisory on workplace flexibility. He is a graduate of Stanford University.