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—Conference Agenda— |
| WEDNESDAY, MAY 31ST |
| 12:00– 4:30 |
Meeting of Research Advisory Committee and SENIOR Advisors |
| 5:00 – 6:00 |
Welcoming Marriott Reception – All Conference Participants |
| 6:00 – 7:00 |
Keynote: Diverse Experiences of Aging and Work
Juan Williams, NPR
Interviews: Ellen Galinsky, Families and Work Institute and Deborah Russell, AARP |
| 7:00 – 9:00 |
Dinner |
| THURSDAY, JUNE 1ST |
| 7:45 – 8:45 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 – 9:00 |
Welcome and Challenge from the Directors:
Michael A. Smyer and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Boston College Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility |
| 9:00 – 10:30 |
Session 1: The Big Picture
Ellis Henican, Newsday
Arlene Johnson, WFD Consulting
William Albright, MITRE Corporation
Moderator: Barry Collamore, Raytheon Company
Ellis Henican will discuss selected social-economic-political-technological-business trends, posing questions about the implications that they have for the employment options available to different groups of older workers. Arlene Johnson will comment on the impact of trends on the 21st century workplace. William Albright will talk about ways that the business environment has shaped some of the strategies that MITRE has developed to retain the expertise of its older workers.
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| 10:30 – 11:00 |
Break/Refreshments |
| 11:00 – 12:00 |
Roundtable Discussions & Exercise: Taking the External Business Environment into Account |
| 12:00 – 12:30 |
Reporting of Future Scenarios for the Organizational Assessment Tool |
| 12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
| 1:45 – 3:15 |
Session 2: Strategic Workplace Perspectives
Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Michael A. Smyer
Nina Madoo, Marriott International
Stephen Wing, CVS Corporation
Garry Giannone and Maureen Corcoran, Prudential Financial
Moderator: Annette Byrd, GlaxoSmithKline Inc.
This session will focus on the relationships between key business strategies and approaches to talent management, and the employment of older workers specifically. Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Michael A. Smyer will present selected findings from an ongoing national study, the Benchmark Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development. Nina Madoo, Stephen Wing, and Garry Giannone & Maureen Corcoran will discuss their perspectives of the relationships between business strategies and the aging of the workforce. |
| 3:15 – 3:45 |
Break/Refreshments |
| 3:45 – 4:15 |
Roundtable Discussions & Exercise: Business Strategies – Links to the Aging of the
Workforce |
| 4:15 – 5:00 |
Reporting of Implications of Strategy for the Organizational Assessment Tool & Highlights of the Conference Day |
| 5:45 – 7:00 |
Reception at Vareika Galleries |
| 7:00 – 9:00 |
Dinner in Newport (on your own). The Center will make arrangements for small group
reservations at local restaurants. |
| FRIDAY, JUNE 2nd |
| 8:00 – 9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Session 3: Experiences from Abroad: Stimulating Ideas for Innovation and Excellence
Gary Burtless, Brookings Institution
Peggy Henderson-Divers, IBM Corporation
Philip Taylor, University of Cambridge
Moderator: Victor Marshall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This session will focus on aging and work in other countries as a means of identifying innovative approaches to recruiting, retaining, and engaging workers across the life course, including workers in later careers. Gary Burtless will provide an overview of the demographic-social-policy profiles of countries which are confronting the aging of their populations. Peggy Henderson-Divers will share insights based on the global research and practice experiences of IBM Corporation. Philip Taylor will discuss a project, “Developments in European Initiatives for an Ageing Workforce,” which includes 120 case studies of employers in European Union countries. |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Break/Refreshments |
| 10:30 – 11:30 |
Roundtable Discussion & Exercise: Innovations for the 21st Century Workplace |
| 11:30 – 12:15 |
Reporting of Workplace 2015: Implications for the Organizational Assessment Tool |
| 12:15 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
| 1:00 - 1:30 |
Confronting the Strategic Threat of an Aging
Workforce: A Framework for Action
David DeLong, MIT AgeLab, author of Lost Knowledge: Confronting the
Threat of an Aging Workforce. |
| 1:30 – 2:00 |
Closing Remarks |
We would like to thank our conference sponsors: |
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, CVS Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline Inc.,
IBM Corporation and
Marriott International. |
And our conference friends: |
Ford Motor Company, MITRE Corporation and Pearson Education. |
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