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| William Albright (MITRE) |
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William D. Albright, Jr. is Quality of Work Life & Benefits Director for The MITRE Corporation. His responsibilities include: the oversight and direction of programs and policies designed to enhance and maintain the quality of work life for employees in areas pertaining to work life navigation; benefit program design; employee morale; diversity and equal employment opportunity; health, safety and wellness; and conference and meeting planning. Prior to taking on this role, Mr. Albright served as Corporate Director of Human Resources Management with oversight over much of the above as well as staffing and employee relations. Mr. Albright has been with MITRE for 28 years and has more than 33 years of experience in the human resources field. Before joining MITRE in 1978, he was Head of Personnel and Security for The Aerospace Corporation in Washington, D.C. Mr. Albright’s education includes a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, and a master’s in business administration from the California State University, Dominguez Hills. Mr. Albright has received a number of internal and external awards including being honored as a senior human resources leader within the greater Washington, D.C. area.
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| Gary Burtless, Ph.D. (Brookings Institution) |
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Gary Burtless, Ph.D., holds the Whitehead Chair in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. His research is focused on issues related to public finance, aging, saving, labor markets, income distribution, social insurance and the behavioral effects of government tax and transfer policy. Recent work has centered on sources of growing wage and income inequality in the U.S., the influence of international trade on income inequality and the job market, and the implications of privatizing the social security system. Prior to Brookings, he served as an economist in the policy and evaluation offices of the Secretary of Labor and the former HEW. Dr. Burtless has a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. He has authored a number of books and popular and scholarly articles on the economic effects of Social Security, public welfare, unemployment and insurance.
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| Maureen Corcoran (Prudential Financial) |
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Maureen Corcoran is Prudential’s Vice President of Diversity. Her responsibilities include a work/life strategy focused on effective programs and services to help its employees manage their personal affairs. These include a program for alternate work arrangements called "business-based flexibility," 12,400 health screenings provided to employees in the last year; online nutrition and fitness plans, enabling employees to create their own health and fitness programs.
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| David DeLong, Ph.D. (MIT AgeLab) |
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David DeLong, Ph.D., is a research fellow at MIT AgeLab, where he conducts research into the challenges posed by an aging workforce. He is an Adjunct Professor at Babson College where he teachers a graduate business course on leading and managing change. His areas of interest include identifying threats to productivity created by lost knowledge, design and implementation of knowledge retention solutions, leading organization change, and overcoming barriers in building a high performance culture. Dr. DeLong has consulted with many global companies and his articles have appeared in business journals and magazines such as Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek International, Computerworld, and Inc. Magazine. His most recent book is Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of the Aging Workforce. He has a doctorate in organizational behavior from Boston University and an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
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| Ellen M. Galinsky (Families and Work Institute) |
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Ellen M. Galinsky is President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute (FWI), a non-profit organization that conducts research on the changing family, changing workforce and changing
community. Ms. Galinsky is the author of over 30 books and reports, including the groundbreaking book, Ask the Children, selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best work-life books of 1999. She has published more than 100 articles in academic journals, books, and magazines. At the Institute, Ms. Galinsky co-directs The National Study of the Changing Workforce, a nationally representative study of the U.S. workforce that is updated every five years. She also co-directs When Work Works, a project on workplace flexibility and effectiveness funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and has launched the Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility. Ms. Galinsky co-directed the 2005 National Study of Employers, a nationally representative study that tracks trends in employment benefits, policies, and practices. A leading authority on work family-issues, Ms. Galinsky was a presenter at the 2000 White House Conference on Teenagers and the 1997 White House Conference on Child Care. She is the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from Vassar College. In 2005, she was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. Before co-founding FWI, Ms. Galinsky was on the faculty of Bank Street College of Education for 25 years, where she helped establish the field of work and family life.
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| Garry W. Giannone (Prudential Financial) |
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Garry W. Giannone, Vice President of Health and Wellness at Prudential Financial in Newark, N.J., is responsible for advising senior executives on organizational and employee issues relevant to this expertise. In collaboration with the Health and Wellness executive team, he develops and guides the implementation of strategy and service delivery, integrating and promoting employee assistance, behavioral health, medical, wellness, accommodations, safety, disability and work life initiatives in order to facilitate their usefulness and accessibility to the business groups and their employees worldwide. Garry shares the responsibility with the Vice President of EO/Diversity to co-manage the company-wide Work/Life Initiative and Work/Life Team. He also co-manages the Prudential Behavioral Health Program, with direct oversight of the behavioral health vendor. He is the process owner for Prudential’s cross-functional Workplace Violence Incident Oversight Team (IOT) and the Stress Solutions Team providing consultation and training across the Prudential enterprise.
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| Peggy Henderson-Divers (IBM Corporartion) |
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Peggy Henderson-Divers is Program Manager, Work/Life, Flexibility & Mobility Department at IBM. She is responsible for the IBM Global Work/Life Issues Survey and Global Work/Life Strategy which covers 42 countries. She is also a steering committee member for the Center for Work & Family and a SENIOR Advisor for the Center on Aging & Work, both at Boston College. An employee of IBM for nearly 25 years, she has held various positions in human resources (employee/management training, executive resources, equal opportunity, corporate relocation, compensation, and multicultural women’s advancement). She has a management B.S. degree in marketing from the University of Bridgeport. She works from home in Littleton, CO, and is married with two dogs.
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| Ellis Henican (Newsday) |
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Ellis Henican is a Pulitzer prize winning staff columnist for Newsday, a political analyst at the Fox News Channel and the host of a nationally syndicated weekend show on the Talk Radio Network. He is also the voice of “Stormy” on the hit Cartoon Network series, “Sealab 2021.” Familiar to talk show listeners, Mr. Henican is in his 6th year of a contract with Fox News Network where he appears on prime-time, early morning and mid-day shows. His articles have been published in various national magazines, including The New Republic and Cosmopolitan. His work has been recognized with the Meyer Berger Award for Distinguished Writing About New York City, the National Clarion Award for Column Writing, and he shares two Pulitzer Prizes for Spot News. He has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he won the top student prize, the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He began his career as a reporter at the Kentucky Post and the Albany (N.Y.) Knickerbocker News.
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| Arlene A. Johnson (WFD) |
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Arlene A. Johnson, a Vice President at WFD Consulting, has over 20 years of experience working with business organizations to identify and address workforce and workplace issues and assist in the development of strategies for effective change. Prior to joining WFD, she held positions as Vice President of Families and Work Institute, Director of Workforce Research for the Conference Board, and Vice President of Catalyst. In these roles, she has worked with dozens of companies in the U.S. and around the world and has chronicled leading edge workplace issues over the past two decades. Arlene has appeared widely in print, on radio and on television as an expert commentator. Her special areas of expertise are work-life strategy, women's advancement, and flexible work arrangements. She has degrees, with high honors, from Mt. Holyoke College, Union Theological Seminary, and Rutgers Graduate School of Management.
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| Nina Madoo (Marriott International) |
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Nina Madoo, Director of Workplace Strategies Diversity and Workforce Effectiveness for Marriott International, is responsible for change management strategies that provide work life support to Marriott associates, both management and hourly. These programs align with Marriott International human resources strategies. These services include an associate resource line, childcare resources, eldercare, and flexibility that meet the complex needs of the workforce. Prior to her position within work/life, she was the Director of Marriott's University Relations and Recruitment Activities at 40 college campuses nationwide, to attract and retain entry level management and internship talent. A graduate of Delaware University, Ms. Madoo joined Marriott in 1989 and held numerous hotel positions before joining human resources 1996, serving as director of HR at the Marriott/Research Triangle Park Hotel in Durham, NC, and later transitioning to the national recruiting team.
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| Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D. (Boston College Center on Aging & Work/ Workplace Flexibility) |
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Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., is co-director of the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College. She has extensive expertise in organizational studies and has conducted studies about workplace culture, supervisor-employee relationships, and the adoption of innovative employee policies and programs by small, medium and large organizations. She is currently the co-principal investigator of the National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development and the Study of Aging and Work in Industry Sectors, both of which are being conducted by the Center on Aging & Work. She is the founder of the Sloan Work and Family Research Network, advising business leaders, academics and governments worldwide about working families. She served as an issue expert at the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. Her articles have been published in a number of scholarly and practitioner journals. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes was a founding co-editor for the international journal, Community, Work and Family and co-edited a special issue of the ANNALS of Political and Social Sciences: The Evolving World of Work and Family: New Stakeholders, New Voices. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes is the lead co-editor of The Work-Family Handbook: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches to Research, recently published by Erlbaum Publishers (2006). She is currently co-editing a special issue of Generations that will focus on aging and work. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes has an MSP from Boston College, and Ph.D. from Boston University.
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| Deborah Russell, AARP |
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Deborah Russell is the Director of Workforce Issues at AARP, the primary national resource on issues addressing the economic and retirement security of individuals 50+. Her responsibilities include working with the business community to create employment opportunities that are fair, flexible, and that capitalize on the wealth of knowledge and expertise mature workers bring to today’s workplace. As Director, Ms. Russell leads a team that focuses on issues effecting individuals 50+ by developing information, programs, technical assistance, and practical research. In addition, she established the Best Employers for Workers Over 50 program which awards companies that demonstrate exemplary policies and practices for the 50+ workforce. Best Employers awardees receive national media attention and are featured annually in AARP The Magazine. Ms. Russell has issue expertise in aging workforce and employment issues and has appeared on national television programs such as CNN, CNBC, Good Morning America CBS Morning Show and CBS Evening News and is frequently quoted in national and local newspapers. In addition, Ms. Russell sits on the Board of Directors for the American Society on Aging. Ms. Russell has her degree in Political Science from the University of Maryland.
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| Michael A. Smyer, Ph.D. (Boston College Center on Aging & Work/ Workplace Flexibility) |
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Michael A. Smyer, Ph.D., is co-director of the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Psychology, all at Boston College. A specialist in geriatric mental health research, his research interests include the impact of context on an individual’s adjustment to aging. Dr. Smyer is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Gerontological Society of America and a recent recipient of the M. Powell Lawton Award for distinguished contributions to clinical geropsychology. He has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, Psychology and Aging, and, currently, Generations. He is the co-author of Aging and Mental Health. Dr. Smyer is currently the co-principal investigator of the National Study of Business Strategy and Workforce Development, the Study of Aging and Work in Industry Sectors, and The Meaning of Work Study, all of which are being conducted by the Center on Aging & Work/Workplace Flexibility. Dr. Smyer was a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging.
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| Philip Taylor, Ph.D. (University of Cambridge) |
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Philip Taylor, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Associate and Executive Director of Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing at the University of Cambridge. He is also Professor of Ageing and Public Policy at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. He has researched and written in the field of age and employment for fifteen years. Interests include individual orientations to work and retirement, employers' attitudes and practices towards older workers, and international developments in public policies aimed at combating age barriers in the labor market and extending working life. Current major research projects include one funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada which is looking at
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and life-course issues in the information technology sector and another funded by the European Social Fund which is looking at age barriers in small and medium-sized enterprises and developing interventions. Dr. Taylor holds an MSc and a Ph.D. in applied psychology from Cranfield Institute of Technology.
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| Juan Williams (NPR) |
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Juan Williams is a Senior Correspondent for National Public Radio. He also works on documentaries and participates in NPR's efforts to explore television opportunities. From 2000 - 2001, Williams hosted NPR's national call-in show Talk of the Nation. In that role, he brought the program to cities and towns across America for monthly radio "town hall" meetings before live audiences. The town hall meetings were a part of "The Changing Face of America," a year-long NPR series focused on how Americans are dealing with rapid changes in society and culture as the United States enters the 21st century. Williams is author of many publications including the nonfiction bestseller Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, the companion volume to the critically acclaimed television series. In 2004, Williams became involved with AARP's Voices of Civil Rights project, leading a veteran team of reporters and editors in the production of My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience. The book presents the harrowing and haunting eyewitness accounts of some 50 activists who served as foot soldiers and field generals in the Civil Rights Movement. During his 21-year career at The Washington Post, Williams served as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, and White House reporter. Articles by Williams have appeared in magazines ranging from Newsweek, Fortune, and The Atlantic Monthly to Ebony, Gentlemen's Quarterly, and The New Republic.
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| Steve Wing (CVS Corporation) |
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Stephen M. Wing is Director of Government Programs for CVS Corporation. He has been in the drugstore business for over 30 years and has devoted the last fifteen to working with government agencies, non-traditional employment organizations and faith-based institutions in recruiting targeted groups of people for employment. Wing has assisted CVS in developing cutting-edge programs such as the One-Stop/CVS Regional Learning Center design in Washington, D.C., and the Cassadaga Job Corps Pharmacy Technician Program which have both received national attention. Under Wing’s leadership CVS’ Government Programs division has taken an active role in Welfare to Work and Faith-based Initiatives. Wing sees a CVS role with Mature Workers and has worked hard to employ these older workers. In 1992, less than 7% of the company’s workforce represented people over 50. Today that number has increased to 17% or 23,413 workers ranging from 50 to over 90. The major change was precipitated by the recognition of impending labor shortages and a coordinated partnership with the National Council on the Aging in recruitment. As a result of this work through CVS, Wing received the 2002 Dorothy Bauer Award from the National Older Workers Employment Services (NOWES) for his leadership and commitment to the employment of mature workers. Wing served on the Board of Directors for the National Council on the Aging from 1999-2005 and presently serves on the NCOA Leadership Council. He holds a B.S. degree in Education from Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota.
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