Our mission at Families and Work Institute is to anticipate emerging issues and conduct rigorous research that leads to action. We bring our Corporate Leadership Circle members “research to live by.”
FWI’s Corporate Leadership Circle keeps you in touch with the ideas and people who shape the present and future; who make things happen. Please join us for another exciting round of activities. Families and Work Institute (FWI)’s Corporate Leadership Circle (CLC) is a unique group of top-level national and global companies deeply interested in how to create an engaged and productive workforce and in research-based workforce trends. In this increasingly optimistic, but still challenging global economy, the opportunity to come together to learn from experts and our peers is more important than ever. The Circle is composed of professionals in the areas of work life, talent management, diversity and inclusion, workplace flexibility, women's leadership and networks, employee resource groups, management development and training, organizational design and effectiveness and business strategy.
Sponsors of the Corporate Leadership Circle:
- access innovative practice models developed to respond to the changing economy by award-winning companies;
- learn about workforce trends and emerging issues found in nationally representative and global research http://familiesandwork.org/site/research/reports/main.html studies conducted by Ellen Galinsky, Terry Bond, Kerstin Aumann, Kenneth Matos and other lead FWI researchers in order to plan their future agenda;
- have the opportunity to ask questions of renowned historian and author Stephanie Coontz; reporters like Katy Kay of BBC World News, Claire Shipman of Good Morning America and Judy Woodruff of The PBS NewsHour; former First Gentleman of Michigan and nationally recognized expert on leadership and gender Dan Mulhern; developers of the Shriver Report like Managing Editor of A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s Olivia Morgan, leading academics like Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Brad Harrington of Boston College and Princeton’s Eldar Shafir, chief policy advisors to US political parties like Karen Kornbluh, business leaders like Pitney Bowes’ CEO Murray Martin and Merck’s Chief Diversity Officer Deb Dagit; and cultural commentators like Celinda Lake;
- listen to important authors like Alison Maitland, Kent Lineback and Linda A. Hall, Dan Mulhern, Stephanie Coontz, Mirella Visser, Jody Heymann, Linda Tarr-Whelan and Tim Sanders whose new books and reports they have been wanting to read; and
- benefit from open exchanges with their professional peers on topics such as how to hire and support our transitioning veterans and their families, how to manage talent in a flagging economy; how work is best done in this 24/7 global environment; the scope and execution of flexible work arrangements; and how to make and keep human capital issues Board Room relevant.
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Sponsors of the Corporate Leadership Circle:
- attend the Circle’s annual Briefing http://familiesandwork.org/site/support/clccalls.html—a half to full-day meeting with colleagues where key issues are discussed in a group setting and subject experts lead in-depth workshops;
- listen in on CLC Conference Calls* and Round Robins http://familiesandwork.org/site/support/clccalls.html five to six times a year with leading thinkers, researchers, authors and pollsters and peers;
- participate in CLC Cluster Calls—three to four companies taking on thorny issues of mutual concern;
- attend the annual Families and Work Institute/Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Work Life Conference: http://familiesandwork.org/site/events/conferences/main.html and our Work Life Legacy Awards: http://familiesandwork.org/site/events/wlla/site/index.html;
- order Families and Work Institute publications at a 20% discount;** and
- use CLC PR and Media Alerts to draw attention to their company’s work-life achievements and employees’ stories. Families and Work Institute is regularly in the news, and reporters turn to the Institute to learn about and report on what’s new in business practice.
We encourage member companies to designate four or five key contacts in departments such as Work Life, Diversity, Talent Management, HR and Women’s Leadership and then include leaders in other groups and the heads your Employee Resource Groups so that you can leverage the membership fully. We are always available to answer your questions and to enlist our Research Team on your behalf.
Corporate Leadership Circle annual contributions support Families and Work Institute’s ahead-of-the-curve research and allow us to continue to explore cresting issues of national and international importance.
For more information about Families and Work Institute's Corporate Leadership Circle, please contact Carol J. Bryce-Buchanan, Director of Development, at 212.465.2044 ext.209 or cbryce-buchanan@familiesandwork.org.
Families and Work Institute (FWI) is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to provide data to inform decision-making on the changing workforce, changing family and changing community. Contributions are tax-deductible.
*We are grateful to Verizon Communications for providing communication and Web-conferencing services to the Corporate Leadership Circle.
**Please contact Marline Griffith at 212.465.2044 ext.212 or mgriffith@familiesandwork.org to take advantage of your 20 % Corporate Leadership Circle discount on all Families and Work Institute publications available for sale. |
