| Resetting The Clockwork: Possibilities for Healthy Employees, Retirees, Families, Businesses and Communities |
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ellen Galinsky is President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute, a Manhattan-based non-profit organization that conducts research on the changing family, changing workforce and changing community. Thomas Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He has served as a third-party mediator, fact finder, and arbitrator and as a consultant to a variety of government and private sector organizations and labor-management groups. He was a consultant for one year to the Secretary of Labor in the department of Labor's Office of Policy Evaluation and Research. In 1996, Prof. Kochan received the Heneman Career Achievement Award. From 1993 to 1995 he was appointed to the Clinton Administration's Commission on the Future of Work/Management Relations. The Commission investigated methods to improve the productivity and global competitiveness of the American workplace. He is the president of the International Industrial Relations Association. He has done research on a variety of topics related to industrial relations and human resource management in the public and private sector. He is the author of several books, reports and working papers. Marc Freedman is Founder and President of Civic Ventures. He also led the effort to create The Experience Corps, the nation's largest national service program engaging Americans 50 and above. Formerly Vice President of Public/PrivateVentures and a Visiting Fellow of Kings College, University of London , Freedman is author of the book, < http://www.civicventures.org/primetime.html > Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America. An editor's recommendation of the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, Prime Time was hailed by The New York Times as an "inspiring, informative, mind-opening book." His earlier book, < http://www.civicventures.org/kindness.html > The Kindness of Strangers, was called "the definitive book of the (mentoring) movement" by The Los Angeles Times, and was recently reissued in paperback by Cambridge University Press. A frequent commentator in the national media, Freedman has testified before numerous committees of the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament on topics including the aging of America , retirement, and volunteering. He is a high honors graduate of Swarthmore College with an MBA from Yale University , and the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Ashoka Fellowship, the Maxwell A. Pollack Award of the Gerontological Society of America and the Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy. He currently serves on the board of Generations United. Chai Feldblum is the Director of Workplace Flexibility 2010, a research, outreach, and consensus-building enterprise to develop a comprehensive national policy on workplace flexibility. Professor Feldblum joined the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center in 1991 and established the Federal Legislation Clinic in 1993. Feldblum coined the term "legislative lawyer" to describe a lawyer equally skilled in law and politics who can research, draft and negotiate legislation and administrative regulations. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Feldblum served as the principal lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union's AIDS Project where she drafted and negotiated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Feldblum served as a law clerk to Judge Frank M. Coffin on the First Circuit Court of Appeals and to Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Feldblum also worked as a lobbyist on population issues and as a staff person to then-Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski. Professor Feldblum received her BA from Barnard College and her JD from Harvard Law School. MODERATORS Erin Kelly is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota where she is also affiliated with the Life Course Center , the Minnesota Population Center , and the Center for Labor Policy. She received her Ph.D. in 2000 from Princeton University . Professor Kelly studies changes in the employment policies and practices of U.S. workplaces and the consequences of those changes for organizations and for workers' careers, health, and well-being. Her research on maternity leaves and employer-sponsored child care benefits has been published in the American Journal of Sociology. The article on maternity leaves (co-authored with Frank Dobbin) won the 2000 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research and the Follett Award for research on political history from the American Political Science Association. She is currently conducting research on non-compliance with the Family & Medical Leave Act, the implementation of flexible work arrangements, the spread of sexual harassment policies and training programs, the work and family experiences of young adults, and the effects of diversity policies on the representation of people of color and women in management. Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes is an associate professor who teaches community theory, organizational theory, and social planning at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. From 1990 - 1999, she conducted research at the Center for Work & Family at Boston College. Dr. Pitt-Catsouphes is the Director of the Sloan Work and Family Research Network which was established in 1997. The Network provides resources about working families to business leaders and state legislators as well as to academics around the world. PANELISTS AND INTRODUCERS Ellen Anderson was elected to the Minnesota Senate in 1992 and re-elected in 1996, 2000 and 2002 as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor-Party. She represents District 66, which includes the St. Paul neighborhoods of St. Anthony Park, the University of Minnesota ’s St. Paul campus, Midway, Como , North End, and part of Falcon Heights and the East Side. Robert H. Bruininks, Ph.D. was appointed the 15 th President of the University of Minnesota on November 8, 2002. His appointment as president is the culmination of 36 years of service to the University as professor, dean and most recently, executive vice president and provost. President Bruininks is strongly committed to the University of Minnesota’s responsibilities, as a public land-grant research university, to the State and its citizens. This is reflected through his active leadership in the Great North Alliance and the Itasca Project, organizations addressing critical issues affecting regional economic development and quality of life. Roland Dille is the seventh and longest serving president in the history of Moorhead State, retiring in 1994 after 26 years at the helm. He was born near Dassel, Minnesota, and graduated from Dassel High School, and then served three years in the army including a year and a half as an infantryman in Europe. Dr. Dille received a B.A. summa cum laude, in English from the University of Minnesota in l948, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. His Ph. D. came in 1962, also in English at Minnesota . He taught at Minnesota, St. Olaf College, and Minnesota State University Moorhead, becoming president of that institute in l968. From 1981-82 he was president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and from l980 to 1986 a member of the National Council of the Humanities. In 1994 Dr. Dille was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Minnesota, Morris. He has served as a member of the boards of several historical societies, including the Minnesota Historical Society. He has also published numerous articles on literature, education, and, especially in retirement, on local history. Dr. Dille is currently writing a history of Dassel. Tom Gillaspy has served as the Minnesota State Demographer since 1979. During that time, he has been involved with a wide-ranging set of issue, applying an understanding of demographic trends in such areas as the state’s economy, health care for an aging population, higher education, welfare reform, rural population change, labor shortages, government spending, and the aging state workforce. The demographer is in the Minnesota Department of Administration. Susan Hagstrum, Ph.D., wife of Robert H. Bruininks, the fifteenth president of the University of Minnesota, is a university associate who supports several University initiatives that are near and dear to her heart, most notably the President’s Initiative on Children, Youth and Families. She is a charter member of the University’s first Women’s Philanthropic Leadership Circle in the College of Education and Human Development and serves on several arts boards, including the Weisman Art Museum, the Bell Museum, and the Tweed Museum of Art. Susan also serves on the boards of the University of Minnesota Pediatrics Foundation, the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, and the National MS Society. For the time being, Susan has put her work as the principal consultant and founder of the Bridgewater Group aside. The Bridgewater Group was formed in 1997 to provide leadership to non-profit organizations as they help their clients work to improve results. IN her work, she is often asked to help schools identify and prepare for the issues surrounding changed and accountability. Susan is an expert in strategic planning and leading broad-based community committees to consensus on controversial issues. As a speaker, process facilitator and workshop leader, she applies practical approaches to improving organizational performance. Steve Hunter is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Minnesota AFL-CIO. Prior to his election to the post in June 2001, he served for 10 years as the Political Action Director in Minnesota for the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Hunter earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota in 1973. He is the father of two adult daughters and lives in Woodbury, MN with his wife, Gail Antonson. Michelle Hynes, Director of Programs for Experience Corps, a position she has held since June 2003. Michelle has focused her career on helping to improve public education other public institutions that serve children and families. Before joining Experience Corps, she was an independent consultant specializing in writing, program planning, and meeting facilitation for nonprofit organizations in the Washington , D.C. , area. Her previous experience includes managing a multi-million dollar, federally funded children's literacy program at Reading Is Fundamental while guiding the reorganization of a program staff that doubled in size during her three-year tenure. During the previous six years, she held three progressively responsible positions at the Public Education Network (PEN). Her accomplishments at PEN included designing and developing the organization's first information clearinghouse; managing several foundation-funded programs; and producing short publications about school reform and organizational development issues of interest to local education funds. As a volunteer, Michelle has worked with the Washington Area Women's Foundation, the In2Books Pen Pal program, and an informal work of young voters interested in local school governance. She holds a master's degree in education from the University of Pennsylvania. Dan Mikel is currently President of the Minnesota State Retiree Council AFL-CIO as well as a General Board and Executive Board Member of the Minnesota AFL-CIO. Dan taught Economics, Government, History and English classes in Minnesota for 35 years, the last 32 in South St. Paul. He has also taught in Denmark and Australia as an International Teaching Fellow Exchange Teacher. Since retirement Dan has been engaged in numerous political activities. He has taught a variety of government/history related courses at the Seminar for Inquiring Minds program in West St. Paul as well as lecturing frequently at Danish folk school meetings. He currently serves on the South St. Paul Library Board. Dan received a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in education from Macalester College. Phyllis Moen holds the McKnight Presidential Chair of Sociology at the University of Minnesota . Prior to her move to Minnesota in 2003, Dr. Moen spent 25 years at Cornell University as the Ferris Family Professor of Life Course Studies, and the founding director of the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center. Professor Moen has taught about and written numerous articles, books, and chapters on work, family, retirement, social policy, gender, health, and the life course. www.soc.umn.edu/~moen/. Jim Painter is currently Director of Human resources for ECM Publishers, Inc., a publishing and printing company founded by the late Governor Elmer L. Andersen and committed to excellence in newspaper publishing and commercial printing. Jim has 24 years experience in the Human Resource management field with responsibility for all aspects of Human Resources organization with special interest and background in professional development, management and organizational development. Jim has had additional experience in labor and employment law, employee relations, compensation systems and corporate benefits administration. Cali Ressler dedicates herself to creating work environments for employees that increase their engagement and drive business results for Best Buy, a Fortune 100 company. As the work/life programs lead for North America ’s No. 1 specialty retailer of technology and entertainment products and services, Ressler manages the work environment component of the company’s employee rewards program and helps create an atmosphere that makes Best Buy a great place to work. Arthur J. Rolnick is senior vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, an associate economist with the Federal Open Market Committee, and an adjunct professor of economics, MBA program, Lingnan College, Guangzhou, China and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. As a top official of the Federal Reserve Bank, Rolnick regularly attends meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee—the Federal Reserve’s principal body responsible for establishing national money and credit policies. Louise Root-Robbins is currently employed as the University of Wisconsin System Coordinator for the Status of Women Initiative and the Co-Director (with Professor Bernice Durand) of the UW System Sloan Project for Academic Career Advancement. In this capacity, she is a resource for campus-based and collaborative initiatives to work toward organizational improvements to improve the status of women –faculty, staff and students. Prior to this position, Louise has taught and done research in the medical and nursing schools at UW-Madison. Ms. Root-Robbins has been a senior administrator at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and Division of Health where she worked closely with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on implementing statewide HIV/AIDS prevention programs and advising the state superintendent on comprehensive school health program implementation. She is frequently invited to speak on leadership, gender, work/life issues and organization change and development at institutions of higher education. Steven J. Rosenstone is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Scienceat the University of Minnesota . Steven J. Rosenstone has had a distinguished career in higher education, beginning with his summa cum laude B.A. degree from Washington University in 1973. He completed his M.A. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1979 at the University of California , Berkeley . As an assistant then full professor at Yale University , he established a national reputation as a specialist in electoral politics. In 1986, he was recruited to the University of Michigan, where he served as professor, program director for the Center for Political Studies, and director of the National Election Studies—a National Science Foundation-designated national resource in the social sciences. He is the author of four books and numerous scholarly articles and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jodi Sandfort is the Director of the Children & Families Program at the McKnight Foundation, where she manages a portfolio of nearly $20 million in annual giving and a team of seven professional staff. Dr. Sandfort is also an Associate Professor at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. At the Institute, she teaches courses in public and nonprofit management, government-nonprofit relationships, and organizational change. Her research, teaching, and philanthropic practice all focus on improving the implementation of social policies, particularly those targeting low-income families and children. Dr. Sandfort has published numerous articles for academics and practitioners about welfare and early childhood education policy, front-line policy implementation, nonprofit and public management, and research methodology. She has worked as a case manager for the AIDS Care Connection in Detroit, as a Program Assistant at the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington DC, and as an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She has consulted with the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and other non-profit human service organizations. Dr. Sandfort also has trained mid-level managers from the Social Security Administration and NY Department of Education, staff and manages local non-profit organizations, as well as master’s and doctoral students. She received her Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Michigan in Political Science and Social Work. She also holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Michigan and a BA from Vassar College (magna cum laude ). She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Originally from Menomonie, Wisconsin, Dr. Sandfort lives with her husband and two sons in Minneapolis. Jim Scheibel has been the Executive Director of Ramsey Action Programs — better known as RAP since 2003. In the 1970s Mr. Scheibel was a group organizer for RAP, a community catalyst for change at the center of issues affecting the low income sector that continues to provide avenues out of poverty for the citizens of Ramsey and Washington counties.
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