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Creating Effective and Flexible Workplaces... by Ellen Galinsky

Ellen Galinsky
President and Co-Founder
Families and Work Institute

Ellen Galinsky is president and co-founder of Families and Work Institute. She co-directs The National Study of the Changing Workforce, The National Study of Employers and When Work Works projects at Families and Work Institute, in addition to directing the Alfred P. Sloan Academy Awards for Faculty Career Flexibility, The Supporting Work Project, and Mind in the Making.Ms. Galinsky is also the program director of The Conference Board Work Life Conference and staffs The Conference Board’s Work Life Leadership Council.

Ms. Galinsky is the author of more than 35 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.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from Vassar College. She was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources in 2005 and a 2006 Purpose Prize Fellow. A popular keynote speaker, she appears regularly at national conferences, on television and in the media, including Today, Good Morning America, The Early Show, and Oprah.

Ellen Galinsky has been married for 41 years to artist Norman Galinsky and they are the parents of two grown children: Philip, an ethnomusicologist and founder-director of Samba New York, an inspiring new performance group, and Lara, vice president at Echoing Green, whose mission is to spark social change by identifying, investing and supporting the world's most exceptional emerging leaders and the organizations they launch.

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Families and Work Institute is a nonprofit center for research that provides data to inform decision-making on the changing workforce, changing family and changing community. Founded in 1989, FWI is known for ahead of the curve, non-partisan research into emerging work-life issues; for solutions-oriented studies addressing topics of vital importance to all sectors of society; and for fostering connections among workplaces, families, and communities.

THEIR MISSION
Families and Work Institute (FWI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that studies the changing workforce, family and community. As a preeminent think-tank, FWI is known for being ahead of the curve, identifying emerging issues, and then conducting rigorous research that often challenges common wisdom, provides insight and knowledge, and inspires and leads to change. Its purpose is to create research to live by.

THEIR WORK
Families and Work Institute was co-founded in 1989 by Ellen Galinsky, currently president of the Institute, and Dana Friedman. Their work focuses on three major areas: the workforce/ workplace, youth and early childhood.

From its earliest beginnings, the Institute has had an enormous impact in creating and shaping the work life movement, not only by raising the awareness about work life issues with policymakers and thought leaders, including governors and presidents, but also by supporting agents of change in business, early childhood and youth development, education and community engagement.

Listen to the “What Kids Really Think About Their Working Parents” Podcast

Great discussion with Ellen Galinsky, Lisa Belkin, and Dr. Joshua Coleman: click here for the podcast

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