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Jennifer Sabatini Fraone is the Interim Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Work & Family. Jennifer was formerly the Director of Corporate Partnerships. She works closely with the Boston College Workforce Roundtable, the premier learning and networking community for progressive employers who seek to provide a superior employee experience. Jennifer develops member programming and manages all CWF marketing initiatives including the CWF website, social media, member newsletters, research reports and other publications. Jennifer also works with organizations to provide research, training and consultation on flexibility, work-life balance and other workforce management issues.

Jennifer enjoys presenting on workplace flexibility and work-life balance; recent speaking engagements include the Future of Work Forum, WorldatWork Total Rewards, the New England HR Association and the Massachusetts Conference for Women. Jennifer was the founder of and a regular guest on the Fox 25 News Boston Work-Life Wednesday segment. She has been featured on NECN, Marketplace, NPR, in the Boston Globe, Fortune, The Huffington Post, Human Resource Executive and other publications. Jennifer received her BS in Clinical Psychology from聽Tufts聽University and her Master of Social Work and Master of Business Administration from Boston College. Jennifer and her husband John are the proud parents of two spirited teenagers.

Madeleine is the Assistant Director of Member Services at the Center for Work & Family, in which she supports members of the Boston College Workforce Roundtable. She plans and executes annual Roundtable conferences and monthly virtual events, as well as managing the Center鈥檚 communications. Working with member organizations, Madeleine facilitates research on HR topics of interest, including flexibility, well-being, diversity & inclusion, and women's advancement.

Madeleine is currently an M.B.A. candidate in the Boston College Carroll School of Management. She graduated from 精东影业 in 2022 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science. As an undergraduate, she served as managing editor of the independent student newspaper at 精东影业, The Heights, and was a member of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team of journalists at The Miami Herald.

In her role as Senior Research Associate, Tina works closely with member companies to design, perform and produce primary research on workforce management issues. 聽She is also involved in other research activities of the Center, including benchmarking studies and executive briefings. Prior to joining the Center for Work & Family, Tina worked in product management for Johnson & Johnson and was Chief of Staff at MCP Hahnemann (Drexel) University School of Medicine. 聽She has also worked in various clinical research capacities at Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Tina graduated from Harvard College with an AB in English & American Literature and earned her MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management with a focus on Strategic Management. She and her husband John live in Needham with their three children.

Keila is a researcher and practitioner with an expertise in gender dynamics in the workplace, organizational culture and change, talent management, and leadership development. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Villanova University, an M.A. in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, and a doctoral degree in Administration, Training, and Policy/HR Education from Boston University. As an Organizational Development (OD) practitioner, Keila has worked conducting both large-scale, organization-wide initiatives, as well as department-based interventions within a wide range of industries 鈥� including banking and financial services, information technology, healthcare, and management consulting. Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Keila has held various roles in OD and Training.

She is passionate about encouraging and supporting others to achieve growth and transformation in the pursuit of a more whole, values-driven life. Her interest in examining gender dynamics through the lens of work/life integration amplified after having her two children, solidifying her focus on workplace culture, talent management, and employee engagement.聽 She has since been developing content on a freelance basis related to these topics.

Julie is the Fiscal Specialist at the Center for Work & Family and is responsible for accounting correspondence and bookkeeping.聽 Julie has nearly 30 years of experience in public and private accounting.聽 She graduated from Stonehill College and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.聽

Dr. Brad Harrington was formerly the Executive Director of the Center for Work & Family, a research professor in the聽Carroll School of Management,听and a faculty member in the聽University鈥檚 Capstone Program. Prior to his arrival at Boston College, Brad was an executive with Hewlett-Packard Company for twenty years. He served in a wide range of global and business unit leadership assignments in the U.S. and Europe.

Brad鈥檚 research and teaching focuses on career management and work-life integration, the changing role of fathers, contemporary workforce management strategies and the leadership of organizational change. He is a frequent keynote speaker at professional conferences. He consults with many major employers in the areas of strategic planning, human resources, and organizational change. He is the author of聽听补苍诲听The New Dad, a 10-year research series on how todays fathers manage their careers and parenting responsibilities. Brad鈥檚 research has been cited by hundreds of major media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post.

Brad serves on the advisory board of the聽聽in Barcelona, Spain and is a research fellow of the聽. He is a graduate of Stonehill College and holds advanced degrees in psychology and human resources from Boston College and Boston University. He is married to Annie Soisson, EdD, director of the聽. They are the proud parents of Maggie (精东影业 鈥�17), Hannah, & Dillon.

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Meena is an intern at the Boston College Center for Work & Family. She supports the members by reviewing research on topics like diversity, equity, and inclusion and family benefits in the workplace. She also assists in gathering and sharing benchmarking data. Meena is currently a senior in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Psychology.

Patrick is an intern at the Boston College Center for Work & Family. He supports the Center by researching workforce trends and is involved with membership initiatives. Patrick is currently a senior in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Psychology and German, and minoring in Management & Leadership.

Jamie Ladge is a Professor of Management and Organization in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. She was previously Professor and Group Chair of Management and Organizational Development at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business and a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Exeter Business School in Exeter, U.K. She is primarily known for her research exploring the intersection of work and family, stigmatized social identities, and career equality, gender and diversity issues in organizations. Ladge's core area of research focuses on the psychological and career implications of professionally-employed mothers and fathers. She also researches the diversity challenges and work and family boundaries of those holding stigmatized social identities including pregnant workers and same-sex couples. Her work has been published in several top management and human resources journals including the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Perspectives, Human Resource Management, and Harvard Business Review. She also recently co-authored the book, 鈥淢aternal Optimism: Forging Positive Paths through Work and Motherhood鈥� which was published by Oxford University Press.

Professor Ladge is a frequent speaker, both nationally and internationally, on the topic of gender and diversity in organizations and work-life integration. Her research has also received a significant amount of media attention in major media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Atlantic, Forbes, Fortune, CNN Money, Businessweek, and other prominent media outlets. At Northeastern, she taught courses on Managing Human Capital, Managing People and Organizations, Career Management, and Organizational Behavior.

Professor Ladge is a current member of the Academy of Management, Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, American Psychological Association, Society for Human Resource Professionals, and Work-Family Researchers Network. She recently served as the Division Chair of the Careers Division of the Academy of Management and is currently Associate Editor at the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Shelley joined the Center for Work & Family as an academic fellow in 1997. She received an MBA in Management and Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on relationships between job conditions and family life, with special interests in organizational size, adult development, and organizational policies, and has been published in scientific journals including the聽Journal of Marriage and Family聽and theAcademy of Management Journal.

Shelley is the Associate Dean of the College of Consumer and Family Sciences and a Professor in the Department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University, where she also directs the Center for Families and the Military Family Research Institute. Additionally, in her role as the Director of the Midwestern Work Family Association (MWFA), Shelley joined the Center in its partnership with One Small Step on the BalanceSheets Series, and with former NEWFA Director Judi Casey, she has presented on the role of regional work/life organizations.

In 1999, Shelley's Center on Families initiated, along with CWF, the first-ever Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work/Life Research. Shelley is committed to working with the Center to strengthen the bridge between the academic and corporate worlds. Her research has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Henry A. Murray Center, the Department of Defense, the Lilly Endowment, and the state of Indiana; and has earned awards from the Groves Conference and Gamma Sigma Delta.聽 She recently served as the civilian co-chair of the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health.聽 She is a 2006 winner of the Work-Life Legacy Award from the Families and Work Institute and in 2005, Shelley was named a fellow of the National Council on Family Relations. She serves on the editorial boards of the聽Journal of Family Issues,听Family Relations, and聽Journal of Family and Economic Issues.

Dr. Constance (Connie) Noonan Hadley is an organizational psychologist,听founder of the聽, a research associate professor at ,听and a consulting researcher at .

Dr. Hadley is an expert and well-known speaker on the future of work, team dynamics,听psychological safety, employee loneliness, well-being at work, and inclusive cultures.

Her research has been published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management聽Review, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, Wired, Forbes,听and other news outlets.

Her article with Mark Mortensen, 鈥淎re Your Team Members Lonely?鈥� won the聽prestigious 2022 for the most outstanding article of the year聽on planned change and organizational development by MIT Sloan Management聽Review.

She holds a PhD in organizational behavior from Harvard University, an MBA from聽Wharton, and a BA from Princeton University. Previously, she worked in management聽consulting at McKinsey & Company and in marketing and operations at General Mills,听Inc.聽

In her spare time, Dr. Hadley serves as a Board of Trustees member at McLean聽Hospital, a leader in behavioral and mental health, as well as a mentor to low-income,听first-generation, students.

Ellen Ernst Kossek is the Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor at Purdue University鈥檚 Mitch Daniels School of Business. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, an MBA from the University of Michigan, and a BA with honors from Mount Holyoke College. A leading social scientist and workplace expert, she served as the first elected President of the Work-Family Researchers Network and is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, and the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology. Dr. Kossek has received awards for research, teaching, and service excellence to advance gender equality, inclusion, and work-life flexibility and support in employing organizations and society. Her current research examines initiatives to 1) advance work-life equality; 2) improve the implementation of flexibility and work-life policies (e.g., hybrid and remote working, maternity/sick leaves, control over work-life boundary; and 3) design, deliver and evaluate leadership and organizational interventions to help employers adapt to the future of work. She had developed an assessment and training to help individuals and teams manage their work-life connectivity and boundary management styles; and training for managers to learn who to adopt family and personal life supportive behaviors She recently served on a National Academy of Sciences expert panel on the need to enhance policies and practices for supporting family caregivers working in science, engineering and medicine. A recent Harvard Business Review article on the future of flexibility was selected as a 鈥渕ust read鈥� for 2023. Dr. Kossek has been invited to give talks to managers and students in well over a dozen countries round the world. Prior to becoming a professor, she worked on human resource issues for major corporations in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Erin L. Kelly is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research.

Kelly鈥檚 research has been published in many top sociology, management, and interdisciplinary journals and twice recognized with the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award. Her book with Phyllis Moen, Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It, was published by Princeton University Press in March 2020. Overload received the 2021 Max Weber Award from the American Sociological Association's Organizations, Occupations, and Work section, and an honorable mention for the 2021 Viviana Zelizer Award for best book in economic sociology. Overload was also named as one of Business Insider's 10 Books to Read to Learn about the Future of Work.

Alexis 鈥淟ex鈥� Smith Washington is an Associate Professor of Management at the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University.聽 Lex鈥檚 focal research areas span workplace issues such as diversity, intersectionality, social identity, impression management, as well as work and family interface.聽 Currently, Lex鈥檚 research examines the impact of identities, including parental and family status, on the ways individuals manage their professional image at work, as well as organizational factors that facilitate the inclusion and advancement of marginalized people at work. For example, she is engaged in research focused on the roles of intersectional identities and bias on the experience of working parents, senior level women and social class transitioners in corporate America. In line with her gender, diversity and intersectionality research agenda, Lex has published research (under the name Alexis Nicole Smith) in such outlets as the聽Academy of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organization Science, and contributed to edited books such as the Handbook of Prejudice and Discrimination and the International Encyclopedia of Organizational Studies.聽 In addition, Lex serves as Senior Editor at聽Organization Science.

Sarah Th茅baud is Professor of Sociology, Faculty Affiliate of the Technology Management Program, and Director of the Families, Gender and Work area聽at the Broom Center for Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research identifies social psychological and institutional processes that contribute to gender inequalities in work, families, higher education, and entrepreneurship. Her work has appeared in academic outlets such as聽American Sociological Review,听Administrative Science Quarterly,听Gender & Society,听Social Forces, and the聽Annual Review of Sociology,聽as well as leading media publications like聽The New York Times,听NPR,听The Atlantic听补苍诲听The Wall Street Journal. She earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University.

Judith Clair鈥檚 research focuses on demographic/social identities (e.g., race, gender, social class) and inequalities in the workplace; on development and transitions in professional identities; and on positive organizational experiences such as hope and positive growth. Her gender- and diversity-focused research includes experiences of 鈥渃ross-domain鈥� identity change in first-time pregnant professional women; how social class background shapes how women understand their advancement into top organizational positions; how benevolent sexism during pregnancy effects workplace retention of women post-pregnancy; how professional women in STEM fields define and experience benefits from others鈥� inclusive leadership practices; and how individuals with invisible stigmatized identities manage those identities in the workplace.

Professor Clair is also recognized for her contributions to research on how organizations can effectively manage crises and critical events to minimize harm and to facilitate positive growth, as well as her work on teaching pedagogy and the peer-review process. Her publications appear in the top journals in Management and Applied Psychology, including the聽Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology, and聽Academy of Management Learning and Education. Clair has received national and university teaching awards. She has taught courses on organizational behavior, leadership, gender, and multicultural diversity, equity and inclusion in organizations. She has taught courses at the undergraduate, MBA, PhD, and executive levels.

Marcus Butts is an award-winning teacher and researcher. He received his PhD from the University of Georgia and his bachelor鈥檚 degree from Texas A&M University, and was previously on the faculties at University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). While at UTA, his teaching accolades included being nominated for the President鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Teaching and being the recipient of both the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Outstanding Faculty Service Award for PhD Education.

Marcus鈥� research expertise includes the work-life interface, leadership, and analytical methods focused on experience sampling, multilevel statistics, and latent variable modeling. He has published in top academic outlets including聽Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology,听and聽Personnel Psychology. His research on the daily impact of electronic communications for employees鈥� personal lives has been cited widely in media outlets such as聽Fox News, NPR, TIME,听and聽Huffington Post. Also, his work on how leadership can involuntarily become destructive has been covered by Harvard Business Review. He has twice won the best paper award from the Academy of Management, and his paper on statistical myths and urban legends in the field of management won the best article of the year award from聽Organizational Research Methods. Marcus also serves as an executive officer for the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management and is on the editorial board of聽Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology,听and聽Organizational Research Methods.

Prior to obtaining his PhD, Marcus worked as a project manager for AON-Hewitt鈥攁 large international HR benefits consulting corporation. Over the years, Dr. Butts has provided HR consulting services to a variety of clients including Chick-Fil-A, FedEx, HKS architects, Home Depot, HumRRO, McKee Foods, UPS, and Wal-Mart. Further, he has previously delivered corporate methods and statistics training in the areas of job analysis, meta-analysis, LISREL/Mplus path modeling, predictive analytics, and survey design. He also has been involved in large-scale research grants from both the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

As an advocate for employee work-life balance, Marcus enjoys as much free time as possible with his two young children and his wife Erin, and occasionally he tries to find time for running or a fishing trip when he is not serving as a chauffeur for soccer or gymnastics practice.