Dr. Kossek and Berg frequently speak and work with practitioner groups. Here are some recent presentations or training workshops they have made to general audiences:
Dr. Berg
April 2010: The White House Flexibility Forum: Wash., DC
November 2009: Presentation on “The Impact of Work-Family Flexibility in Unionized Organizations” at the conference “The Union Role: Creating 21st Century Workplace Policies to Support Working Families.” Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies, Empire State College, State University of New York
August 2009: Presented paper “Explaining Differences in Collectively Bargained Work-Life Flexibility Policies and Practices in Australia and the United States” at 15th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association. Sydney, Australia
Dr. Kossek
June 2011: Keynote Speaker - DOP Work-Life Balance One Day Event, London, England - View Program
April 2011: Keynote Speaker - National Dialogue on Workplace Flexibility: Manufacturing Industry, Chicago, Illinois
Ellen Kossek with Women’s Bureau Director Sara Manzano-Diaz at the National Dialog on Workplace Flexibility
March 2011: Managing Work-Life Relationships in the Flexible Job Age: Hard Science Soft Skills series, Space Telescope Science Institute
May 2010: Managing Flexstyles: What Doctors and Academics Need to Know: Michigan State University College of Medicine Mentor Program
April 2010: The National Work Family Health Network: Michigan’s Next Great Companies: Economic Development Summit, Lansing , MichiganApril 2010: Work-Life Flexibiilty and Health and Well-Being: The Work-Life Conference Board Conference, Wash., DC
April 2010: Increasing Supervisor Support of Work and Family; Boston College Work and Family Roundtable, Chicago, Illinois
April 2010 Managing Flexstyles; What Academics Need to Know Training and Development workshop MSU Cyclotron Dept
February 2010: Texas A & M University faculty Development workshop: Managing work-life flexibility to become CEO of Your Life: What Academics Need to Know
February 2010: Managing Flexstyles to become CEO of Your Life, Breakfast and Bagels, Broad College of Business
December 2009: Managing Flexstyles to become CEO of Your Life. The Center for Creative Leadersip, Greensboro, North Carolina
November 2009: Keynote speaker on Managing work-life flexibility for Netherlands government’s taskforce Part Time Pluswww.24ormore.org. Increasing female labour participation, Amersterdam, The Netherlands
October 2009: National Work-Family Health Network U.S. Congressional Briefing, Wash, DC.
May 2009: Managing Flexstyles to Become CEO of Your Life: Work-Life Michigan State University Women in Business Student Association Leadership Conference
May 2009: Reconciling Work and Personal Life: Athens University of Economics and Business International Human Resources in Europe, Greece
Drs. Kossek and Berg
June 2009: Developed a day training conference for Union Leaders working with the Labor Project for Working Families and the Michigan State University Project on Innovative Employment Relations. Made a Joint Presentation on “Work-Family Flexibility in Unionized Organizations: Results from a National Study” at the conference “Balancing Opportunity and Challenge: Union Strategy and Work-Family Flexibility.” National Labor College, Silver Spring, Maryland
