Conference Speakers

Saturdary, April 22, 2006

Ellen Galinsky is President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute, a non-profit organization that conducts research on the changing family, changing workforce and changing community. Ms. Galinsky is the author of over 30 books and reports, including 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.

Jessica DeGroot is President and Founder of the non-profit ThirdPath Institute. ThirdPath’s mission is providing individuals and organizations 21st century work-life solutions that are good for families, communities and organizations. Ms. DeGroot has been featured in national and local media including Working Mother and Fast Company magazines, and she has published in The Harvard Business Review.

Mary Hunt is President and Co-founder of HomeAdvantage Plus, a consulting firm that offers home management solutions for blending work and personal life. HomeAdvantage provides education designed to enhance individual effectiveness and employee satisfaction by addressing the home management aspects of integrating work and family life. A member of the management faculty at Lexington College, Chicago, Ms. Hunt has over fifteen years of experience facilitating management and human resources solutions.