Are We Working at Home Forever? on Sept. 10th at 12pm PDT / 3pm EDT

Join us for ARE WE WORKING AT HOME FOREVER? on Sept 10th at 12pm PDT / 3pm EDT

The impact of the pandemic has created many questions around what will be permanent with our jobs and what will be temporary. With the pressures of working from home if you have children running around during a zoom call or single with the possibility of falling asleep on a beach in Maui, everyone will face different anxieties.

How do executives create or establish a corporate culture in these new environments? Will less face time create less loyalty to a company? Or will it dehumanize workers and impact how they are treated by companies? Will there be a greater emphasis on execution and performance, and a decrease of corporate politics?

What industries and positions are the most affected? How are various companies dealing with these challenges from startups to Fortune 500s? Our speakers will be exploring these questions and more during this upcoming panel about the workplace post-pandemic. Join us!

Gary A. Bolles, Chair for the Future of Work, Singularity University

Gary A. Bolles (gbolles.com) is a lecturer, writer and consultant on the future of work, learning, and the organization. His focus is on helping individuals, organizations, communities and countries to thrive in the transition to a digital economy, and on helping a variety of stakeholders to develop actionable strategies to deal with what he calls “The Great Reset.”

Bolles is a sought-after speaker on topics such as the future of work, learning, and the organization, the future of human resources, national workforce strategies, and personal career choice. He is the author of nine video courses on LinkedIn Learning, totalling over a third of a million students, and a half dozen lectures on Pluralsight.com on technology and impact.

Bolles currently serves as Chair for the Future of Work for Singularity University, leading the organization’s efforts to empower a global community with the mindset and skillset to create an abundant future of work and learning. He is also a partner in the San Francisco consulting firm Charrette LLC, helping leaders in corporations, HR departments, non-profits, colleges, government agencies, and communities to develop strategies for the future of work and learning. Projects have ranged from a workshop for refugee youth in Amman, Jordan, to advising national initiatives in countries from Brazil to Ethiopia.

He is the co-founder of eParachute.com, helping job-hunters & career changers, from youth to 50+, with online and in-person programs, inspired by “What Color Is Your Parachute?”, the best-selling career book of all time.

A parallel entrepreneur, he was a co-founder of SoCap, the premier conference for impact entrepreneurs, and numerous other strategic events and impact initiatives. He is the former COO of Evolve Software, the former VP Marketing for Network Products Corporation, and the former editorial director for five technology magazines, including Inter@ctive Week and Yahoo! Internet Life.

William Eimicke, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

William B. Eimicke is Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs and the founding director of the Picker Center for Executive Education of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Eimicke teaches courses in management, cross sector partnerships, applied policy analysis, and innovation. He also teaches at Peking University and the Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Professor Eimicke also serves on the Advisory Board of Central Park Conservancy's Institute for Urban Parks which helps urban parks across NYC, around the USA and throughout the world improve their quality, accessibility and financial stability, often through cross-sector partnerships. He is the co-author (with fellow SIPA faculty member Howard W. Buffett) of Social Value Investing-A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships (Columbia University Press 2018). He also co-authored Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy (2015).

He served as FDNY Deputy Fire Commissioner for Strategic Planning and Policy (2007-10) under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Eimicke previously served as housing "czar" of New York State under the late Governor Mario Cuomo, helping to create and launch the massive Housing New York program, producing over 200,000 units of rehabilitated and new affordable apartments over 15 years. He also worked on the housing team of Vice President Al Gore's National Performance Review and has worked affordable housing policy and projects across the United States.

In 2008, he was named to the Irish Voice newspaper's inaugural Irish Education 100, a listing of leading figures in education across North America. Eimicke holds a BA, MPA and PhD from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He previously taught at Syracuse University, Indiana University, Russell Sage College, the State University of New York at Albany, and Baruch College of the City University of New York.

Mansi Goel, Executive Coach at The Stanford Graduate School of Business

Mansi has spent almost twenty years in Tech in Silicon Valley, the last ten in various leadership roles at Google. She started her career in business development, managing a deal portfolio of $175MM+ at companies eBay and AOL. Upon joining Google, she shifted to working in Asia-Pacific and Latin America, launching new teams and functions to support Google’s entry into emerging markets, including a year-long stint in Beijing.

Mansi thrived in a new way in the Asia-Pact/LatAm division. She went from often being the only woman on her team, especially the only woman of color, to being surrounded by people from across the world. This helped her bring more of herself into the workplace in a way that also benefited her career. When Mansi came into her executive role as Google’s Head of Product Policy, she brought this impact to her work and approached it with a more inclusive lens. She launched the first of its kind research into user impact of female representation in Google’s ads (‘Take Back the Ad’) for the purpose of reducing gender bias in product design and policy development.

After ten years at Google, Mansi considered a new chapter that could weave together her leadership experience in Tech, her drive for equity, and her passion for personal development. An avid meditator with thousands of hours of practice under her belt, she discovered her aptitude for helping others navigate their own journey toward inclusion and authenticity. She now uses her decades of leadership experience and mindfulness training to coach executives and to facilitate various leadership programs at The Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dan Wooldridge, Strategic Leadership Advisor at APi Group

Dan Wooldridge is the Strategic Leadership Advisor for APi Group, Inc., the ENR #5 Specialty Contractor in the U.S. and #1 in fire protection. APi Group consists of over 35 companies across North America. APi’s purpose is “Building Great Leaders,” believing that great leadership builds great companies. Dan is solely focused on establishing this purpose across the entire family of companies, serving as an advisor and mentor to the Group-level executive team as well as the individual company executive teams.

He began his association with APi Group as an advisor when it was a small privately held group of 12 companies. This year APi Group became listed on the NYSE.

Dan’s focus addresses current and future leadership, strategic, and organizational challenges while simultaneously assessing, mentoring, and developing current and future leaders. He oversees three internal think tanks that are studying the accelerated development of field leadership, how to become a talent magnet, and how to develop a culture and disciplined system of innovation. He is engaged in designing the executive and emerging leader education programs within the company. One signature leader development program he has developed and leads for APi Group is “The Gettysburg Leadership Experience.” Nearly 500 APi leaders have participated in this.

Prior to becoming a part of APi Group, Dan was a senior consultant and thought leader within the acclaimed leadership practice of FMI Corporation, the leading management consulting company to the global construction industry. He was a senior faculty member of FMI’s Leadership Institute, the premiere leader development program of the industry.

Outside of construction, Dan has been a leadership advisor to a broad range of companies from financial services entities to manufacturing, legal services, media, hospitality, sales and marketing, and the non-profit sector. He also founded two international sales companies and was the national sales manager of Eddie Parker Sales which had a sales force in 40 states and showrooms from coast to coast. He brings this diverse background to his current leader development work.

In addition, he spent 15 years as a senior leader and 3 years on the board of The Navigators, an international ministry. He is a co-founder of the Global Commerce Network whose purpose is to “transform the soul of commerce.” Dan and his wife, Patricia, have been married for 40 years. They are the proud parents of 3 grown children with two awesome grandkids!

Chris Yeh, Co-Author of "Blitz scalin g" and "The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age"

Chris Yeh is a respected Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and writer. He is co-author, along with Reid Hoffman, of Blitzscaling, the book that explains how to build world-changing companies like Amazon, Alibaba, and Airbnb in record time.

He is a co-author with LinkedIn founder/chairman Reid Hoffman and bestselling author Ben Casnocha of the New York Times bestselling book The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age, which sprang from their article in Harvard Business Review entitled Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact. He has been blogging since 2001, both on his personal blogs and as a guest author in outlets like TechCrunch, Mashable, and VentureBeat, and has written over 2,000 posts on topics ranging from the psychology of entrepreneurship to achieving happiness in Silicon Valley.

In addition to his writing, Chris has founded, funded, or advised over 50 startups, including Ustream, a leading live video platform. Chris earned two Bachelor’s degrees with distinction from Stanford University (Product Design Engineering and Creative Writing) and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar.