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Agenda
11:00am-11:30am CST     Registration & Networking
11:30am-12:00pm CST    Lunch/Chapter Announcements
12:00pm-1:00pm CST     Workplace Flexibility: The Next Imperative for Business Success and HR Leadership

Description
Workplace flexibility has become a key business strategy to leverage the talents and skills of today’s increasingly diverse, aging, and multi-generational workforce.  In this session, you will learn how flexible work arrangements such as job sharing, flexible scheduling, phased retirement, and telecommuting can drive employee engagement, productivity, retention, and benefit your organization’s bottom line.   You will also examine key HR strategies for implementing flexibility as well as legal issues to consider.  And you will hear about new resources and opportunities as a result of SHRM’s partnership with the Families and Work Institute, including the “When Work Works” initiative.

Speaker:  Cassidy J. Neal
Cassidy Neal has served since September, 2012, as the Workplace Flexibility Program Specialist for SHRM’s Workplace Flexibility Initiative and Partnership with the Families and Work Institute (FWI).  She is responsible for growing When Work Works, the centerpiece of the Partnership, and for educating employers about workplace flexibility issues.

Prior to joining SHRM, Cassidy worked for the Texas Dental Association where she managed two statewide dispute resolution processes and advised on community oral health public policy issues.

Cassidy received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master of Science degree in Organizational Leadership and Ethics from St. Edward’s University in Austin.