Speakers

Barbara Adachi
Barbara Adachi
Barbara Adachi is the National Managing Principal for Deloitte LLP's award-winning Women's Initiative (WIN). In this role, she devotes her energy to building on the remarkable foundation of WIN, which Deloitte LLP started 16 years ago, to drive marketplace growth and create a culture where the best (women and men) choose to be. Before taking on this role, she led the Northern Pacific region WIN activities for five years.
Barbara is the new national Chief Talent Officer for Human Capital Consulting. Prior to this, Barbara led Deloitte Consulting LLP's Human Capital practice for the West region for eight years where she was responsible for financial performance and operations, talent recruitment and development, and delivery of human capital consulting services across the region. She joined Deloitte Consulting LLP in 1990 to start the Bay Area Human Capital practice in San Francisco and specializes in total rewards, health benefits strategy and plan design related services. Barbara still actively serves clients and is the LCSP for the University of California system, one of the largest employers in the state.
In addition, Barbara serves on the board of Deloitte Consulting LLP. She has been named one of the "100 Most Influential Women in Business" by San Francisco Business Times from 2003 through 2009. Barbara was also named "Women Worth Watching in 2009" by Profiles in Diversity Magazine.
Rolando Balli
Rolando Balli
Rolando Balli is a self-described change agent that serves within Dell's Global Diversity and Inclusion organization. He is responsible for driving Dell's Global Work-Life Strategy which is transforming the workplace and enabling a more productive global workforce. Most recently he launched Dell's Flexible Work Solutions initiative which focuses on driving employee engagement, improving business results and contributes to Dell's goal of being carbon neutral. Rolando initiated Dell's first global work-life survey and led the effort to add Dell to Working Mother Magazine's Top 100 Companies.
Rolando has been with Dell for over 10 years and has held multiple roles within the Global Diversity and Inclusion team as well as the Latin America sales segment. He has a bachelor's degree in International Business from New Mexico State University.
Andrea Wicks Bowles
Andrea Wicks Bowles
Andrea Wicks Bowles is a Senior Consultant with the Bright Horizons Consulting Practice. She works with clients to develop work/life strategies that meet the needs of employees while addressing strategic business goals. She has presented at national conferences on work-life integration issues and shared practical applications of work/life investments in meeting the challenges of workforce development.
Ms. Wicks Bowles also leads Bright Horizons' research on the refinement and advancement of organizational effectiveness programs, policies and services. Her knowledge of child care policies, organizational effectiveness, and work/life industry trends, combined with analytical skills, supports clients in discovering issues and challenges in the context of a larger body of research.
With over two decades of experience in the work/life consulting, Ms. Wicks Bowles joined Bright Horizons in 2004. Formally with WFD and then Ceridian, she developed family care strategies for Fortune 500 companies and managed relationships with state and local organizations to develop and deliver services to corporate clients.
Ms. Wicks Bowles helped to establish LifeWorks, while living in the UK, to serve the work/life needs of U.S. clients in the UK and to initiate discussions with UK-based companies on the challenges of managing work and family care responsibilities. Upon returning to the U.S., she was Lead Project Manager for a multi-million dollar employer-sponsored family care development fund.
Ms. Wicks Bowles holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from University of Colorado Boulder and a Masters of Science in Education from Bank Street College. She is an alumnus of the Denver Community Leadership Program.
Hal Chapel
Hal Chapel
Hal Chapel has been a technology visionary throughout his career, founding four companies and serving as CEO, several representing a major paradigm shift in information technology. Hal helped create Lotsa Helping Hands from his desire to marry his backgrounds in technology and company-building with his friend and colleague's very real need to have family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors join together to assist with caregiving responsibilities. Hal is responsible for the overall business model, as well as for sales, partnership development, and product management and engineering.
Before his involvement with Lotsa Helping Hands, Hal founded Boston-based Xevo Corp. in 1996 out of the recognition that the concept of computing would change from "something you own to something you do." A key player in developing the concept of internet computing, Xevo focused on providing the enabling technology needed by globa application service providers (ASPs) to deliver remotely hosted application services over the internet. Hal was responsible for raising $45M in three venture capital rounds, establishing four regional offices in the U.S. and Europe (including a European subsidiary located in Sophia Antipolis, France), and building a best-in-class team. Hal grew Xevo into the recognized leader in the field, holding the chairmanship of the ASP Industry Consortium, winning numerous industry awards as well as significant customer contracts with AT&T, Bell Canada, British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, and Qwest, and signing major co-development partnerships with Microsoft, Cisco, and Compaq.
Andrea Cohen
Andrea Cohen
Andrea Cohen, HouseWorks' Co-founder and CEO, is a social entrepreneur dedicated to transforming the way care is delivered at home. Her passion for "getting it right" has inspired a series of pioneering ventures that raise the bar for helping seniors age in place. As HouseWorks' CEO, she has built the largest private-pay home care company in New England while creating innovative partnerships that support seniors at home, in senior housing, and in intentional communities like Boston's Beacon Hill Village.
In recognition of her achievements as an entrepreneur, Ms. Cohen was selected as a 2009 Pinnacle Award honoree by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Her business accomplishments have also been highlighted in print and electronic media including The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, the Boston Business Journal, Harvard Magazine, Women's Business, uwemp, and Verving. In addition, she has been a been a featured presenter at professional and academic symposia sponsored by Harvard University, MIT, Boston College, the American Society on Aging and other leading organizations, speaking on eldercare, work/family, and business development issues.
Ms. Cohen is currently on the Board of Directors of the National Family Caregiver's Association, the National Private Duty Association, and the Massachusetts Home Care Alliance. She is also an active member of the WGBH Corporate Council, the Women's Advisory Committee of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center Leadership Council, the Cambridge Homes Incorporators, and the Commonwealth Institute.
Lesli Foster
Lesli Foster
Lesli Foster is an Emmy award-winning journalist who co-anchors 9NEWS NOW at 5pm, and is the solo anchor on 9NEWS NOW at 6pm. She also leads the 9NEWS NOW Consumer Unit, "Living SMART", covering all kinds of major consumer issues that affect area residents.
Lesli joined WUSA 9 in 2001, and has covered everything from the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attack on the Pentagon, to the 40th Anniversary of the March on Washington, to the Serial Sniper story, to Chandra Levy's disappearance and murder, to HIV/AIDS and the "Down-Low."
Lesli is a featured journalist in the book,Women Journalists at Ground Zero, by Judith Sylvester and Suzanne Huffman, which documents the personal experiences of 24 female journalists who covered September 11th.
A graduate of DC's Howard University, Lesli gives her time to many causes and organizations throughout the metropolitan Washington, DC area. Journalism, she says, is her life's work, and an essential way to make a difference in the lives of people. Lesli lives in Maryland with her husband and daughter.
Ellen Galinsky
Ellen Galinsky
Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute, helped establish the field of work and family life at Bank Street College of Education, where she was on the faculty for twenty-five years. Her more than forty books and reports include Ask The Children, the now-classic The Six Stages of Parenthood, and Mind in the Making, to be published by HarperStudio in April 2010.
At FWI, she co-directs the National Study of the Changing Workforce, the most comprehensive ongoing nationally representative study of the U.S. workforce, the National Study of Employers, an ongoing nationally representative study tracking trends in employment benefits, policies and practices as well as When Work Works, a project on workplace flexibility and effectiveness. Ms. Galinsky directs Mind in the Making, a project on the science of early learning that includes the book, videos for teachers, and learning modules for teachers and for families.
She has received numerous honorary degrees and awards, including the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from Vassar College. She served as the elected President of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources in 2005. She holds a Masters in Child Development/ Education from Bank Street College of Education and a BA degree in Child Study from Vassar College. She was a presenter at the White House Conference on Child Care in 1997 and on Teenagers in 2000 and is featured regularly in the media, including appearances on Today, World News Tonight with Charles Gibson, and Oprah.
Elinor Ginzler
Elinor Ginzler
Elinor Ginzler, AARP's lead spokesperson on caregiving and independent living, is also one of the nation's preeminent experts on long-term care. Having overseen aging programs at the national, state, and community levels for more than 20 years, Ginzler joined AARP in 1998. Since then she has supervised AARP's consumer-education programs in caregiving, nursing-home quality, Medicare, and assisted living.
As Senior Vice President of Livable Communities Strategies in AARP's Office of Social Impact, Ms. Ginzler spearheads the association's work on housing, community services, and transportation options, including alternatives to driving. She is frequently called upon to confer with industry leaders about aging issues and to address groups ranging from neighborhood associations to national organizations.
She has been featured on The Today Show, The Early Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and the CBS Evening News, and she has been quoted in such national media outlets as The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Real Simple, and Ebony.  In addition, she is co-author with Hugh Delehanty of Caring for Your Parents — The Complete Family Guide, published by Sterling Publishing.
Ms. Ginzler holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and completed her graduate studies at the University of Maryland.
Sandy Haviland
Sandy Haviland
Samuel "Sandy" Haviland is the founder and CEO of Confidant Solutions Inc. Confidant's innovative web-based tool aides employee caregivers and their families by enabling them to catalog location of critical documents, contact information for key people, and other vital information, granting customized secure access to the information to family members, caregivers and advisors. In his role as CEO Mr. Haviland is responsible for strategy, partnership development, as well as overseeing the leadership team. Before founding Confidant Mr. Haviland spent more than a dozen years in the financial advisory industry, most recently with his own firm Haviland & Co, during which he held onging responsibility for organizing and securely sharing sensitive information. His personal experience gave rise to the concept of Confidant and the recognition that responsiveness in emergency and caregiving situations is dependent upon having critical information at ones fingertips. Prior to his financial advisory work Mr. Haviland was a management associate at United Technologies Corporation. He received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, and his BA from Yale. Mr. Haviland serves on the board of the Unquowa School as well as the Kellogg Alumni Council. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.
Gail Gibson Hunt
Gail Gibson Hunt
Gail Hunt is President and CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving, a non-profit coalition dedicated to conducting research and developing national programs for family caregivers and the professionals who serve them. Prior to heading NAC, Ms. Hunt was President of her own aging services consulting firm for 14 years. She conducted corporate eldercare research for the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration, as well as developed training for caregivers with AARP and the American Occupational Therapy Association, and designed a corporate eldercare program for EAPs with the Employee Assistance Professional Association. Prior to having her own firm, she was Senior Manager in charge of human services for the Washington, DC, office of KPMG Peat Marwick. Ms. Hunt attended Vassar College and graduated from Columbia University in New York. In May of 2004, she was appointed by the White House to serve on the Policy Committee for the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. Ms. Hunt is on the Advisory Panel on Medicare Education. She is the incoming chair for the National Center on Senior Transportation. Ms. Hunt is also on the Board of Commissioners for the Center for Aging Service Technology and she is also on the steering committee for Long-Term Care Quality Assurance.
M.-A. Lucas
M.-A. Lucas
M.-A. Lucas, the founding Director of the United States Army Child and Youth Programs manages a system of integrated child care and youth supervision options delivered to more than 468,000 children ages 4 weeks to 18 years at 124 locations around the world. These services are provided through a delivery system that includes child development centers, family child care home networks, before/after school-age programs, youth centers for middle school and teens, and school transition services. Services are also delivered through partnerships with community organizations, schools, and parent referrals to off post programs.
Ms. Lucas is a nationally known expert in the child development field, frequently presenting at professional gatherings and serving on numerous advisory groups and task forces. Her 42 years of experience, in addition to working with the Army, include: teaching in public schools grades K-12, serving as a faculty member in several undergraduate and graduate early child hood education programs, and holding positions in United Way, Head Start, USDA Cooperative Extension Service, and Migrant Day Care Programs.
Ms. Lucas has a graduate degree from Pennsylvania State University, two married daughters: Caroline Lucas Ed.D., an educator in California and Stephanie Caden, an attorney with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C. and 4 grandchildren.
Susan Lutz
Susan Lutz
Susan Lutz has worked in the field of aging for over twenty-five years at both the local level as a program director for home and community-based services and at the national level as a program developer with the National Council on Aging. She has worked in a variety of capacities—developing standards for senior centers and care managers, increasing consumer-directed services under Medicaid, building intergenerational volunteer program models, and spearheading the planning of an adult day services center, and much more—to the strengthen the capacity of communities to respond to an aging demographic. Now at AARP, Susan has shifted gears to provide consumers with information and tools that will help them plan for a secure retirement. As a member of the AARP's health team, she is responsible for demystifying the areas of Medicare, Medicaid, caregiving and long-term care. Susan has a Master's degree in social work and a certificate in gerontology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Terrell McSweeny
Terrell McSweeny*
Terrell McSweeny is the Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President, and Deputy Assistant to President Obama. Terrell has advised three Presidential candidates on domestic policy and related matters. In 2008, she worked for Vice President-elect Biden in various capacities, serving as his Issues Director during the general election campaign and his Deputy Chief of Staff and Policy Director in the U.S. Senate — where she managed domestic and economic policy development and legislative initiatives — as well as his principal domestic policy advisor during his own Presidential campaign. In 2004, McSweeny served as the Deputy Policy Director for the Wes Clark for President campaign in Little Rock, Arkansas; earlier, in 2000, she worked in the Gore for President campaign in Nashville, Tennessee. Her government service includes her work as Counsel to Senator Biden, where she worked on Judiciary Committee issues such as women's rights, domestic violence, judicial nominations, immigration and civil rights. In addition to her policy work in Presidential campaigns, McSweeny was also an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP. McSweeny is a graduate of Harvard University and Georgetown University Law Center.
Laurie Orlov
Laurie Orlov
Laurie Orlov is the Founder of Age in Place Technology, a market research firm that provides thought leadership, analysis, and guidance about technologies and related services that enable boomers and seniors to remain longer in their home of choice.
In her previous career, Laurie spent more than 30 years in the technology industry, including 24 years in IT and 9 years as a leading industry analyst at Forrester Research. While there, she was often the first in the industry to identify technology trends and management strategies which have survived the test of time. She has spoken regularly and delivered keynote speeches at forums, industry consortia, conferences, and symposia and was one of the 2009 CIO 100 judges. In 1996, Laurie was named to McGraw-Hill/Open Computing's list of the top 100 women in computing. Laurie is now featured on Caring.com, SilverPlanet, Mobile Health News, and her blog entries are referenced on sites like SmartSilvers, 50+Digital, RetirementHomes,and MaryFurlong.com. She was one of the judges in the 2009 Silicon Valley Boomer Business Plan Competition and speaks regularly at conferences on the business of technology for boomers and seniors. In 2009, she received graduate certification in Geriatric Care Management from the University of Florida. She has a BA in Music from the University of Rochester.
Devra Renner
Devra Renner
Devra Renner, MSW is a Contributing Editor for BlogHerthe leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online. Devra writes about parenting and the unique challenges families face in the Digital Age. She is co-founder of Parentopia, LLC a consultation and training firm and an author of the award winning parenting book Mommy Guilt: Learn To Worry Less, Focus On What Matters Most and Raise Happier Kids. A Senior Consultant for Zero To Three's Military Projects in that role she conducts trainings worldwide for professionals working with military service members and their families. Devra serves as a Family and School Partnerships Instructor for Fairfax County Public Schools, specializing in Family Engagement. Devra is a featured expert at PBSParents.org and her commentary may be found in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, BabyCenter, Parents Magazine, and online version of The New Yorker.
After graduating from the University of Arizona with a BA in Cultural Anthropology, she earned a Master's Degree in Social Work from Grambling State University.
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
When Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner's first child was born, she left her job as political and field director of a political action committee in Washington State to care for him. While she worked part-time from home, Kristin began researching and writing about mothers, women, and family policies in the US. She found that many mothers faced common issues in caring for their children and concerns for economic security. Kristin discovered devastating statistics about pay gaps between men, and mothers, as well as shared struggles with skyrocketing costs of health and child care: "When this many people are having the same problems at the same time, we have a national structural issue that needs to be addressed, not an epidemic of personal failings." Kristin's writing on family policy in the US caught the attention of grassroots activist and MoveOn.org co-founder Joan Blades. Together they wrote The Motherhood Manifesto to encourage parents' involvement in advocating for legislation and cultural change to address work-family balance, healthy children, and women's equality. Kristin believes that, in contrast to politicians who may be driven by the election cycle or the media who are driven by the news cycle, parents have a long-term outlook on family-friendly policies, clean energy, global warming, and health care reform. Their perspective on these issues, according to Kristin, is essential to forming policies that will benefit future generations of Americans.
Kristin is the executive director of MomsRising.org, an online-based organization with more than 160,000 members. MomsRising, which Kristin and Joan Blades co-founded in 2006, arms its members with important information about family-friendly policies in the US and creates a variety of avenues for online and on-the-ground activism. The organization sponsors national campaigns that enable members to participate in demonstrations from any location. Their campaigns have offered powerful visuals that illustrate how many people are truly affected by lawmakers' votes. A former freelance journalist who won an award for excellence in journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2006, Kristin is the author of the award-winning book The F-Word: Feminism In Jeopardy. She holds a bachelor's degree with a focus in political economy and biochemistry from Evergreen State College.
Linda K. Smith
Linda K. Smith
Linda K. Smith is the Executive Director of the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) — our nation's leading voice for child care. NACCRRA's mission is to ensure that every child has access to high- quality, affordable child care. As a nonprofit membership association, NACCRRA represents more than 750 state and local Child Care Resource and Referral agencies (CCR&Rs).These agencies serve more than 7 million families each year and train over 500,000 child care workers annually.
Prior to coming to NACCRRA, Ms. Smith served in various positions within the Department of Defense, including serving as the Director of Child Development and Youth Programs and the Director of Family Policy for the Secretary of Defense. During her tenure with the Secretary of Defense, she was the lead staff person responsible for writing policy for the landmark Military Child Care Act of 1989. Before retiring from federal service in 2002, Ms. Smith served as a Legislative Fellow, and subsequently as a Professional Staffer on the Senate Health, Education, Labor Pensions Committee under the Chairmanship of Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
Ms. Smith is a native of Montana and graduate of the University of Montana. She has two grown children and three grandchildren.
Lisa Winstel
Lisa Winstel
Lisa Winstel is the Chief Operating Officer of the National Family Caregivers Association. She has over 17 years of nonprofit experience in the areas of financial management, innovative program ideas, and development. At NFCA, she focuses her efforts on strategically building NFCA's infrastructure, enhancing program offerings, and increasing individual and foundation giving. In particular, Lisa guides the energies of the national volunteer network, CCAN. Since joining NFCA in July of 2009, Lisa has developed expertise in the areas of delivering outcome based education programs to enhance family caregivers' lives and developing effective e-communications strategies to reach family caregivers. Lisa's recent experience includes management consultant with Hathor Associates, chief development officer of Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland, and executive director of The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

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