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09:30-10:00        REGISTRATION

10:00-11:15        PANEL DISCUSSIONS – SESSION I

A:  Work-Life Balance in Consulting and I-Banking - an Oxymoron?
Moderator: Bill Martin
Panelists: Jay Bartlett, T’96, George Bene, T’02, Deborah Logan, T'91, Eoin John Theobald, T'01
This panel, composed of consultants and investment bankers, will help educate students on achieving work-life balance in these rigorous industries. Panelists will discuss their own experiences and challenges in determining and reaching balance between the demands of their work and personal lives.

B:  A Balanced Life in Medicine
Moderator: Worth Parker
Panelists: Lin Brown, Elizabeth Dann, Patricia Lanter, Michael Lyons
This panel will explore how healthcare professionals can find balance between their personal and professional lives and how institutional practices can enable this balance. The panelists represent both the primary care perspective and the specialists’ perspective.

11:30-12:45        PANEL DISCUSSIONS – SESSION II

A:  View From the Top
Moderator: Sydney Finkelstein
Panelists: Elena Bajic, Melissa Carlson, Glenn Gouldey
Learn how top leaders have addressed work-life balance issues by building them into the organization’s culture, policies, and practice. This panel will explore work-life program trends and best practices as well as how the effect of these programs can be measured.

B:  Staying Healthy While Busy
Moderator: Sally Jaeger
Panelists: Karen Ghiron, Terry Lavin, Carl Pratt, Heather Wolfe
Do you get enough sleep? Do you eat well? Do you feel too stressed to take the time to exercise? Come and hear from the experts on what you can and should do to stay healthy and learn how organizations can help employees perform at their best.

13:00-14:30        LUNCH AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS

ROWE - Results-Only Work Environment
Jody Thompson & Cali Ressler, Founders of CultureRx

14:45-16:45        INTERACTIVE SESSION

The Integrated Life
Doug Smith (T'70), Chairman of Best Brands Corporation
Joe Johnson, Chairman and CEO of The Telein Group
Caroline Moore, COO of Streuver Brothers, Eccles and Rouse
Ken Murhpy, Writer – Photographer – Consultant
Today there are hundreds of different forces seemingly pulling us in hundreds of different directions – two careers, the internet, cell phones, Blackberries, travel, international travel, globalization, multiple languages, diversity, challenges to family structure from a myriad of forces and media. The challenge is: how do we make sense out of it all? There has to be a way to have a successful career, be a loving responsible parent/spouse/friend, to be a positive force in the world community and all the while ensuring a healthy, fulfilled self. The afternoon session will be led by four people who, while struggling through their own unique life challenges, came together to reflect upon these challenges and formulate answers and in turn share them with others. Their answers may surprise you. They will lead us through an interactive session that will:

[1]  Provide some practical concepts and practices that enable people to successfully integrate their life and find success in terms of career, family, community and self, and

[2]  Provide an opportunity for each participant to consider their own individual challenges, dialogue with others and consider for themselves what actions they might take that would lead to a more fulfilling, integrated life

16:45-17:30        CLOSING RECEPTION