We host two Roundtable meetings a year for members, one in the Spring and one in the Fall. If you are unable to attend a meeting, all approved slides, recordings, and additional materials are posted below after the meeting finishes.
SAVE THE DATE:
FALL 2033 ROUNDTABLE MEETING
October 2-4, 2023
Hotel Commonwealth Boston, MA
Registration will be available soon.
Spring Roundtable Meeting – Virtual (2023)
Meeting Documents:
- Agenda
- Participant List
- Speaker Biographies
- Recent Benchmarking
- Tech Tips
- BCCWF Presentations Series: Trends in Leading Today’s Workforce – Brochure
- Meeting Summary
- Save the Dates
- Sponsorship Opportunities
WEDNESDAY
- Psychological Safety in the Workplace, Professor Connie Hadley, Boston University
- Member Open Forum
- Well-Being and Mental Health
- Article: A Two-Minute Burnout Checkup (HBR, April 2023)
- Resource: Managing Employee Burnout (BCCWF)
- Article: How to Tell If a Potential Employer Has a Burnout Culture (HBR 3/23)
- New Work Models
- Resource: 2023 Trends (BCCWF)
- Resource: Making Hybrid Work (BCCWF)
- Page: Flexible Work Resources (BCCWF)
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging
- Article: 9 Ways to Measure the Success of Your DEI Strategy in 2023 (Senior Executive 12/22)
- Article: Research: Where Employees Think Companies’ DEIB Efforts Are Failing (HBR 3/23)
- Well-Being and Mental Health
- Center Updates, CWF Staff
THURSDAY
- Challenges and Solutions of Contemporary of Contemporary Caregiving and Member Panel
- Member Discussion Groups – Engaging & Empowering Managers
- 2023 Trends Recap Slides
- Article: Middle Managers Are Exhausted. Top Teams Need to Listen (MIT Sloan Management Review 12/22)
- Burned-out CEOs are leaving their jobs in droves this year, but more women are stepping into the role (Fast Company 4/23)
- Member Spotlight: Eli Lilly and Employee Journeys
Fall Roundtable Meeting in Boston, MA (2022)
Meeting Documents:
TUESDAY:
- Identity and Belonging, Lakshmi Ramarajan, Harvard University
- Podcast: “Hold Onto Your Complexity: Bringing Multiple Identities to Work”
- Video Recordings: Speaker View, Slide View
- Workplace Mental Health, Darcy Gruttadaro, NAMI, and Incorporating DE&I Into Employees’ Everyday – Amanda Jordan, John Hancock
Book: You Are Not Alone – THe NAMI Guide to Navigating Mental Heath
- Video Recordings: Speaker View, Slide View
- Executive Briefing Series – A Model for Supporting LGBTQ+ Employees: Providing Safety, Equity, and Community –Presentation, Keila Vinas, and Panel, Bianca Robinson, Vertex, and Jamie Bergeron, EY
- EBS
- Video Recording: Speaker View
WEDNESDAY:
- Center Updates and Overview of Trends
- Video Recordings: Speaker View, Slide View
- Kanter Award Highlights, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Purdue, and 2022 Winner Presentation – Anna Gassman-Pines, Duke University, and Elizabeth Ananat, Barnard
- Video Recordings: Speaker View, Slide View
- HR’s Role in the New Workplace, Cali Williams Yost, Flex+Strategy
- Video Recordings: Speaker View, Slide View
Additional Resources:
Spring Roundtable Meeting – Virtual (2022)
Meeting Documents:
Virtual Roundtable Events and Resources:
Explaining the persistence of gender inequality: The work–family narrative as a social defense against the 24/7 work culture with Professor Robin Ely of Harvard Business School.
Professor Ely’s Presentation Slides
Session Recording
Supporting LGBTQ+ Employees: Member Panel
Session Recording
EY Americas Trans and Gender Diversity Toolkit
BCCWF Updates
Presentation Slides
Session Recording
Leading Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: A Guide for Systemic Change in Multinational Organizations with Rohini Anand.
Hot Topics : The “Great Reimagining” with State Street Corporation
State Street Workplace of the Future Slides
Session Recording
Roundtable Member Open Forums: In this session, Members broke into small groups to discuss the following topics: mental health and well-being, new work models, and individualized employee experience.
** Please see the Meeting Summary for a synopsis of the open fourm discussions**
Member Spotlight: Mental Health Partnerships and Building a Culture of Support at Northrop Grumman with Sandra Evers Manley, Vice President, Global Corporate Responsibility and Debbie Edwards Veihdeffer, Manager, NGCare.
Manager Empathy and Support for Wellbeing with Professor Leslie Hammer of Portland State University.
Spring Roundtable Meeting – Virtual (2021)
Meeting Documents:
Virtual Roundtable Events and Resources:
Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being with Professor Rob Cross of Babson College.
- View the recording of the presentation
- Slides
- Article: Optimizing Return-to-Office Strategies With Organizational Network Analysis
- Article: Cultivating an Inclusive Culture Through Personal Networks
- Article: 3 Ways to Thrive at Work
- Article: Network Impacts on Well-Being: A Review of the Research
- Article: Finding Purpose: How connections with others create meaning in our everyday work and life
COVID-19 and Mental Health: Reviewing the Impact and Looking Forward with Professor Rebekah Levine Coley of Boston College.
- View the recording of the presentation
- Slides
- Article: Trends in mental health symptoms, service use, and unmet need for services among U.S. adults through the first 9 months of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Cited by Professor Coley:
- Plug back into work, safely: Job reattachment, leader safety commitment, and job engagement in the COVID-19 pandemic (Yuan, Z., Ye, Z., & Zhong, M., 2021)
- Building psychosocial safety climate in turbulent times: The case of COVID-19 (Dollard, M. F., & Bailey, T., 2021)
Addressing Systemic Racism in the Workplace with Professor Robert Livingston of the Harvard Kennedy School. This session was not recorded at the request of the speaker.
- Article: How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace
- Book: The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth about Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
Member Spotlight: Building a culture of inclusion and belonging at Chobani with Mike Avery, Director, Diversity & Inclusion.
- View the recording of the presentation
- Article: Diversity & Inclusion: This Work Belongs to Everyone
Roundtable Member Open Forums: In this session, Members broke into small groups to discuss the following topics: mental health and well-being, the future of work/return to office, and supporting working parents and caregivers. The takeaways from each session can be found in the Meeting Summary.
Additional Resources
- View the recording of the review of new BCCWF resources
- Mental Health in the Post-Pandemic Workplace: A Culture Shift towards Transparency & Empathy
- Member Pulse Survey: Employee Mental Health [Infographic]
- Workplace of the Future: New Work Models
- Company Spotlight on HubSpot: Hybrid Work & Remote Inclusion
- Member Spotlight on Harvard: Flexible Work Policy
Spring Roundtable Meeting in Boston, MA (2020)
Meeting Documents:
Virtual Roundtable Events:
Global Diversity with Professor Michalle Mor Barak of USC and Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, Chief Diversity Officer at Microsoft. Our two distinguished speakers discussed global D&I strategy and how inclusion efforts are helping to respond to the current crisis and the influence on D&I efforts moving forward. View the recording here.
Roundtable Member Open Forum: During this session we considered how COVID-19 has altered the work we do and discussed how to integrate what we have learned as we prepare to return to work. 2 small breakout groups were offered on different topics so members could connect with peers who have similar priorities.
Fall 2019
Meeting Documents:
WEDNESDAY:
- Center Updates
- Aligning HR and Corporate Responsibility Strategies to Enhance Employee Engagement, Mary Cronin, Boston College
- Corporate Perspectives
THURSDAY:
- Employed Motherhood: A Global Perspective, Kathleen McGinn, Harvard Business School
- BCCWF Extended Parental Leave Study, Brad Harrington and Tina Lawler McHugh, BCCWF
- Video
- Parental Leave Panel – EY, KPMG, and State Street
- Kanter Award Highlights, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Purdue
- Video
- Kanter Award: 2019 Nominees
- From Opt Out to Blocked Out: The Challenges for Labor Market Re-entry after Family-Related Employment Lapses, Kate Weisshaar, UNC
- Maternal Optimism and Work-Life Thriving, Danna Greenberg, Babson College
Additional Resources:
- HBR Article by Danna Greenberg: How Being a Working Parent Changes as Children Grow Up
- NPR interview with Danna Greenberg: Work and Motherhood in ‘Maternal Optimism’
FRIDAY:
- Authenticity and Inclusion, Tina Opie, Babson College
Additional Resources:
- Tina Opie on the Women at Work podcast: Lead with Authenticity
- HBR article by Tina Opie: Our Biases Undermine Our Colleagues’ Attempts to Be Authentic
Meeting Webinar
Fall BC Work and Family Association Meeting in Boston, MA (2018)
Hosted by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Financial Well-Being for Millenials and Beyond: Recruiting with Progressive Benefits
Fall Roundtable Meeting in Boston, MA (2018)
Register here for Meeting Recap Webinar
Meeting Documents:
WEDNESDAY
- Impact of Sleep on Well-being and Productivity, Orfeu Buxton, Penn State University
- Center Updates Presentation
Additional Resources:
THURSDAY
- Loomis Sayles Parental Leave and return to Work, Ivy Koch, Loomis Sayles
- Emerging Trends in Recuiting and Engaging Employees with Disabilities, Nadine Vogel, Springboard Consulting
- Member Best Practices on Neurodiversity and Mental Health- Lori Golden, EY & Craig Kramer, Johnson & Johnson
- 2018 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award– Silke Aisenbray, Yeshiva Universtiy
- Boundaries Between Home and Work in the Digital Age, Nancy Rothbard, UPENN
Additional Resources:
FRIDAY
- Spotlight on Member Diversity Metrics and Stories-
- Lilly Minority Employee Journeys – John Patton
- FM Global Gender Diveristy in STEM– Mary Fox
- #MeToo and Workplace Culture – Leigh Gilmore
Additional Resources:
Additional Resources (General):
Spring Roundtable Meeting in Seattle, WA (2018)
Meeting Documents:
TUESDAY
- 9 Workforce Trends that are Changing Today’s Workplace, Brad Harrington, Executive Director, BCCWF
WEDNESDAY
- Transgender Population Demographics, Experiences, and Public Policy, Jody Herman, Ph.D., Williams Institute, UCLA
- Creating a Trans Inclusive Workplace: Addressing the What, Why, & How, Rhodes Perry, MPA, Diversity Consultant
- Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Employees, Pamela Roberts, Director, Diversity & Inclusion, Northrup Grunman
- Reimagining Inclusion, Carrie Miceli, Deloitte
- Bias Mitigation Translating awareness into action, Sara Piccollo, PIMCO
- Building a Culture of Gratitude, Ryan Fehr, Ph.D., University of Washington and Member Discussion
- Center Updates Presentation
Additional Resources:
THURSDAY
- The Interface of Opioids and Workforce, Molly Carney, Ph.D., MBA, Executive Director, Evergreen Treatment Services
- The Rearrangement of the Life Course and Intimate Relationships, Stephanie Coontz, Evergreen State College
Additional Resources:
How Unmarried Americans are Changing Everything – CNN
Capitalism and the Family – Catlayst Interview
For a Better Marriage, Act Like a Single Person – New York Times
Additional Resources (General):
- Words Matter: Fighting Stigma
- LeanIn.Org Launches #MentorHer, a Call-to-Action for Men to Mentor Women
- 2017 Men as Allies: Engaging Men to Advance Women in the Workplace Report
Meeting Follow Up:
