Kathie Lingle
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Kathie Lingle leads WorldatWork's Alliance for Work-Life Progress (AWLP) to advance work-life as part of an integrated total rewards strategy. AWLP defines and acknowledges best practices and innovation, facilitates dialogue, and elevates work-life thought leadership.

Lingle is a member of the Conference Board’s Work-Life Leadership Council, for which she served as co-chair for several years. She serves on WorldatWork’s AWLP Strategy Board and is a former member of the steering committee of the Boston College Work-Life Roundtable.

Prior to her current position at WorldatWork, Lingle served as National Work-Life Director at KPMG LLP where she was the primary architect of KPMG’s historic Work Environment Initiative, a multi-year culture change initiative that continues to evolve. She was an organization effectiveness consultant for Watson Wyatt and director of Work-Life Training at the Families and Work Institute (FWI) in New York. While at FWI, Lingle oversaw a three-year evaluation study of Johnson & Johnson’s groundbreaking work-family initiative.

In 2007, Lingle received the FWI Work-Life Legacy award for her leadership in the work-life profession. As an internationally recognized expert, Lingle has often been quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Working Mother, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and broadcast media such as CNN. She is a sought after keynote speaker and has presented to large audiences as far away as Singapore and throughout North America. A former Peace Corps volunteer in South America, she is fluent in Spanish.

Blog Entries by Kathie Lingle

Initiating Tough Work-Life Conversations?

1 Comments | Posted September 23, 2011 | 18:31:29 (EST)

Occasionally I hear someone opine that work-life is "soft." I've never understood what that means since there is no other people strategy that has generated more hard data to support its contribution to business success. It doesn't match reality on the front lines of practice either. If you want to...

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Isaac Newton: Obstacle to Work-Life Progress

Posted September 29, 2010 | 15:16:29 (EST)

Okay, I am aware that though he's been dead for 283 years, Sir Isaac Newton is widely considered the greatest scientist that ever walked the earth. He invented calculus, the reflecting telescope, and gravity (well, he didn't actually invent gravity, but was the first to explain how it operates). Because...

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The Three Hottest Innovations in Work-Life Effectiveness

Posted April 8, 2010 | 16:20:13 (EST)

Hospital Corporation of America, the Clerk & Comptroller's Office of Palm Beach County and the U.S. Navy have at least one thing in common: all three are innovators when it comes to responding to the work-life needs of their employees. And because of that, they have been named recipients of...

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Creating Workplace Flexibility: We're All In This Together

Posted March 16, 2010 | 18:50:20 (EST)

I find myself intrigued by the comments generated by NPR's first installment of what is billed to be a three-part series on work-life: More Employers Make Room for Work-Life Balance. For those of us who have been practitioners in the work-life field for awhile, it is not news...

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Seven Ways You Can Win the Battle to Control Your Own Life

Posted September 18, 2009 | 11:16:34 (EST)

Recent surveys have confirmed what we already knew to be true: the recession has contributed to heavier workloads, higher stress levels and lower morale among American workers.

This October is National Work & Family Month, unanimously approved by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008....

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