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About the Telework Research Network
The Telework Research Network is a consulting and research organization that specializes in making the business case for workplace flexibility. Their proprietary Telework Savings Calculator™ has been used by hundreds company and community leaders in the US, Canada, and the UK to quantify the economic, environmental, and societal potential of telecommuting and other flexible work options.
Using the latest Census data, and assumptions from dozens of government and private sector sources, they’ve developed models to quantify the economic, environmental, and societal potential on telecommuting for every, city, county, and state in the U.S and for the UK and Canada.
Hundreds of company and community leaders have used their standard and models to make the case for telework.
Their research has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Inc. magazine and scores of other publications.
Their white papers include:
- The Bottom Line on Telework (Canada)
- Workshifting Benefits: The Bottom Line (U.S.)
- Results-Based Management—The Key To Unlocking Talent, Increasing Productivity
- The Shifting Nature of Work In The UK—The Bottom Line Benefits of Telework
- Telework Trends (sponsored by NewWOW.org and Citrix, available this June)
About Kate Lister
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Kate is a recognized authority on telework and workplace flexibility. She has synthesized and cataloged more than 500 studies on telecommuting and related topics. And she has interviewed dozens of virtual employers, employees, advocates, naysayers, and venture capitalists who have invested in remote work models.
As a writer, Kate (together with and her partner, Tom Harnish have co-authored three business books. Undress For Success: The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home (John Wiley & Sons 2009), is aimed at empowering employees to request, find, or create workplace flexibility. It has won the praise of top telework and work-life advocates including principals with WorldatWork, the Canadian Telework Association, the Telework Coalition and many others. Jack Nilles—the father of telework, wrote the foreword for the book.
Kate and Tom’s other books include Finding Money–The Small Business Guide to Financing (Wiley, 1995; revised as eBook in 2010), and The Directory of Venture Capital (Wiley, 1996).
As a speaker, Kate has delivered over a hundred lectures, webinars, and speeches for organizations including WorldatWork, Citrix Online, Verizon, Watermark, Wharton School of Business, and Temple University; and she developed small business training programs for Corestates Bank, Keystone Bank, Liberty Bank, Unisys, and Eastman Kodak.
As an entrepreneur, Kate founded and led several successful businesses:
- a consulting business that successfully helped hundreds of entrepreneurs raise millions of dollars from banks, government agencies, angels, and venture capitalists
- an air tour business that we grew into the largest in the country and sold in 2006.
- a news distribution business that she purchased, built up over ten years, and sold to Knight-Ridder
As a corporate executive, Kate spent ten years as a small business lender with two of the nation’s largest banks and a year as a partner in a venture capital firm.
As a philanthropist, Kate developed a microloan program aimed at helping welfare mothers start businesses. She convinced five major Philadelphia banks to provide seed grants for the loan fund based on the Grameen Bank (Bangladesh) circle-borrowing model—a concept that has since gained considerable notoriety. The program included business training and one-on-one counseling for the loan recipients.
Kate’s works has been recognized by the Inc. magazine / Arthur Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Program, by the SBA with a Business Advocate of the Year award , and by the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce as the Business Leader of the Year.
About Tom Harnish
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Tom’s first technical journal article was published when he was a sophomore in college; as a junior he taught computer programming at a night school, as a senior he started the first commercial computer service bureau in Albuquerque.
After 8 years in the Navy, Tom joined Booz Allen & Hamilton as Consulting Scientist. As Senior Scientist for the Online Computer Library Center he conceived and led the first U.S. trial of a networked home information service. He was President of a medical imaging start-up funded by Elsevier, then founder and president of Flightline Electronic Publishing.
A former carrier-based Navy jet flyer, civilian pilot and flight instructor, Tom has over 45 years of flying experience and holds two aviation world speed records (both in aircraft older than he is). He was selected as a NASA Solar System Amabasador (aka Space Evangelist), and can’t play any musical instruments.
Tom is co-author with Kate of three books published by John Wiley & Sons including Undress For Success—The Naked Truth About Making Money At Home.