Speeches / Articles / Appearances
Kate Lister & Tom Harnish are authorities, speakers, and writers on topics including: telecommuting /telework, workplace flexibility, results-based management, business sustainability and green business; home-based businesses and jobs; avoiding work at home scams; entrepreneurship; small business management, finance, and growth; business planning, public relations, and marketing.
Speeches & Webinars, Writing, Appearances
As a popular speaker, Kate has lectured about telework, telecommuting, alternative workplace strategies, sustainability, and a wide variety of business topics at over a hundred events hosted by organizations including the WorldatWork, the Association for Commuter Transportation, CitrixOnline, Verizon, New Ways of Working, Workshift Calgary, the Intranet Benchmarking Forum, and many others.
Tom started teaching in college, and polished his speaking and lecture style at the prestigious Department of Defense Computer Institute in Washington DC. Because many of the students were Admirals, Generals and supergrade civilian government executives, teachers were only allowed into classrooms after rigorous dry-runs and practice lectures. But that made it possible for him to teach, with confidence, every FBI ‘Special Agent in Charge’ in the U.S. about computer security, conduct a one-on-one course on computer telecommunications for the general in charge of the Army Communication Command, lecture on stuff we can’t talk about for senior officials at the CIA and NSA, and teach hundreds of students about systems analysis, telecommunication, security and privacy, and information management for senior executives. Tom has delivered congressional testimony and spoken at a White House conference.
Upcoming and Recent Speeches by Kate Lister & Tom Harnish
- Workplace Flexibility: Making the Business Case – June 24, 2012 (8AM ET), Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference (Atlanta GA)
- Telework: The Latest Research and Lessons from the Trenches, April 2, 2012, Association for Commuter Transportation and Anaheim Transportation Network
- The State of Telework in the U.S.—How Individuals, Businesses, and Governments Benefit – October 13, 2011 (2PM ET), The Telework Council of the Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) NetConference (audio recording, slides). Co-sponsored by the National Center for Transit Research at the University of South Florida and Best Workplaces for Commuters
- Making the Business Case & Human Capital: How to Implement Telework and What That Means – September 22, 2011, The Work Anywhere Symposium—Mobility is California’s Future (Sacramento CA)
- Shift Happens—The Business Case for Workplace Mobility, Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF) virtual keynote – September 14, 2011 (10:00 AM ET)
- How to build the business case for Telework and Hoteling – July 21, 2011 (1:00 EDT), webinar in cooperation with Agilquest
- Telework: the Who, What, When, Where & Why Not, Virtual Tertulia for New Ways of Working (NewWOW) – June 29, 2011 (8AM PT),
- Telework: Overcoming the Obstacles – May 24, 2011 (1:30 PDT), Workshop at WorldatWork 2011 Conference (San Diego CA)
- Telework 101: How to Start a Remote Work Program – April 28, 2011 (10am PDT), Webinar sponsored by CitrixOnline
- The Bottom Line on Telework Benefits in Canada – April 20, 2011, Virtual Press Conference releasing Canadian white paper, sponsored by WorkshiftCalgary
- The Shifting Nature of Work (in the U.K.): Bottom-Line Benefits of Telework – May 19, 2011 (7am PDT) – Webinar sponsored by CitrixOnline
- Workshifting and the Executive Woman: A New Kind of Flexibility – March 2011 – Keynote for Watermark Institute
- The Bottom Line on the Mobile Workforce – March 2011 – Speech for Commercial Real Estate Women – Orange County CA
- Results-Based Management: A Smart Strategy for the Global, Mobile Workforce, November 2, 2011, Webinar sponsored by CitrixOnline
- How To Use Public Relations to Make Money – June 2010 – Webinar sponsored by Verizon
- Telecommuting: Bottom Line Benefits – May 2010 – WorldatWork Annual Conference
- Telecommuting and Sustainability Speech – June 2009 – apologies for the very poor video clip here
- Five Common Myths About Virtual Call Centers – June 2009 – Webinar (view just the slideshow here)
Articles & Blogs by Kate Lister & Tom Harnish
- American Express Open Forum – Articles by Kate
- American Express Open Forum – Articles by Tom
- Entrepreneur Magazine – Articles by Kate
- FindingMoneyAdvice.com
- Wall Street Journal – How To Find Money To Finance A Small Business – Kate Lister
- Journal of Commercial Bank Lending – Borrower’s viewpoint – Kate Lister
- Women In Aviation International – The Heart of Flying – Tom Harnish
- Entrepreneur magazine – Hell’s Bells – Kate Lister & Tom Harnish
- Tom’s other publication credits include AOPA Pilot Magazine, the Experimental Aircraft Association, Department of Defense Computer Institute
- Tom maintains two other blogs on subjects he’s passionate about (other than Kate): WowReally – Science Facts & Foolishness and Tailspin’s Tales
Television / Radio / Film Appearances
Books Written by Kate Lister and Tom Harnish
• Undress For Success – The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home (John Wiley & Sons, March 2009)
• Finding Money – Secrets of a Former Banker (2009 eBook coming soon)
• Finding Money – The Small Business Guide to Financing (John Wiley & Sons)
• The Directory of Venture Capital (John Wiley & Sons)
Articles About The Authors’ Other Business Adventures
San Diego Union Tribune
The Independent (London)
SoCal Skies
Travel & Leisure Golf Magazine