Event Details

WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY: THE NEXT IMPERATIVE FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS AND HR LEADERSHIP
Workplace flexibility has become a key business strategy to leverage the talents and skills of today's increasingly diverse, aging, and multi-generational workforce. In this session, you will learn how flexible work arrangements such as job sharing, flexible scheduling, phased retirement, and telecommuting can drive employee engagement, productivity, retention, and benefit your organization's bottom line. You will also examine case studies of companies that have won the national Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility for their innovative programs. And, you will hear about new resources and opportunities as a result of SHRM's partnership with the Families and Work Institute, including the "When Work Works" initiative.

Speaker:

Dorothy Knapp, SPHR is a Field Services Director in the Southeast Region for SHRM and is based in Vero Beach, Florida. She has accountability for the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and the islands of Bermuda, Bahamas, and Puerto Rico. Dorothy also serves as the staff liaison for Certification and continues work with the Fortune Forty chapters. She is a member of the SHRM Speakers Bureau.

 Dorothy has been with SHRM for almost14 years, serving in various management positions. Before joining SHRM, Dorothy was a regional HR manager in the retail and restaurant industries, having worked for both Stein Mart and the Black-eyed Pea restaurants.  Her HR functions included employee relations, training and development, and staffing and retention of managers.

 Dorothy holds a Master’s Degree in Education and is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources.