Speaking – Work-Life Balance Expert

Brigid Schulte, fellow at the New America, award-winning journalist for the Washington Post – and harried mother of two – began the journey that transformed her time and her life quite by accident: after a time-use researcher insisted that she, like all American women, had 30 hours of leisure each week. Stunned, she accepted his challenge to keep a time diary and began a journey that would take her from the depths of what she described as the Time Confetti of her days to a conference in Paris with time researchers from around the world, to North Dakota, of all places, where academics are studying the modern love affair with busyness, to Yale, where neuroscientists are finding that feeling overwhelmed is actually shrinking our brains, to exploring new lawsuits uncovering unconscious bias in the workplace, and how the lack of policies to support families creates stress for all. She also found Bright Spots that can show us the way toward better work, love and play.

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Life Hacks for Life Zen: How Work-Life Balance Leads to More Innovation, Better Leadership, Gender Equality, Better Work & Better Lives

Today many of us are caught up in a swirl of “Overwhelm,” for example Americans work among the longest hours of any advanced economy. We value busyness as a badge of honor. But, is all that time and attention we’re pouring into our jobs really ensuring the best and most innovative work? Much less a healthy and full life? That overwork culture is leading to burn out, stress, sickness and disengagement. And perpetuates gender inequality. Drawing on her extensive research for her best-selling book and in her role as director of The Better Life Lab at New America, and host of the Better Life Lab podcast, one of Apple’s top 50 podcasts, Brigid uses stories and data to show how transforming that outdated work culture, at the individual and organizational level, shifting mindsets, learning tools based on behavioral design and focusing on mission, performance, flexibility and healthy, happy workers, not only leads to better work, but allows time for a better life. For everyone.

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