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Rupert & Company has experienced and respectful leaders with a history of innovation and collaboration. They represent decades guiding clients to the flexible workplace, customizing online tools and developing superior leaders. They are supported in quality delivery by staff and colleagues who bring enhanced capabilities in communications and graphic design, database development, coaching, leadership development, scalable training and office redesign. |
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Paul Rupert is the President of Washington, DC-based Rupert & Company. He combines thirty-five years’ general management, consulting, coaching, training and research experience with expertise in the development of flexible and respectful leadership skills and online systems.
Paul started managing flexibly with his first start-up in 1972. He pioneered the development of explicitly business-based approaches and tools for creating the flexible workplace. In his previous work as Associate Director of New Ways to Work and Flexibility Practice Leader of WFD Consulting, he directed national flexibility advocacy efforts and served a broad and distinguished client list of more than a hundred companies ranging from Aetna and AOL to Wal-Mart and Xerox.
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Mr. Rupert speaks widely about organizational flexibility and is quoted regularly in the national media such as the Wall Street Journal, ABC World News, CBS News, NPR, Marketplace and Newsweek. He is a graduate of Stanford University.
Paul Rupert’s notable expertise and successful innovations include: |
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Flexible Management Initiatives – developed strategies, interventions and tools to build flexibility |
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Phased and Partial Retirement – created complete toolkit to support PPR with Knowledge Transfer |
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Senior Management Engagement – has perfected process to
secure Senior Executive buy-in |
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Flexibility Applications – harnessed flex to Managing thru Cancer and Chronic Conditions programs |
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Stacey Gibson is a Principal with Rupert & Company, based near New York City. Prior to joining the firm, she spent thirty-six years at Bristol-Myers Squibb in a variety of Human Resource leadership roles (work/life, diversity, employee relations, HR policy, etc.), where she was regularly acknowledged internally and externally for her vision, creative program implementation and insistence on approaches that served both the company and its employees.
After 1990, in her role as Senior Director, Work/Life and Diversity Programs, she presided over the building of five onsite child development centers and initiation of a wide variety of child and elder care programs in support of employee work/life balance. In a long-term collaboration with Rupert & Company, she built a highly regarded and innovative company-wide initiative on flexible work options. |
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Stacey has mastered and draws on a deep knowledge of managing culture change within complex organizations. She graduated from Hofstra University and received her MBA in Human Resources from Pace University. Stacey is regularly quoted in the press and featured at conferences, has been honored with the Families and Work Institute Legacy Award and Ted Childs Work/Life Award and was a founding member of the Boston College Center for Work & Family
Roundtable.
Stacey Gibson’s notable expertise and successful innovations include: |
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Integrate Flexible Work – built a sustained flex presence throughout key businesses in challenging pharma |
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Developing Job Sharing in Sales – supported creative business application of FWA to strengthen
retention |
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Diversity Leadership – drove comprehensive strategy for hiring, networks, supplier diversity and
work-life |
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Child Care Innovation – designed strategy and built support for 5 corporate child development centers |
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Steve Goldfarb is the New York-based Research & Training Director. He has more than thirty years’ experience in research design, administration and training for organizations and their employees. He held research and consulting roles at Citibank, Opinion Research Corporation, Foster Higgins, Towers Perrin and William M. Mercer. He began the firm Goldfarb Research in 1997, and later merged it into Rupert & Company. He has conducted a range of flexibility studies and training initiatives, and major projects have included ALCOA, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, Johnson & Johnson, St. John’s Queens Hospital and University Hospitals of Cleveland.
His research has been featured in Compensation and Benefits Review and Across the Board and he was a major contributor to IBM’s landmark study on human resources, Priorities for Competitive Advantage. He has been quoted in The New York Times, USA Today and The Chicago Tribune. Mr. Goldfarb earned a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. in Organizational and Industrial Psychology from Columbia University, where he also completed advanced work in evaluation research, psychometrics and statistics.
Steve Goldfarb’s notable expertise and
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Flex Design Surveys – built online tools combining
needs assessment and design options |
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Virtual Focus Groups – refined highly efficient conference call and reporting system |
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Respectful Leadership 360 – created diagnostics to assess core skills and plan training |
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Mutual Respect Training – customized initiative for all levels of employee and managers |
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Michele Lamond is Rupert & Company’s Webmaster. She brings to the position a broad background in financial and professional services and web design, hosting and maintenance. Prior to developing her own web services company, Michele spent more than a decade in the investment management business. She later shifted to marketing and communications roles in the nonprofit sector.
In all these settings she developed her web design and development capabilities. She began her own comprehensive web services company in 1998, offering Southwest Florida businesses website development, Internet communication strategies and online training vehicles. After several successful training tool and website collaborations with Rupert and Company, she joined the firm as Webmaster in 2002. |
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She is responsible for building the FlexWise™ suite of interactive online guides and training tools, for all client website development and customization and for maintaining all hosted sites. She is currently involved in creating our second generation websites and training
tools.
Michele Lamond’s notable expertise and successful innovations include: |
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Interactive Training – built e-learning tools that engage both managers and employees |
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User-Friendly Guides – created comprehensive, popular, accessible
online FWA guidelines |
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Quality Customization – regularly redesigned tools to meet broad customer demands |
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Customer Delight – delivered exceptional work – on time, under budget and cheerfully |
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