Tuck launches four-city roundtable road show based on "Back in Business" success
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—April 30, 2007
CONTACT: Keri Stedman – Tuck Public Relations – 603-646-1135, Amy Dean – Dean Public Relations – 708-445-8258
HANOVER, N.H.—Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth is launching a four-city roundtable tour to convene corporations, business professionals, and industry experts in discussions about the growing phenomenon of personal career mapping. They’ll also look at how to make the cultural and logistical leap into the next generation of work after one has been away from the workforce for a period of time. This tour follows the overwhelming success of the new program, Back in Business: Invest in Your Return, launched by Tuck Executive Education in October 2006 to address these issues.
Tuck Executive Education has partnered with some of America’s largest employers in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Boston to facilitate this roundtable series. The series, "Toppling the Career Ladder: Paving Pathways for Today’s Talent," will be held at Cisco Systems in San Jose on May 15, Catalyst Ranch in Chicago on May 21, Merrill Lynch in New York City on May 22, and Aquent in Boston on May 30.
"The desire for unconventional career trajectories is more wide-spread among a cross section of professionals and more ready to be embraced by corporate America than we had initially thought," says Corrie Martin, program manager for Back in Business.
Recently, Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth, Aquent, a marketing staffing firm, and Cali Yost, a nationally recognized workplace flexibility expert, united to survey more than 600 corporate representatives and business professionals about what today’s changing workplace means for individuals and businesses. The results of this research will be released leading up to the road show and discussed at each event. Each interactive roundtable will facilitate discussion on:
- Understanding the needs and wants of next-generation employers and employees
- Overcoming cultural and logistical barriers to capitalize on new ways of working
- Managing individuality within the corporate structure.
"Everyone has different work/life goals, which can be supported by many types of flexibility including both formal, flexible work arrangements, and more informal understandings," says Martin. "The challenges that people face when they leave the workforce—outdated skills, lack of confidence, justifying the time away—transcend age, personal circumstance, and gender. By encouraging HR managers and professionals to think in a new way about themselves, their hopes, and their goals, we can help them craft a new reality."
For more information about the roundtable series, please visit the road show website.
For more information about the Back in Business program, please visit the Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth website at www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/exec.
Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of management and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Tuck remains distinctive among the world's great business schools by combining human scale with global reach, rigorous coursework with experiences requiring teamwork, and valued traditions with innovation.
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