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Rupert & Company has experienced leaders steeped in innovation
and collaboration. They represent decades of guiding clients
toward 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,
tracking systems, coaching, leadership development, scalable
training and work and office redesign.
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Paul Rupert is the President of Washington,
DC-based Rupert & Company. He combines forty years’
general management, consulting, coaching, training
and research experience with expertise in the
development of flexible 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 Manager Initiatives
– the development of effective ways to transform traditional
managers into flexible
leaders
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Phased and Partial Retirement
– creation of a protocol for success, including Work Redesign
and Knowledge
Transfer tools
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Senior Management Engagement
– execution of highly successful processes to arrange and secure
Senior
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Stacey Gibson is a Principal with Rupert &
Company. She is 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.) Stacey has mastered and
draws on a deep knowledge of managing culture change
within complex organizations
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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After developing a company-wide approach, she drove flexibility
practices into a diverse set of business units through an
intensive cultivation of HR generalists. Stacey was regularly
acknowledged internally and externally for her vision, creative
program implementation and insistence on approaches that served
both the company and its employees. Her flexibility work was
featured in a variety of conferences and professional meetings.
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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Sustained Flexibility Initiative
– understood the need for and spent a decade implementing major
culture change
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Developing Job Sharing in Sales
– supported the creative business application of an FWA to
strengthen
retention
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Diversity Leadership – drove
a comprehensive strategy that included hiring, work-life and
flexible work
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Steve Goldfarb is Rupert & Company’s 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 successful
innovations include:
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Flex Design Surveys
– built online tools combining needs assessment and
design options
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Virtual Design Groups
– refined highly efficient conference call research
and reporting system
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Mutual Respect
Training – customized an advanced flexibility
management system 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 and web design, hosting and
maintenance. Prior to developing her own web
services company, Michele spent more than a decade
in technology roles 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. |
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After several successful training tool and website
collaborations with Rupert and Company, she joined the firm as
Webmaster in 2002.
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
the suite of 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 with broad customer input |
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