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When culture and well-being collide, how much control do individuals actually have to avoid burnout?
When culture and well-being collide, how much control do individuals actually have to avoid burnout?
By Cali Williams Yost
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Improving workplace mental health involves tackling how, why & where we work
Improving workplace mental health involves tackling how, why & where we work
By Cali Williams Yost
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Challenging expectations of 24/7 accessibility and responsiveness
Challenging expectations of 24/7 accessibility and responsiveness
By Cali Williams Yost
Activity
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Episode two of Argent's WORK FRIENDS THE PODCAST is live now with guest Symone D. Sanders Townsend. Absolutely loved this conversation. Link below to…
Episode two of Argent's WORK FRIENDS THE PODCAST is live now with guest Symone D. Sanders Townsend. Absolutely loved this conversation. Link below to…
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It was an absolute pleasure to share my thoughts on the future of #AI integration in the workplace with the insightful James Waddell. The attendees…
It was an absolute pleasure to share my thoughts on the future of #AI integration in the workplace with the insightful James Waddell. The attendees…
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I'm very grateful to HR magazine for ranking me #4 on the HR Most Influential Thinkers list despite being a Professor of Finance, not HR…
I'm very grateful to HR magazine for ranking me #4 on the HR Most Influential Thinkers list despite being a Professor of Finance, not HR…
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Experience & Education
Volunteer Experience
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Member-Reuben Mark Roundtable Working Group
Columbia Business School
- Present 4 years 8 months
An invitation-only roundtable working group of dedicated and passionate practitioner leaders and academics who discuss timely and relevant research, share best practices, and engage outside perspectives relevant to the work of the Initiative. The composition of the Roundtable includes professionals and academics from various points in their careers and from a range of industries and backgrounds, in order to ensure that a variety of perspectives are represented. Particular attention paid to…
An invitation-only roundtable working group of dedicated and passionate practitioner leaders and academics who discuss timely and relevant research, share best practices, and engage outside perspectives relevant to the work of the Initiative. The composition of the Roundtable includes professionals and academics from various points in their careers and from a range of industries and backgrounds, in order to ensure that a variety of perspectives are represented. Particular attention paid to generational diversity, as current challenges surrounding corporate culture begin with differing generational work/life expectations, which are especially germane to the Initiative and its goals around teaching great organizational culture.
Publications
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TWEAK IT: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day
Center Street / Hachette
TWEAK IT: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day (Center Street/Hachette, January, 2013 http://amzn.to/SvhD6F) teaches you how to harness the power of small changes...changes that will have a big impact on your personal and professional success in a modern, hectic world of constantly competing demands. How do you get your job done and take care of yourself, nurture your relationships, care for your loved ones, keep up your job skills, and maintain your personal finances and your home?…
TWEAK IT: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day (Center Street/Hachette, January, 2013 http://amzn.to/SvhD6F) teaches you how to harness the power of small changes...changes that will have a big impact on your personal and professional success in a modern, hectic world of constantly competing demands. How do you get your job done and take care of yourself, nurture your relationships, care for your loved ones, keep up your job skills, and maintain your personal finances and your home?
Expert, Cali Williams Yost, spent almost two decades in the work-life trenches helping hundreds of companies create more flexible workplaces and showing tens of thousands of individuals how to use that work flexibility to manage their priorities both on and off the job.
In TWEAK IT, Yost reveals the secrets of the work+life fit naturals. She introduces you to the simple, commonsense TWEAK IT practice of small changes that will have a big impact on your own life, whether you are a man or woman, parent or elder caregiver, employee or self employed, single or married, just starting your career, or a pre-retiree. Stop struggling with work-life balance. TWEAK IT shows you how to find your work+life "fit" and make what matters to you, on and off the job, every day. -
CFOs See Business Impacts of Work-Life Flexibility, But They Can't Execute for Strategic Benefit
World at Work Journal
A ground-breaking study of the top 100 CFOs conducted by Flex+Strategy Group/Work+Life Fit, Inc. and BDO, LLP to understand how the individuals in charge of financial performance perceive work+life flexibility, personally and as a business strategy.
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Work+Life: Finding the Fit That's Right for You
Riverhead
Work+Life is the first "how to" guide that gives individuals the power to harness flexibility in how, when and where work is done to find their own unique work+life "fit" (not, balance). Based on almost two decades of developing and implementing award-winning flexibility strategies in organizations, Yost shares the secrets of success that will help anyone optimize their work+life fit in a way that works for them and their job.
Honors & Awards
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Top 100 Websites for Women
Forbes.com
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Top 100 Websites for Women
Forbes.com
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Top 100 Websites for Women
Forbes.com
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Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society
Columbia Business School
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Podcast fans, I'm SO excited to share that we're ready to kick off Season 4 of MillerKnoll's podcast, which we've recently renamed About Place. We…
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I'm excited to announce that I joined Columbia University as a Professor of Practice. I am humbled to be in the company of stellar Faculty…
I'm excited to announce that I joined Columbia University as a Professor of Practice. I am humbled to be in the company of stellar Faculty…
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Big Flex Index milestone — we hit 10k companies on Flex Index! So proud of the great work our team does in collecting and organizing this data…
Big Flex Index milestone — we hit 10k companies on Flex Index! So proud of the great work our team does in collecting and organizing this data…
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An announcement. And an ask. Evolving is in order. Who do you know that I *should* know around this work? Which innovative brands do you know of…
An announcement. And an ask. Evolving is in order. Who do you know that I *should* know around this work? Which innovative brands do you know of…
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Chef Emma Bengtsson, Aquavit, made my evening… I was a slightly apprehensive dining, table for 1, at a 2 Michelin star restaurant. I mean, it’s one…
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One of the feistiest sessions I attended at the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival was on AI and Global Learning. Go figure! The discussions were intense…
One of the feistiest sessions I attended at the 2024 Aspen Ideas Festival was on AI and Global Learning. Go figure! The discussions were intense…
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Culture is the heart of thriving organizations. It's not just the way things get done; it's the guiding light, compass, and values orientation that…
Culture is the heart of thriving organizations. It's not just the way things get done; it's the guiding light, compass, and values orientation that…
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I am frequently asked why I am so supportive of Gen Z. My answer is simple: we don’t have a choice! We cannot achieve anything significant without…
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