Kossek to lead M/P staff in interactive Hadley workshop on work-life boundaries

Ellen Ernst Kossek

An interactive virtual workshop Feb. 8 on “Managing Work-Life Boundaries in the Flexible Job Age Through COVID-19 and Beyond” will be offered by two staff organizations and led by Ellen Ernst Kossek, the Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor of Management in the Krannert School of Management.

The event, which requires preparatory work and registration by Feb. 4, will serve as the Richard A. Hadley Lecture for this year from the Management and Professional Staff Advisory Committee (MaPSAC), which is partnering with the Purdue Engineering Staff Leadership Academy (PESLA). The workshop is open to management and professional staff with supervisor approval.

Kossek is an internationally known expert on work-life balance and related issues. Among many honors and involvements, she was the first elected president of the Work-Family Researchers Network.

Interested persons should register only if they can follow all of the following steps designed to enrich participation:

• Complete the FlexStyle Assessment and include their results in registering. The information will be used for group discussions during the event. The assessment will take about five minutes.
• Complete workshop registration by Feb. 4. Registrants will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
• Attend the workshop, 10 a.m. to noon ET Feb. 8 on Zoom. The event is free.

Questions can be submitted in advance by email to APSAC-PD@purdue.edu. This workshop is interactive and will be moderated to minimize interruptions. The event will not be recorded.

The Richard A. Hadley MaPSAC Professional Development Series is named for a Purdue alumnus and past Purdue employee who was a founding member of APSAC, the predecessor of MaPSAC. Richard Hadley was a senior mechanical engineer at Purdue for almost 25 years before his death in 1993. The Hadley presentations are presented each spring and are intended to provide career enrichment for University staff members. The series is supported by the Richard Hadley Memorial APSAC Fund for Staff Development.

The Purdue Engineering Staff Leadership Academy (PESLA) is a two-year cohort-based program to provide professional development to professional and managerial staff in the College of Engineering. Each cohort culminates in a yearlong project showcased at a collegewide poster session with the opportunity to present at a national conference. The program was created and is voluntarily managed by staff, for staff.

Ellen Ernst Kossek

Ellen Ernst Kossek is the Basil S. Turner  and University Distinguished Professor at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management and holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Yale University, an MBA for the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree with honors in psychology from Mount Holyoke College. Her research has won many awards and examines leadership and strategic initiatives to advance gender equality, work-life equality, and implementing flexibility policies and remote work as to foster diversity and inclusion.

Kossek was the first elected president of the Work-Family Researchers Network and has been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management, APA, and SIOP. She has also been appointed a University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and been a visiting scholar at the University of Bologna (Italy); several major universities in the United Kingdom including an upcoming 2022 Fulbright on flexibility, gender and careers; and UNISA in Australia. She served on IESE’s work-family and women’s leadership advisory board in Barcelona, Spain. She led in writing a report for the U.S. National Academy of Science on the effects of COVID-19 on the work-life boundaries of Women in STEMM Scientists.