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The Next Generation of Work Place Flexibility at UC Irvine, The Merage School of Business Kim Shepherd, CEO of Decision Toolbox, will be a featured panelist at "The Next Generation of Work Place Flexibility on October 16, 2008 at UC Irvine: The Merage School of Business. The event will feature a panel of experts sharing new work flexibility programs at leading-edge companies, plus a cocktail hour for networking, book signing, and pre-conference breakout workshops. The goal of the event is to help promote an open dialog about flexibility in the workplace for the many professional mothers and fathers who struggle with work life balance and the employers competing for talent in today's increasingly demanding work environment. Kim Shepherd is CEO of Decision Toolbox (www.dtoolbox.com), a recruitment process outsourcing company known as much for its high-quality recruitment services as it is for its groundbreaking business model. Originally founded in Southern California, Decision Toolbox is today a 100% virtual company where every single member of the team works from a home office in locations from New Hampshire to Seattle to New Zealand. Since adopting the virtual model, the company has enjoyed 50% growth every year for the past four years. As a vanguard of this emerging trend, Kim is a frequent speaker and panelist on the topic of building and managing virtual teams, and recently she has addressed the Orange County Employment Management Association, PIHRAs Talent Management Conference, the National Association of Women Business Owners and the Harvard Business Schools 2008 Entrepreneurs Conference 2008. |
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