This blog is intended to provide a deeper understanding of how work, family and community intersect and to clarify the meaning of work-life and to provide commentary and news on the topic of work-life effectiveness as a business strategy. Readers are strongly encouraged to give feedback on this blog by e-mailing Kathie Lingle.

About the Blogger: Kathleen "Kathie" M. Lingle leads Alliance for Work-Life Progress (AWLP), the WorldatWork global network for work-life professionals. She is recognized around the world as a leader among work-life professionals and is a 2007 recipient of the Families and Work Institute Work-Life Legacy Award.

Lingle is a member of the Conference Board's Work-Life Leadership Council, for which she served as co-chair for several years. She is on the executive committee for Work-Life and Women's Initiatives of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). She serves on the AWLP Strategy Board and has been a member of the steering committee of the Boston College Work and Family Roundtable.

Lingle has also served as National Work-Life Director at KPMG LLP where she had primary responsibility for creating and implementing workplace strategies that support the work-life effectiveness of KPMG's 18,000 U.S. employees. She was the primary architect of KPMG's historic Work Environment Initiative, a multi-year culture change initiative that continues to this day. She was a successful management consultant for Watson Wyatt and director of Work-Life Training at the Families and Work Institute (FWI) in New York. While at FWI, Lingle oversaw a three-year evaluation study of Johnson & Johnson's groundbreaking work-family initiative.