To get a flexible work arrangement in your current job, it takes more than a simple ask. It’s too easy for your boss to say “no” if you casually lob a request to “work from home on Fridays”. You need to make a buttoned-up pitch for flexibility—as professionally as you would pitch a client for important business. Women learn what to highlight in a winning flexwork proposal, safeguards to make sure it works for both employer and employee and how to anticipate and shut down all potential objections.

About the Presenter: 

Kathryn Sollmann has created and led hundreds of conferences and workshops that help women sustain and advance careers as they blend work and life.

A frequent media resource on women’s work vs. family issues, she’s always challenging the status quo, debunking work-life myths, helping you work around corporate obstacles, digging to find all the places #realflexwork exists, calling for active participation in your own long-term financial security and encouraging all women to be creative, realistic and unstoppable when it comes to blending work and life.

Recognized as a thought leader in the women and work space, her book—Ambition Redefined: Why the Corner Office Doesn’t Work for Every Woman & What to Do Instead—is the everyday woman’s guide to developing her own brand of ambition and success and finding many lucrative ways to lean “in-between” alongside caregiving for children and aging parents.

A mother of two daughters, Kathryn has worked non-stop since the age of 16. She coaches women with insights from her own flexible work experience—as a full-time and part-time employee, a business owner, a marketing consultant, a telecommuter, a freelancer and a recruiter.