Margaret Regan is the President and CEO of The FutureWork Institute. The FutureWork Institute is a global virtual web of alliances which models and co-creates flexible, inclusive workplaces. Its members are from the former Global Diversity Practice of Towers Perrin, and the Institute is a Strategic Alliance of Towers Perrin. The Institute operates in four continents-North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America--as a global incubator of innovation and change in addressing current workplace issues: diversity, work/life, the future of organizations and their employees.

In her global work, she has studied human resource practices in Japan, keynoted conferences in Asia, worked in Paris on French-American mergers and Global Diversity Summits, educated executive teams on cross-cultural differences, conducted women's studies in Germany, France, the UK and the US. She has led Institute projects which conducted employee research and focus goups in Hong Kong, Bangalore, Tokyo, Mexico, Chile, Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and other major cities.

Ms. Regan operates at the cutting edge of change, using research and consulting expertise to help clients envision the manager, employee and customer of the future. She works with her clients to co-create an inclusive and flexible work environment that will give them a competitive advantage in the war for talent and provide the market insight to target products and services for an increasingly diverse customer base. Recently, she has developed FutureWork Island in SecondLife to engage clients in diversity education and simulations in the 3D virtual world of Web 2.0.

An active member of numerous professional organizations and a frequent keynote speaker on emerging workforce trends, she has spent the last 18 years working with clients on the design and implementation of people strategies and HR systems to address work today and in the future: diversity management, work/life and future work issues, change management, management and executive development and coaching, succession planning and career development.

As a member of the World Future Society, Ms. Regan is often asked to bring to her consulting assignments a perspective on the 21st century and its implications for workforce change management. Clients include American Express, AstraZeneca, AT&T, BASF, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Coach, Deutsche Bank, Fluor, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, JPMorganChase, New York Hospital, New York Stock Exchange, NYCMTA, PepsiCo, Phillips, Pfizer, Pitney Bowes, Reuters, Schering-Plough, Sodexho, Sony, Time Warner, UBS PaineWebber, Union Carbide and Verizon.

Ms. Regan was formerly a Principal and the Global Diversity Practice Leader for Towers Perrin. During her 15 years at Towers Perrin, she founded the diversity and worklife practices and led those practices as well as the Global Reinventing HR Practice, and the Global Human Capital Management Practice. Ms. Regan was also the Senior Vice President of the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry and headed the human resource consulting practice for the Fortune 1000 companies in the New York area. In addition, she spent nine years heading all aspects of training and personnel administration for Con Edison in NYC.

Ms. Regan established the New York City Private Industry Council to provide training programs for "at risk" youth and the New York Business Group on Health, a coalition of local employers, to address spiraling health care costs. Both organizations are now separate and successful not-for-profits. Ms. Regan has also been a member of the Governor's Commission on Child Care, YWCA Academy of Women Achievers, the Commission on the Status of Women and the Workforce 2000 Task Force of the NYC Board of Education, former Chair of the Business Committee for the Special Placement of People With Disabilities and the Board of Education's Advisory Council on Occupational Education.

She has appeared on NBC-TV's Today Show, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, and CNN, to comment on emerging workforce trends. She has been frequently quoted in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and the South China Morning Post. Currently, she is featured on Close-Up TV as the CEO of "one of the most innovative businesses in the U.S.," in the Diversity Journal as a pioneer of the profession, in CNN/Money Magazine as the expert on future workplace trends and in a special feature in Business Week on FutureWork's creative approach to "my-job my-way, "my-business our way" and "my perks my-way."

Ms. Regan received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Brooklyn College, CUNY and completed her doctoral work at Fordham University.

mregan@futureworkinstitute.com