Margaret
Regan is the President and CEO of The FutureWork Institute —a global
virtual web of alliances that 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
acts as an incubator of innovation and change in addressing current workplace
issues: diversity, work/life, the future of organizations and their employees.
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 inclusive and flexible work environments 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.
An
active member of numerous professional organizations and a frequent lecturer
on emerging human resource issues, she has spent the last 15 years working
with clients on the design and implementation of people strategies and human
resource 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.
Ms. Regan was formerly a Principal and Global Diversity Practice Leader for Towers Perrin. During her 15 years at Towers Perrin, she founded the Diversity and Work/Life practices and led those practices as well as the HR practice in New York, 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 firm’s Fortune 1000 client companies in the New York area. In addition, she spent nine years heading all aspects of training and personnel administration for Con Edison, a large electric utility, in New York City.
During
her tenure at the Chamber, 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 NYC 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 the Handicapped and the NYC Board of Education’s Advisory Council
on Occupational Education.
She
has appeared on NBC-TV’s “Today Show,” “CBS This Morning,”
“NBC Nightly News,” CNN and WNYC-TV to comment on emerging workforce
trends. She has been frequently quoted in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal,
Miami Herald and The Washington Post.
Ms. Regan received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Brooklyn College and completed her doctoral work at Fordham University.
