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  Margaret Regan
President and CEO
The FutureWork Institute
 

Margaret Regan is the President and CEO of The FutureWork Institute—a global consulting firm that translates future trends to transform organizations. Operating on four continents—North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America—the Institute is an incubator of innovation and change in addressing current and future workplace issues: diversity and inclusion, work/life, the future of organizations and their employees. The Institute operates in four continents—North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America--as a global incubator of innovation and change in addressing current and future workplace issues. Its focus is on helping clients achieve a MindShift, a HeartShift and a SkillShift in creating a more inclusive and flexible work environment.

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.

Recently, she has developed FutureWork Island in Second Life to engage clients in diversity education and simulations in the 3D virtual world . She created the content for Cisco’s Connected Women’s Island in Second Life and worked with clients in the virtual world of ProtoSphere. She also developed the first Virtual Global Diversity Summit for 1000 people on the Unisfair platform.

As a member of the World Future Society, Ms. Regan is often asked to bring to her keynote presentations and consulting assignments a perspective on the 21st century and its implications for workforce change management. As Vice Chair of NMCI, The National MultiCultural Insgtitute, she has brought together FWI”s FutureForum and NMCI’s Leadership Conference to encourage for-profit and not-for-profit exploration of the future workforce and workplace.

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 Diversity Journal as a pioneer of the profession, in CNN/Money Magazine as the expert on future workplace trends and in Business Week for FutureWork’s creative approach to “my-job my-way, “my-business our way” and “my perks my-way.” In 2008, she was awarded the Promise of Diveristy Innovation Award by the American Institute for Managing Diveristy for these innovative approaches to work and for her ground-breaking work on diversity education in the virtual world..

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

 

 

 


 

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