Thriving Through High Performance Flexibility
Inspire your organization to move beyond the pandemic’s crisis-driven disruption reimagining how, when and where work is done and unlocking new levels of performance and well-being.
Cali Williams Yost
CEO and Founder, Flex+Strategy Group
For more than two decades, Cali Williams Yost has been a leading authority on high performance work flexibility. A visionary workplace futurist, strategist, and author, Yost is the Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group, a solutions company helping organizations unlock performance and engagement by reimagining how, when, and where work is done. Called “one of the most sophisticated thinkers” on the transformation of work by The New York Times, her commentary is frequently featured in the Wall Street Journal, HBR, USA TODAY, Marketplace and NBC Nightly News.
Cali Williams Yost Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
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Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
New Jersey, USA
Cali Williams Yost Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
Please Inquire
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
New Jersey, USA
About Keynote Speaker Cali Williams Yost
Cali Williams Yost is one of the world’s most-trusted and experienced authorities on high performance flexibility. A visionary workplace futurist, strategist, author, and speaker, Yost is the Founder and CEO of the Flex+Strategy Group, a solutions company helping organizations unlock performance and well-being by reimagining how, when, and where work is done.
Called “one of the most sophisticated thinkers” on the transformation of work by The New York Times, her commentary frequently appears in the media, including in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USA TODAY, NPR, NBC Nightly News, and the TODAY Show.
For over two decades, Yost has led the exploration of the future of work and flexibility, predicting multiple workplace trends and designing the High Performance Flexibility execution roadmap that drives operational change for impact.
She helps leaders build dynamic, flexible organizations that attract and retain an engaged, diverse workforce; increase productivity and innovation; enhance employee well-being and respond rapidly to operating disruptions.
Clients include: Columbia University, Stanford University, BDO USA, Sanofi, HSBC, the IMF, National Restaurant Association, Con Edison, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Quest Diagnostics, UBS Americas, National Institutes of Health, Freddie Mac, the Singapore Government, the United Nations, and NYU.
A former commercial banker, who approaches flexible work transformation as a strategic business imperative, Yost graduated with honors from Columbia Business School, where she’s noted as an alumnus “Changing the World.” In 2018, Yost was named one of the global management thinkers “On the Radar” by Thinkers50, and she has been cited as one of Forbes’s 40 Women to Watch Over 40.
Yost’s work meets at the intersection of strategy, infrastructure, and a culture of shared leadership. It is rooted in original research on the skills individuals need to leverage flexibility and take control of their work+life “fit” in order to thrive on and off the job.
She coined and codified her concepts on the flexible future of work in the empowering book, Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day (Hachette, 2013) and the critically-acclaimed, Work+Life: Finding the Fit That’s Right for You (Riverhead/Penguin Group, 2004).
Yost is one of Mashable’s top career experts on Twitter and awarded “Best of the Web” distinctions by Forbes.com. Yost lives in the NYC metro area with her husband, two daughters and sits on the Board of a local YMCA.
