Paul Rupert is President of Washington, DC-based Rupert & Company. He combines forty years’ general management, consulting, coaching, training and research experience with expertise in the development of flexible leadership skills and online systems. He excels in aligning Senior Management commitments with business-beneficial flexibility initiatives. Paul pioneered the development of explicitly business-based approaches and tools for creating the flexible workplace and transforming traditional managers into flexible leaders. In his previous work as Associate Director of New Ways to Work and Flexibility Practice Leader of WFD Consulting, he directed national flexibility advocacy efforts and served a broad and distinguished client list of more than a hundred companies ranging from Aetna and AOL to Wal-Mart and Xerox. He pioneered challenging flexibility initiatives such as Phased and Partial Retirement and high yield approaches to Remote Work. Mr. Rupert speaks widely about organizational flexibility and is quoted regularly in the national media such as the Wall Street Journal, ABC World News, CBS News, NPR, Marketplace and Newsweek. He is a graduate of Stanford University.