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Ellen Galinsky is President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute, a Manhattan-based non-profit organization that conducts research on the changing family, changing workforce and changing community. Ms. Galinsky is the author of over 25 books and reports, including The Six Stages of Parenthood, The Preschool Years, and the groundbreaking book, Ask the Children: The Breakthrough Study That Reveals How to Succeed at Work and Parenting, selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best work-life books of 1999. She has published more than 100 articles in academic journals, books, and magazines.

At the Institute, Ms. Galinsky co-directs The National Study of the Changing Workforce, a nationally representative study of the U.S. workforce that is updated every five years, and was originally conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor. She is also currently directing a campaign on workplace flexibility funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that will launch the Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility in eight communities as well as conducting The 2004 Business Work-Life Study, a comprehensive study of how U.S. companies respond to the work-life needs of their employees. Ms. Galinsky is the program director of the annual work-life conference co-convened by The Conference Board and Families and Work Institute and staffs The Conference Board's Work-Life Leadership Council. She is also directing Mind in the Making, a project on early learning that includes a 13-part science series on public television. Her latest Ask the Children study focuses on youth and leaarning.

A leading authority on work-family issues, Ms. Galinsky was a presenter at the 2000 White House Conference on Teenagers and the 1997 White House Conference on Child Care. She is the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from Vassar College.

A popular keynote speaker, she appears regularly at national conferences, on television and in the media, including Today, Good Morning America, 20/20, Nightline, and Oprah.

Before co-founding FWI, Ms. Galinsky was on the faculty of Bank Street College of Education for 25 years, where she helped establish the field of work and family life.