Mass Career Customization

On Friday from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. the Powerful Women Paving the Way conference will feature speaker Anne Weisberg.

As a director in the Deloitte U.S. Firm's* Talent organization, Anne Weisberg is involved in the design and implementation of the national strategy for the retention and advancement of women. She is a specialist in the field of diversity, gender and work/life integration, and most recently is the co-author, with Cathy Benko, of Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today's Nontraditional Workforce (HBS Press, 2007).

Prior to joining the Deloitte U.S. Firms, Ms. Weisberg was a senior director in the Advisory Services practice at Catalyst, where she advised clients on diversity strategies. Ms. Weisberg directed a large-scale study of women in the legal profession, Women in Law: Making the Case (Catalyst 2001). She is also co-author of Everything a Working Mother Needs to Know (Doubleday 1994). Before writing the book, Ms. Weisberg practiced law in New York and clerked for a federal judge in Chicago.

Ms. Weisberg is on the Board of Directors of the Forte Foundation and an active member of the Committee to Enhance Diversity of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Ms. Weisberg received her Bachelor of Science Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley and her Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School. She and her husband live in Manhattan and have five children between them.

Weisberg's presentation titled, Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace to the Workforce, will discuss how the corporate workforce has, in the last ten years, completely transformed. From changing family structures, to women now being the majority of the entry-level workforce, to aging baby boomers, to the arrival of Generation Y, never before have the collective characteristics of the employee changed so much in so little time. Yet, the expectations of the traditional workplace and the one-size-fits-all corporate ladder model of career progression have not. The result? A structural misalignment between the workplace and workforce. Learn how Mass Career Customization, a framework conceived and being implemented at Deloitte LLP, responds to this misalignment in a way that allows everyone to fit their work into their life and their life into their work.

*The term “the Deloitte U.S. Firms” is a collective reference to Deloitte & Touche USA LLP and its subsidiaries.