Market Trends: by George Stein (copy of Career Detours NYC 2008 presentation)
Prior to joining the Whitney Group in 2007, George Stein was Wall Street Enterprise Reporter for Bloomberg News. During his 10 years at Bloomberg, George covered investment banks, mergers and acquisitions, insurance firms and capital markets, with a particular focus on the energy market. He also edited Bloomberg’s Oil Buyers Guide and Natural Gas Report, and organized the firm’s energy conferences. While at Bloomberg, George was awarded the Society of Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) award for reporting on Sandy Weill’s decision to step down as CEO of Citigroup.
George earned a BA in Mathematics from Swarthmore College and an MA in Mathematics from Columbia University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
The Center for Work Life Policy - A non-profit organization based in New York City and is led by Dr. Sylvia Ann Hewlett.
SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT is an economist and the founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy - She also heads up the Gender and Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. She is the author of six critically acclaimed nonfiction books, including When the Bough Breaks (winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize), The War Against Parents (co-authored with Cornel West), Creating a Life (named as one of the best books of 2002 by Business Week) and, most recently, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps (Harvard Business School Press). She is the co-author of Harvard Business Review articles “Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives,” and “Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek.” Her articles have also appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the International Herald Tribune. Dr. Hewlett has taught at Cambridge, Columbia and Princeton Universities and held fellowships at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London and the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard. In the 1980s she become the first woman to head up the Economic Policy Council—a think tank composed of 125 business and labor leaders. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, ABC World News, Oprah, The View, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation —and has been lampooned on Saturday Night Live. A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Cambridge University, she earned her Ph.D. degree in economics at London University.
Tamara Erickson - (Tammy) is both a respected, McKinsey Award-winning author and popular and engaging expert. Her compelling views of the future are based on extensive research on changing demographics and employee values and, most recently, on how successful organizations work. Well-grounded and academically rigorous, fundamentally optimistic, Tammy's work discerns and describes interesting trends in our future and provides actionable counsel to help both organizations and individuals prepare today.
