At the invitation of the Leadership Research Institute, Clearview president Patrick Scully helped design and lead a session on “work/life effectiveness” at the “ESPN Women’s Leadership Conference 2010” on November 2 in Hartford, Connecticut.

Scully led a plenary session of 500 ESPN employees who used wireless keypad polling devices to register their response to several scenarios about challenges related to achieving optimal balance between their personal and work lives. After noting the audience’s response to each scenario, Scully led a “fishbowl” dialogue about issues of work-life balance with five of ESPN’s senior executives. Two senior researchers from the Center for Work-Life Policy also participated in the fishbowl dialogue after presenting highlights of how issues of work-life balance are playing out at ESPN and in dozens of other global corporations.