The Way We Work

Cali Williams Yost is a work transformation strategist, researcher, author, speaker, and founder of the Flex+Strategy Group. For more than two decades, she has studied and changed the way business leaders and employees think about how, when, and where we work. She has assisted hundreds of organizations to build high-performance work cultures that strategically use flexibility, technology, and workspace options to work smarter.

Yost is the author of Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Dayand the critically acclaimed Work+Life: Finding the Fit That’s Right for You. She is a graduate of Columbia Business School. In 2018, she was named one of the global management thinkers “on the radar” by Thinkers50. She has also been cited as one of Forbes’s 40 Women to Watch Over 40. Yost’s perspectives have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, as well as on The Today Show, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and NPR.

Brendon Schrader is the Founder/CEO of Antenna, a Minneapolis based company that is changing the way people work. He is also the Founder/Publisher of Indypendently.com, a content and media platform for independent workers. Brendon’s insights on independent consulting, the gig economy, the changing nature of work have been highlighted in Inc. magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, and the Huffington Post. He holds an MBA from the Carlson School of Management, an MEd from the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development, and a degree in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota Duluth. Brendon has also studied leadership, strategy, and innovation at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.