Stewart Friedman

Professor of Management Practice at The Wharton School

Biography

The Wharton School

Stew Friedman has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984.  He became the Management Department’s first Practice Professor for his work on applying theory and research to the real challenges facing organizations. As founding director of The Wharton Leadership Program, in 1991 he initiated the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses.  He is also founding director of Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project.

An awardwinning teacher, he appears regularly in business media (The New York Times cited the “rock star adoration” he inspires in his students).  He has been recognized twice as one of HR's Most Influential International Thinkers and as one of the "world's top 50 business thinkers" three times by Thinkers50. In 2015 he won the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award in the talent management field. He's published 50+ articles for HBR.org, including one listed first among Harvard Business Review's Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013.  He was chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s 25 most influential men to have made things better for working parents, and was honored by the Families and Work Institute with the Work Life Legacy Award.

Stew’s most recent book is Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life (Harvard Business, 2014), a Wall Street Journal bestseller.  It builds on his awardwinning bestseller, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (Harvard Business, 2008), which has been translated into many languages. The program it describes is his challenging Wharton course, in which participants complete an intensive series of realworld exercises designed to increase their leadership capacity and performance in all parts of their lives by better integrating them, while working in highinvolvement peertopeer coaching relationships and completing much of the activity online in a cuttingedge social learning environment.  Total Leadership is used by individuals and companies worldwide, including as a primary intervention in a multiyear study funded by the National Institutes of Health on improving the careers and lives of women in medicine and by 135,000+ students who were enrolled in Stew’s highlyrated MOOC on Coursera.

In 2001 Stew concluded a twoyear assignment as a senior executive at Ford Motor Company, where he was director of the Leadership Development Center (LDC), running a 50person, $25 MM operation.  In partnership with the CEO, he launched a corporatewide portfolio of initiatives designed to transform Ford's culture; 2500+ managers per year participated.  Near the end of his tenure at Ford, an independent research group (ICEDR) said the LDC was a "global benchmark" for leadership development programs.

Stew worked for five years in the mental health field before earning his PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan.  He has published on work/life, leadership, and the dynamics of change, including the widelycited Harvard Business Review articles, “Work and life: the end of the zerosum game” (1998); “Be a better leader, have a richer life” (2008); and "Work+Home+Community+Self (2014); and “The Happy Workaholic: a role model for employees” (in Academy of Management Executive, 2003).  In 2013 Wharton Digital Press published his landmark study of two generations of Wharton students, Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family. Work and Family – Allies or Enemies? (Oxford, 2000) was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the field's best books.  In Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (JosseyBass, 1998) Stew edited the first collection of learning tools for building leadership skills for integrating work and life.

Stew serves on a number of boardshttp://www.amazon.com/BabyBustChoicesWomenFamily/dp/1613630344/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=18P7YGBZN4E6327296N3 and has advised a wide range of companies and public sector organizations, including the U.S. Department of Labor, the United Nations, and two White House administrations.  He gives keynote addresses and conducts workshops globally on leadership and the whole person, creating change, and strategic human resources issues. (Here is the master class he gave for Wharton's Lifelong Learning Tour in San Francisco.)

Follow on Twitter @StewFriedman and LinkedIn, read his digital articles HBR.org, and tune in to his _Work and Life _show on SiriusXM 111, _Business Radio Powered by Wharton, _Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. ET (selected episodes now available as a free podcast.)

Stewart Friedman (2015), Helping Fathers Flourish in All Parts of Their Lives, Flourishing in Life Work and Careers.

Stewart Friedman (2015), Empowering individuals to integrate work & life: insights for management development, Journal of Management Development, Vol. 34.

Stewart Friedman (2014), Implications of the Revolution in Work and Family, Reinventing the Company in the Digital Age.

Stewart Friedman, Leading The Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and LIfe (2014)

Stewart Friedman, Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family (2013)

Stewart Friedman, Leadership Succession (2011)

Stewart Friedman, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (2008)

Stewart Friedman (2008), Be a better leader, have a richer life, Harvard Business Review.

Stewart Friedman (2006), Learning to lead in all domains of life , American Behavioral Scientist, In D. F. Halpern and H. R. Riggio (Editors), Changes at the Intersection of Work and Family, (Special Issue), May, 49(9), 12701297.

Abstract: A new vision of management in the 21st century must address how organization members align their core values with their actions. Recent trends have changed the landscape on which business leaders pursue interests of various stakeholders. To be successful in the 21st century. business leaders at all levels must possess three important capacitiesauthenticity. integrity. and creativityand enact them at work, in their families. in their communities. and in their personal growth. Building these capacities requires innovative means for educating and developing leaders. This article discusses the author's approach to realizing this goaltotal leadershipwhich aims to help participants increase business results by enriching lives. to learn to lead in new ways that integrate work. home. community, and self for mutual gain. This article reviews the principles and skills of total leadership and describes experiments undertaken by participants to produce changes in both their leadership identity and their performance in all life domains.

Stewart Friedman (2005), Four studies of executives helping employees align their actions and values , The International Journal of Leadership Education, 1 (1): 2930.

Past Courses

MGMT238 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Management 238 is an organizational behavior course, examining individual, interpersonal, and group effectiveness at work. Topics range from decision making, motivation, and personality to networks, influence, helping, leadership, teamwork, and organizational culture. The learning method is heavily experiential, with a focus on applying key principles to the human side of management in roleplay exercises, simulations, a miniTED talk, and group projects in local organizations. This course requires the instructor's permission. Registration is by application only; Penn InTouch requests will not be processed. The link to the application form will be available on the Management Department's website: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/programs/undergraduate, beginning March 13, 2017. The deadline for applications is March 20, 2017 at 5 PM. Students will be notified after March 30, 2017 regarding the status of their application.

MGMT240 GROUP DYNAMICS

Section 001 Open to all sophomores, juniors, and seniors. This course develops your knowledge and skills for designing, leading, and consulting with teams in organizations. The goals are to provide both the conceptual understanding and the behavioral skills required to improve team effectiveness. This course makes use of analytic and reflective writing, peer feedback and coaching, simulations, and an intensive field project with a real team in the Philadelphia area. There are four kinds of teams that are the focus of your study: teams of which you've been a member in the past; your 240 Team, with three or four other classmates; a team outside of 240 that your 240 Team will observe, analyze, and report on your Host Team; and a team you expect to be on in the future. The primary case material for applying course concepts (learned from readings and lectures) will be these teams you know from direct observation and experience. Expect to leave this course with new knowledge of how to diagnose and intervene as leader, member, or consultant to improve the performance sustainability, and impact on the members of any team. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above. ,Special registration for MGMT 240 Section 001: Enrollment in this section of MGMT 240 is by permission of the instructor, Professor Stew Friedman. To apply for admission, please contact him via email: friedman@wharton.upenn.edu.

MGMT610 FOUND OF TEAMWRK & LDRSH

Management 610 is the first core course in the MBA Program and it cannot be waived. The first week of the fall term (in August) is dedicated to this formative and foundational experience. This course focuses on developing students' knowledge and skill set for teamwork and leadership. It is meant to be an intense immersion experience that draws strongly on the pedagogy of the Wharton Teamwork and Leadership Simulation, a teambased, highly interactive simulation that was customdesigned specifically to allow students to experience the core concepts they learn in this class. The three goals of this course are for students to learn: 1. Leadership behaviors: how to enact the skills that contribute to a team's effective performance. 2. Team dynamics: how to be an effective team member, as well as how to best design work teams; 3. Organizational awareness: understanding organizational culture. ,Format: A customdesigned Whartononly simulation is paired with course sessions to deliver a unique learning experience. Classes will include experiental learning combined with debriefings, lectures, readings, class discussion and personal and group performance feedback. This course reflects the realities that informal leadership occurs in teams on an ongoing basis, that being a good team player is a part of leadership, and that many of one's early experiences with leadership will occur while working on teams. Because of the teambased nature of this course, and time intensive nature of this experience, attendance is mandatory for ALL five sessions of this class. ,NOTE: Creditbearing, core coursework begins with the MGMT610: Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership course.

MGMT740 LEADING EFFECTIVE TEAMS

This course develops your knowledge and skills for designing, leading, and consulting with teams in organizations. The goals are to provide both the conceptual understanding and the behavioral skills required to improve effectiveness. This course emphasizes class participation, readings, analytic and reflective writing, assessments, peer feedback and coaching, lectures simulations and an intensive field project. with a real team in the Philadelphia area. Four kinds of teams are the focus of study: teams of which you've been a member in the past; your 740 team, with three or four classmates; a team outside of 740 that your 740 Team will observe, analyze, and report on your Host Team; and a team that you expect to be on in the future. The case material for learning and applying course concepts will be these teams that you know from direct observation and experience. Expect to leave this course with new knowledge of how to diagnose and intervene as leader, member, or consultant to improve the performance, sustainability, an4 impact on the members of any team in any setting. ,The text is by J. Richard Hackman, Leading Teams (Harvard Business). ,Special registration for MGMT 740: This course is only available to Wharton MBA students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. The first step in the registration process for it is to apply for admission by writing a response to the email Professor Friedman sends in the Spring term to all firstyear Wharton MBA students. MGMT 740 is not included in MBA Course Match.

MGMT772 POWER & POL IN ORGANIZ

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the power dynamics in organizations. The course is designed so that you will learn concepts that are useful for understanding, analyzing, and harnessing power. But beyond discovering ways to extend your own power, influence and political skill in organizations, we will also uncover lessons about ways in which power and politics can blind you,and how to navigate situations in which you are up against powerful people. Using a range of theoretical and business articles, cases, exercises, assesments, and simulations, we will extract a variety of lessons about power and politics in organizations. Topics include political skill, influence, issue selling, change management, networks, hierarchy, political conflict, corruption, coping with intolerable bosses, speaking up, redemption, and downsizing. ,Thematically, this course highlights how your relationships with organizational stakeholders and an understanding of the organizational context are crucial to successfully navigating the political terrain of oganizations. Organizations are inherently political arenas that require social astuteness, and an understanding of the "rules of the game." This course is designed for students aiming to develop their leadership, general management and career skills through a better understanding of power and politics, and relates to other courses on these topics in the Management department.

WH 101 BUSINESS AND YOU

WH 101 is the first step of the Leadership Journey at Wharton. The course is designed to fuel students' unique interests in academic, research, and professional pursuits; to raise awareness of the complexity of business; and to increase understanding of the interrelatedness of business disciplines. Students will also acquire greater awareness of their strengths and leadership potential as members of the Wharton community and as future professionals. Students will come to appreciate that leadership is an act and best developed through study, feedback from trusted colleagues and peers, and stretch experiences that stimulate growth and development. Students will also begin to hone skills essential to the pursuit of personal, academic, and professional goals: thinking creatively, analyzing problems, applying what you have learned, and reflecting on learnings. A caseanalysis project will engage students with the community through helping local agencies examine business challenges that they face.

  • William G. Whitney Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2017
  • William G. Whitney Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2016
  • Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award for the World’s Top Thinker in the Field of Talent, 2015
  • HR Magazine Most Influential Thinkers, 2015
  • Axiom Business Book Award, 2015
  • CEO Read Business Books Best Seller, 2014
  • Wall Street Journal Business Books Best Seller, 2014
  • HR Magazine Most Influential Thinkers, 2014
  • Thinkers50: The World’s Top 50 Business Thinkers, 2013
  • Families and Work Institute’s Work Life Legacy Award, 2013
  • Top Professors on Twitter in Leadership, 2012
  • Thinkers50: The World’s Top 50 Business Thinkers, 2011
  • Excellence in Teaching Award: Core Curriculum, 2011
  • TotalLeadership.org Named one of Forbes’ Top Websites for Women, 2010
  • William G. Whitney Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2007
  • MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 1996
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, Undergraduate Evening School, 1993
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, Undergraduate Division, 1990
  • Earning Power: Growth in pay is slower for women than for men, even if they go to college, study finds, CNBC 06/03/2017
  • Survey: How bosses explain organizational changes matters, WHYY 05/25/2017
  • The academics who study the secrets of work, Financial Times 05/24/2017
  • How People Decide Whether to Have Children, The Atlantic 05/22/2017
  • Paternity leave goes mainstream: Fatherly ranks 50 best companies for new dads, CNBC 05/03/2017
  • Is jobsharing a copout or the way to avoid burnout?, MarketWatch 04/08/2017
  • Childbirth for women in their 30s at 50year high, Philadelphia Inquirer 03/20/2017
  • Why It’s Important to Schedule More Downtime for Your Brain, Shape 03/15/2017
  • WorkLife Balance: How Employers Can Step Up, Forbes 03/09/2017
  • 11 Best Podcasts For Dads, Fatherly 03/06/2017
  • This former Wall Street wolf is turning trading algorithms into fine art, CNBC 01/31/2017
  • Theories for the digitally distracted generation, Financial Times 12/05/2016
  • The Unexpected Political Influence Your Boss Has On Your Vote, Fast Company 11/04/2016
  • Great Performers Make Their Personal Lives a Priority, Harvard Business Review 10/06/2016
  • What to Do If Your Parents Are Causing Your Career Angst, Harvard Business Review 08/05/2016
  • Stewart D. Friedman, el guru del sentido comun, El Pais 06/06/2016
  • Que Es El Exito, Actualidad Economica 06/01/2016
  • How to Break Your Addiction to Work, Harvard Business Review 05/18/2016
  • Stewart D. Friedman: “Las personas tienen que trabajar menos para ser mas productivas”, ABC Economica 04/04/2016
  • Stewart Friedman: Lideres completos, Executive Excellence 03/31/2016
  • Mark Zuckerberg announces twomonth paternity leave, MSNBC 11/24/2015
  • 20 of the best books by the most influential thinkers in business, Business Insider 11/13/2015
  • How Sunday Night Became the New Monday Morning, Boston Globe 10/26/2015
  • Dads: We Want WorkLife Balance, Too, Forbes 10/04/2015
  • Law Firms Are Learning: WorkLife Balance Isn’t Just for Moms, The Atlantic 09/24/2015
  • Business School Faculty Call for National Paid Family Leave, RH Reality Check 09/16/2015
  • Business School Professors to Congress: It’s Time for Paid Family Leave, CNN Money 09/16/2015
  • Why Paid Leave Matters for the Future of Business, Harvard Business Review 09/16/2015
  • Business Lobby Might Be Last to Realize Paid Leave Law Makes Sense, Huffington Post 09/16/2015
  • Business School Professors Push for Paid Family and Sick Leave Legislation, Bloomberg 09/15/2015
  • Business School Professors Give National Paid Leave Policy a Top Grade, The Washington Post 09/15/2015
  • Parents (and everyone) should get paid leave from work, say 200 business professors, Mashable 09/15/2015
  • Movement aims to make work more family friendly, less ‘hostile’, CNBC 09/11/2015
  • Employees Tend Not to Use Generous Benefits, U.S. News and World Report 09/04/2015
  • Hey Male CEOs, It’s Your Turn to Take Parental Leave, WIRED 09/03/2015
  • Big Leaps for Parental Leave, if Workers Actually Take It, The New York Times 09/01/2015
  • Changing Demands On Employees In the Modern American Workplace, The Diane Rehm Show, NPR 08/20/2015
  • Work Policies May Be Kinder, But Brutal Competition Isn’t, The New York Times 08/17/2015
  • A genderequality club, run by men, Washington Post 08/10/2015
  • Paid parental leave should be U.S. law — not just a company perk, Fortune 08/10/2015
  • Adobe is doubling its paid maternity leave following similar announcements from Netfix and Microsoft, Business Insider 08/10/2015
  • Wharton professor says Netflix’s new unlimited parental policy ‘rasies the bar’ for the business world, Business Insider 08/06/2015
  • More Than Their Mothers, Young Women Plan Career Pauses, The New York Times 07/22/2015
  • How to keep work from killing your vacation when you just can’t leave it all behind, Washington Post 07/21/2015
  • How to be a great boss — and leave on time, BBC 07/07/2015
  • A Wharton professor explains the secret to living the life you want, Business Insider 05/20/2015
  • Why more millennials are choosing to be childless, Christian Science Monitor 04/29/2015
  • How Fatherly plans to corner the market on millennial dads, Fortune 04/08/2015
  • How To Find a New Path When Your Career Stalls, LinkedIn 04/02/2015
  • When You Realize You’ll Never Get Your Dream Job, Harvard Business Review 04/01/2015
  • Career Planning: Experts’ Advice for the Second Machine Age, Financial Times 03/30/2015
  • Still Missing: Female Business Leaders, CNN Money 03/24/2015
  • Do You Have That All Important Stakeholder Mindset?, LinkedIn 03/24/2015
  • Bulletproof Yourself for Work and Life, LinkedIn 03/17/2015
  • How To Get Your Team to Coach Each Other, Harvard Business Review 03/13/2015
  • Why It’s Not Selfish to Take Care of Yourself, LinkedIn 03/12/2015
  • So What If You Are a Happy Workaholic?, LinkedIn 03/04/2015
  • Keep Your Home Life Sane When Work Gets Crazy, Harvard Business Review 02/23/2015
  • More Balanced Life Can Help You Work Better, Chicago Tribune 02/16/2015
  • Poverty of Imagination in Work/Life, LinkedIn 02/09/2015
  • Get More Done by Focusing Less on Work, Harvard Business Review 02/05/2015
  • The Year of the Dad, LinkedIn 01/28/2015
  • Essential MOOCs in Business, Poets and Quants 01/26/2015
  • How To Master WorkLife Integration, LifeHacker 01/20/2015
  • WorkLife Integration? Get Real., Hospitals & Health Networks 01/13/2015
  • Change Your Life, LinkedIn 12/27/2014
  • Business Book Ideas for Your Gift List, CBCNews 12/21/2014
  • Recommended Reading: Top 10 Creative Leadership Books of 2014, Forbes 12/18/2014
  • Slow Down to Speed Up in 5 Easy Steps, LinkedIn 12/17/2014
  • Eight Noteworthy Books of 2014, Forbes 12/14/2014
  • Please Everyone: Review of Total Leadership, Motley Fool Stock Advisor 12/03/2014
  • 5 Ways to Avoid Workplace Burnout, New York Post 12/01/2014
  • How MBAs Can Lead The Life They Want, Poets and Quants 11/26/2014
  • WorkLife Integration: The New Way To Balance Your Career And Home Life, Forbes 11/19/2014
  • How to Be Productive and Still Have a Fun Weekend, Entrepreneur 11/14/2014
  • CEO Read Business Books Best Seller List, CEO Read 11/13/2014
  • Paternity Leave Costing Fathers in Workplace, CBS This Morning 11/10/2014
  • Forget WorkLife Balance: Take a Cue From Sheryl Sandberg and Bruce Springsteen, The Business Journals 11/06/2014
  • 10 Tips and Quotes From the Best Leadership Books of the Year, Inc. 11/06/2014
  • The Worst Thing You Can Do in Your Career, LinkedIn 10/29/2014
  • How To Be A More Authentic and Confident Leader, Fast Company 10/22/2014
  • How Harmony Can Help Your Leadership Skills, The Engaging Brand 10/21/2014
  • If Monday Morning Feels So Bad, Here’s What You Can Do About It, MarketWatch 10/20/2014
  • 6 Tips For Better WorkLife Balance, Forbes 10/20/2014
  • Strive For WorkLife Harmony, Not Balance, Big Think 10/16/2014
  • Forget Balance! 5 Things You Can Do to Lead the Life You Want, Huffington Post 10/16/2014
  • Wall Street Journal Bestseller List, Wall Street Journal 10/16/2014
  • Lessons On Life And Harmony From Bruce Springsteen, Fast Company 10/15/2014
  • Why Great Leaders Are Made, Not Born, Inc. 10/14/2014
  • Are you ‘Leading the Life You Want’?, Forbes 10/13/2014
  • Why You Shouldn’t Try to Balance Work and Life, Yahoo! Small Business Advisor 10/13/2014
  • Jack Covert Selects Leading The Life You Want, 800CEORead 10/13/2014
  • Many Want WorkLife Balance But Should Aim For Blend, Investors Business Daily 10/13/2014
  • Leading The Life You Want, Psychology Today 10/09/2014
  • 4 Surprising Secrets to Work Life Balance, Inc. 10/08/2014
  • Book Review, Legends of Bruce Springsteen 10/07/2014
  • What Successful Work and Life Integration Looks Like, Harvard Business Review 10/07/2014
  • Want to Pull Your Life Together, Forbes 10/03/2014
  • Is Your Life Out of Control? Try These Exercises, Globe and Mail 10/03/2014
  • Why Work/Life Balance is Folly, Forbes 10/02/2014
  • 13 Recommended Readings for Creative Leaders This Fall, Forbes 09/16/2014
  • Work + Home + Community + Self, Harvard Business Review, September Issue 08/12/2014
  • Why a CEO quit the “best job I ever had”, CBS This Morning 08/07/2014
  • Does Corporate America Finally Get What Working Parents Need?, Harvard Business Review 06/27/2014
  • Let Your Employees Mix Business and Personal Time at Work, Entrepreneur 06/04/2014
  • Millennials plan to trade kids for careers — but it doesn’t have to be that way, Deseret News 03/15/2014
  • Is WorkFamily Reaching a Tipping Point?, Harvard Business Review 03/06/2014
  • Reduce Stress By Pursuing FourWay Wins, Harvard Business Review 03/03/2014
  • Banks Ease Work Conditions, Fox Business News 01/17/2014
  • On Wall Street, a Generation Gap on Work/Life Issues, New York times 01/15/2014
  • Millennials Want Children, But They’re Not Planning on Them, New York Times 01/08/2014
  • The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013, Harvard Business Review 12/24/2013
  • Bye bye, Baby, Washington Post 11/29/2013
  • The World’s Top 50 Business Thinkers, Thinkers50 11/11/2013
  • 7 Policy Changes America Needs So People Can Work and Have Kids, Harvard Business Review 11/11/2013
  • The New Sexy: Millennial Egalitarian Men, Huffington Post 11/07/2013
  • Why Wharton Undergrads Are Saying ‘No’ To Having Kids, Forbes 10/19/2013
  • Baby Bust: Millennials’ View Of Family, Work, Friendship And Doing Well, Forbes 10/05/2013
  • Don’t Rule Out Having Children Because You Want to Have a Career, The Atlantic 02/14/2013
  • The World’s Top 50 Business Thinkers, The Thinkers50 11/14/2011
  • Men Negotiating the WorkLife Balance, Radio Times with Marty MossCoane 08/03/2011
  • Top 100 Websites For Women 2011, Forbes 06/23/2011
  • Stewart Friedman: El liderazgo y la felicidad tienen la misma receta, America Economia 06/20/2011
  • The Goal is Transformation, Penn Medicine 01/03/2011
  • FlexTime Goes to the White House, ABC News 04/07/2010
  • Boost Resilience, Decrease Stress, and Improve your Performance, Harvard Business Ideacast 09/03/2009
  • Hot Ticket in BSchool: Bringing Life Values to Corporate Ethics, The New York Times 06/29/2008

Knowledge @ Wharton

  • The Case for Phased Retirement, Knowledge @ Wharton 11/01/2016
  • Better Pay or More Flexibility: It Doesn’t Have to Be a Tradeoff, Knowledge @ Wharton 05/11/2016
  • The Retirement Problem: What Will You Do With All That Time?, Knowledge @ Wharton 01/14/2016
  • Is Now the Best Time to Have a Baby in Corporate America?, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/30/2015
  • Mental Health in the Workplace: How We Can Move Beyond the Stigma, Knowledge @ Wharton 05/28/2015
  • Separation of Church and Cubicle: Religion in the Workplace, Knowledge @ Wharton 04/30/2015
  • Wakeup Call: Why Everyone Needs More Sleep, Knowledge @ Wharton 02/25/2015
  • Stressed Out by Work? You’re Not Alone, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/30/2014
  • The Critical Steps to Integrating Work and Life, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/07/2014
  • Why Child Care Is the Economy’s ‘Invisible’ Driver, Knowledge @ Wharton 09/17/2014
  • ‘Baby Bust’: Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/31/2013
  • Encore Careers: Why an Aging Population Is a Resource, Not a Problem, Knowledge @ Wharton 06/05/2013
  • To Close the Gender Gap, What Needs to Change — Women or the System?, Knowledge @ Wharton 03/27/2013
  • When Working at Home Is Productive, and When It’s Not, Knowledge @ Wharton 03/13/2013
  • AnneMarie Slaughter: Forget ‘Having It All’ — Own What You Want, Knowledge @ Wharton 02/13/2013
  • From the Altar to IPO: The Highs and Lows of Married Business Partners, Knowledge @ Wharton 01/30/2013
  • The Changing Nature of ‘Having It All’, Knowledge @ Wharton 01/25/2013
  • Highpowered Women and Supportive Spouses: Who’s in Charge, and of What?, Knowledge @ Wharton 11/21/2012
  • Highpowered Women and Supportive Spouses: Who’s in Charge, and of What?, Knowledge @ Wharton 11/07/2012
  • The Eyeopening Impact of Sleep Deficits, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/01/2012
  • Taking a Long Lunch? When Doing Personal Chores on the Job Is OK, Knowledge @ Wharton 07/20/2012
  • Flipping the Switch: Who Is Responsible for Getting Employees to Take a Break?, Knowledge @ Wharton 02/15/2012
  • From Freelancers to Telecommuters: Succeeding in the New World of Solitary Work, Knowledge @ Wharton 06/29/2011
  • Daughters Rule, Knowledge @ Wharton 03/07/2011
  • Gross Domestic Happiness: What Is the Relationship between Money and Wellbeing?, Knowledge @ Wharton 01/19/2011
  • Doing Good, with the Power of Half, Knowledge @ Wharton 01/12/2011
  • Adjusting to the ‘New Normal’: The Consequences of Longterm High Unemployment, Knowledge @ Wharton 12/08/2010
  • When Do Exaggerations and Misstatements Cross the Line?, Knowledge @ Wharton 06/23/2010
  • One Ambivalent Economy + Many Cautious Employers = One Difficult Job Market, Knowledge @ Wharton 02/03/2010
  • American Express: Integrate Your Personal and Professional Life in Three Steps, Knowledge @ Wharton 10/22/2009
  • The WorkLife Dialogue: Maintain Good Employee Morale in a Bad Recession, Knowledge @ Wharton 09/09/2009
  • Fourway Win: How to Integrate Work, Home, Community and Self, Knowledge @ Wharton 05/28/2008
  • Work and Family: Is Peaceful Coexistence Possible?, Knowledge @ Wharton 04/26/2000
  • LifeFriendly Managers With a WinWin Philosophy, Knowledge @ Wharton 08/04/1999

Stew Friedman (friedman@wharton.upenn.edu) has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984. He became the Management Department’s first Practice Professor for his work on applying theory and research to the real challenges facing organizations. As founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program, in 1991 he initiated the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses. He is also founding director of Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project.

Stew’s most recent book is Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life (Harvard Business, 2014), a Wall Street Journal best-seller. It builds on his award-winning best-seller, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (Harvard Business, 2008), which has been translated into six languages. The program it describes is his challenging Wharton course, in which participants complete an intensive series of real-world exercises designed to increase their leadership capacity and performance in all parts of their lives by better integrating them, while working in high-involvement peer-to-peer coaching relationships and completing much of the activity online in a cutting-edge social learning environment. Total Leadership is used by individuals and companies worldwide, including as a primary intervention in a multi-year study funded by the National Institutes of Health on improving the careers and lives of women in medicine and by 130,000+ students in Stew’s highly-rated Coursera MOOC.

In 2001 Stew concluded a two-year assignment as a senior executive at Ford Motor Company, where he was director of the Leadership Development Center (LDC), running a 50-person, $25 MM operation. In partnership with the CEO, he launched a corporate-wide portfolio of initiatives designed to transform Ford's culture; 2500+ managers per year participated. Near the end of his tenure at Ford, an independent research group (ICEDR) said the LDC was a "global benchmark" for leadership development programs.

Stew worked for five years in the mental health field before earning his PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan. He has published on work/life, leadership, and the dynamics of change, including the widely-cited Harvard Business Review articles, “Work and life: the end of the zero-sum game” (1998); “Be a better leader, have a richer life” (2008); and "Work+Home+Community+Self (2014); and “The Happy Workaholic: a role model for employees” (in Academy of Management Executive, 2003). In 2013 Wharton Digital Press published his landmark study of two generations of Wharton students, Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family. Work and Family – Allies or Enemies? (Oxford, 2000) was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the field's best books. In Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (Jossey-Bass, 1998) Stew edited the first collection of learning tools for building leadership skills for integrating work and life.

Stew serves on a number of boards and has advised a wide range of companies and public sector organizations, including the U.S. Department of Labor, the United Nations, and two White House administrations. He gives keynote addresses and conducts workshops globally on leadership and the whole person, creating change, and strategic human resources issues. (Here is the master class he gave for Wharton's Lifelong Learning Tour in San Francisco.) The recipient of numerous teaching awards, he appears regularly in business media (The New York Times cited the “rock star adoration” he inspires in his students), was chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s 25 most influential men to have made things better for working parents, has twice been selected by Thinkers 50 as one of the “world’s top 50 business thinkers,” was recently honored by the Families and Work Institute with the Work Life Legacy Award, is one of 2014's top 10 HR Most Influential International Thinkers, and named in Harvard Business Review's ideas that shaped managment.

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