We work with companies to attract, develop, and retain top talent. We work with individuals to improve their success and happiness in their careers. We offer leadership, team, and personal assessment and development for people across job levels, ages, and industries.
For professionals, parents, and teens, we help people discover what strengths and interests they have to select a career and we help younger people develop the life skills to succeed at work and life.
Our Mission
We specialize in maximizing leadership potential, especially for technical leaders. We work with companies to attract, develop, and retain top talent. We work with individuals to improve their success and happiness in their careers.
Our Values
We are flexible and nimble. We provide high quality solutions. We treat people with respect and dignity. We create customized solutions for people in all industries and for workplaces of all types and sizes.
Our Vision
To develop people to be more successful in the workplace and to improve the workplace for people. To provide leadership and personal assessment, development, and retention strategies for all levels—executives, professionals, early career, and youth.
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Our Story
Flexible Work Solutions started out in 2005 as a business partnership and evolved into partnering with other businesses to provide our services. That lets us be more flexible to meet client needs. Our initial offerings focused on helping organizations and workers develop and implement flexible working arrangements, hence our company name.
Our purpose has always been to develop people to be more successful in the workplace and to improve the workplace for people. We serve for-profits and not-for-profits, individuals and organizations, young and old, on-boarding employees to seasoned executives. We provide high quality solutions and treat people with respect and dignity.
About Our President
Joanie Connell earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Engineering from Harvard University. She is also a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach.
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Meet Our Team of Experts
Dr. Joanie Connell
President
Dr. Joanie B. Connell is an organizational consultant, author, and leadership coach who is passionate about helping people maximize their leadership and personal potential. A former engineer, Joanie works
Bernardo Ferdman
Diversity Equity & Inclusion
A world-renowned expert on inclusion and inclusive leadership, Dr. Bernardo Ferdman works with organizational leaders and employees to foster inclusion, to develop and implement effective ways of using
Tracy Ward
Human Resources
An accomplished HR executive, Tracy Ward is passionate about developing strategies and programs that achieve company objectives and fulfill a sense of purpose for team members. Beyond helping companies achieve their
Vladimir Baranov
Executive Coach
Using his technical and business expertise, Vladimir Baranov helps CTOs and CEOs understand each other’s perspectives to better communicate with and build collaborative relationships
Michelle Beauchamp
The Champ Group
With 25 years+ expertise in sales and leadership and 12+ years as an entrepreneur, Michelle Beauchamp helps companies and entrepreneurs develop their teams to produce bigger results. As an Executive Director
Deborah Rocco
AlignWise Consulting
Leveraging her 35 years of senior HR leadership experience in government, higher education, and private industry and her passion for the intersection between well-being and performance, Deborah Rocco is committed
Bill Magill
The Interprize Group
A professor of entrepreneurship and reformed Silicon Valley venture investor, Bill Magill developed a new concept of interpreneurship—the art of uncovering grand life ambitions and pursuing them with passion
Bill Berman
Berman Leadership Development
Bill is a seasoned consultant with more than 30 years’ experience as an executive coach, senior line manager, clinician and academic. He has been assessing individuals since 1983, delivered organizational consulting and executive coaching since 1993, and has consulted to executives and C-suite business leaders since returning to full-time consulting in 2004.
Meet Our Team of Experts
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Dr. Joanie Connell
President
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Bernardo Ferdman
Diversity Equity & Inclusion
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Tracy Ward
Diversity Equity & Inclusion
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Vladimir Baranov
Executive Coach
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Michelle Beauchamp
The Champ Group
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Deborah Rocco
AlignWise Consulting
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Bill Magill
The Interprize Group
Books
Dr. Joanie B. Connell shares her expertise on how to consult to technical leaders and what it takes to survive in the real world of work in two incredible books. Both books draw from her 20-plus years of experience in the workplace, parenting and engineering experience, and decades of research in academic literature and the media.
Consulting to Technical Leaders, Teams, and Organizations provides guidance to organizational consultants and students who are or want to better understand and work with leaders in STEM.
Flying without a Helicopter advises parents, young adults, and adolescents on what is important to help produce healthy, independent, self-reliant adults who will thrive on their own.
BOOKS
Trusted Business Partners
We partner with these companies to offer our clients the best comprehensive services available.
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Gallup
CliftonStrengths
Joanie is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, and we employ the CliftonStrengths assessment in many of our coaching engagements for people to leverage their natural abilities to solve problems and get things done.
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Rady School of Management
We partner with the Center for Executive Development at the University of California San Diego to provide leadership assessment and training for executive leaders. Various courses and programs are available.
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Positive Intelligence
We partner with Positive Intelligence to provide Shirzad Chamine’s method of mental fitness assessment and coaching to help clients weaken their inner saboteurs and strengthen their mental muscles.
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7 CTO's
We partner with 7CTOs to offer peer coaching for executive-level tech leaders. Joanie is a forum facilitator, presenter, and a coach for 7CTOs. View their page for more information on their methods and techniques.
Success Stories
Clients
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