Mission

The Wharton Work/Life Integration Project was founded in 1991 to:

• Understand how students and alumni think about and value their interests in life: work, education, family, society, and the private self (mind, body, and spirit).

• Encourage members of the Wharton community to reflect on their central life interests and to explore how those interests are influenced by their Wharton experience, how they differ for various demographic groups, and how they change over time.

• Have an impact on corporate and social policy about the relationship between work and the rest of life through research and conferences that connect scholars, students, advocates, and organizations in the private and public sectors.

• Contribute to the sciences of organizational psychology and adult development.

• Create materials for courses on leadership, careers, human resources, and ethics.

• Inform Wharton faculty and administration about student and alumni attitudes.

Noteworthy

WORK AND LIFE RADIO SHOW + PODCAST

Wharton and SiriusXM are partners in producing Business Radio. Stew Friedman hosts the Work and Life show weekly on SiriusXM 132, live from our studio in Huntsman Hall. Check out free podcast version of previous shows here.

MOOC – LEADING THE LIFE YOU WANT

Stew Friedman’s bestselling book, Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life, grounded in W/LIP research, is the basis for a highly-rated MOOC now available on Coursera.

Total Leadership Impact

Friedman's Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader Have a Richer Life -- another bestseller, also based on W/LIP research -- is available in paperback and in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The program it describes is a Wharton MBA course and is used by organizations world-wide. Results are described here.

PENN PATHWAYS PROGRAM

This Penn Today story describes the innovative program for junior faculty at Penn that includes Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life as an essential element in helping participants find harmony among the different parts of their lives while improving performance in all of them.

FREE TOOLS YOU CAN USE

Assess your Total Leadership Skills and find out whether your strengths are like those of leaders such as Tom Tierney, Sheryl Sandberg, Michelle Obama, and Bruce Springsteen. Compose your Four Circles exercise to see whether the four domains of your life – work, home, community, and self – are aligned, generate ideas for bringing them into greater harmony, and get feedback on your analysis and plans. Find more tools here.

Links

Wharton

On the Radio -- SiriusXM 132

Podcasts

Knowledge@Wharton

Blog

How Our Careers Affect Our Children

How Peer Coaching Can Make Work Less Lonely

Great Performers Make Their Personal Lives a Priority

What to Do If Your Parents Are Causing You Career Angst

Why Paid Leave Matters for the Future of Business

How to Get Your Team to Coach Each Other

Keep Your Home Life Sane When Work Gets Crazy

Get More Done by Focusing Less on Work

What Successful Work and Life Integration Looks Like

Does Corporate American Finally Get What Working Parents Need?

Reduce Stress by Pursuing Four-Way Wins

7 Policy Changes America Needs So People Can Work And Have Kids

The New Knight in Shining Armor

Successfully Integrate your Work, Home, Community, and Self

Men: Win at Work by Leaning In at Home

We Are All Part of the Work/Life Revolution

Real Leaders Have Real Lives

"Having It All" is Not a Women’s Issue

Grownups Need Recess, Too

More.