[ONLINE] Crisis Conversations — Live From Better Life Lab

The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting virtually everything about the way we work, live, connect with one another and expect from our government, businesses, communities and each other. And it’s exposing the deep cracks and inequities in American society. We can’t go back. So what will it take to create a fairer future of work and family? That’s what the Better Life Lab explores every week. Join us on Zoom to share stories, ask questions and make sense of what’s so rapidly unfolding, and imagine together a better new normal.

Join us on Friday, August 14 at 1 pm Eastern time, for a 30-minute interactive conversation on an innovative pilot project to use behavioral science to better understand what drives work-life conflict, stress and ill-health, and how to design interventions to improve work-life balance and health. What role does the concept of “scarcity” play in how we design work and go about our days? How has that accelerated during the pandemic? And how has COVID-19 upended the idea that work-life balance is even possible, much less a worthwhile goal?

Host:

Brigid Schulte
Director, Better Life Lab at New America

Guests:

Matthew Darling
Vice President ideas42, a nonprofit design and consulting firm that uses insights from behavioral sciences to address complex social problems, and teaching fellow in economic design at Harvard University

Uyhun Ung
Senior Associate at ideas42

Antonia Volante
Senior Associate at ideas42

Lynne Curran
Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Accion, a global nonprofit committed to creating a financially inclusive world