Keynote speaker
Dr. Linda Duxbury, professor, Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business

Dr. Linda Duxbury is a professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business. She received a master’s degree in chemical engineering and a PhD in management sciences from the University of Waterloo. Within the past decade, Duxbury has completed major studies on balancing work and family in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. She’s currently conducting research, which evaluates the organizational and individual impacts of e-mail, mobile telephones, telework, flexible work arrangements, change management and what makes a supportive manager. She has completed four national studies on work-life balance in which more than 100,000 Canadian employees participated. Within the business school at Carleton, Duxbury teaches MBA and PhD courses in managing change, as well as the MBA course in organizational behaviour. She’s published widely in both academic and practitioner literatures in the area of work-family conflict, change management, supportive work environments, stress, telework, the use and impact of office technology, managing the new workforce and supportive management. She’s also given more than 400 plenary talks on these issues to public, private and not-for-profit sector audiences. Duxbury works extensively with policing services in Canada and across the globe, focusing on work-life and well-being issues within police services, sustainability of the police and how best to introduce change within police services. She’s also undertaking research with police services on how best to demonstrate the value of police work within communities. The author of two books, Duxbury’s received numerous awards throughout her academic career for her research, teaching and leadership within the community. She’s also a well-known public speaker, delivering major talks related to work-life issues around the world. Duxbury is currently involved in a major multi-method longitudinal research initiative exploring employee well-being in times of the coronavirus pandemic.

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